Third & Short

  • Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2012 7:00 a.m.
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MLB


Catcher Mike Napoli and the Texas Rangers have agreed to a $9.4 million, one-year contract and avoided a salary arbitration hearing, a person familiar with the deal said Saturday.


Napoli is getting a raise from $5.8 million last season, his first in Texas.


The deal came four days before Napoli's scheduled arbitration hearing. Napoli had asked for $11.5 million, and the Rangers had offered $8.3 million.


TENNIS


FRIBOURG, Switzerland -- The United States swept favored Switzerland out of the Davis Cup on Saturday when Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan beat Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.


Teaming for only the second time, Fish and Bryan comfortably handled the 2008 Olympic doubles champions in front of an occasionally hostile Swiss crowd of 7,000.


The doubles victory gave the Americans a 3-0 lead in the best-of-five, first-round series. They advanced to the quarterfinals in April when they again will be on the road -- against France or Canada.

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