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WASHINGTON — The NHL agrees with Chris Kunitz — he scored four goals instead of three in the Pittsburgh Penguins' win over the Washington Capitals.

The league announced Monday that Kunitz has been credited with a fourth goal from Sunday's 6-3 victory.

Replays appeared to show that Kunitz redirected Paul Martin's shot from the point for the game's first goal. The official scorer initially gave the goal Kunitz but later switched it to Martin.

Martin said after the game that he got his stick on the puck.

The change gives Kunitz six goals on the season.

Brandon Webb, who won the NL Cy Young Award in 2006 and was one of the top pitchers in baseball before being beset by arm injuries, is retiring.The right-hander's agents, Mike Montana and Jonathan Maurer of Millennium Sports Management, confirmed Monday night that Webb was calling it a career.“He has worked so hard over the past three years to come back but his shoulder just wouldn't allow it to happen,” Montana said in an email. “He's a first class guy with a great family that he'll get to spend more time with now.”The 33-year-old Webb hasn't pitched in the majors since 2009 because of shoulder problems. He came up with Arizona in 2003 and had a 2.84 ERA in 180 innings. He pitched more than 200 innings each of the next five seasons for the Diamondbacks, using his heavy sinker to win a Cy Young and earn three All-Star selections.

WASHINGTON — Blake Griffin's streak of 197 consecutive games came to an end Monday night when the Los Angeles Clippers forward was a late scratch against the Washington Wizards because of a strained left hamstring.Griffin had started every game since he essentially became an NBA player at the start of the 2010 season, having sat out in 2009-10 with a knee injury after he was drafted No. 1 overall by the Clippers.

BALTIMORE — Baltimore is in party-planning mode a day after the Ravens' Super Bowl victory.Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the city's parade for the team will begin at City Hall on Tuesday morning and end with a free celebration at M&T Bank Stadium.

The Detroit Lions have released wide receiver Titus Young.The team made the announcement Monday. It wasn't much of a surprise.“If y'all going to cut me let me go,” Young posted on his Twitter account last month. “I'm tired of the threats.”

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