Tuesday's Sports in Brief

By The Associated Press

Here's a look at Monday's sports in brief around the world.

BASEBALL

BOSTON (AP) — Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, the last player to hit for the Triple Crown, was resting comfortably after having triple bypass heart surgery.

Yastrzemski, who turns 69 on Friday, had the operation at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he underwent tests after experiencing chest pains in the morning, said his spokesman, Dick Gordon.

NEW YORK (AP) — Umpires want baseball to take another look at instant replay.

Umps said their governing board voted to boycott a conference call with management intended discuss implementing replay, angry that their concerns aren’t being addressed.

Major League Baseball responding by saying it canceled the Wednesday call because it doesn’t have a replay agreement with the union.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Oriole Park at Camden Yards hit the 50 million mark in attendance, reaching the milestone quicker than any ballpark in baseball history. The stadium opened in 1992 as the exclusive home of the Baltimore Orioles, who moved in after residing at Memorial Stadium since 1954. The day began with the Orioles standing 2,861 fans short of 50 million.

Kevin Gracie, a 24-year-old student at the University of Baltimore School of Law, was the lucky entrant. He won $50,000, season tickets for five years and was introduced to the crowd before the Orioles played the Boston Red Sox.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Greg Maddux is back in Los Angeles for another stretch drive. The Dodgers announced they have reacquired Maddux and received cash from San Diego. The Padres will get two minor league players to be named or cash.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Cardinals reliever Jason Isringhausen, twice demoted from the closer role this season, is likely out for the rest of the season with an elbow injury.

The 35-year-old Isringhausen had an MRI and left Busch Stadium after consulting with team medical personnel and before the Cardinals’ 4-1 loss to the Pirates. He’ll be placed on the disabled list for the second time, and general manager John Mozeliak doesn’t expect the right-hander back this year.

PRO FOOTBALL

CINCINNATI (AP) — With their two Pro Bowl receivers hurt, the Cincinnati Bengals brought back troubled receiver Chris Henry, a move that their coach had emphatically ruled out only a month earlier as inappropriate.

The signing helps the team but raises questions about its commitment to holding players accountable for their actions. Henry must serve a four-game suspension from the NFL — his third such punishment — before he can fully rejoin the team.

AUTO RACING

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Travis Geisler replaced Chris Carrier as crew chief for rookie Sam Hornish Jr. in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Geisler, a 27-year-old mechanical engineering graduate from Vanderbilt, has been the race engineer for Ryan Newman’s No. 12 Dodge. He played a key part in that team’s Daytona 500 victory in February.

BASKETBALL

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Clay Bennett’s ownership group has reached a final settlement with the city of Seattle, allowing the former SuperSonics franchise to move to Oklahoma City.

Attorneys filed a document in Seattle federal court noting that the parties had agreed to pay their own court costs after reaching the settlement.

Bennett announced last month that a settlement was being negotiated that would involve him making a payment of up to $75 million to Seattle to get out of the final two years of a lease at KeyArena.

Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the city had reached an agreement superseding the memorandum of understanding the parties had reached on July 2.

SEATTLE (AP) — Australian and Seattle Storm star Lauren Jackson will undergo surgery on a nagging right ankle injury after the Olympics are over, and is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks.

A statement released by the Australia Olympic Committee said Jackson has an impingement at the front of her right ankle joint. She has required repeated injections to compete in Beijing and will have arthroscopic surgery in Sydney next week.

The surgery likely will force Jackson to miss the rest of the WNBA regular season with Seattle, and the earliest Jackson would return to the Storm would be during the playoffs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Washington Mystics delivered a blistering assessment of her franchise, declaring that the team hasn’t “moved one ounce” in its history and that she “might as well shut down” the team if doesn’t start winning.

“We cannot continue on this path,” Sheila Johnson, also a part owner of the team, said in a rare conference call with reporters. “The Mystics have not moved one ounce in their 11-year history, and we’ve got to start making some changes. It is the only way this team is going to survive.”

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Shock signed six-time WNBA All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin to a one-year contract extension. The Shock received McWilliams-Franklin last week in a trade with the Washington Mystics for Tasha Humphrey, Eshaya Murphy and a 2009 second-round draft pick.

Detroit also signed free-agent guard Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — New Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean got the job security he wanted, signing a 10-year contract worth at least $23.6 million.

The deal includes an annual base salary of $600,000 and additional payments for promotional work. He will receive $1.4 million this season from outside income, a total that will increase slightly each year of the contract.

TENNIS

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Amelie Mauresmo dominated at times and struggled at others in a 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-2 victory over Kaia Kanepi in the first round of the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament.

Third-seeded Marion Bartoli avoided an upset by rallying to beat Tsvetana Pironkova 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the second round, and Agnes Szavay defeated Sara Errani 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-4.

In the men’s draw, Robby Ginepri looked strong again in defeating 12th-seeded Augustin Calleri 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in the second round, and second-seeded Ivo Karlovic defeated John Isner 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4. Also, Mischa Zverev upset fifth-seeded Juan Monaco 6-3, 6-3, and eighth-seeded Mardy Fish held off Wayne Odesnik 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.