Baseball

The Boston Red Sox and Expos are expected to announce that Montreal General Manager Dan Duquette is switching teams.

The Red Sox have been negotiating with Expo President Claude Brochu to have Duquette released from his contract, which runs through this season.

Duquette, a native of Dalton, Mass., was quoted in Wednesday’s Boston Herald as saying he expected the problems to be resolved within days. The teams were said to be considering a plan in which Duquette would join the Red Sox in midseason, giving him time to train his successor.

Miscellany

The NCAA, determined to reduce fighting in college football, has recommended that substitutes and coaches who leave the bench to participate in a fight, or join a fight that starts in the bench area, would be ejected and suspended for the next game.

Players who get into a fight while in the game would be ineligible for the rest of the half in which the fight occurs and for the following half of competition.

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New York Giant tackle Jumbo Elliott underwent back surgery to fix a herniated disk and is expected to make a full recovery, team officials said. . . Dennis Rodman of the San Antonio Spurs underwent surgery for a deviated septum suffered when Dallas Maverick Popeye Jones elbowed him in the nose.