SYDNEY (AP):

Australia's vice-captain Michael Clarke has made himself unavailable for New South Wales in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in India next month due to a heavy international workload.

A day after Australia's skipper Ricky Ponting quit international Twenty20 to prolong his Test and one-day international career, Clarke ruled himself out of he provincial T20 championship starting October 8 in India.

City probe

LONDON (AP):

FIFA is investigating Manchester City over claims by French club Rennes it illegally poached a teenager.

The 17-year-old defender Jeremy Helan was signed in February after an "illegal" approach, according to Rennes, although City insisted yesterday that it has acted within the rules and didn't induce Helan to breach his contract.

Yorke retires

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP):

Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke has retired as a player and will serve as an assistant coach with Trinidad and Tobago's national football team. The 37-year-old Yorke says he hopes one day to manage a club in the English Premier League. He played 72 times for Trinidad and Tobago and scored 26 goals. He said his career highlight was leading the team at the World Cup in 2006, when the Caribbean nation became the smallest country to qualify for the final tournament.

Beckham interest

LONDON (AP):

David Beckham says AC Milan and "three or four" other clubs are interested in signing him in January after the Major League Soccer season ends. Beckham wants to keep fit for the World Cup at the end of the 2009-10 European season with a similar arrangement to last year, when he spent several months on loan to Milan.

Beckham says "LA Galaxy know that. If it upsets a few people, I can't do anything about it."

But the midfielder says he is still likely to return to the Los Angeles Galaxy after the World Cup.