Baseball

Yankees, Twins make trade — Eduardo Nunez’s time with the Yankees ended after a decade when the infielder was traded to the Minnesota Twins for left-hander Miguel Sulbaran. The deal was announced Monday. The Twins assigned Nunez to Triple-A Rochester. The 26-year-old Nunez hit .267 in 270 games for the Yankees with 10 homers and 76 RBIs. The 20-year-old Sulbaran was 9-4 with a 2.96 ERA last year at Class A Great Lakes and Cedar Rapids. He is 21-10 with a 3.15 ERA in 45 starts and 10 relief appearances in the minor league systems of the Twins and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Soccer

Player mutiny not behind coach’s firing — U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati is dismissing the idea that any sort of player mutiny led to the firing of women’s coach Tom Sermanni. The USSF fired Sermanni on Sunday, hours after an exhibition victory over China in Commerce City, Colo. The surprising move came just 16 months after he was put in charge. Gulati says there is ongoing dialogue with players on the country’s national teams. He says it’s important that players buy in to the direction of the team, and there were some concerns about that with Sermanni. The federation will begin looking for a new coach immediately, with the Women’s World Cup coming up next year.

Basketball

Wolves F Cunningham sent threatening texts — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Dante Cunningham was arrested for a second time in three days because he sent threatening messages to a woman he was living with that “rose to a terroristic level,” police said Monday. Authorities in Medina, Minn., released the details one day after Cunningham was jailed for another alleged incident with the woman he had been living with for the previous eight months. Cunningham had already been charged with felony domestic assault for allegedly choking the woman last week. Police said they received a call from the woman in the early morning hours on Sunday saying that Cunningham had violated a protection order by contacting her.

— From wire reports