White Sox: No more high-priced talent

Don't expect the Chicago White Sox to sign any free agents still on the market. White Sox general manager Ken Williams said yesterday he doesn't see the need for more high-priced talent, especially with a roster full of young talent and a lousy economy. "We have learned some tough lessons . . . throwing as much talent against the wall is not necessarily the answer," Williams said. "Things have to fit in place. Players have to complement one another and they have to be in that clubhouse pulling for the same goal." Williams said the White Sox have one of the highest payrolls in the game, about $121 million last year.

Maple Leafs All-Star defenseman Tomas Kaberle is expected to be out of the lineup for four weeks after breaking a bone in his right hand, suffered in Thursday's 7-4 win over the Avalanche at Colorado. He has 30 points (4-26) in 49 games this season . . . The Phoenix Coyotes recalled center Joel Perrault from their San Antonio affiliate after he cleared reentry waivers. The 25-year-old Perrault scored seven goals and had 10 assists and 48 penalty minutes in 49 games for Phoenix last season . . . Martin St. Pierre scored twice and the Providence Bruins also got goals from Mikko Lehtonen, Brad Marchand, and Jeremy Reich in their 5-1 victory over the Devils in Lowell. Pascal Rheaume scored for Lowell.

Chivas USA forward Ante Razov is expected to miss 8-12 weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle to remove bone spurs. Razov, the club's career scoring leader who signed a new contract with the team, played for the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chicago, Columbus, and MetroStars before joining Chivas USA in 2006. He has scored 30 goals for the club, and is the second all-time leading scorer for the MLS . . . Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar set an English record for number of minutes played without conceding a goal in United's 1-0 victory over Everton. The former Netherlands international has gone 1,122 minutes without giving up a goal, surpassing the 1,103 minutes set by Reading's Steve Death during the 1978-79 season.

Asafa Powell was happy clocking 47.75 seconds as he came in second in the 400 meters at the Queen's/Grace Jackson Invitational in Kingston, Jamaica. Annsert White won in 47.59. Powell, the former 100-meter world record-holder, has started the season in the 400 for strength training for several years. His best was 47.17 two years ago. "The aim was to finish and run under 48 seconds, which I did, and I am very satisfied," said Powell, who was part of the Jamaica team that won the 4x100 relay at the Beijing Olympics in world-record time . . . Dwain Chambers, shunned by organizers of Europe's major track meets because of a doping ban that ended three years ago, ran his fastest 60 meters at the Birmingham (England) Games, clocking 6.52 seconds in a heat, 0.2 faster than his silver medal finish at last year's World Indoors in Valencia, Spain. He won the final in 6.54 . . . American Lolo Jones recovered from a false start to win the 60-meter hurdles in 7.95 seconds at the Aviva International in Glasgow. Jones appeared headed for gold in Beijing when she clipped the next-to-last hurdle and finished seventh.

American Tucker Fredricks beat World Cup leader Yu Fengtong of China to win the 500-meter speedskating race in Erfurt, Germany, becoming the first to break 35 seconds at the oval when he clocked 34.91, beating Yu's course record by 0.12 seconds. Yu finished in 35.00 . . . Gregor Schlierenzauer led an Austrian sweep in a World Cup ski jump, recording the longest jump of 133 meters on his first attempt in Sapporo, Japan. He then leaped 120.5 meters to total 253.3 points. Thomas Morgenstern was second with 216.9 points . . . Dense fog forced organizers to cancel the men's downhill and women's Super-G World Cup races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany . . . Steve Fisher and Vermont's Hannah Teter each took gold in the halfpipe at the US Snowboarding Grand Prix in Boreal Resort, Calif. . . . Connecticut reserve center Charles Okwandu will miss the rest of the basketball season after being declared academically ineligible . . . Nicanor, the 3-year-old full brother of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, finished ninth in a 1-mile maiden race at Gulfstream Park. His debut came two years two days after Barbaro, who shattered his right hind leg in the Preakness, was euthanized. Thirty-to-1 shot Warrior's Reward won the race . . . The Sports Museum is accepting entries for The 2009 Will McDonough Writing Contest, open to students in grades 4-12. To download applications and guidelines, go to www.sportsmuseum.org . . . Eddie Logan, 98, a former boxer and Negro League baseball player with the Kansas City Monarchs, died in Monrovia, Calif.