NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle Mariners minor league catcher Christian Carmichael has been suspended 50 games for a positive drug test. Reynolds was penalized Monday under baseball's minor league program for testing positive for Methylhexaneamine. He hit .182 last year in 11 at-bats for the Mariners of the Arizona Rookie League and is on the roster of Class A Clinton. Ten players have been suspended this year under the minor league program.

SEATTLE (AP) — The Mariners have agreed to a $750,000, one-year contract with Shawn Camp and a $500,000, one-year deal with Hong-Chih Kuo in an attempt to add bullpen depth. Kuo was an All-Star in 2010 with the Dodgers but struggled last season with a back problem early in the season and missed a month with anxiety disorder.

SEATTLE (AP) — Carlos Guillen is returning to Seattle after agreeing to a minor league contract with the Mariners. The 36-year-old spent the past eight seasons in Detroit where he was a three-time All-Star and hit .308 in his career with the Tigers playing five positions: left field, third base, shortstop, second base and first base.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kids playing contact sports are suffering too many blows to the head, and an advocacy group is calling for a "hit count" to total them up before it's too late. Just as Little League pitchers are on pitch counts to protect their elbows, a hit count would prevent the repeated blows that can cause concussions and lead to extreme brain trauma, Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Sports Legacy Institute, said Friday. SLI works with the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and has been a leader in raising public awareness about the dangers of concussions and advocating for safer sports. Players are prohibited from playing or practicing until they've been cleared by a medical professional, and Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday the league is considering having independent neurological doctors at games to examine players. The Sports Legacy Institute plans to sit down this spring with youth sports organizations and medical experts, including head trauma expert Dr. Robert Cantu, to come up with hit count guidelines. The guidelines would not be limited to football, either, applying to other sports such as soccer, ice hockey and rugby.

The state is among a handful that ban carryout liquor sales on Sundays, even with the NFL's most-celebrated spectacle on the schedule. [...] nothing forbids anyone 21 or older from walking around outside with a beer or cocktail, prompting many Indy eateries to expand their outside seating onto adjacent parking lots and sidewalks in the run-up to Sunday night's game. [...] state law bars liquor and convenience stores from selling carryout booze after 3 a.m. Sunday until 7 a.m. Monday, leaving Super Bowl revelers — perhaps out-of-towners not versed in all things Indiana — in the lurch if they go looking for an 11th-hour six-pack or bottle of wine on game day. With some 2,400 residents, Dillingham, Alaska, is lifting its ban on alcohol sales at its restaurants and bars for all Super Bowl Sundays going forward, though liquor stores will remain closed. The reprieve had been temporarily in place last year and proved trouble-free, prompting it to be made permanent last month in a town some 1,665 miles from the nearest NFL team — Seattle's Seahawks.