Minnesota Twin outfielder Kirby Puckett is scheduled...

Minnesota Twin outfielder Kirby Puckett is scheduled for invasive eye surgery on Friday that is designed to remove the blood that remains in the eye, which has caused blurred vision.

Puckett has missed the entire season by the problem, which doctors say was caused by glaucoma. Laser surgery has been performed, but the vision has improved only to 20/80.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that Puckett had told friends: “This is it. We’ll know one way or the other--whether I can play--soon after this.”

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Former Boston Red Sox manager Butch Hobson’s arraignment in Providence, R.I., on a charge of cocaine possession has been delayed until July 25 to give lawyers more time to prepare,.

Hobson, 44, was arrested May 4 in a Pawtucket, R.I., motel after agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration said they found 2.6 grams of cocaine worth about $100 in his shaving kit. Through his lawyer, Stephen Famiglietti, Hobson has denied any wrongdoing.

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The Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Assn. has filed a brief supporting three Libertarians in their fight over the expansion of San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium.

The Libertarians are appealing a Superior Court ruling that the city doesn’t need voter approval to sell $66.6 million in lease-revenue bonds through a joint-powers agreement to expand Jack Murphy Stadium. That appeal will be heard today in the Fourth District Court of Appeals.