Red Sox give Pedroia 6-year, $40.5M deal (AP)

AL Most Valuable Player Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox agreed Wednesday to a $40.5 million, six-year contract. The deal includes a club option for 2015. He would not have been eligible for free agency until after the 2012 season. Pedroia led the AL with 213 hits, 118 runs and 54 doubles in helping the Red Sox win a wild-card berth.

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Cowboys put 'Pacman' back on roster (AP)

Adam "Pacman" Jones is back in the NFL, and will be able to play this week for the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys put Jones on their 53-man roster Tuesday after the NFL lifted the cornerback's suspension. Jones missed six games for violating the league's player conduct policy. He previously was suspended for the entire 2007 season while with Tennessee and played in only six games for the Cowboys before...

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Notre Dame to bring back Weis in 2009 (AP)

Charlie Weis will return for a fifth year as Notre Dame's football coach despite posting his second straight disappointing season. "Though this past season fell short of the expectations that all of us have for our football program, I am confident that Charlie has a strong foundation in place for future success and that the best course of action is to move forward under his leadership," athletic...

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Giants end Burress' year, Pierce to play (AP)

The New York Giants expect Antonio Pierce to play in Sunday's game against Philadelphia while the team gathers information on the linebacker's involvement in a shooting that led to the season-ending suspension of star receiver Plaxico Burress. Coach Tom Coughlin said Pierce would practice Wednesday with the Super Bowl champions.

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Bettman calls suspended Avery to hearing (AP)

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has summoned Sean Avery to New York for a hearing Thursday on remarks that resulted in the indefinite suspension of the Dallas Stars' instigator. Bettman disciplined Avery on Tuesday for making "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game." The punishment came down only hours after Avery used a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other...

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Astros, Hampton finalize 1-year deal (AP)

Oft-injured Mike Hampton finalized a one-year, $2 million deal with the Houston Astros on Wednesday, hoping to resurrect his career in the place where he became a prominent big league pitcher. "Some of my fondest memories came in an Astros uniform," he said. "So it's a chance to return to some of those glory days." The contract includes $2 million in performance bonuses.

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NFL suspends 6 players for doping (AP)

Unless the courts intervene, the Minnesota Vikings will have to make their stretch run at the NFC North title without their two stalwart defensive tackles. Kevin and Pat Williams, who have anchored a Minnesota defense ranked second in the NFL against the run, were among six players suspended by the league on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy.

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'Canes fire Laviolette, rehire Maurice (AP)

The Carolina Hurricanes fired coach Peter Laviolette on Wednesday and replaced him with Paul Maurice, the winningest coach in franchise history. Hall of Fame player Ron Francis, the team's assistant general manager, moved from the front office and will be Maurice's associate coach. "We have a team that right now that, in my opinion, is not playing with the kind of confidence it needs," general...

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Avalanche C Sakic out at least 6 weeks (AP)

Joe Sakic thought long and hard about returning for a 20th NHL season after missing 38 games following hernia surgery last year. In late August, he declared his mind and body were ready for him to lace up his skates again, but this season hasn't gone as planned for the Colorado Avalanche's 39-year-old captain.

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ChiSox's Vazquez likely headed to Braves (AP)

The Atlanta Braves, in dire need for healthy veteran starting pitchers, have reached a tentative agreement to acquire right-hander Javier Vazquez from the Chicago White Sox in a six-player trade. The teams agreed to the trade Tuesday, two people familiar with the deal said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the trade had not been finalized.

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