Sports briefly: Giants will retire Bonds' number

Home run king Barry Bonds will have his No. 25 jersey retired this August by the San Francisco Giants when his former Pittsburgh Pirates are in town.

The Giants announced Tuesday they would hold a ceremony to honor the former slugger and seven-time NL MVP on Aug. 11. He will become only the 12th player from the New York or San Francisco Giants to have his number retired.

Bonds, 53, broke Hank Aaron's home run record with No. 756 on Aug. 7, 2007. He finished his 22-year big-league career in 2007 with 762 homers.

"I'm both honored and humbled that the Giants are going to retire my number this season," Bonds said.

Dawson supports league

Baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson is lending his name to a college tournament formed as part of Major League Baseball's effort to promote historically black college and university programs.

Now in its 11th year, the New Orleans tournament formerly known as the Urban Invitational has been renamed the Andre Dawson Classic. It will feature six HBCU teams as part of an eight-team round robin from Feb. 16-18.

Games are played at the New Orleans MLB Youth Academy and at nearby University of New Orleans. The HBCU teams involved this year are: Alabama State, Alcorn State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Grambling State, Prairie View A&M and Southern. Also playing are New Orleans and Illinois-Chicago.

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and his neighbors settled a bitter legal dispute over the private road they share just hours before trial was set to begin Tuesday, attorneys for both sides confirmed.

The deal settles a years-long case in which the nation's longest-tenured college football coach and his wife faced claims that their extensive efforts to guard their privacy came at the expense of the three other families living along Saddle Club Road outside Iowa City.

Neighbors sued after the couple refused to join their homeowners' association, ignored a $9,500 assessment for road repairs, and erected privacy fencing, trees and landscaping along the road in a shared easement.

Ferentz — who has long been Iowa's highest-paid public employee and is expected to earn $5.2 million this year — was expected to testify during the trial, which could have tarnished his nice-guy image.

If Auburn fires Malzahn without cause, the university would owe him 75 percent of the remaining contract value. If he takes another job before Dec. 30, 2019, he would owe $7 million. That number would go down to $1 million after 2022.

• Former Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason is transferring to Washington. Eason was a five-star recruit from Lake Stevens High School near Seattle. He signed with Georgia in 2016 and started as a freshman, but injured his knee in last season's opener and never regained his starting job.