Albert Pujols is out for six weeks

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols will be out an estimated six weeks because of a fractured left wrist, a devastating blow for a franchise hit hard by injuries this season.

The team announced the results of an MRI exam and CT scan Monday, one day after the three-time National League most valuable player was injured during a home game against Kansas City. The team said that Pujols has a non-displaced fracture of his left radius and that his arm is in a splint, and General Manager John Mozeliak referred to the injury as a fractured wrist.

Mozeliak said he hoped to have Pujols back by the beginning of August.

Florida Marlins center fielder Chris Coghlan was put on the 15-day disabled list because of left knee inflammation, voiding his earlier demotion to triple-A New Orleans.

The DL move was made Monday and retroactive to Friday, the day he had been optioned to the minors.

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Warner resigns from FIFA

Jack Warner quit as a FIFA vice president and soccer’s governing body dropped a bribery investigation of him, saying the “presumption of innocence is maintained.”

Warner and Asian soccer chief Mohamed bin Hammam were suspended by FIFA last month amid the gravest corruption crisis to rock the scandal-hit organization. The two leaders were accused of offering $40,000 cash payments to Caribbean voters during Bin Hammam’s failed presidential campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter.

Warner said he resigned by “my own volition and self-determination.”

NFL owners will convene Tuesday in Chicago, where they will receive a detailed update on the status of negotiations with the locked-out players.

Both sides have indicated in recent weeks that the gap is closing, and there’s reason for optimism that a labor deal could be reached in time to keep training camps and exhibition games intact.

Although it’s unlikely that owners will vote on a new collective bargaining agreement at these meetings, the league has asked them to prepare to stay the night in Chicago, as the one-day meeting could stretch into two.

—Sam Farmer

Abner Mares’ bantamweight tournament finale against previously injured Joseph Agbeko has been rescheduled to Aug. 13 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Mares’ promoter Richard Schaefer confirmed.

Mares (21-0-1, 13 KOs), from Hawaiian Gardens, was due to fight Agbeko (28-2, 22 KOs) on April 23 at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, but Agbeko suffered extreme back pain after a flight to the Southland from New York and had to withdraw.

Mares, 25, defeated Vic Darcinyan by split decision in the opening round of Showtime’s four-fighter bantamweight tournament, and Agbeko won the International Boxing Federation belt by defeating Yonnhy Perez of Colombia.

—Lance Pugmire

Dallas Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey will be named the head coach of the Toronto Raptors this week, the Dallas Morning News reported.

A court in the Bahamas dismissed a rape case against a Florida International baseball star and two friends who were accused of sexually assaulting two American teens after a night of drinking at an island resort.

Judge Derrence Rolle-Davis dropped the charges against Garrett Wittels and two friends from New York at the request of prosecutors who said they had no case against the men.