Andruw Jones and the Los Angeles Dodgers? One and done.

The Dodgers have agreed to trade or release Jones in exchange for his deferring much of the $22 million remaining on his contract.

The deal is expected to shave $12 million from the Dodgers' 2009 payroll and cut Jones' salary next season to about $5 million. If the Dodgers cannot trade him, even at that discounted salary, then Jones can ask for his release before spring training.

The Dodgers could apply the savings toward a new offer to Manny Ramirez, but that negotiation is independent of this deal.

The Dodgers offered Ramirez two years and $45 million in November but have since withdrawn the offer. They have resumed talks with agent Scott Boras, who also represents Jones, as well as explored outfield alternatives in Bobby Abreu and Adam Dunn.

The discussions on Jones' contract predated the resumption of the Ramirez talks.

The revised deal frees up cash for the Dodgers while enabling Jones to play elsewhere and try to rebuild his value before free agency next year.

The Dodgers signed Jones a year ago to be their big bat, but he hit .158 with three home runs in 75 games. The five-time All-Star reported to camp significantly overweight, endured boos from opening day on, underwent knee surgery in May, ended the season on the bench and then asked to be traded.

In a strong statement leading to the Australian Open, Scotsman Andy Murray has beaten Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on consecutive days.

Murray defeated the top-ranked Nadal, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, to capture the Capitala World Tennis Championship exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and $250,000 winner-take-all prize. A day earlier in the semifinals, he topped the No. 2-ranked Federer, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6).

Jordan Eberle and John Tavares scored in a shootout as Canada beat Russia, 6-5, in Ottawa to advance to world junior championship final for the eighth consecutive season.

Eberle, a first-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers who plays for the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League, scored twice in regulation, the second with 5 seconds left and goalie Dustin Tokarski off for an extra attacker.

Mikael Backlund scored two goals to help Sweden reach the championship with a 5-3 win against Slovakia in Ottawa. David Ullstrom, Simon Hjalmarsson and Oscar Moller also scored for Sweden, which made to the final for the second year in a row.

Canada will face Sweden tonight. Last year in the Czech Republic, Canada beat Sweden, 3-2, in overtime in the final for its fourth consecutive title.

David Beckham will play in AC Milan's exhibition match with Hamburger SV in Dubai this week and possibly against AS Roma in the Serie A next Sunday. Beckham is at Milan on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy of MLS until early March.

Duke's women and Michigan's men took top honors at the Orange Bowl Swimming Classic in Key Largo, Fla. Duke's women amassed 569 points to edge Rutgers (554) and George Mason (477) in the meet that pitted eight university teams in the highlight of the Keys winter training season for collegiate teams. Michigan dominated the men's division, scoring 703 points to easily beat Duke (556) and George Mason (435).

Germany won the four-man team competition of the Nordic combined World Cup event in Schonach, Germany. Georg Hettich, Eric Frenzel, Bjoern Kircheisen and Tino Edelmann finished 16.9 seconds ahead of Norway in the 20-kilometer relay. Austria was third. Germany also won the ski jump portion of the combined event, ahead of Austria and Finland. The U.S. team of Todd Lodwick, Bill Demong, Johnny Spillane and Brett Camerota finished sixth overall, moving up in the relay after finishing eighth in the jumping.