Dodgers close to a one-year deal with Reed Johnson

The Dodgers are close to signing Reed Johnson to a one-year deal to be their fourth outfielder, according to baseball sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been completed.

Johnson, 33, is a .282 hitter over seven major league seasons, the last two with the Chicago Cubs. He batted .255 with four home runs and 22 runs batted in last year in a season in which he sat out nearly two months because of a broken foot.

Johnson can play all three outfield positions.

The Dodgers also considered Garret Anderson to fill the vacancy on their bench that was created when they traded Juan Pierre to the Chicago White Sox.

-- Dylan Hernandez

WINTER SPORTS

Vonn clinches title in super-G at St. Moritz

Lindsey Vonn won a super-giant slalom race Sunday, clinching the discipline title in the final World Cup race before the Vancouver Olympics.

The 25-year-old American finished in 1 minute 1.77 seconds at St. Moritz, Switzerland, for her ninth win of the season and third in super-G.

Marie Marchand-Arvier of France and Andrea Fischbacher of Austria, who crashed in Saturday’s downhill, tied for second, trailing Vonn by 0.17 of a second on a course shortened because of strong winds higher up the mountain.

With the victory, Vonn extended her lead in the overall standings to 137 points over Maria Riesch of Germany, who finished 11th on Sunday.

Reinfried Herbst led an Austrian 1-2 finish in a men’s World Cup slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, for his second win in six days.

Herbst finished the course in a combined time of 1:45.35 to beat Marcel Hirscher by 0.40 of a second for his fourth victory of the season.

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Gabby’s Golden Gal pulls off upset

Longshot filly Gabby’s Golden Gal held off favorite Proviso and the rest of a deep Grade I field to win the $250,000 Santa Monica Handicap at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Martin Garcia, Gabby’s Golden Gal was third in the field of 11 in the early going, moved up to second on the turn and appeared to be fading in the stretch but dug in and pulled away for a 1 1/4 -length victory, covering seven furlongs in 1:21.25.

Paraguay soccer player Salvador Cabanas has been able to take food by mouth and is talking with family members, a remarkable recovery after being shot in the head a week ago in a Mexico City bar.

Doctors at Angeles del Pedregal Hospital said they were surprised by Cabanas’ progress since being shot at point-blank range just before dawn Jan. 25. Dr. Ernesto Martinez said 80% of patients with such head wounds do not survive.

Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old from Thousand Oaks on a mission to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone, says she is taking a pit stop in Mexico to deal with an electricity problem.

On her blog, Sunderland wrote Saturday she’s headed for Cabo San Lucas to add a “new battery or two” because solar panels and wind generators aren’t keeping up with her energy needs.

PASSINGS

Larry Bortstein, 67, covered horse racing

Larry Bortstein, who covered horse racing for 17 years for the Orange County Register, died Sunday morning at a hospital in Arcadia after suffering a pulmonary embolism Jan. 23. He was 67.