D’backs reach deal with Japanese righty; soccer officials guilty

Japanese right-hander Yoshihisa Hirano and the Diamondbacks have agreed to a $6 million, two-year contract, the team announced Friday.

The 33-year-old is looked at by Arizona to provide bullpen depth and possibly compete to be the team’s closer.

Hirano spent 12 seasons with the Orix Buffaloes of Japan’s Pacific League, including the last eight as a reliever. He was 3-7 with 29 saves and a 2.67 ERA in 58 relief appearances last season, and 10-25 with 143 saves and a 2.64 ERA in his last four seasons, striking out 284. GIANTS LAND HANSON >> Utilityman Alen Hanson announced on Instagram that he has agreed to a freeagent deal with the Giants.

Hanson, 25, is a switchhitter who spent parts of the past two seasons with the Pirates and White Sox.

KINTZLER RE-SIGNS WITH NATS >> Brandon Kintzler and the Nationals have finalized a $10 million, twoyear contract that keeps the reliever in Washington. The Nats also agreed to a one-year, $4 million deal with Matt Adams to be their backup first baseman.

Soccer

CONVICTIONS AT FIFA TRIAL >> Two former South American soccer officials were convicted Friday of corruption charges at the first U.S. trial stemming from the FIFA bribery scandal, while deliberations will continue next week for a third official.

A federal jury in New York deliberated a week before reaching the partial verdict.

Jose Maria Marin and Juan Angel Napout were found guilty of the top count they faced, racketeering conspiracy. Marin, the former president of Brazil’s soccer federation, and Napout, formerly president of Paraguay’s soccer federation and of the South American soccer governing body CONMEBOL, also were convicted of wire fraud conspiracy.

Jurors remained undecided about the single racketeering charge against Manuel Burga, former president of Peru’s soccer federation.

Marin, Burga and Napout were arrested in 2015. Prosecutors accused them of agreeing to take millions of dollars in bribes from businessmen seeking to lock up lucrative media rights, or influence hosting rights for the World Cup and other major tournaments controlled by FIFA.

MLS ADDS TO RED BULL’S SUSPENSION >> New York Red Bulls captain Sacha Kljestan has been suspended an additional game and fined for his actions during a fight with Toronto FC striker Jozy Altidore in a stadium tunnel during a playoff match.

MLS said the additional game was added to Kljestan’s suspension “as a result of an interaction with stadium security personnel” during the halftime tunnel brawl. He will serve what is now a two-game suspension at the beginning of next season.

Olympics

RUSSIA LOSES TWO MORE MEDALS >> Russia has lost two more Olympic medals from the Sochi Games because of doping, and luge has now been touched by the scandal for the first time.

Albert Demchenko, a luger who won two silver medals at Sochi, was among 11 athletes disqualified by the IOC and banned from the games for life.

Also banned was Tatiana Ivanova, who was part of the silver-winning team relay.

Golf

TIGER GOING SOLO >> Tiger Woods is embarking on his latest comeback without a swing coach.

Woods said on Twitter that since fusion surgery on his lower back in April, he has been relearning his body and his golf swing by relying on feel and the previous three years of work with Dallas-based Chris Como. Skiing

HIRSCHER WINS IN ITALY >> Austria’s Marcel Hirscher recovered from a major error toward the end of his second trip down the steep Canalone Miramonti course in Madonna Di Campiglio, Italy, to claim his 49th World Cup win.

Hirscher finished 0.04 seconds ahead of combined world champion Luca Aerni of Switzerland.