Newsmakers
Traded The Kansas City Royals have traded infielder Tug Hulett to the Boston Red Sox for cash or a player to be named. The 26-year-old infielder had been designated for assignment last week. Hulett was claimed off waivers from Seattle last offseason and played in 15 games for Kansas City in this year, going 2 for 18 at the plate. He also played for the Spokane Indians.
Agrees Five-time All-Star Andruw Jones agreed to a $500,000, one-year contract with the Chicago White Sox. Jones hit .214 with 17 homers and 43 RBIs in 82 games with Texas this year while making 53 starts as the designated hitter, 12 in left field, five in right field and four at first base.
Practices Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has practiced despite sustaining a concussion against Kansas City and is expected to play Sunday in Baltimore.
Sidelined Arizona Cardinals rookie outside linebacker Will Davis will be sidelined four to six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. Coach Ken Whisenhunt says the severity of the injury wasn’t discovered until an exam on Monday and the operation was performed on Tuesday.
Died Former AFL-NFL player Tom Janik, who in 1968 intercepted a pass by Joe Namath and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown, has died. He was 69. Janik, a defensive back and punter, made 25 interceptions in eight AFL seasons with Denver, Buffalo and Boston. The touchdown return against Namath and the New York Jets was one of six in Janik’s career. Janik played one year with the New England Patriots after the AFL-NFL merger.
Died Former jockey Ira “Babe” Hanford, who as an 18-year-old apprentice rode 20-1 shot Bold Venture to victory in the 1936 Kentucky Derby, has died. He was 91. He was the oldest-living jockey to have won the Derby and the first apprentice to have done so. Hanford did not get a chance to ride Bold Venture in the Preakness because racing officials suspended him for 15 days following the Derby, apparently for bumping into another horse at the start. Back then the starting gate didn’t have front of rear doors. Bold Venture’s trainer Max Hirsch replaced Hanford with George Woolfe for the Preakness, which the horse won. Bold Venture did not run in the Belmont.
Out Texas starting guard Varez Ward will miss the rest of the season with a ruptured quadriceps tendon in his right leg.
Drafted Seattle Sounders FC forward and midfielder Sebastian Le Toux is headed to Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Union selected him with one of the team’s 10 picks in the expansion draft.