In Brief

BASEBALL

Tigers outfielder Young put on restricted list, will be evaluated

The Detroit Tigers placed outfielder Delmon Young on the restricted list Saturday and said he would be evaluated under baseball's employee assistance program following his arrest on a hate crime harassment charge in New York for an encounter at his hotel during which police say he yelled anti-Semitic epithets.

Young was arraigned Friday and posted a $5,000 bond at a brief hearing in Manhattan court. He faces a misdemeanor aggravated harassment charge. If convicted, he could face up to a year in jail.

Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said he expects Young to return to the lineup if he is cleared by the evaluation. That could happen as soon as Monday, he said. Dombrowski would not say if the Tigers were considering any punishment of their own.

"He's accused of a misdemeanor," Dombrowski said. "If he's cleared to play, he will play."

Dombrowski said that Young was "extremely remorseful, extremely apologetic" about the events of early Friday morning.

Also: A 1949 Most Valuable Player plaque owned by Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams was sold for nearly $300,000 at the first major auction of his sports, military and personal memorabilia.

Nearly 800 items sold at the auction at Fenway Park. Among them was a baseball that Babe Ruth signed for Williams, which sold for $195,500. Hunt Auctions Inc. says that sale set a record for a baseball signed by Ruth that wasn't used in a game. The auction coincided with the 10th anniversary of Williams' death at 83 and Fenway Park's 100th anniversary.

GOLF

Dufner fires 67, leads by two
in PGA Tour's Zurich Classic

Jason Dufner shot 5-under 67 to take a two-shot lead over Graham DeLaet after three rounds of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans at Avondale, La.

Ernie Els and John Rollins were three shots back of Dufner, who enters the final round at 17-under 199 and looking for his first PGA Tour victory in 163 career starts.

Ryan Palmer tied the course record with an 8-under 64 to lead a group of three players at 203. Defending champion Bubba Watson, playing his first tournament since winning the Masters, shot 65 and was at 207.

Also: Stacy Lewis birdied five of her last seven holes to shoot 5-under 67 and take a two-stroke lead over Brittany Lincicome into the final round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic in Mobile, Ala. Lewis, the 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship winner, had a 14-under 202 total.

MISCELLANEOUS

Hight starts sixth in quest for fifth straight Funny Car win

Robert Hight qualified sixth in the NHRA Spring Nationals in Baytown, Texas, in his bid for a fifth straight Funny Car victory.

Hight had a run of 4.140 seconds at 309.56 mph in his John Force Racing Ford Mustang, while Cruz Pedregon topped the field with his Friday pass at 4.103 and 306.19 in a Toyota.

Morgan Lucas (Top Fuel), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana (Pro Stock Motorcycle) led their respective divisions.

Also: Two-time race winner Will Power edged defending IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti to win the pole position for today's IndyCar race in Sao Paulo.

Power had a lap of 1 minute, 21.4045 seconds on the 2.5-mile, 11-turn Anhembi circuit for the Sao Paulo 400, on the streets of South America's biggest city.

Six-time champion Rafael Nadal beat Fernando Verdasco 6-0, 6-4 to ease into the Barcelona Open final, where he will face fellow Spaniard David Ferrer for a fourth time. Ferrer held off Milos Raonic's powerful serve for a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5) victory to give him a shot at his fourth title of the year.

Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka will face No. 2 Maria Sharapova in the Porsche Grand Prix final in Stuttgart, Germany. Azarenka, the Australian Open champion, cruised past Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 6-3, and Sharapova outlasted No. 3 Petra Kvitova, the Wimbledon champion, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Las Vegas boxer Jesse Magdaleno (9-0-0) knocked down Nick Fast (7-2-1) of Kansas City, Mo., twice and stopped him at 2:07 in the first round on a Top Rank card in Pomona, Calif.

Magdaleno will next fight June 8, the eve of the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley title fight in Las Vegas. Magdaleno will face Puerto Rico's Carlos Valcarcel at the Hard Rock.

Unusual Heatwave collared Stoney Fleece in the closing yards to win the $300,000 Snow Chief Stakes by a half-length on California Gold Rush day at Betfair Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif., with jockey Rafael Bejarano winning that race and four others.