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FOOTBALL Jenkins joins Raiders

The Oakland Raiders signed former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins on Tuesday to team with the recently signed Tracy Porter and add experience to an untested secondary. Oakland also signed free agent safety Usama Young and brought back free agent defensive end Andre Carter and cornerback Joselio Hanson for their second seasons with the team. Before these latest additions of former starters in the NFL, the other cornerbacks on the Raiders roster had a combined four career starts. Jenkins entered the league in 2008 as a first-round pick out of South Florida. He emerged as one of the league’s best cornerbacks in his second year when he had the five interceptions, 19 passes defensed, held opposing receivers to catches on less than half the balls thrown his direction and made the Pro Bowl. But since then, Jenkins struggled in coverage and eventually lost his starting job with the Cowboys. Over the past three seasons, Jenkins has allowed quarterbacks to complete 61.8percent of their passes thrown his direction with 11 touchdowns for a passer rating of 108.4, according to Pro Football Focus. Hanson started off as a nickel back in Oakland but ended up starting five games and being on the field for more than half the snaps last season. The team did not announce the signing but Hanson’s agent, Jeff Nalley, confirmed that his client was returning to Oakland. He played mostly in the slot and allowed 49 catches on 60 throws his direction for 557 yards and 3 touchdowns and made 2 interceptions for a 108.1 passer rating, according to Pro Football Focus. Young will help fill a hole at safety where Tyvon Branch was the only experienced starter.Young played the last two seasons in Cleveland after spending four years in New Orleans. He has seven interceptions and 22 passes defensed in 81 games. Carter, who is entering his 13th season, played 12 games for Oakland last season, recording 2½ sacks in a reserve role.

Brady Quinn is the new backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks after agreeing to termswith the club. Quinn’s deal was announced by the team Tuesday. Quinn spent last season with the Kansas City Chiefs. He started eight games with the Chiefs, but threw eight interceptions and just two touchdowns. He was also sacked 21 times in 197 drop-backs. Quinn also started nine games for Cleveland in 2009. He was originally the 22nd overall pick in the 2007 draft by the Browns.

The Houston Texans have resigned unrestricted free agent tackle Ryan Harris. The 6-5, 300-pound Harris played in all 16 games in the 2012 regular seasonand both playoff games. He signed with Houston as a free agent late in the preseason. Harris was a third-round draft pick by Denver in 2007. He’s started 36 of 62 games in his career and started two for Houston last season.

BASKETBALL Kanter to have surgery

Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter will have surgery to repair damage in his dislocated left shoulder and miss the rest of the season. Utah General Manager Dennis Lindsey said various medical experts wereunanimous in deciding surgery was the best option for Kanter’s long-term health, decreasing the odds of another dislocation. Surgery is set for today and will be performed in Chicago by Dr. Guido Marra. A timeline for his rehab will be determined after surgery, which will reattach ligaments damaged by the dislocation. The injury occurred March 27 against Phoenix when 7-2, 265-pound Suns center Hamed Haddadi fell on Kanter as they battled over a loose ball. Kanter was averaging 7.2 points and 4.3 rebounds.

HOCKEY Heatley out for season

Minnesota Wild right wing Dany Heatley will miss the rest of the regular season and the playoffs following surgery on his left shoulder. The team initially hoped to have the 32-year-old forward back in time for the playoffs, but Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher announced just before Minnesota hosted the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday that Heatley won’t return this spring. Fletcher said Heatley is expected to be fully recovered for the start of next season. Heatley was hurt at San Jose last Wednesday when a tussle broke out. Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic was fined by the NHL for slashing Heatley in the closing seconds. The injury occurred in the ensuing scrum.

Amanda Kessel scored the winner early in the third period and the United States beat Canada 3-2 in the gold medal game of the women’s world hockey championship Tuesday in Ottawa. Brianna Decker and Megan Bozek had the other goals for the U.S.

SOCCER U.S. women win exhibition

Christen Press scored twice and the U.S. women’s team beat the Netherlands 3-1 in an exhibition Tuesday night in The Hague, Netherlands that extended the Americans’ unbeaten streak to 31 games. Tobin Heath put the Olympic champions ahead 1-0 in the 36th minute.

BASKETBALL McLemore, Oladipo among those to declare

Ben McLemore is one and done at Kansas. Ricky Ledo is none and done with Providence.

McLemore, Kansas’ talented freshman guard, was among several underclassmen who wasted little time in declaring for the NBA Draft on Tuesday, the day after the college season ended.

Ledo, a Providence, R.I., native, practiced with the Friars this season but never played because he failed to qualify academically. Practice was enough, apparently, to make him a possible firstround pick.

Indiana All-American Victor Oladipo announced he was giving up his senior season to enter the draft. New Mexico’s Tony Snell also announced he was going pro.

The father of Louisville guard Russ Smith, who helped the Cardinals win a national title by beating Michigan on Monday night, says his son will also enter the draft.

In Lawrence, Kan., Jayhawks Coach Bill Self said he’s known for a while it was time for the 6-6 McElmore to go.

“Ben kept telling us in February, ‘Don’t worry about getting anybody else. I’m coming back,’ ” Self recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah, right. You want to make a public announcement?’ … If he told me he wanted to come back, I would have told him, ‘We need to look at this again.’ ”

That’s because McLemore’s stock couldn’t be much higher.

The second-team All-American is expected to be a lottery pick in June after breaking the Jayhawks’ freshman scoring record held by Danny Manning. McLemore averaged nearly 16 points for a team that went 31-6 and won a share of its ninth consecutive Big 12 championship.

Ledo, another 6-6 guard, said “he could not pass up this opportunity to enter the NBA draft now.”

In September, the NCAA ruled that Ledo could not compete in games for the Friars in 2012-2013, but he did practice and work out with the team during the season. So the NBA scouts came to practice to get a look at Ledo.

A top-25 high school prospect, Ledo spent time at four programs in five years of high school before receiving a scholarship from Providence.

Oladipo made his announcement at a news conference in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind. He was the Hoosiers’ second-leading scorer, averaging 13.6 points to go along with 6.3 rebounds per game.

Smith’s NBA future isn’t as clear. He averaged 18.9 points as a junior this season, including 23.3 in six NCAA Tournament games, but is listed at 6-foot and 165 pounds.

Snell averaged 12.5 points per game this past season and hit a team-high 64 three-pointers. He was the Mountain West Tournament MVP.