FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Boston Red Sox optioned reliever Cla Meredith to Triple-A Pawtucket on Friday and reassigned six players to their minor league camp who were not on their 40-man roster.

Those six players are left-handers Craig Breslow, Mike Bumatay and Phil Seibel; righty Matt Ginter; infielder Jed Lowrie; and outfielder Luke Allen. The moves left the Red Sox with 40 players in camp.

Meredith and Seibel are the only players among the seven who had regular-season experience with Boston.

In three relief outings last season, Meredith allowed seven runs in 2 1-3 innings, and had an ERA of 27.00. Seibel pitched two games for Boston last year, allowing no runs in 3 2-3 innings.

Former DePaul coach Ray Meyer dies at 92

CHICAGO – Ray Meyer, the grandfatherly basketball coach whose 42-year tenure at DePaul stretched from George Mikan to Mark Aguirre, died Friday, the school said. He was 92.

Details were not immediately available. His death was confirmed by athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto.

Meyer twice took the Blue Demons to the NCAA Final Four, helped develop Mikan -who would eventually become basketball’s first dominating big man – and coached DePaul to the 1945 NIT title.

“He was a coach’s coach, he was a man’s man,” said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who grew up in Chicago. “He was the face of college basketball in Chicago. When you think of basketball in that city, you think of Ray Meyer.”

Redskins trade QB Ramsey to Jets

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) The Washington Redskins traded quarterback Patrick Ramsey to the New York Jets on Friday for a sixth-round pick in the April draft.

Ramsey began last year as the starter before losing the job to Mark Brunell and asked to be traded. The Jets were looking for another quarterback to compete with Chad Pennington going into training camp.

Iowa State fires basketball coach Morgan

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State fired basketball coach Wayne Morgan and his staff Friday in the wake of a reported recruiting scam.

ISU Athletics Director Jamie Pollard said during a news conference that he met Thursday evening with school president Gregory Geoffroy and with Morgan.

Howell moves atop leaderboard at TCL

SANYA, China – David Howell of England birdied 11 holes Friday to move into the lead after two rounds of the TCL Classic.

The European Tour leader carded a 63 one shy of the course record set by overnight co-leaders Edward Loar of the United States and China’s Liang Wenchong – to stand at 17-under 127 at the tournament’s halfway mark.

Australia’s Andrew Buckle shot a 66 and is two strokes behind Howell in the $1 million tournament co-sanctioned by the European and Asian Tours.

Raich wins giant slalom; Kostelic takes slalom

ARE, Sweden – Benjamin Raich and Janica Kostelic added to their World Cup overall titles by winning their races at Friday’s finals.

Raich won the men’s giant slalom finale, taking that season title for the second straight year, and Kostelic captured the last women’s slalom of the season.

The Olympic giant slalom champion, Raich was second to Massimiliano Blardone of Italy after the opening leg, but the Austrian skied an aggressive second run down the Olympia course to win in a combined time of 2 minutes, 22.50 seconds.

• Janica Kostelic won the slalom at the World Cup finals Friday, leaving her one victory away from breaking the women’s record for most points in a season. Kostelic led after the opening run and overcame a slip on her second trip down the dim Gastrappet course to win with an aggregate time of 1 minute, 45.28 seconds. The Croatian now has 1,870 points and needs to win Saturday’s giant slalom to break the women’s record for most in a season. Former Swedish star Pernilla Wiberg had 1,960 points in 1996-97.

Minor league hockey head subpoenaed

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The commissioner of the United Hockey League testified before a federal grand jury this week as a sweeping investigation into organized crime in the trash industry spread into world of minor league hockey.

James Galante, a Danbury garbage magnate who owns or has ties to 25 companies named in FBI search warrant documents, is the target of an FBI racketeering case, his attorney has said. The FBI is investigating organized crime’s influence in the trash industry.

Galante also owns the Danbury Trashers, a minor league hockey team in the UHL. League president Richard Brosal said he testified before a grand jury in New Haven this week but said the UHL is not a criminal target.

“The investigation is against Jim Galante and his trash company,” Brosal said Friday. “They’re bringing the team into it because he also owns the Trashers.”

Title fight points up sorry state of heavyweights

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -One is a flabby 37-year-old with four heavyweight fights to his name. The other’s a one-punch wonder who had the WBC belt handed to him.

Tonight, James Toney and Hasim Rahman square off in a 12-round championship fight so ho-hum that HBO is showing it for free and more than 2,000 tickets remained a day before the fight.

“I have never seen a period of time when the heavyweight championship meant so little,” said promoter Bob Arum. “It’s clear.”

-By The Associated Press