Coyotes sign free agent Roenick for one year
Jeremy Roenick is coming back to the Phoenix Coyotes.
The team said Tuesday it had signed the free-agent center to a one-year contract, bringing the nine-time All-Star back to Phoenix. Roenick, 36, was an original member of the Coyotes, playing with the club for five years through the 2000-01 season.
Roenick was limited by injuries to 58 games for the Los Angeles Kings last season.
The Boston native has 484 goals and 1,142 assists in 17 NHL seasons, with Chicago and Philadelphia in addition to the Kings and Coyotes.
•The Toronto Maple Leafs signed newly acquired goaltender Andrew Raycroft to a three-year, $6-million contract. Toronto got the 26-year-old goalie from Boston at the NHL draft last month in exchange for goalie prospect Tuukka Rask.
•The Tampa Bay Lightning signed goaltender Marc Denis to a three-year, $8.6 million contract. The Lightning obtained Denis from the Columbus Blue Jackets last Friday for left wing Fredrik Modin and goalie Fredrik Norrena.
Tennis
Indonesia pulls out
Indonesia pulled out of a planned Fed Cup tennis match in Israel to protest that country’s actions in the Gaza Strip, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
“We are witnessing a military invasion by Israel and the arrest of scores of Palestinian officials,” Desra Percaya said. “It is now impossible to play there.”
Moshe Haviv, the director of the Israeli Tennis Federation, said Indonesia would be fined if it doesn’t attend its scheduled match.
Miscellany
Horse owners uneasy
Some owners may pull their thoroughbreds from Arlington Park Racecourse near Chicago following the fatal breakdowns of two more horses. Seventeen horses have been euthanized this season.
With two months left in the season, the total destroyed has surpassed last year’s 12 deaths. The latest occurred last weekend when Bernel Trail and I Love Lisa were put down.
•A Chicago Bulls mascot dressed in a bright red costume was charged with attacking an off-duty officer after driving a mini-motorcycle through an outdoor festival.
Barry Anderson, the Benny the Bull mascot who formerly worked as the University of Montana’s mascot, was charged with misdemeanor battery and driving within a parkway.
•The Spanish government says no soccer or tennis players are involved in the doping investigation that already has forced several top cyclists to withdraw from the Tour de France.
The French newspaper Journal du Dimanche ran a story Sunday loosely linking Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal to the investigation and said athletes from other sports could be involved.
■Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands won her fifth Peachtree Road Race title and Martin Lel of Kenya captured the men’s division to lead a field of 55,000 runners, the world’s largest 10-kilometer road race home to Atlanta.