Friday’s Sports In Brief

NEW YORK (AP) —Joe Torre will retire as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers at the end of the season, and will be replaced by hitting coach Don Mattingly.
Torre took over the Dodgers for the 2008 season following 12 years and four World Series titles with the New York Yankees. Mattingly followed Torre to California as his heir apparent.
Torre is in his 29th season as major league manager. He nfl jerseys
turned 70 in July.
NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL chastised the New York Jets for unprofessional conduct but found no evidence that a female television reporter was “bumped, touched, brushed against or otherwise subjected to any physical contact” by any member of the team or coaching staff.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said while the “conduct of the Jets clearly should have been better,” owner Woody Johnson and his staff acted promptly to correct the situation that arose last weekend when TV Azteca’s Ines Sainz said she felt uncomfortable in the locker room. Goodell said that, as a result of the incident, the league will implement a training program for all 32 teams on proper conduct in the workplace and that the program would be underwritten by Johnson.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - NFL Players Association spokesman Carl Francis confirmed in an e-mail to The Associated Press that Indianapolis, Dallas, New Orleans and Philadelphia have voted unanimously to decertify the union. He said union leaders were still collecting voting cards from other teams.
Decertification would strip the union of its collective bargaining rights on behalf of the players, so the move might seem counter-intuitive. But because antitrust laws exempt NFL owners from being sued by unions negotiating CBAs, decertification would in essence eliminate the union and allow players to sue the NFL in the event of a lockout - giving them potential leverage.
NEW YORK (AP) - The Team Marketing Report said average ticket prices for NFL games increased 4.5 percent to $76.47, up from a 3.9 percent hike last season.
The New York teams had the steepest increases after moving into the New Meadowlands Stadium.
Jets non-premium tickets went up 31.8 percent to $114.64 on average, and the Giants rose 26 percent to $111.69. New Orleans raised its average 20.5 percent to $74.99 after winning the Super Bowl. New England’s prices stayed flat, but it still had the highest average cost - $117.84.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michael Vick(notes) will start for Philadelphia at Detroit, the first time he’s been under center at the start of a game since his time with Atlanta - long before the world learned about his cruel world of dogfighting. Eagles coach Andy Reid made it official when he ruled out Kevin Kolb(notes) because of a concussion.
ATLANTA (AP) - The NCAA turned Indianapolis Colts jersey
down Georgia receiver A.J. Green’s appeal, letting stand the four-game suspension for selling an Independence Bowl jersey for $1,000 to a person deemed to be an agent.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Santiago Giraldo beat Sam Querrey 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 to give Colombia a 1-1 tie with the United States in their three-day Davis Cup playoff match for a World Group spot.
In the opener, Mardy Fish edged Alejandro Falla 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
In the World Group semifinals, France led Argentina 2-0, and the Czech Republic and Serbia were tied 1-1.
In Lyon, France, Michael Llodra beat Juan Monaco 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, and Gael Monfils had 27 aces in a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over David Nalbandian. In Belgrade, Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic beat Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (5) to square the match after Radek Stepanek topped Viktor Troicki - playing after second-ranked Novak Djokovic withdrew - 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.
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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) - Brad Keselowski crashed the party at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, winning the pole for the first race in the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Keselowski broke Juan Pablo Montoya’s year-old record with a lap of 133.572 mph to earn the top starting spot Sunday. Clint Bowyer was second, followed by fellow Chase driver Tony Stewart(notes).
Keselowski is 26th in the standings.
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PHOENIX (AP) - The city of Glendale says a prospective buyer of the NHL-owned Phoenix Coyotes, “in a show of good faith,” has deposited $25 million in an escrow account.
The figure is equal to the amount of city funds Glendale had deposited, at the NHL’s insistence, to cover potential losses for the coming season while a local buyer was sought. Glendale, in a news release Friday, said the buyer has asked for confidentiality because negotiations are ongoing, but there have been multiple reports the city has been in talks with Chicago investor Matthew Hulsizer.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Dodge Morgan, who became the first American to sail solo around the globe without stopping - and did it in record time - has died of complications from cancer. He was 78.
Morgan, who died Tuesday in Boston, set a world record in 1986 when he Dallas Cowboys jersey
completed the solo sail in his 60-foot American Promise in 150 days, 1 hour, 6 minutes.
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ATZENBRUGG, Austria (AP) - England’s John Parry shot a 5-under 67 in the Austrian Open to take the second-round lead at 8 under. U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell (68) was a stroke back along with Pelle Edberg (68) and Jose Manuel Lara (71).