First baseman/outfielder Aubrey Huff reached a preliminary agreement on a three-year, $20 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles, who hope the versatile free agent can add punch to a lineup that ranked 11th in the AL in home runs last season. Huff, 30, hit 21 homers last season with Tampa Bay and Houston, and averaged 27 from 2002-05 with the Devil Rays.
– Defenseman Jack Johnson scored a power-play goal 3:16 into overtime to lift the United States to a 3-2 victory over host Sweden and into the quarterfinals of the World Junior Hockey Championship. Johnson’s high shot past Swedish goaltender Joel Gistedt secured a matchup against Finland on Tuesday. The Americans led 2-1 before Fredrik Pettersson tied it on a rebound with 14 seconds left after Gistedt was pulled for a sixth skater.
– Martina Hingis beat Sybille Bammer 6-0, 6-2 at the Australian Women’s Hardcourt Championship in Gold Coast, Australia, an Australian Open tuneup where she started her successful comeback year. . . . Sania Mirza won her singles and doubles matches to lead India to a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic in her country’s debut at the Hopman Cup teams tournament in Perth, Australia.
– Favored King’s Drama, with David Flores up, beat Railroad by a half-length in the $150,000 San Gabriel Handicap at Santa Anita.
– Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Ferrari has developed a line of sweatshirts inspired by Zinedine Zidane’s head butt during the World Cup final, with two stick figures depicting the incident.
