Associated Press
BOSTON ó The Boston Red Sox acquired pitcher Paul Byrd from Cleveland on Tuesday, hoping to boost a rotation hurt by an injury to Tim Wakefield and the struggles of Clay Buchholz.
The Red Sox will send either a player to be named or cash to the Indians.
The 37-year-old Byrd is 7-10 with a 4.53 ERA in his 14th season. But since the All-Star break he has won all four of his starts and has a 1.24 ERA.
Boston began play Tuesday in second place in the AL East, four games behind Tampa Bay. The Red Sox were two games ahead of the Chicago White Sox in the wild-card race.
Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and Daisuke Matsuzaka have had strong seasons for the defending World Series champion Red Sox, but Wakefield is on the disabled list with a stiff right shoulder and Buchholz is 0-6 with an 8.19 ERA in his last eight starts.
CARAY TRIBUTE
ATLANTA ó Late Atlanta Braves broadcaster Skip Caray might have had something funny and sarcastic to say about Gov. Sonny Perdue and others who lined up to remember him Tuesday. But Caray probably would have had something nice to say about the fans who came to listen.
iHe was one incredible voice,î Perdue said at a public tribute that drew about 1,000 people to Turner Field.
iJust like Skip, we were fans of the team in the lean years in the í70s and the í80s,î Perdue said. iWe tuned in to listen to the funny one-liners.î
Caray, who died at his home on Aug. 3, would have celebrated his 69th birthday on Tuesday, one day shy of the four-year anniversary of his induction into the Braves Hall of Fame.
Braves chairman Terry McGuirk, pitcher John Smoltz, Carayís longtime broadcast partners Pete Van Wieren and Joe Simpson and his son, Chip Caray, also spoke at the memorial.
COLLEGE HOOPS
DAVIDSON ó The Davidson bench will be loaded with McKillops this season.
Davidson coach Bob McKillop announced Tuesday that heís hired his son, Matt, as an assistant coach. The head coachís younger son, Brendan, will be a sophomore guard on this seasonís team.
Matt McKillop also played for his father, hitting 223 3-pointers in four seasons between 2003-06. He was an assistant at Emory University last season.
Davidson also hired ex-Wildcat Terrell Ivory as director of basketball operations.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. ó The Irish are going to Ireland for a head start to their season.
Basketball season, that is.
Notre Dame left Tuesday for a 13-day trip that will include six games before the football team plays its first. The Irish started practicing Aug. 4, four days before the football team and two months ahead of the traditional October start of practice.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
COLUMBIA, S.C. ó South Carolina redshirt freshman quarterback Stephen Garcia is expected to miss a week of practice because of a sprained right ankle.
Garcia will miss Wednesday nightís scrimmage, coach Steve Spurrier said Monday. Garcia told Spurrier he was injured in Saturdayís scrimmage.
Garcia, suspended by the university for underage drinking in March, joined the team for fall practice Aug. 1. Heís had three run-ins with police since arriving on campus in January 2007.
Garcia is listed as the third-string quarterback.

WRESTLING PORN
LINCOLN, Neb. ó Two Nebraska wrestlers, including one who won an NCAA championship in 2007, have been dismissed from the team after posing naked for videos and photographs on an Internet pornography site.
Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan were let go Tuesday, three days after a blog posted images of them taken from Fratmentv.com, a Web site featuring naked or partially clothed male athletes.
TIGER UPDATE
Tiger Woods watched enough of the PGA Championship to see Padraig Harrington join him as the only players this decade to win two majors in the same season, and he congratulated the Irishman in a newsletter Tuesday.
The question is whether Woods will be able to stop Harrington from trying to win three straight majors at the Masters. Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee and has no timetable for his return.
Repeating comments he made last week in a radio interview, Woods said he is able to move around without crutches, rides a stationary bike as part of his rehab but wonít start swing a club until next year.
iI just donít have a choice,î Woods said. iWe simply donít know what type of swelling there would be or if there would be any residual effects the next day once you start wheeling and dealing on the knee. Everyoneís body reacts differently.
iI donít know what the doctors are going to tell me about playing golf down the road,î he said. iIím taking it day-to-day, week-to-week. All Iím doing every day is looking forward to my next day.î
NHL
EVELETH, Minn. ó Brett Hull and longtime New York Rangers Brian Leetch and Mike Richter are members of the 2008 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.
The four-member group announced Tuesday also includes Cammi Granato, the all-time scoring leader for the U.S. womenís hockey team with 343 points in 205 games.
Hull, one of the leading goal scorers in NHL history with 741, recorded 1,391 points in a 20-year career that included Stanley Cup titles in Dallas and Detroit.
Leetch was an 11-time All-Star in 18 NHL seasons, all but one with the Rangers. He won two Norris Trophies as the leagueís best defenseman and was a Stanley Cup playoff MVP.
Richter was a three-time All-Star in a 14-year career as goalie with the Rangers.