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Twins slugger Morneau out for season

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau has a stress fracture in his back and will miss the remainder of the 2009 season, the team said Tuesday.

Morneau, the 2006 American League Most Valuable Player, was leading the Twins with 30 home runs and 100 RBI, but has been hobbled by injuries recently. He was hitting .274, but had only batted .173 (21 for 121, with 4 home runs and 17 runs batted in) since Aug. 1.

"You can play through the pain if you feel like you're helping the team or doing something to help your teammates out and win ballgames," Morneau said. "When you go out there and you don't feel like you're helping anyone, that's when you kind of take a step back and go, 'All right, maybe I'm doing more harm than good.' "

Morneau took himself out of the lineup Friday after experiencing lower back pain following a slide headfirst slide into first base. The stress fracture turned up on the L5 vertebra during an MRI Monday.

"We took a look at it and found out there was something there," he told the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press.

Manager Ron Gardenhire said right fielder Jason Cuddyer will play first base most of the time while Morneau sits out to heal. He will not need surgery.

The Twins trail AL Central-leading Detroit by 5 1/2 games and have seven games remaining against the division leaders.

Arbitration panel finds for Horace Grant

MEMPHIS, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A brokerage firm has been ordered to pay former Chicago Bulls player Horace Grant $1.46 million for his mutual fund losses, his lawyer said.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority found Morgan Keegan & Co., responsible for losses Grant experienced after initially investing about $3 million with the brokerage firm eight years ago, Andrew Stoltmann, Grant's lawyer, told the Chicago Tribune in a story published Tuesday.

The firm, based in Memphis, sold Grant four high-yield bonds with more risk in them than he was told, Stoltmann said, adding the bonds had been marketed as conservative investments appropriate for retirees.

In 2004, the bonds dropped by an average of 58 percent with similar bonds losing 6.9 percent that year, said Grant's complaint to the arbitration panel, which did not give its reasons for finding in his favor.

In a statement, Morgan Keegan said "arbitration cases turn on their individual facts and we don't agree with the outcome."

Grant played with the Bulls from 1987 to 1994 when they won three NBA championships, the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers before retiring in 2004.

Promoter stricken after finding dead boxer

LONDON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Irish boxing promoter Frank Maloney was recovering Tuesday from a suspected heart attack after finding the body of boxer Darren Sutherland, officials said.

Maloney, 55, was hospitalized Monday in London after finding Sutherland had hanged himself, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. Sutherland, 27, won a bronze medal for Ireland at last year's Bejing Olympics.

Maloney had no history of heart problems, his wife, Tracey Maloney, said Tuesday.

"On the contrary, he's very active and keeps very fit," she said. "The hospital doctors want to keep Frank in for a few days, and keep an eye on him, but knowing Frank, he'll want to get out of there and back to work as soon as possible."

Maloney discovered Sutherland's body when he went to the boxer's apartment to discuss an Oct. 16 boxing match, The Telegraph said.

"It's tragedy for Ireland and the world of boxing," Maloney said in a statement Tuesday.

Medina Garrigues wins in Guangzhou

GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- No. 1-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues faltered in the second set Tuesday but still won a first-round match at China's Guangzhou Women's Open tennis tournament.

Medina Garrigues was sharp in most of the match against Kimiko Date Krumm, winning 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. In the second set she faced three of the four break-point chances Krumm managed in the match but in the first and third sets she dropped just a total of 12 points on serve.

There was only one upset on the 13-match card Tuesday, that coming when Olga Savchuk took out fourth-seeded Katarina Srebotnik 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, but the other highly seeded players all advanced in straight sets

No. 3-seeded Peng Shuai took out Angela Haynes 6-2, 7-5, fifth-seeded Shahar Peer topped Kathrin Woerle 6-1, 6-4 and No. 7-seeded Ayumi Morita beat Tatiana Poutchek 6-3, 6-3. Eighth-seeded Alberta Brianti and No. 9-seed Maria Elena Camerin also won in two-set matches.

Other first-round winners Tuesday included: Yung-Jan Chan, Su-Wei Hsieh, Anastasija Sevastova, Lenka Wienerova, Chanelle Scheepers and Abigail Spears.