Newsmakers

Exercised The Toronto Blue Jays exercised their $1.2 million option for catcher Jose Molina, keeping the defensive specialist with the team through the 2011 season. The 35-year-old catcher batted .246 with four doubles, a career-high six home runs and 12 RBIs this season.

Declined The New York Yankees declined 2011 options on first baseman-designated hitter Lance Berkman, reliever Kerry Wood and oft-injured first baseman Nick Johnson, and exercised their option on pitching prospect Andrew Brackman.

Suspended Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy says he’s suspended star wide receiver Justin Blackmon for one game after Blackmon’s arrest on a misdemeanor DUI charge. Blackmon was arrested at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday on an interstate in Carrollton, Texas, after police used radar to determine he was driving 92 mph in a 60 mph zone.

Hired Four-time Grand Slam champion Jim Courier was hired by the U.S. Tennis Association to lead the country’s Davis Cup team, replacing former captain Patrick McEnroe, who resigned last month.

Sentenced Former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington was sentenced in Riverside, Calif., to six months of home detention for making false statements in his Southern California bankruptcy case.

Surrendered Convicted sex offender Graham James surrendered to police Wednesday at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport and was whisked to Winnipeg, where the former major junior hockey coach was wanted on nine charges of sexual assault.

Died The founder of Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Ala., whose 1990 comments about the admission of blacks created a stir, has died. Club president Bob Luckie says in a statement that 87-year-old Hall Thompson died Wednesday morning. Thompson was the subject of controversy before the 1990 PGA Championship after he was quoted as saying the golf club could not be forced into accepting blacks as members.