Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
WHITE SOX: SS Omar Vizquel agreed to 1-year contract.
Boston: Named DeMarlo Hale bench coach, Tim Bogar third base coach and Ron Johnson first base coach.
Oakland: 3B Dallas McPherson agreed to minor league contract.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CUBS: Named Wally Hayward executive VP, chief sales and marketing officer.
Milwaukee: LHP Chris Capuano agreed to minor league contract.
Football
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
New Orleans: Signed CB Mike McKenzie.
Hockey
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
NHL: Suspended Montreal F Georges Laraque 5 games for incident during Saturday’s game against Detroit.
BLACKHAWKS: Reassigned LW Bryan Bickell to Rockford (AHL).
Columbus: Placed F Derek Dorsett on IR, retroactive to Nov. 19.
Minnesota: Traded LW Benoit Pouliot to Montreal for LW Guillaume Latendresse.
Montreal: Recalled F Sergei Kostitsyn from Hamilton (AHL).
Tampa Bay: Reassigned D Mike Lundin to Norfolk (AHL).
Colleges
Northeastern: Dropped football program.
Thiel: Will add men’s volleyball beginning in 2010-11.
Sam Houston State: Fired football coach Todd Whitten.
Western Kentucky: Named Willie Taggart football coach.
