BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox have exercised their 2017 option on designated hitter David Ortiz as a formality, even though he has said he will retire.The team also exercised its option on right-hander Clay Buchholz and declined the option on catcher Ryan Hanigan.Ortiz spent the last season on a farewell tour after announcing that he would retire at the age of 40. But the team picked up the $17.2 million option to retain his rights in case he changes his mind.Buchholz will earn $13 million.Hanigan receives an $800,000 buyout instead of a $3.75 million salary and becomes a free agent.The Red Sox also reinstated third baseman Pablo Sandoval, catcher Blake Swihart, infielder Josh Rutledge and righties Carson Smith and Brandon Workman from the 60-day disabled list. Rutledge was sent outright to Triple-A Pawtucket. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Joel-Heath-Jersey/ . LOUIS -- Attorneys for the St. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Ryan-Griffin-Jersey/ . McCarthy, a player who played some games in the second tier for Wigan at the start of this season, would go on to shine inside Evertons midfield, outplaying the man he was brought in to replace, on one of the grandest stages in English football. On Saturday, it was fitting that Manchester Uniteds most recent dagger into the chest was delivered by Frenchman Yohan Cabaye, a wonderfully gifted central midfielder who put on an outstanding effort for Newcastle at Old Trafford. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Andre-Hal-Jersey/ . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. Meanwhile, the Oilers dealt long-time sniper Ales hemsky to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Breno-Giacomini-Jersey/ . Varlamov made 33 saves and Ryan OReilly had a goal and scored in the shootout as the Avalanche beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1 on Thursday night. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Christian-Covington-Jersey/ . Zvonareva, who won the tournament in 2009 and 10, couldnt handle her opponents big groundstrokes in only her third event back after 17 months out with a shoulder injury. Zvonareva made her comeback in January in Shenzhen and played in the Australian Open but lost her first matches at both tournaments. Avoiding what would have almost certainly been a widely boycotted world championships, international officials pulled this seasons biggest bobsled and skeleton competition out of Russia on Tuesday after a number of sliders said they would not compete in a nation so enveloped in a doping scandal.The decision was immediately praised by sliders. Russias bobsled federation said it understood the rationale, even after government officials there decried the move.A new site -- Germany and the U.S. are potential hosts -- will likely be announced in the coming days. The move by the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation comes less than a week after the latest scathing report from World Anti-Doping Association investigator Richard McLaren showed the depth of doping and test-tampering by Russia during the 2012 and 2014 Olympic cycles.Thats a monumental decision by the IBSF and the right move to protect clean athletes and to tell the world that state-sponsored doping is unacceptable, U.S. womens bobsled pilot Elana Meyers Taylor said. I am ecstatic about the decision.Worlds were scheduled to happen over the last two weeks of February in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, on the track used for the 2014 Sochi Games.The office of Russian President Vladimir Putin said the move was based on unfounded statements, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling it a politicized decision. But the Russian bobsled federation said it accepted the move in the spirit of cooperation, and asked for understanding from other sliding teams.There are no good decisions in these circumstances and our colleagues have had to choose the lesser evil, the Russian federation said. We understand that in a situation of mutual distrust, which is not of our creation, it is still possible to host a competition but its not possible to host a festival, and the world championship should really be a festival which people look forward to with pleasure.The IBSF worded its decision very cautiously, not implicating the Russian Bobsled Federation in any way. Instead, the international federation said moving worlds was the only way to allow athletes and coaches from all nations to participate in a competition that focuses on sport rather than accusations and discussions -- whether justified or not.Some of the worlds best sliders -- including reigning Olympic medalists Steven Holcoomb, Matt Antoine and Meyers Taylor of the U.dddddddddddd.S., Martins Dukurs of Latvia and Lizzy Yarnold of Britain -- urged the IBSF for weeks to take the action. Latvias national skeleton team said Sunday that it would boycott if worlds were held in Russia, and Austria and South Korea were also considering such a move.Put simply, the primary athlete concern about going to Russia for world championships was the integrity of the doping process -- with some even voicing worry that the hosts could tamper with food and drink supplies and create a situation where athletes would unknowingly ingest a banned substance. If caught in such a scenario, the athlete would have received a ban long enough to keep him or her from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.Its a huge risk to take, Holcomb said late last week.It wont be an issue now. The Russians may seek compensation, but theres no basis for appeal.This was a serious decision and one the IBSF did not take lightly, USA Bobsled and Skeleton CEO Darrin Steele said. It might not have come as quickly as many would have liked, but it received the careful attention it deserved.McLarens report showed that some Russian gold medalists from the Sochi Games were tainted by the state-sponsored doping program. Russia won gold medals in two-man bobsled, four-man bobsled and mens skeleton at those Olympics, though none of the athletes who got those victories has been implicated by any known positive or tampered-with tests.Antoine said he was ready to announce that he was not going to worlds. He got word about the venue change while he and other athletes were driving Tuesday from the track at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, New York -- site of this weekends World Cup stop -- after a training session.Its the right decision and Im happy to see they took the proper steps, Antoine said. Im sure theres some people who are happy and some people who arent too happy about it. But its the reality of the situation. Its an unfortunate dark cloud thats over our sport right now. The process probably isnt going to be clean or pretty, but this needs to be fixed.---Associated Press Writers James Ellingsworth and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report. 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