Tuesday's Sports in Brief

Tuesday's Sports in Brief
By The Associated Press
BASEBALL
MIAMI (AP) -- Jack McKeon agreed to a one-year extension and will return to manage the Florida Marlins next season, owner Jeffrey Loria announced during the team's World Series celebration. The sides agreed on the deal Monday night, McKeon said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jim Duquette was hired as general manager of the New York Mets, four months after taking the job on an interim basis. Duquette had been running the team's baseball operations since Steve Phillips was fired in June.
TORONTO (AP) -- Outfielder Frank Catalanotto and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a $2.3 million, one-year contract, a $100,000 raise.
BASKETBALL
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lakers coach Phil Jackson fined Kobe Bryant an undisclosed amount for his highly critical comments of teammate Shaquille O'Neal. Bryant was not in uniform for Los Angeles' season opener against Dallas, because he didn't think his surgically repaired knee was ready for play.
EAGLE, Colo. (AP) -- Kobe Bryant's next hearing in his sexual assault case has been rescheduled for Nov. 13. Prosecutors requested the change, citing a scheduling conflict. The Los Angeles Lakers' guard had been scheduled to make his first appearance before state District Judge Terry Ruckriegle on Nov. 10.
AUTO RACING
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -- The CART season-finale, scheduled for Sunday at California Speedway, has been postponed indefinitely due to the state of emergency caused by a series of wildfires in and around San Bernardino County. The track, home to the King Taco 500, is located about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
FOOTBALL
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- The San Francisco 49ers changed kickers for the fourth time in 15 games, waiving Owen Pochman and signing Todd Peterson.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Jacksonville linebacker T.J. Slaughter was cut, a day after he was arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at two men passing him in a car. Slaughter, a fourth-year veteran, is free on bond while prosecutors decide whether to charge him. He could face a felony charge of aggravated assault, or a misdemeanor charge of improper exhibition of a firearm.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The New Orleans Saints suspended defensive tackle Grady Jackson for one game without pay. The Saints said Jackson was suspended for "conduct detrimental to the team" but offered no details. He will miss Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.
HOCKEY
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado retired Patrick Roy's No. 33, sending it to the rafters in a 20-minute ceremony before the Avalanche's game against Calgary.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Blues general manager Larry Pleau signed a two-year contract extension through the 2005-06 season.
STEROIDS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- THG, the recently detected steroid, is an illegal drug that may pose considerable health risks, according to the government. THG is a drug that lacks federal permission for sale in this country, the Food and Drug Administration said. It is a drug derived from another steroid long banned in athletics, the agency said.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Swimming's world governing body will retest hundreds of athletes' urine samples from this summer's world championships for the new designer steroid THG.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Former Pac-10 Conference rushing champ Clarence Farmer was dismissed from Arizona's football team for undisclosed reasons.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Former Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson was returned to Texas from Maryland to face charges in the shooting death of a former teammate.
Dotson, 21, left Maryland early Tuesday, said prosecutor Joseph Flanagan. He was then flown to Austin, and later driven to Waco, where Dotson will face another arraignment and bail review hearing. In August, Dotson was indicted in the death of Patrick Dennehy, whose body was found July 25 in a field near Waco.