Anthony All-Star replacement pick

BASKETBALL
Carmelo Anthony is going to the All-Star Game after all. The NBA's leading scorer was picked by commissioner David Stern yesterday as an injury replacement and will make his first All-Star appearance Feb. 18 in Las Vegas. Stern also added Dallas forward Josh Howard to the Western Conference team. He needed to replace Houston center Yao Ming and Utah forward Carlos Boozer, who will be unable to play because of injuries . . . O.J. Mayo, considered by many the country's top high school player, will miss three games as punishment for being ejected and making contact with a referee in a Jan. 26 game. The two-week suspension, retroactive to Feb. 3, was agreed to by Mayo's attorney, the Secondary School Activities Commission, and Huntington (W.Va.) High School . . . Former Texas A&M coach Shelby Metcalf died Thursday at age 76.

BASEBALL

Bernie Williams, 38, indicated last night that he's not inclined to report to spring training with a minor league contract, ending his 16-year career, all with New York. "I don't know about that. I may be leaning toward no," Williams told the New York Daily News . . . Chan Ho Park and the New York Mets agreed to a $600,000, one-year contract. In addition to his base salary, Park could earn $2.4 million in performance bonuses based on innings . . . Center fielder Corey Patterson avoided arbitration with the Baltimore Orioles, agreeing to a $4.3 million, one-year contract . . . Former Red Sox pitcher Jeff Fassero, 44, retired after compiling a 121-124 record in 16 seasons . . . Don Orsillo, NESN's voice of the Red Sox since 2001, agreed to a multiyear contract extension . . . Hank Bauer, the former World War II Marine who as a Yankee outfielder played in nine World Series and won seven in 10 years during the 1950s, died at the age of 84. Bauer, who managed the Orioles to the 1966 World Series championship, died of cancer in Shawnee Mission, Kan. Obituary, Page B5.

FIGURE SKATING

US champion Evan Lysacek recorded his personal best in an international free skate (226.27) and won the men's title in the Four Continents competition at Colorado Springs, Colo. Jeffrey Buttle was second, and Jeremy Abbott took third. Ice dancers Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon ended Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto's three-year reign. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir finished third. Off the ice, Canadian pairs skater Jessica Dube was recovering from surgery to her left cheek and nose after being cut with a skate and attended the men's finals. World women's silver medalist Fumie Suguri withdrew with a strained neck.

MISCELLANY

Eddie Feigner, 81, the hard-throwing softball showman who barnstormed for more than 50 years with "The King and His Court" four-man team, died in Huntsville, Ala., of a respiratory ailment related to dementia. With a fastball once clocked at 104 miles per hour, Feigner threw 930 no-hitters, 238 perfect games, and struck out 141,517 batters while playing more than 10,000 games. He was inducted into the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame in 2000, when he retired at age 75 . . . Defending champion Amelie Mauresmo and top-seeded Justine Henin had tough matches in winning their Open Gaz de France quarterfinals at Paris. Mauresmo took two hours to oust eighth-seeded Anna Chakvetadze, 7-6, 7-5, while Henin went the distance to beat unseeded Tatiana Golovin, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Nadia Petrova and Lucie Safarova also gained the semis . . . Shane Mosley, 35, faces Luis Collazo, 25, in a welterweight fight tonight at Las Vegas.