Devers heads 2011 class for track hall

Track and field: Gail Devers is headed to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame following an inspiring sprinting career that was nearly derailed by Graves’ disease, an immune system disorder that caused her feet to swell to the point that she worried about amputation.

Devers, the winner of three Olympic titles and 13 indoor and outdoor world championship medals, and fellow Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene head the 2011 class announced Tuesday by USA Track & Field.

Devers was told there was a possibility she would never walk or run again, but she still managed to become one of America’s biggest track stars.

“There were days that I was in the house – I couldn’t come outside because of the sun, because of all the things I was going through. I was crawling around,” Devers said.

Other inductees include Olympic champion Vince Matthews, coach Bob Timmons, and seven-time Boston Marathon winner Clarence Demar, who died in 1958.

McCourt agrees to sell Dodgers, stadium

Baseball: Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, surrendering the team he fought to retain for two years and in two courts.

McCourt and Major League Baseball have agreed to seek approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for an auction of the Dodgers, according to a joint statement issued late Tuesday night. The sale is expected to include the team, Dodger Stadium and the surrounding parking lots, a package bought by McCourt for $421 million in 2004 and likely to sell now for two to three times as much.

• Dodgers, Red Sox dominate Gold Gloves: Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier became the first trio of Los Angeles Dodgers to win N.L .Gold Gloves in the same year, and Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury became the first three Red Sox in 32 seasons to win the A.L. honor together.

Kershaw became a first-time winner at pitcher, Ethier earned his first Gold Glove in the outfield and Kemp regained the N.L. award he earned in 2009.

Gonzalez earned his first A..L Gold Glove to go along with two he won in the N.L. while with San Diego, Pedroia won at second base for the first time since 2008 and Ellsbury picked up his first Gold Glove.

Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle was the lone A.L. holdover, winning for the third straight year. Baltimore’s Matt Wieters won at catcher, the Angels’ Erick Aybar at shortstop, Texas’ Adrian Beltre at third, and Kansas City’s Alex Gordon and Baltimore’s Nick Markakis in the outfield.

The St. Louis Cardinals’ Yadier Molina became the first N.L. catcher to win in four straight years since Charles Johnson from 1995-98.

Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto and second baseman Brandon Phillips also won along with Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, Philadelphia third baseman Placido Polanco and Arizona outfielder Gerardo Parra.

Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki’s streak of Gold Gloves ended at 10.

• Granderson slam leads MLB stars to Taiwan win: Curtis Granderson hit a grand slam to lead a team of major league stars to a 7-0 win over Taiwan’s national team in Xinzhuang, Taiwan.

Sutton elbow worth 5-game suspension

NHL: Edmonton Oilers defenseman Andy Sutton was suspended five games by NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan.

Sutton delivered an elbow to the head of Colorado Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog early in the third period of Edmonton’s 3-1 victory Friday.

Sutton will forfeit more than $57,000 in salary.

• On the ice: Nicklas Backstrom scored the tying goal with 42 seconds left in regulation, then added the winner at 2:18 of overtime to lift Washington to a 5-4 comeback victory over visiting Anaheim. Washington improved to 6-0 at home and ended a two-game skid. … Johnny Boychuk and Daniel Paille scored 47 seconds apart to break open a tie game in the third period, and Boston ended a three-game losing streak by beating visiting Ottawa 5-3 and snapping the Senators’ six-game winning streak. Former Spokane Chiefs defenseman Jared Cowen scored his first goal of the season for Ottawa. … Jeff Skinner and Chad LaRose had two goals each, lifting Carolina over Tampa Bay 4-2 at Raleigh, N.C. … Devin Setoguchi’s power-play goal 1:33 into overtime gave visiting Minnesota a comeback win over Detroit. The Wild’s Mikko Koivu scored his first goal of the season on a deflection of Justin Falk’s shot with a minute left in regulation. It was the first assist of the season for Falk, a former Spokane Chiefs defenseman.

Djokovic makes winning return

Tennis: U.S. Open champion Novak Djokovic made his return after missing six weeks with a back injury and defeated Xavier Malisse 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland.

The top-ranked Serb overcame some difficult moments before improving his record this season to 65-3.