In brief: Suns edge Magic, move to 8-0 at home

NBA: Amare Stoudemire capped a 28-point night with an emphatic offensive rebound dunk with 6.9 seconds to play and the Phoenix Suns stayed unbeaten at home with a 106-103 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night.

Steve Nash had 20 points and 18 assists for the Suns, at 8-0 the only team in the league yet to lose at home.

Rashard Lewis scored 24 for the Magic, who trailed by 14 in the third quarter.

•Cavs bounce back: LeBron James scored 33 points, Anderson Varejao had a season-high 22 and the Cavaliers rebounded from consecutive sloppy road losses with a 104-99 win over the hobbled Portland Trail Blazers in Cleveland. Brandon Roy scored 23, LaMarcus Aldridge 22 and Andre Miller 20 for the Blazers, who dressed just nine players because of injuries.

•Bryant hurts finger: Kobe Bryant returned to the Los Angeles Lakers’ lineup after spending part of the second quarter in the locker room with a small break in his finger.

The Lakers said Bryant has an avulsion fracture, in which a tiny fragment of bone tears away near a tendon or ligament.

The Lakers beat the visiting Timberwolves 104-92 for their 11th straight win.

Patriots’ Brady returns to practice

NFL: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady returned to practice after missing the previous two sessions with right finger, right shoulder and rib injuries.

Brady was listed as questionable on the injury report for Sunday’s game against the Carolina Panthers.

•Titans’ Young tweaks knee: Tennessee quarterback Vince Young is questionable for Sunday’s game against St. Louis after re-aggravating his sore right knee. Young was hurt last weekend, though tests on the knee came back fine. He tweaked the knee Thursday.

•Vikings’ Harvin questionable: Minnesota receiver Percy Harvin missed his third straight practice with migraine headaches and is questionable for Sunday’s game against Cincinnati.

Royals sign Kendall; Putz to White Sox

Baseball: Jason Kendall got a $6 million, two-year contract from the Kansas City Royals and J.J. Putz agreed to a $3 million, one-year deal with the Chicago White Sox.

Tampa Bay finalized its trade with Atlanta, acquiring right-hander Rafael Soriano and agreeing to a $7.25 million, one-year contract with the reliever. Washington completed its $6 million, two-year contract with 14-time All-Star catcher Ivan Rodriguez.

Davis, Wolf improve world skating records

Winter sports: American Shani Davis and Jenny Wolf of Germany lowered their world records in Kearns, Utah, in the final speedskating World Cup before the Vancouver Olympics. Davis won the 1,500 meters in 1 minute, 41.04 seconds. Wolf skated 500 meters in 37 seconds.

•Raich wins combined: Benjamin Raich of Austria won a World Cup super combined ski race in Val D’Isere, France, Bode Miller finished fifth and American teammate Ted Ligety skidded off the course.

The former overall World Cup champion had a combined time of 2 minutes, 7.71 seconds for the super-G and slalom runs. Ligety was leading by more than a second when he went out.

Akron, Virginia in College Cup final

Miscellany: The top-seeded Akron men ousted North Carolina on penalty kicks in the semifinals of soccer’s College Cup in Cary, N.C.

Blair Gavin sent a shot into the lower left-hand corner of the net to give the Zips a 5-4 winning margin after neither team scored in regulation or the two overtime periods.

Akron (23-0-1) will play Virginia (18-3-3) for the championship Sunday, after the Cavaliers defeated Wake Forest 2-1 in overtime.

•Group would keep Coyotes in Arizona: The Ice Edge Holdings investment group has signed a letter of intent to purchase the financially floundering Phoenix Coyotes from the NHL with a long-term commitment to keep the team in Arizona.

•Phelps wins two: Michael Phelps won the 200-yard freestyle (1 minute, 33.14 seconds) and 100 butterfly (47.28 seconds) during the North Baltimore Aquatic Club’s three-day holiday swim meet in Annapolis, Md.

•Pascal keeps belt: Jean Pascal overcame an apparent shoulder injury to defeat Adrian Diaconu by unanimous decision in Montreal and keep his WBC light heavyweight boxing title.

•Zaveck takes title: Jan Zaveck of Slovenia stopped Isaac Hlatshwayo in the third round to win the IBF welterweight boxing title at in Johannesburg.

•Court sides with NASCAR: A federal appeals court rejected claims by the former owners of a Kentucky race track that NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. violated federal antitrust laws by keeping it off the premier racing circuit.

The decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ends the ownership group’s legal efforts to force NASCAR to bring a Sprint Cup race to the track in Sparta, in northern Kentucky.

•Rosario ties Shoemaker’s mark: Joel Rosario has ridden six winners at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif., tying a track record originally set by Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker in 1953. Shoemaker repeated the feat in 1970. Laffit Pincay Jr. equaled it in 1968, as did Kent Desormeaux in 1992.