Giants activate Affeldt from DL

Baseball: The San Francisco Giants have activated left-handed reliever Jeremy Affeldt and recalled infielder Charlie Culberson from Triple-A Fresno.

Affeldt has been on the 15-day disabled list with a right knee sprain. To make room, San Francisco designated left-hander Travis Blackley for assignment.

The Giants also optioned infielder Conor Gillaspie to Fresno.

Culberson was in the lineup at second base on Sunday for his major league debut.

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U.S. women wrap up brief camp

Basketball: It was a whirlwind few days in Seattle for Geno Auriemma and the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team.

Now they’ll go their separate ways until reconvening July 14 to start training again for the London Games.

“It went by fast,” Auriemma said. “Hopefully coming out of this weekend the players have a better expectation of what I’m looking for from them. Now we’ll see how much they improve over the next two months while they are playing in the WNBA and then we’ll really get started in July.”

The weekend started with a 1 1/2-hour practice on Friday night and concluded with a scrimmage against Japan on Sunday. Sandwiched in between was a 38-point rout of China in an exhibition game.

“The exciting part about it is it’s the beginning,” three-time Olympian Tamika Catchings said. “This is the first time this 12-player roster has been together practicing then to play a game against a great Chinese team, and to pull away like we did, every single person on this team brought something different.

“If we can continue to build off of that and continue to get better, that’ll only make what we do in the end that much more memorable.”

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