BUTLER TWP — The One For The Thumb team recently won the 2009 Alameda Park Coed Sand Volleyball League.

Ryan Collins, Kristi Collins, Shawn Vincent, Cody Moffatt, Marina Garick, Jessica Prelec and Megan McCune comprised the champions of the 14-team circuit.

FRANKLIN — The Tri-City Force 14-and-under Girls All-Star team won first place recently in the Franklin Memorial Fast-Pitch Softball Tournament.Sydney Boben of the Moniteau School District was on the team, along with Mary Jaskowak, Payton McClearn and Aubri McCoy of Grove City. Brian Folk of Grove City was the head coach.

PITTSBURGH — Donovan Malovich of Butler Cubs Boxing lost a split decision recently to Bailey Robinson of Third Avenue Gym.The fight was held at Royal Place Restaurant.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning officially became the NFL's highest paid player.A little more than a week after reaching a tentative agreement, Manning signed the six-year extension Friday that will keep him with the team through 2015 and pay him an average salary of $15.3 million starting next season.Manning is guaranteed $35 million under terms of the $97 million extension. News of the deal first broke on Aug. 5.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars wasted no time trying to get first-round draft pick Eugene Monroe up to speed.About an hour after Monroe ended a 12-day holdout Friday by signing a five-year, $25 million contract that included $19 million guaranteed, the eighth overall pick was on the field, in the huddle and lining up against Jacksonville's top defenders.Also on Friday, the Green Bay Packers signed first-round draft pick B.J. Raji, ending the defensive lineman's nearly two-week training camp holdout.General manager Ted Thompson did not disclose terms. Citing two NFL sources it did not identify, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Raji signed a five-year, $28.5 million deal that included just under $18 million in guaranteed money.

BERLIN — The IOC agreed Friday to speed up the process of determining whether to redistribute the medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.The decision was reached at a joint meeting of the International Olympic Committee executive board and the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations.The American lost all five of her medals — including three gold — after admitting in 2007 that she was using performance-enhancing drugs at the time of the games.The IOC has held off reallocating the medals to other athletes, pending more evidence in the BALCO steroid probe and appeals by Jones' relay teammates.

MASON, Ohio — Playing her first tournament in more than two years, Kim Clijsters couldn't keep up with the world's top-ranked player Friday as Dinara Safina repeatedly broke her serve during a 6-2, 7-5 victory to reach the semifinals of the Cincinnati Open.Safina will face Italy's Flavia Pennetta, who beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 6-3.