Joe Maddon gets contract extension from the Rays

The Tampa Bay Rays rewarded Manager Joe Maddon for leading them to last season’s World Series, announcing Monday a three-year contract extension that runs through 2012.

“This is where I belong. This is where I want to be,” Maddon said during a conference call.

Maddon, 55, is in his fourth season with Tampa Bay, which posted a winning record for the first time in 2008.

He was selected American League manager of the year after leading the Rays to 97 regular-season victories, a 31-game turnaround from the previous year.

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Second baseman Akinori Iwamura will be out for the rest of the season because of a torn ligament in his left knee that will require surgery, the Rays said.

Iwamura was injured trying to turn a double play in the eighth inning Sunday against the Florida Marlins.

JURISPRUDENCE

NBA ex-player Williams arrested

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a nightclub in Raleigh, N.C.

Raleigh police said Williams, 41, was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond.

Williams is facing a retrial on a charge of reckless manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of limousine driver Costas “Gus” Christofi at his mansion in Alexandria Township, N.J.

GOLF

Daly reinstated by PGA Tour

John Daly said he has been reinstated by the PGA Tour, and the two-time major champion plans to return in three weeks at the St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn.

Daly was suspended for six months in November after a series of off-course incidents that brought negative publicity, the latest a picture of him in an orange jail suit with his eyes half-closed after being locked up to get sober in North Carolina.

He has played eight times overseas during his suspension, and tied for second this month in the Italian Open.

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U.S. shuts out Canada in soccer

Shannon Boxx, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley and Lauren Cheney scored to lead the United States to a 4-0 victory over Canada in a women’s soccer friendly at Toronto.

The U.S., which had an 18-7 shot advantage, is 38-3-4 all-time against Canada.

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Lance Armstrong and Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer each finished 2 minutes 51 seconds behind stage winner Carlos Sastre in the 16th stage of the Giro d’Italia.

Overall leader Denis Menchov finished second, 25 seconds behind Sastre.

Sastre, the defending Tour de France champion, clocked a marathon-like 7:11:54 over the 147-mile leg from Pergola to Monte Petrano, over three major climbs.

Danilo Di Luca finished third, 26 seconds after Sastre, and Menchov increased his lead over Di Luca to 39 seconds. Sastre moved into third overall, 2:19 back.

Leipheimer dropped from third to sixth overall, 3:21 behind Menchov, and Armstrong moved up from 13th to 12th, 11:06 behind Menchov.

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Former world champion Tom Boonen will resume cycling next week and his team, Quick Step, said it could take legal action if necessary to get him into the Tour de France despite his second positive cocaine test in as many years.

Boonen drew a fine from his team on top of his suspension after his failed test last month.

Tour organizers have said they would bar Boonen from the race, just like last year after his first infraction.

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Jockey Rene Douglas might be paralyzed after being thrown from his mount during a race Saturday at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Ill.

His agent, Dennis Cooper, said Douglas spent seven hours in surgery Sunday and doctors told him his client could not feel his lower limbs. Cooper said doctors won’t know Douglas’ status for certain until about two weeks.

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Cody Jamieson scored 80 seconds into overtime, his second goal of the game, and Syracuse rallied from a three-goal deficit in the last 3:37 of regulation to beat Cornell, 10-9, at Foxborough, Mass., and win its second consecutive NCAA men’s lacrosse championship.