TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael Waltrip will enter the Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway with help from a longtime sponsor.

Aaron's Inc. will sponsor the No. 55 for Waltrip to enter in the April race. The car will be fielded by PRISM Motorsports.

Waltrip put aside his driving following the season-opening Daytona 500 to concentrate on running Michael Waltrip Racing.

He said at the time he'd like to still race in a few restrictor-plate events. All four of Waltrip's career wins came at Talladega or Daytona.

TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez might soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to the New York Yankees' spring training site.Lawyers for the Yankees slugger are setting up an interview as part of an investigation into a Canadian doctor who is the focus of a cross-border drug smuggling case involving human growth hormone.Rodriguez said Wednesday the site is under discussion but he would like it near the team's spring complex in Tampa rather than in Buffalo, N.Y., where the U.S. investigation is being conducted. He expects to soon know the interview date.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston's World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red Sox.The rookie of the year, batting champion and All-Star whose trade began a bitter back-and-forth in Boston and, for Garciaparra, an inglorious slide into irrelevance, signed a ceremonial one-day contract Wednesday with the Red Sox for the purpose of retiring in the uniform of his original team.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Justine Henin beat Magdalena Rybarikova, 6-2, 6-2, Wednesday in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open.Henin, the former No. 1 tennis star who is playing in this tournament for the first time since 2006, was the top-ranked player on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour when she unexpectedly retired in May, 2008.She returned to the tour in January and was runner-up at Brisbane and again at the Australian Open after withdrawing from a tournament in Sydney due to a strained muscle.