Selig: Replay technology ready soon

Major league ballparks are being wired for instant replay, and commissioner Bud Selig said yesterday his "confidence is growing" that the technology to assist umpires will be ready soon. "I want to make sure that if and when we do it, it's really good, it's perfect," Selig said at the conclusion of a two-day owners' meeting in Washington. "It'll be very limited. I want to make sure, and I'm not quite certain yet. But we should have answers very shortly." Replays would be used only to determine whether a ball leaving the field is fair or foul, or whether it actually went over the fence. It would not be used on close plays on the bases or for balls and strikes . . . Opening Day starter Brad Penny was placed on the 15-day disabled list by the Dodgers - a day after being pounded for six runs and six hits in three innings by the Phillies. Penny, 30, had been sidelined from June 14 until last Friday night because of tendinitis in his right shoulder . . . Ten of baseball's 30 first-round draft picks were unsigned heading into tonight's midnight deadline, including picks two through five. Among the unsigned first-rounders were five players represented by agent Scott Boras: No. 2 selection Pedro Alvarez (Pittsburgh), No. 3 Eric Hosmer (Kansas City), No. 20 Joshua Fields (Seattle), No. 23 Allan Dykstra (San Diego), and No. 28 Gerrit Cole (New York Yankees). Cole has told the Yankees he will attend UCLA.

The Atlantic Coast Conference tournament isn't coming to Boston's Fenway Park until 2010. The league and the group that owns the ballpark said that because of a scheduling error, Fenway Park isn't able to host the 2009 ACC tournament. ACC commissioner John Swofford said the conference is looking for "a quality venue" to replace Fenway next year . . . Pitcher Jesse Lebron and second baseman Alexander Mejia, both with the Chicago Cubs' Dominican Summer League farm team, were suspended for 50 games each after testing positive under the minor league drug program.

Michael Bradley, Brad Guzan, Maurice Edu, and Sacha Kljestan won't be getting much rest. A day after the US Olympic team was eliminated from the Beijing Games, the quartet was among 17 players picked for the American roster for next week's World Cup qualifier at Guatemala . . . Clint Mathis returned to Real Salt Lake when the MLS team acquired the 31-year-old midfielder's rights from Ergotelis of the Greek Super League . . . Former US star goalkeeper Kasey Keller signed with Seattle Sounders FC, the second player the expansion team has locked up for its inaugural Major League Soccer season in 2009 . . . Alan Gordon knocked in a header from 12 yards in stoppage time to lift the Los Angeles Galaxy into a 2-2 tie with Chivas USA in Carson, Calif.

Former NBA player Roshown McLeod, who played for Atlanta and Philadelphia, has been hired as an assistant coach at Indiana. New coach Tom Crean said McLeod will work with the Hoosiers' inside players. The 6-foot-8-inch McLeod played at St. John's and Duke and was a first-round pick by Atlanta in 1998 . . . Vincent Askew, 43, who played for eight NBA teams in nine seasons, posted bond after his arrest in Miami on charges he had sex with a 16-year-old girl . . . Shaunie O'Neal, the wife of Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O'Neal, said the couple plans to stop divorce proceedings soon.

Quarterback Ben Mauk filed a lawsuit against the NCAA less than a week after the association rejected his final appeal for another year of eligibility at Cincinnati. Mauk, who broke his right arm and separated his shoulder in Wake Forest's season opener in 2006, then transferred to Cincinnati, says he should get another season because of playing time lost to injury while he was at Wake Forest . . . The Philadelphia Flyers signed coach John Stevens to a two-year contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2010-11 season . . . Scoville Jenkins, who lost to Roger Federer in the first round at Flushing Meadows last year, and former NCAA champion Amer Delic were among eight men receiving wild-card entries into the US Open . . . Top-seeded Andy Roddick needed a third-set tiebreaker to beat Eduardo Schwank, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), and advance to the quarterfinals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington . . . Amelie Mauresmo defeated Yanina Wickmayer, 6-3, 6-1, to advance to the quarterfinals of the $175,000 Cincinnati Women's Open.