In Brief

BASEBALL

Yankees lose starter Pineda
for season with shoulder injury

New York Yankees starter Michael Pineda will miss the entire season without pitching in a game because of a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder.

The Yankees said the right-hander will have arthroscopic surgery Tuesday in New York and be out for about a year.

New York acquired Pineda from Seattle in January, giving up top catching prospect Jesus Montero to get the 23-year-old All-Star pitcher.

Pineda felt weakness in his shoulder during an extended spring training game Saturday, which came three weeks after he had problems in a spring training start. The tear was discovered in a medical exam after that.

Also: San Diego Padres right-hander Dustin Moseley had surgery on his right shoulder and is expected to miss the rest of the season. Moseley had extensive damage to his rotator cuff and labrum. He made just one start, against Los Angeles on April 7.

Moseley had season-ending surgery on his left shoulder in August after going 3-10 with a 3.30 ERA in 20 starts in his first season with San Diego.

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada will get a second opinion on his ailing left elbow from orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum to see if surgery is needed. Wada was recently diagnosed with ligament damage after undergoing a magnetic resonance angiogram.

Yocum examined Wada before the pitcher signed a two-year, $8.15 million contract during the offseason. Since that time, Wada's elbow has evidently worsened.

The San Francisco Giants put first baseman/left fielder Aubrey Huff on the 15-day disabled list while he receives treatment for an anxiety attack. Huff left the team in New York last weekend after struggling at the plate and in the field. The Giants originally said he had a family emergency.

Jeremy Bonderman is attempting to make a comeback to the major leagues. The former Detroit Tigers pitcher had elbow-ligament replacement surgery Tuesday in the hopes of reviving his career after a two-year absence.

Bonderman, 29, hasn't pitched since 2010, when he was 8-10 and had a 5.53 ERA in 29 starts. The right-hander's career record is 67-77 with a 4.89 ERA in 193 starts in eight seasons with the Tigers.

PRO FOOTBALL

Rams deny star running back
Jackson unhappy with contract

The St. Louis Rams did their best to stamp out a rumor the day before the NFL Draft, saying running back Steven Jackson is not unhappy with his contract.

The Rams also said they're not interested in trading the two-time Pro Bowler, a former Eldorado High School standout. Jackson is coming off his seventh straight 1,000-yard season and has two years left on a deal that will pay him about $7 million in 2012.

Coach Jeff Fisher said he didn't know how the rumor started or where it was coming from.

Also: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the league is still doing interviews regarding player punishments that probably will be handed down for the New Orleans Saints' pay-for-hits bounty system.

Goodell said he doesn't expect to issue a decision this week, but the league is "in the final stages of working on discipline involving the players. We hope to do that very soon and get that behind us."

The Atlanta Falcons gave up only a seventh-round draft pick when they acquired four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Asante Samuel from the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Falcons announced the trade after Samuel agreed to restructure his contract to a three-year, $18.5 million deal. His contract with Philadelphia called for him to make $9.9 million in 2012 and $11.4 million in 2013.

The Green Bay Packers released Nick Collins, citing concerns about the veteran safety's ability to safely continue his career after a significant neck injury early last season.

MISCELLANEOUS

BCS officials drawing closer
to new format for postseason

When Bowl Championship Series officials leave the beachside hotel where they've gathered to hammer out the future of college football's postseason, they want to have the choices narrowed to two or three.

The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director met for about eight hours in Hollywood, Fla., to discuss overhauling how a champion is determined and possibly implementing a four-team playoff. It was the fourth such gathering this year. They will reconvene today, and BCS executive director Bill Hancock said they all agreed it's time to start crossing items off the list.

"I think that's what everyone wants to do. Get down to two, maybe three," he said. "I think we're making good progress on that. I think we're going to make it."

One thing is clear: "The status quo is off the table," Hancock said, though he cautiously added they have not ruled out making over the current system that guarantees only a No. 1 vs. No. 2 championship game.

But all signs point toward that being unlikely, and that by the 2014 season, the BCS as fans have known it will be gone.

Also: Bayern Munich beat Real Madrid 3-1 in a penalty-kick round in Madrid to secure its place against Chelsea in the Champions League final.

Real Madrid, which lost last week's opener 2-1 in the home-and-home, total-goals series, came back and won 2-1 Wednesday. That necessitated two 15-minute overtime periods, in which neither team scored, then the penalty-kick round to break the aggregate tie.

Bayern Munich will become the first team to advance to a Champions League final it is hosting when it meets Chelsea on May 19.

UNLV senior golfer Derek Ernst was selected to the U.S. team for the 2012 Palmer Cup in Newcastle, Northern Ireland. The annual Ryder Cup-style competition for college players will be played June 28 to 30.

Ernst leads the Mountain West Conference in scoring average (70.78 for 27 rounds) and has five top-five finishes in nine events this year for the Rebels, including an individual title in his most recent outing, the ASU Thunderbird Invitational.

NASCAR Sprint Cup regular Kurt Busch confirmed he will run the Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway on May 20. Busch will be the first former Sprint Cup champion to run on Iowa's 0.875-mile oval.

The Bay Area's only stop on the ATP World Tour soon will be no more. The 123-year-old tennis event in San Jose, Calif., currently called the SAP Open, is moving to Memphis in 2014. The Memphis tournament is being sold and shifted to Rio de Janeiro.