Broken Finger

BaseballMets: Traded IF Ralph Milliard to Reds for P Mark Corey.Padres: Signed P Carlos Reyes to minor-league contract.Tigers: Agreed to $10,125,000, three-year contract with P Todd Jones.Twins: Agreed to $1.47 million, one-year contract with P Mike Trombley.BasketballBucks: Placed F Donny Marshall on injured list.Bulls: Placed Jeff Sanders and Charles Jones on injured list.Cavaliers: Signed F Roy Rogers. Put F Ryan Stack (broken finger) on injured list.Clippers: Placed F Brian Skinner and G Scott Brooks on injured list.

The driver of a cab that careened down a city sidewalk yesterday told police that the gas pedal had stuck to the floor, sending his out-of-control sedan crashing into five teen-agers, three street signs, a building and a tree.Eight people were treated at area hospitals, including five high school students and a passenger in the cab. Police said none of the injuries was life-threatening. One teen-ager suffered two broken legs, a broken collarbone and a broken finger.Left on the sidewalk along Harford Road in Northeast Baltimore were splintered steps, toppled signs and scattered tree limbs -- reminders of a routine cab ride and a morning jaunt to school that turned into pandemonium.

COLLEGE PARK -- Eric Barton can whip you with one hand behind his back.Actually, Barton has been tied down by a broken finger on his right hand, which has only served to magnify the Maryland middle linebacker's talent. Despite playing the last two games in a cumbersome cast, Barton has managed to maintain his pace as the second-leading tackler in the Atlantic Coast Conference.Barton hopes that today's homecoming game against Clemson at Byrd Stadium (3: 30 p.m., chs. 2, 7) also will be his last with the cast.

Just imagine what Harrisburg Heat goalie Doug Petras could do without a broken finger.This is what he did with it: After suffering the fracture on his throwing (right) hand 10 days ago in the first quarter against the Spirit, Petras won that game, then made 18 saves in a 12-11 victory over the Tampa Bay Terror on Wednesday.On Friday, he saved 22 of 24 shots in a 12-3 win over the Toronto Shooting Stars and, on Saturday, played well in a 15-8 loss to the Philadelphia Kixx. In his past four games, Petras has stopped 75 of 96 shots, a handsome .781 percentage.

Opponent: Philadelphia FlyersSite: USAir Arena, LandoverTime: NoonTV/Radio: HTS/WWLG (1360 AM), WTEM (570 AM)Outlook: The Capitals (22-20-5) broke a two-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night, with G Jim Carey picking up his eighth career shutout and fourth of the season. Philadelphia lost at Pittsburgh yesterday, 7-4. The Caps and Flyers have met twice this season. Philadelphia won, 2-1, Oct. 11, and the teams tied 2-2 on Nov. 14. Caps C Mike Eagles (broken finger)

Birmingham Barracudas quarterback Matt Dunigan, who leads the Canadian Football League with 34 touchdown passes, will miss the remainder of the season with a broken finger he suffered on his throwing hand during Thursday night's 45-18 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos.

COLLEGE PARK -- Devin Gray and Corey Wallace are trying to turn around a season that is becoming a disappointment.The Tigers entered 1992-93 thinking they had the talent to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in four years. Coach Cliff Ellis announced earlier this month that he would resign at the end of this season, however, and there were times in last night's 73-53 loss at Maryland that Clemson, which dropped into eighth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, appeared to be a team without direction.

Catonsville Community College's women's basketball season is in its early stages, and already, Kim Miller has played with a broken finger and a badly swollen lip.Some athletes would retreat to the sidelines for the good of their health, but not Miller. She hops to her feet, flexes her right knee and gets ready for the Cardinals' latest practice. Problems with a finger or lip barely warrant her attention.A 1991 graduate of North County High School, Miller thought her playing days were over after sitting out her first year at Catonsville and having arthroscopic surgery on the knee last June.

A "championship moment" for Bel Air's football team might not get any better than its 14-13 victory over C. Milton Wright 10 XTC days ago. It suddenly made all the drills worthwhile.More importantly, the team was able to put that game aside right away, for it came back Thursday night with a 34-0 conquest of visiting Edgewood, its fifth straight win after starting the season with three losses.Calling the two-minute drills (for offense and defense) a "championship moment" was one of several ideas instituted by first-year head coach Bruce Riley.

Catonsville Community College's women's basketball season is in its early stages, and already, Kim Miller has played with a broken finger and a badly swollen lip.Some athletes would retreat to the sidelines for the good of their health, but not Miller. She hops to her feet, flexes her right knee and gets ready for the Cardinals' latest practice. Problems with a finger or lip barely warrant her attention.A 1991 graduate of North County High School, Miller thought her playing days were over after sitting out her first year at Catonsville and having arthroscopic surgery on the knee last June.

ST. LOUIS - The chant from the sizable contingent of Dallas Cowboys fans began early in the third quarter. "Romo ... Romo ... Romo ...!" By then, it was far too late. Quarterback Tony Romo, sidelined by a broken right pinkie, or even Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman, couldn't have saved the imploding Cowboys against the resurgent St. Louis Rams yesterday at the Edward Jones Dome. For one day at least, the Rams (2-4) turned back the clock to the high-flying, Greatest Show on Turf days with a 34-14 dismantling of Dallas.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has a broken finger on his throwing hand and could be out for up to four weeks. Romo broke his right pinkie on the first play of overtime in a 30-24 loss at Arizona on Sunday. "We don't know how long he'll be out. It depends on how fast that heals," said coach Wade Phillips, who says there won't be any surgery. The injury leaves the Cowboys (4-2) with Brad Johnson, 40, as the starter Sunday at St. Louis. Johnson, who won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, hasn't started a game since 2006 with the Minnesota Vikings.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Not many players can match Oakland A's right-hander Esteban Loaiza for dealing with ups and downs the past year or so. He's the guy that the Washington Nationals picked off the scrap heap in 2005, signed to a one-year deal and watched win 12 games for an upstart, first-year franchise. The Nationals wanted him back, and picked up their end of a mutual option. But Loaiza chose free agency and got a three-year $21 million deal (with a $375,000 buyout on a fourth year) from the usual penny-pinching A's. A lot was expected of Loaiza, 34, and he failed miserably in the first half.

The Orioles went all of one day without having to put a key player on the disabled list. But that ended yesterday when outfielder Larry Bigbie became the third player in four days to land there because of the strained left hamstring he suffered leaving the batter's box May 12 in Chicago. The injury originally cost Bigbie five games, but he returned and played six of seven games before it got worse during the series against the Seattle Mariners, making him unavailable Friday. With Bigbie on the DL, the Orioles purchased the contract of infielder-outfielder Napoleon Calzado, who was batting .313 with six homers and 27 RBIs in 41 games with Triple-A Ottawa.

Jason Johnson's availability for his next start is in jeopardy after a magnetic resonance imaging test revealed tendinitis in the Orioles pitcher's right shoulder. Johnson was examined Tuesday, one day after allowing four home runs and losing velocity on his fastball in a 6-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. He also couldn't locate his breaking ball and changeup while suffering his eighth loss in 11 decisions. Manager Mike Hargrove wasn't certain whether Johnson would take his turn Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, though this week's rainout and today's open date give him more time between starts.

Who's hot Jack Wilson of the Pirates is 17-for-34 during a nine-game hitting streak. Who's not Manny Ramirez of the Red Sox is 9-for-39 since coming off the DL after missing 39 games with a broken finger. Line of the day Jeffrey Hammonds, Reds CF AB R H RBI HR 4 1 3 4 1

Marcus Taylor, Michigan State The Spartans start senior David Thomas on the wing and sophomore Aloysius Anagonye down low, but they are at their best when coach Tom Izzo sends in his superb freshmen, Marcus Taylor and Zach Randolph, to work with the big three of Charlie Bell, Jason Richardson and Andre Hutson. Taylor and Randolph were inserted into the starting lineup after a Jan. 7 loss at Indiana, but Izzo went back to bringing them off the bench after a Feb. 6 loss at Illinois. Taylor, 6 feet 3, 190 pounds, allows Bell to move from the point to the wing opposite Richardson, which increases the Spartans' offensive efficiency.

Although the Ravens have had to replace only two key figures on the NFL's second-ranked defense, they have had to deal with their share of absences. During its off-season camps, the team had to adjust to having nearly half of its defensive starters out at different stages. So while the players lacked pads, they also lacked continuity. But when the Ravens suit up Monday for their first training camp practice, they will stage a reunion of sorts. It will mark the closest version of their starting defensive unit since their season finale on Jan. 2. The coaches, though, don't anticipate a long lapse before the players regain that same groove again.

BaseballMets: Traded IF Ralph Milliard to Reds for P Mark Corey.Padres: Signed P Carlos Reyes to minor-league contract.Tigers: Agreed to $10,125,000, three-year contract with P Todd Jones.Twins: Agreed to $1.47 million, one-year contract with P Mike Trombley.BasketballBucks: Placed F Donny Marshall on injured list.Bulls: Placed Jeff Sanders and Charles Jones on injured list.Cavaliers: Signed F Roy Rogers. Put F Ryan Stack (broken finger) on injured list.Clippers: Placed F Brian Skinner and G Scott Brooks on injured list.

The driver of a cab that careened down a city sidewalk yesterday told police that the gas pedal had stuck to the floor, sending his out-of-control sedan crashing into five teen-agers, three street signs, a building and a tree.Eight people were treated at area hospitals, including five high school students and a passenger in the cab. Police said none of the injuries was life-threatening. One teen-ager suffered two broken legs, a broken collarbone and a broken finger.Left on the sidewalk along Harford Road in Northeast Baltimore were splintered steps, toppled signs and scattered tree limbs -- reminders of a routine cab ride and a morning jaunt to school that turned into pandemonium.