Syracuse's Wes Johnson scored 34 points against the crosstown rival Dolphins.

Minnesota men's basketball coach Tubby Smith suspended forward Royce White and guard Devron Bostick indefinitely for breaking unspecified team rules.

Arkansas guard Stefan Welsh was suspended for the team's first exhibition game. Coach John Pelphrey did not say why or how long the senior won't play.

Duke guard Nolan Smith will sit out two games because he played in an unsanctioned summer league.

BASEBALL: The Tampa Bay Rays traded second baseman Akinori Iwamura to the Pittsburgh Pirates for righthanded reliever Jesse Chavez.

Iwamura, 30, hit .290 with one home run and 22 RBIs in 69 games during the last season of a $7.7 million, three-year deal.

He missed 81 games this season after suffering partial tears of the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee.

Chavez led Pittsburgh and all major-league rookies with 73 appearances in 2009, going 1-4 with a 4.01 ERA in 671/3 innings. He was taken in the 42d round in 2002 by Texas.

The Washington Nationals hired former Chicago White Sox general manager Ron Schueler (1990-2000) as special adviser to GM Mike Rizzo.

Elsewhere: Toronto outfielder Vernon Wells will undergo surgery next week to repair damaged cartilage in his left wrist. Blue Jays third baseman Edwin Encarnacion had surgery Friday to repair a bone spur in his left wrist. . . . The Minnesota Twins moved third baseman Brian Buscher off their 40-man roster and assigned him to triple-A Rochester.

SWIMMING: Germany's Paul Biedermann has a thigh injury that could prevent him from facing Michael Phelps at the short-course World Cup competition, which is Nov. 14-15 in Berlin. Biedermann beat Phelps in the 200-meter freestyle during the world championships in Rome in July.

NOTEWORTHY: D.C. United's Tom Soehn withdrew from consideration to remain the team's soccer coach after three seasons.

Erik Compton, the golfer who has had two heart transplants, received another exemption into the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney next week (Nov. 12-15) in Florida. He tied for 60th last year.

- Staff and wire reports