Sports shorts for Sept 13, 2008

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MLB White Sox win coin flip for tiebreaker NEW YORK - The Chicago White Sox won a coin flip with the Twins on Friday and would host Minnesota if the teams need to play a tiebreaker for the AL Central title. Major League Baseball held a series of coin flips for teams that began the day within 51/2 games of a playoff spot. The Boston Red Sox would host Tampa Bay in a one-game tiebreaker for the AL East championship. Fenway Park also would be the site if Boston and Minnesota need to play for the AL wild card. In the NL, Philadelphia would host the New York Mets for the East title, Los Angeles would host Arizona for the West crown and the Chicago Cubs would host Milwaukee in the Central. NFL Browns' WR Edwards gets speeding ticket BEREA, Ohio - A star-struck police officer who made a traffic stop on Cleveland Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards let the player go without a speeding ticket, a suburban police chief said Friday. Edwards was stopped on Aug. 29 in Avon, Ohio, after police said he was driving 120 mph in his Bentley along Interstate 90. The officer apparently was star-struck over meeting the Pro Bowler, said Avon Police Chief Paul Romond. Edwards has since been served with the ticket, and the officer, whose named wasn't released, has been counseled about handling traffic stops, said Candace Johnson, Romond's administrative assistant. TENNIS Davydenko cleared in betting probe LONDON - Russian tennis star Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a yearlong investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost to a low-ranked opponent. The governing body of men's tennis said it found no evidence of wrongdoing by Davydenko, opponent Martin Vassallo Arguello of Argentina or anyone else associated with their match in Sopot, Poland, on Aug. 2, 2007. "The ATP has now exhausted all avenues of inquiry open to it and the investigation is now concluded," the association said in a statement. Davydenko, then ranked No. 5, pulled out of the match against the 87th-ranked Vassallo Arguello in the third set, citing a foot injury. Betfair, an online bookmaker, voided all bets on the match. It received about $7 million in wagers on the match, 10 times the usual amount for a similar-level match. Most of the money was on Arguello, even after he lost the first set. ATP investigators spoke to Davydenko, his wife and family members and reviewed telephone records. This summer, Davydenko said he may have inadvertently tipped off bettors by talking too loudly about his injury to his wife during the tournament.