Sports in Brief: Griffin, Redskins agree on 4-year deal

FILE - This May 6, 2012 file photo shows Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III talking to reporters following the team's rookie NFL football camp at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va. Griffin has agreed to terms on a contract with the Redskins. Griffin's agent, Ben Dogra, told The Associated Press that the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback agreed to terms and will be in Redskins rookie camp on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
FILE - This May 6, 2012 file photo shows Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III talking to reporters following the team's rookie NFL football camp at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va. Griffin has agreed to terms on a contract with the Redskins. Griffin's agent, Ben Dogra, told The Associated Press that the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback agreed to terms and will be in Redskins rookie camp on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Posted: July 19, 2012

Quarterback Robert Griffin III, the second pick in the draft out of Baylor, has agreed to terms on a contract with the Washington Redskins.

Griffin's agent told the Associated Press that the Heisman Trophy winner would be in Redskins rookie camp Wednesday.

Griffin is due for a four-year contract worth about $21 million, roughly two-thirds of which would be the signing bonus. The deal includes a fifth-year option.

He wasn't considered a holdout because training camp doesn't officially begin until July 26.

GOLF: New Hope's Erica Herr qualified for match play in the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, Calif., but lost her first-round match, 4 and 3, to Jisoo Keel of Canada. Herr, who won last week's American Junior Golf Association event at Stonewall in Chester County, shot rounds of 80 and 78 to make it to match play.

Charles Cai of West Windsor, N.J., a junior member at Olde York Country Club in Chesterfield, Burlington County, won his first-round match of the U.S. Junior Amateur at the Golf Club of New England in Stratham, N.H. He defeated Adam Wood of Zionsville, Ind., 2 and 1, and will play Rigel Fernandes of India in Thursday's round of 32.

LACROSSE: The National Lacrosse League and the Professional Lacrosse Players Association have announced that they have reached an accord on a new one-year collective-bargaining agreement covering the 2013 season.

COLLEGES: The University of Pittsburgh and the Big East conference announced that the school will pay $7.5 million to join Syracuse in leaving the conference for the Atlantic Coast Conference on July 1, 2013. The Big East reached a similar deal with Syracuse earlier this week.

SOCCER: In Harrison, N.J., Thierry Henry scored his first goal since April 28 to lead the New York Red Bulls to a 1-0 Major League Soccer victory over the Chicago Fire.

Miller Bolanos scored his first MLS goal to lift Chivas USA to a 1-0 win over the Portland Timbers in Carson, Calif.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed that his club has spoken to Fulham about signing U.S. forward Clint Dempsey.

Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt is parting company with U.S. midfielder Ricardo Clark.

NBA: The Trail Blazers matched Minnesota's four-year offer sheet worth more than $45 million for the restricted free agent Nicolas Batum, keeping the 23-year-old swingman in Portland just like GM Neil Olshey said they would.

Toronto signed Jonas Valanciunas, the fifth overall pick of the 2011 draft. The Raptors had to wait to bring him to the NBA because he had a $2.5 million buyout with his Lithuania club.

NHL: The Detroit Red Wings agreed to a $7.55 million, two-year contract with defenseman Kyle Quincey.

- Staff and wire reports

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