Baseball

Mets’ Dickey to Jays — The New York Mets have traded NL Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey to the Toronto Blue Jays in a seven-player deal. The teams announced the trade Monday after Dickey and the Blue Jays agreed to a new contract that added two years to his existing deal. Toronto acquired the 38-year-old knuckleballer and catchers Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas. The Mets got top catching prospect Travis d’Arnaud and catcher John Buck, plus minor league right-hander Noah Syndergaard and outfielder Wuilmer Becerra. Dickey was already signed for $5.25 million next year. The Mets began to look at trade possibilities for the 20-game winner when the sides couldn’t agree to extend his deal for two more seasons. Toronto said his contract from 2013-15 was worth $29 million and had a club option for 2016 at $12 million.

• Giants sign closer — Right-handed reliever Santiago Casilla and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $15 million, three-year contract. Casilla went 7-6 with a 2.84 ERA and 25 saves in 73 appearances covering 63 1⁄3 innings last season. He initially took over the closer role after 2010 major league saves leader Brian Wilson was sidelined in April with an elbow injury that required his second Tommy John surgery.

Football

Steroids found with coach’s dead son — An investigation into the fatal heroin overdose of Garrett Reid, the oldest son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid, revealed there were steroids in his room the day he died, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said Monday. Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli said that anabolic steroids were found in the room where Garrett Reid was staying when he overdosed on heroin Aug. 5 during Eagles training camp. Reid was helping the team’s strength and conditioning coach at the time of his death. Morganelli said there was no evidence that Reid was giving the steroids to any Eagles players. He said that investigators could not determine if the drugs were for Reid’s own use or for distribution.

Redskins waiting on RG3 — Get ready for another week of RG3 guesswork. Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said Monday that he’s still waiting for a thumbs-up from the doctors before declaring that Robert Griffin III can return to game action. The rookie quarterback sprained the lateral collateral ligament in his right knee in last week’s win over the Baltimore Ravens and missed Sunday’s 38-21 victory over the Cleveland Browns. “We’re going to play Robert when he’s 100 percent,” Shanahan said. “When that ligament’s fine, when the doctors feel there’s no chance for injury that he can go out there and perform at that level in a game situation without injury, we’re going to go with our starter.”

Pack backs kicker — The Green Bay Packers are sticking with Mason Crosby, although that decision has as much to do with their personnel philosophy as it does with their faith in the struggling kicker. After missing a pair of field-goal attempts during the Packers’ 21-13 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday, Crosby is 17 of 29 (an NFL-worst 58.6 percent) this season and has botched at least one kick in the past eight games. Nevertheless, coach Mike McCarthy remained steadfast in his support of Crosby, saying no change is in the offing.

Skiing

Ligety’s skis legal — Ted Ligety’s recent domination of giant slalom skiing has resulted in the American being hailed as a “phenomenon,” a “superhero” and “unreal.” It’s also left some rivals questioning whether his skis conform to new rules introduced by the International Ski Federation for this season. But the federation says no equipment rules have been breached. It’s been mainly Italian skiers raising questions, after they couldn’t keep up with Ligety at home in Sunday’s race in Alta Badia. Ligety won the first run by a massive 2.40 seconds. U.S. technical coach Mike Day laughed at the criticism, saying: “It would be nice if people would be more observant of all the preparation Ted has done, and all the training he did with the new equipment. That’s why he’s dominating.”

— From wire reports