Sports briefs 10/26/05

Baseball

• New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has been offered a three-year contract worth more than $5 million, and the team hopes he will decide in the next few days to stay.

Cashman, who made $1.15 million in the final season of a three-year contract that expires Monday, has not told the team of his intentions, a high-ranking baseball official said Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations are ongoing.

Hockey

* Hurricane Wilma caused some minor damage to the Florida Panthers' arena, prompting the NHL to postpone another game because of the storm.

Saturday's scheduled visit by the Washington Capitals has been pushed back indefinitely, the league said Tuesday. It's the second straight Panthers home game affected by Wilma; last Saturday's scheduled visit by Ottawa will be played Dec. 5.

The Bank Atlantic Center is running on generator power and little else, Panthers spokesman Justin Copertino said Tuesday before Florida played at Pittsburgh. The refrigeration system keeping the ice sheet solid is still working, but it's unknown when other services will be restored.

Golf

Michelle Wie will start 2006 much like the past two years - competing against men on her home island. But this time around, she'll be playing for pay.

Wie has received and accepted a sponsor's exemption to play in January's Sony Open, the first full-field PGA Tour event of the year, tournament officials said Tuesday.

It will be Wie's third straight Sony Open, where she made her PGA Tour debut in 2004 as a 14-year-old and missed the cut by a stroke. Her 68 in the second round was the lowest score by a female competing against men.