In brief: Leaf arrested on Texas charges

Football: Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf posted a $45,000 bond Wednesday in Washington on drug and burglary charges out of Texas after being arrested by customs agents as he returned to the United States from Canada.

James Farren, the district attorney in Randall County in West Texas, said Leaf was arrested by federal customs agents. Legal assistant Jennifer Bonstein said Leaf declined to waive extradition during an afternoon hearing in Bellingham.

Bond was set at $45,000 and Leaf’s attorney in Washington told the court Leaf would post the bond and return to Texas by himself. Leaf also was to come back to court in Whatcom County on July 16, Bonstein said.

Bill Kelly, Leaf’s attorney in Texas, said his client was returning to Texas to turn himself in by a deadline today.

“I assume when he was crossing the border, they picked him up,” Kelly said.

The ex-Washington State University and San Diego Chargers quarterback is charged with burglary to a habitation, a second-degree felony. Leaf also was indicted on seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance.

Leaf coached quarterbacks at West Texas A&M in Canyon, where the indictment was returned in May.

Leaf, who resigned from West Texas A&M after being investigated for drug crimes in November, was working in British Columbia, his attorney said. Kelly, a former head football coach at the college, said Leaf “has been to rehab and successfully completed it.”

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M’s skipper in All-Star game

Baseball: Mariners rookie manager Don Wakamatsu is already an All-Star.

American League manager Joe Maddon of Tampa Bay named Wakamatsu to his coaching staff for the 80th All-Star game. It will be played July 14 in St. Louis.

Kansas City manager Trey Hillman will join Wakamatsu as an A.L. coach.

The Mariners began the week with one player among the top recipients in fan voting for the midsummer classic: perennial All-Star outfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

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Johnson, Wahl invited to camp

Junior hockey: Spokane Chief forwards Tyler Johnson and Mitch Wahl are two of 43 players that have been invited to the 2009 U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Johnson and Wahl both played for the United States last year in its fifth-place finish at the 2009 World Junior Hockey Championship.

The evaluation camp will run from Aug. 7-15.