SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NHL believes Jerry Reinsdorf can succeed where Jerry Moyes failed as owner of the financially ailing Phoenix Coyotes. Reinsdorf, the owner of baseball’s Chicago White Sox and the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, has offered $148 million to buy the Coyotes out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and keep the team in Glendale, […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a strained right hip. Lowell had fluid drained from his hip Monday in Boston and received an injection designed to alleviate inflammation in the surgically repaired joint. There was a chance Lowell could have returned to […]

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams seems to have found a peculiar way to keep her vanity table uncluttered, even if her 33 tennis trophies, cups and plates weren’t exactly designed to store her makeup brushes. The 10-time Grand Slam champion said Tuesday she hasn’t yet taken time to admire her prizes, instead putting them […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez are set to become rich beyond comprehension long before throwing their first official NFL pass. The quarterbacks will be anointed as saviors — Stafford for a Detroit team that went winless in 2008, and Sanchez for a New York Jets club that hasn’t tasted […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Ervin Santana came through a bullpen session with no problems Tuesday and Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia said the right-hander will be back in the rotation this weekend. “He said he’s good,” Scioscia said. “He’s going to be pitching in the Baltimore series somewhere, we’re pretty sure of that. What […]

DETROIT (AP) — All or nothing seems to be the formula for coaching the Detroit Pistons. Bring home an NBA championship or hit the road. First-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Pistons coach to get the ax as president for basketball operations Joe Dumars fired him Tuesday after watching his team stumble to a […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — There were 67 young Tedy Bruschis playing football on the New England Patriots field on Tuesday. And one 36-year-old Bruschi who may be doing that just one more season. The boys and girls, aged 7 to 14, all were wearing dark-blue Patriots jerseys with Bruschi’s name and number 54 on them, […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — ESPN has released college basketball analyst Tom Brennan with one year left on his three-year contract. The 60-year-old Brennan, a former head coach at the University of Vermont, spent four years as an in-studio analyst for ESPN after leaving the Catamounts. The Bristol, Conn.,-based cable sports network is trimming costs with […]

VIENNA (AP) — Former cyclist Bernhard Kohl, who was banned for using a blood-booster last year, admitted giving drugs to other athletes on Tuesday. The Austrian said on local television that he gave triathlete Hannes Hempel a drug similar to testosterone in early 2008. He also claimed to have supplied others, but refused to name […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Mile’s past includes more than a century’s worth of auto racing’s biggest names, from A.J. Foyt to the Unsers and the Andrettis. Now the track’s promoters are behind on payments to NASCAR and the Indy Racing League, leaving its future uncertain. The Milwaukee Mile hosted its two biggest events of […]