Sports Briefs: Phillies trying to trade Lee, get Halladay

The Philadelphia Phillies have a tentative agreement to acquire star pitcher Roy Halladay in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays, and Halladay, a former Cy Young Award winner, was in Philadelphia yesterday for a physical required to complete the deal.

Philadelphia also is discussing a trade that would send Cliff Lee, another former Cy Young winner, to the Seattle Mariners.

The commissioner's office granted a 72-hour window Sunday for Toronto and Philadelphia to complete their trade, a baseball official speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press yesterday. Another source told the AP that Halladay took a physical for the Phillies yesterday and that Philadelphia could give up pitchers J.A. Happ and Joe Blanton and outfielder Dominic Brown as part of a deal.

Those three also took physicals in Philadelphia yesterday.

Halladay's agent, Greg Landry, was registered at a Philadelphia hotel, a sign that the sides were working on a contract extension, which likely would be necessary before Halladay waives his right to block a trade.

Halladay, 32, is the most prized pitcher on the trade market. A six-time All-Star and the 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner, he went 17-10 with a 2.79 ERA for the Blue Jays last season. He led the majors with four shutouts and nine complete games while pitching 239 innings.

More baseball

■ John Lackey and the Boston Red Sox have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract, a baseball official with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press yesterday.

The deal is worth $16 million to $17 million a season, the official said.

Boston also reached a tentative agreement on a two-year contract with outfielder Mike Cameron, according to another source.

■ A source told The Associated Press last night that Hideki Matsui and the Los Angeles Angels have reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract worth about $6.5 million.

Matsui's agent, Arn Tellem, confirmed "serious negotiations" but declined further comment.

Matsui batted .274 with 28 homers and 90 RBIs for the New York Yankees last season, then was selected the World Series MVP despite starting only three of the six games against Philadelphia. He went 8 for 13 (.615) with three homers and eight RBIs, tying a Series record by driving in six runs in Game 6.

■ The Washington Nationals and left-hander Scott Olsen have agreed to a $1 million, one-year contract. The deal includes performance bonuses that will allow Olsen to receive $3,825,000 if he makes 33 starts next year.

Olsen made only 11 starts for Washington in 2009, going 2-4 with a 6.03 ERA before surgery on his left shoulder in July. General Manager Mike Rizzo said last week that Olsen is done with rehabilitation and is preparing for spring training.

■ Third baseman David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, the fourth time in less than three years that a member of the team has faced drunken-driving allegations.

Police in Maryland Heights, Mo., said yesterday that Freese was stopped at 2:40 a.m. Saturday in suburban St. Louis for a traffic offense, then given a sobriety test. Details of the test were not released, but Freese was arrested for driving while intoxicated and failure to drive within a single lane. He was booked and then released, police said. He will appear in Maryland Heights municipal court, but no date has been set.

In a statement, the Cardinals said that the team was "extremely disappointed with David and he will have to take full responsibility for his actions."

■ The World Series champion New York Yankees will play the Boston Red Sox in major-league baseball's Sunday night opener April 4. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2 but will be blacked out on ESPN2 in the areas of the two teams, where it will be broadcast on local networks.

Miscellaneous

■ Two people familiar with the U.S. Olympic Committee's search for a CEO said that one of six candidates is Joe Moglia, the chairman of Ameritrade who recently took a volunteer position as a leadership consultant in the Nebraska athletics department.

Other candidates are: Sandy Alderson, a former baseball executive; Norm Bellingham, the current chief-operating officer; Scott Blackmun, a former general counsel and interim CEO of the USOC; Mark Lewis, the Jet Set Sports president; and Chuck Wielgus, the CEO of USA Swimming.

Two people familiar with the search gave The Associated Press the list but spoke on the condition of the anonymity.

■ Jurgen Klinsmann and his family intend to return to the United States, eight months after he was fired as coach of Bayern Munich. Klinsmann, 45, told a German television station late Sunday that "our family planning takes priority, and we are now going back to America, so the children can go to school there."

Klinsmann, whose wife, Debbie, is American, coached Germany to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup and will work as a television analyst for a German channel during next year's tournament in South Africa. He became Bayern Munich's coach in 2008 but was fired in April and now says he does not plan to take on another coaching assignment in the Bundesliga.

■ A Belgian court yesterday suspended the one-year doping bans given to tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse. The two were suspended by a Belgian court Nov. 5 for breaking World Anti-Doping Agency rules by failing to report their whereabouts for drug testing three times. The International Tennis Federation imposed the bans worldwide.

Wickmayer's attorneys hope that the injunction will make Wickmayer eligible to play as soon as possible. She hopes to receive a wild card for the Australian Open.

■ The IAAF has amended its results to list disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou as winner of the 100 meters at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She replaces Marion Jones, now listed as "DQ," in first place.

The IAAF acted after the International Olympic Committee last week reallocated the medals stripped from Jones for doping. The IOC declined to upgrade Thanou from silver to gold because she missed several drug tests before the 2004 Athens Games.

■ Kerri Walsh, a two-time Olympics gold medalist in beach volleyball, is pregnant for the second time. She is due at the end of May, and her agent says she could be back as early as the end of the 2010 season.

Walsh and her husband, fellow beach volleyball pro Casey Jennings, had a son last May.

■ Antonio Giraudo, the former chief executive of Juventus, has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a match-fixing scandal that shook Italian soccer. The ANSA and Apcom news agencies said yesterday that Giraudo was convicted on charges of criminal association aimed at committing sports fraud by a court in Naples, Italy.