Pro Football

The Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League are expected to complete a deal with Channel 9 today , according to team spokesman John Tamanaha. The station will televise at least three road games. The Avengers already have deals for six games on Fox Sports Net 2, two on Fox Sports Net, and one nationally televised game on the Nashville Network (TNN).

Bucking the NFL again, Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones has hired a company that he partly owns, Broadband Sports of Santa Monica, to operate his team’s Web site, dallascowboys.com. Just a week ago, NFL owners approved putting all teams’ Web sites under the banner of nfl.com, a move Dallas opposed. . . . John Elway and Denver Bronco owner Pat Bowlen are again considering buying the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets and the Pepsi Center, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News reported.

Boxing

British boxing promoter Frank Warren has been accused of failing to pay nearly $2 million in taxes on earnings tied to lucrative TV deals for title fights. Prosecutors in London say Warren had income of more than $48 million in connection with fights involving champions Naseem Hamed, Nigel Benn and Steve Collins. . . . Germany’s Vitali Klitschko, who lost his World Boxing Organization heavyweight title to Chris Byrd Saturday at Berlin, will undergo a shoulder operation for a torn rotator cuff.

Miscellany

USC tight end Antoine Harris and receiver Kareem Kelly are among a group of football players Coach Paul Hackett is holding out of some spring football practice sessions so they can focus on academics.

San Diego State will drop men’s volleyball after this school year as part of a cost-cutting measure, reducing its men’s varsity sports to the minimum of six for NCAA Division I members. . . . Lou Holtz and Eddie Fogler, the football and basketball coaches at South Carolina, and Clemson counterparts Tommy Bowden and Larry Shyatt joined marchers protesting the flying of the Confederate flag over the South Carolina state capitol. . . . The WNBA has extended its contract by 10 years with the Buss family to continue operating the Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks’ parent team is the Lakers, and its president is Johnny Buss.