(CBS/AP) Flamboyant Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens tried to kill himself by overdosing on pain medication, a police report said, even putting two more pills into his mouth after a friend intervened.

Owens was not identified by name in the police report, and police spokesman Lt. Rick Watson later in the morning said, "I'm not confirming anything."

However, Owens flashed a "thumbs-up" sign to reporters as he left the hospital Wednesday morning.

Reporters were expecting a statement from Owens outside his home at 1:30 p.m. EDT, but about that time, former NFL star Deion Sanders came out and said Owens would speak later at the Cowboys' training facility, Valley Ranch.

An initial news report had said that Owens had suffered an "allergic reaction" to his medication, but Gina Miller of CBS affiliate KTVT saw him on a gurney being wheeled into Baylor Medical Center.

A Dallas police report obtained by the press Wednesday morning said the man told his friend "that he was depressed."

The female friend, who is not identified in the report, "noticed that (his) prescription pain medication was empty and observed (Owens) putting two pills in his mouth," the police report said.

The friend attempted to pry them out with her fingers, then was told by Owens that before this incident he'd taken only five of the 40 pain pills in the bottle he'd emptied. Owens was asked by rescue workers "if he was attempting to harm himself, at which time (he) stated, 'Yes.'"

Owens may have taken 30-35 pills of the unidentified medication.

The police report says Owens was treated by Baylor staff for a drug overdose. Doctors reportedly tried to induce vomiting.

At a post-practice press conference Wednesday, Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells said he had not spoken with Owens and is not sure when he will.

Parcells said the team is still trying to find out more about what took place Tuesday night.

"I don't have enough information yet," he said. "I wouldn't (decide) anything right now. I'm talking with a good deal of ignorance on the subject," Parcells said.

Owens is recovering from a broken right hand he sustained a week ago Sunday. He had an operation the next day to have a plate screwed in, enabling the bone to heal without being injured further. Parcells said last week that the pain medicine made Owens ill.

The Cowboys were off this past weekend and Owens was back at practice Tuesday, although he worked out on his own. Parcells said Owens' hand was improving and he was expected back on the practice field Wednesday. Owens chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room Tuesday afternoon and seemed fine.

Owens, one of the league's top receivers during his 11-year NFL career, is best known for wild stunts on the field and other publicity-seeking antics off it.

When the Cowboys signed him to a $25 million, three-year deal in March, they said their background checks indicated no red flags. In fact, team consultant Calvin Hill — a former Cowboy star who deals mostly with troubled players — said during training camp that his department was not involved with Owens because he didn't have a history of those kinds of problems.

Owens had been especially looking forward to the Cowboys' game on Oct. 8 in Philadelphia — against the team that dumped him midway through last season, only months after he helped them nearly win the Super Bowl.

Owens was seen laughing and joking on the practice field Tuesday morning. He chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room in the afternoon and seemed fine. A two-inch scar on the top of his hand was puffy but not wrapped, and he said the swelling was going down.

While in the locker room, he took a pill from a white paper bag and looked at another medicine bottle that was in the bag. He also called a business partner about a towel-wrap venture they're starting and joked to TV cameras that he wasn't talking until Wednesday and today was only Tuesday.

"My little boy knows better than that," he said, laughing, as he plopped onto a sofa in the middle of the locker room.

Also Tuesday, Owens was involved in launching a national campaign for the National Alliance to End Abuse, an organization aimed at helping at-risk youngsters. He appeared at a high school Tuesday morning and was scheduled to visit others but had to cancel because of changes in the team's practice schedule.

A hospital spokeswoman said early Wednesday there was no patient registered as Terrell Owens, although federal privacy laws allow people to block their name from being released. Owens' publicist and agent, and the Cowboys, did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press. No teammates or Cowboys officials were seen entering the hospital late Tuesday night.

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