LOS ANGELES — Don Mattingly will be back as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers next season with a new three-year contract that takes him through 2016, quieting speculation that his future with the club was somehow in doubt.

A person familiar with the agreement, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized, said Mattingly is getting a raise from the $1.4 million he was to earn next season under his old deal.

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors urged an appellate court to deny Barry Bonds' request for a rehearing of his attempt to overturn his obstruction of justice conviction.The career home runs leader was convicted of one count of obstruction in April 2011 stemming from his 2003 testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. That conviction was upheld last September in a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the following month Bonds asked for a rehearing by an 11-judge limited en banc panel.The 27 active judges on the court will hold a secret vote, and a majority is required to grant the rehearing.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Western Kentucky's Bobby Petrino has accepted an offer to return to Louisville as head football coach, a move the Cardinals could make official Thursday morning.The University of Louisville Athletic Association must approve Petrino's hiring and is scheduled to meet Thursday morning. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that, “Petrino is the choice.” Jonathan Blue, a Louisville board of trustee, told the AP that “if it's a done deal, I'm totally behind” the decision.Petrino, 52, returns to the school he led to a 41-9 record from 2003-06 as a first-time head coach. He has an 83-30 career record as a college head coach, including an 8-4 mark.

NEW YORK — Billie Jean King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it, so she had no hesitation joining the U.S. delegation for the Sochi Olympics.King will help lead the delegation in the opening ceremony Feb. 7 at the Sochi Games, which has been overshadowed by a recent anti-gay law in Russia and calls for a boycott.