East Rutherford, N.J. ? Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year.

The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday for four games — the rest of the regular season — after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide receiver couldn’t come back for playoffs, either.

The team punished Burress a day after he was charged with illegal weapons possession, which carries a penalty of 3 1/2 to 15 years in prison if he’s convicted. Burress is due back in court again on March 31, unless he reaches a plea agreement.

Burress arrived Tuesday morning at Giants Stadium, and met individually with Giants president John Mara, general manager Jerry Reese and coach Tom Coughlin. He left for a medical test and returned in the afternoon for another brief session with team officials.

Even as they suspended him for conduct detrimental to the team, Giants officials expressed concern for Burress, who caught a touchdown pass from Eli Manning that gave the Giants a 17-14 Super Bowl win over New England in February.

Police and prosecutors still want to talk to a pair of Burress’ teammates, Antonio Pierce and Ahmad Bradshaw, who were at the club when the shooting occurred but insist they did nothing wrong.

Dr. Scott Rodeo, a team physician, examined Burress and told the Giants that the gunshot wound would have sidelined the 31-year-old player for 4-to-6 weeks anyway.

NFL

League suspends six

New York — The NFL has suspended six players for four games each for violating the league’s anti-doping policy.The players used a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for steroids. The suspended players are running back Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Charles Grant and Will Smith of New Orleans; defensive linemen Kevin Williams and Pat Williams of Minnesota; and long snapper Bryan Pittman of Houston.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Leach Big 12 coach of year

Lubbock, Texas — Mike Leach can look back on this season and know he led Texas Tech to its best one yet. The coach and his No. 8 Red Raiders did it by getting their first win over a top-ranked team, garnering their highest national ranking and capturing their first Big 12 South trophy — the latter a shared prize due to a three-way tie.

Now Leach can add another first. The Associated Press on Tuesday named him Big 12 coach of the year. In balloting by a panel of conference media, Leach received 16 votes to four for Texas’ Mack Brown.

Reports: Weis to return

South Bend, Ind. — Charlie Weis will return for a fifth season at Notre Dame despite another disappointing year, several media outlets reported Tuesday night.

WNDU-TV in South Bend, The South Bend Tribune and several other media outlets, citing anonymous sources, reported Weis will be back next year.

Weis has seven years left on a 10-year contract signed midway through his first season. Weis has led the team to back-to-back disappointing seasons of 3-9 and 6-6, with the 15 losses the most ever by the Irish in a two-year span.

Weis is 28-21 in four years as Irish coach, a .571 winning percentage.

UConn RB suspended

Storrs, Conn. — Connecticut running back Andre Dixon has been suspended from the team for violating team rules. UConn coach Randy Edsall says Dixon made a mistake, but he won’t say exactly what the junior from New Brunswick, N.J., did.

BASEBALL

Citi Field name staying

New York — Citi Field will remain the name of the New York Mets’ new ballpark following a government bailout the team believes will help the struggling bank survive its economic crisis. Citigroup agreed in 2006 to pay the Mets $400 million over 20 years for naming rights to the stadium.

Sox to trade Vazquez

Atlanta — Javier Vazquez is likely headed from the Chicago White Sox to the Atlanta Braves in a multiplayer trade.

The teams reached a tentative agreement Tuesday that would send the 32-year-old pitcher to Atlanta, two people familiar with the deal said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the trade had not been finalized.

That could happen today. Vazquez must take a physical for the deal to be completed, one of the people said, and he was likely to be examined Wednesday.

It was unclear who the Braves would send to Chicago in exchange for Vazquez. The right-hander was 12-16 with a 4.67 earned-run average in 33 starts for the AL Central champions this season, surpassing 200 innings for the eighth time in nine years.

Blue Jays owner dies

Toronto — Ted Rogers, owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, died at his home on Tuesday. He was 75. The founder of Rogers Communications Inc., Canada’s largest cable television and mobile phone company, was treated in October for an existing heart condition.

Giants to adjust pricing

San Francisco — Next season, San Francisco Giants fans buying single-game tickets for an April game against Milwaukee might pay half as much as they would for a weekend game with the rival Los Angeles Dodgers later in the year. The club is trying something new with ticket sales in a few tough-to-sell upper-deck outfield sections of its waterfront ballpark for 2009: cost based on demand.

The walk-up sales price for up to about 2,000 seats could even go up or down on game day. The change would be minimal, say somewhere between 25 cents and $2.

World Series shares down

New York — A full World Series share was worth $351,504 for the Philadelphia Phillies, below the record $362,173 set by the St. Louis Cardinals two years ago. Major League Baseball said Tuesday that the players’ pool for the postseason was $51.16 million, down from $52.46 million last year and a record $55.60 million in 2006. Phillies players received $18.42 million and split it among 45 full shares, 7.039 partial shares and 15 cash awards.