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Yankees Agree to Assist Chinese Baseball (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The New York Yankees agreed Tuesday to send coaches, scouts and trainers to China to help boost interest in baseball, furthering a push by the major leagues into one of the world’s fastest-growing sports markets.

Weaver finalizes deal with Mariners
Jeff Weaver passed his physical on Monday and finalized a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners worth $8,325,000. The deal includes $1 million in performance bonuses for the 30-year-old right-hander, who helped St. Louis win its first World Series title since 1982: $300,000 each for 180 innings or 28 starts, and 190 innings or 30 starts, and $400,000 for 200 innings or 32 starts.

SPORTS BRIEF: Baseball America tabs Harvard as preseason Ivy baseball favorite (The Harvard Crimson)
Harvard remains the team to beat in Ivy League baseball, according to Baseball America, which picked the Crimson to win the league title and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in its Jan. 29 college preview issue.

Baseball: Bonds and Giants finalize deal
Herald Tribune - SAN FRANCISCO: Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants finally completed a $15.8 million, one-year contract ending talk that the Giants were trying to get out of the deal because of Bonds’s legal troubles. The club announced the signing, which was