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BASEBALL
Bobby Cox will retire as manager of the Braves after the 2010 season, ending a career in which he guided the team to 14 consecutive postseason appearances and the 1995 World Series title. The 68-year-old, a four-time Manager of the Year, agreed to a one-year contract extension for 2010, the Braves announced before last night’s game against the Mets. He will start a five-year consulting agreement with the team after he steps down as manager. “I’ll believe it when I see it,’’ the Braves’ Chipper Jones, who has played for Cox his entire career, said of the planned retirement . . . Suspended Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley has apologized for behavior that led general manager Jim Hendry to banish him for the rest of the season. Bradley signed a $30 million, three-year contract in the offseason but struggled and was booed loudly at Wrigley Field while hitting .257 with 12 homers and 40 RBIs. He says his frustration and disappointment caused him to act in a way he regrets . . . Orioles outfielder Nolan Reimold had surgery to repair a partially torn left Achilles’ tendon.BASKETBALL
Nets, Prokhorov reach an agreement
Russia’s richest man has a deal to buy a controlling interest in the New Jersey Nets and nearly half of a project to build a new arena in Brooklyn. Mikhail Prokhorov would be the first non-North American NBA owner. The deal must be approved by three-fourths of the league’s board of governors . . . Rockets center Yao Ming says he’s encouraged by his recovery from surgery to repair fractures in his left foot. But in an interview with KRIV-TV in Houston, the 7-foot-6-inch center says there’s no chance that he’ll play this season . . . Restricted free agent point guard Raymond Felton signed the Charlotte Bobcats’ one-year, $5.5 million qualifying offer . . . The Timberwolves, on a youth movement, said Mark Blount’s agent should try to find the center a roster spot with a different team . . . Shavonte Zellous scored 23 points and Deanna Nolan had 22 as the host Detroit Shock cruised to a 72-56 victory over the Indiana Fever in Game 1 of the WNBA’s Eastern Conference finals . . . Diana Taurasi had 28 points and the Phoenix Mercury hit 14 3-pointers to hold off the host Los Angeles Sparks, 103-94, in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.HOCKEY
Goalie Kolzig retires after 14 seasons
Free agent goaltender Olaf Kolzig retired after 14 seasons in the NHL. The 39-year-old former Vezina Trophy winner spent most of his career with the Capitals. His 303 career wins rank 21st all time . . . Peter Forsberg will play for his hometown team Modo in a Swedish Elite League home opener against Frolunda today in yet another comeback attempt following a lingering foot injury. The former NHL MVP, 36, can play with Modo until the NHL season begins Oct. 2 without jeopardizing a possible comeback in the NHL . . . The Sharks signed free agent center Manny Malhotra. He has played 12 seasons in the NHL, posting a career-high 35 points last season with Columbus . . . Coyotes forward Francis Lessard was suspended for the final two exhibition games and the first three games of the season for his hit on Anaheim’s Ryan Donally over the weekend, and Kings defenseman Sean O’Donnell was suspended five games, including the first two of the regular season, for a cross check on the Islanders’ Matt Martin.COLLEGES
Report: Barkley will start for USC at QB
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, USC coach Pete Carroll said freshman quarterback Matt Barkley (bruised shoulder) will start Saturday night when the No. 12 Trojans look to rebound against Washington State . . . The College Football Hall of Fame, which never attracted the number of visitors its organizers hoped for after moving it to South Bend, Ind., in 1995, is being moved to Atlanta . . . Two fights in two days between University of Kansas football and basketball players sent one hoop star to the hospital. Tyshawn Taylor, a sophomore guard on the basketball team, was taken to a hospital Tuesday night for treatment of a hand injury that could sideline him up to a month . . . The Big Ten suspended Purdue offensive guard Zach Reckman for Saturday’s game against Notre Dame after it reviewed Reckman’s late hit at the end of the Northern Illinois game . . . A pair of quarterbacks, UMass junior Kyle Havens and Merrimack sophomore James Suozzo of Everett, received Gold Helmet Awards from the New England Football Writers . . . Massachusetts Maritime sophomore Nathan Sherr, the nation’s leading rusher in Division 3, suffered a season-ending knee injury in Saturday’s loss at Endicott . . . Six-foot-10-inch Central Catholic senior basketball center Carson Desrosiers of Windham, N.H., has committed to attend Wake Forest.MISCELLANY
Winfrey to aid Chicago Olympic bid
Oprah Winfrey is going on the road, this time in support of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. Chicago 2016 announced that the talk show queen will travel to Copenhagen next week ahead of the Oct. 2 vote . . . Robert Linn of Berkshire Hills Country Club fired an even-par 70 to win the New England Senior Amateur Championship at Wyantenuck CC in Great Barrington by three strokes . . . Conor Casey converted a penalty kick in second-half injury time as the Rapids salvaged a 1-all draw with the San Jose Earthquakes in a Major League Soccer game at Commerce City, Colo.
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