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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Todd Haskins scored two goals and assisted on the game-winner to lead the Raleigh Flyers (4-6) to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Bays (2-8) in overtime last night. The Bays scored two second-half goals. Tarik Walker tied the game with one minute left.

I've been at the finish line of several marathons and know the crowding and congestion there. The bomb blast at the Boston Marathon was gruesome ("Marylanders caught up in chaotic scene," April 16). What concerns me now, however, is that the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies will demand - and be given - more authority to intrude into our personal lives and our freedom of movement. Every time a terrorist attack occurs there has also been an attack on privacy. This time, that must not be allowed to happen.

The Frederick Flyers of the Atlantic Basketball Association have set their 1994-95 10-game home schedule and announced that they will hold open tryouts at 9 a.m. Sept. 10 at Forestville High School in Prince George's County. Players can register at the door; the fee is $75.Ticket prices for the Flyers, who play at Frederick Community College, remain unchanged from last season. They are $5 for adults and $3 for children (18 and under), senior citizens (65 and over) and military with identification.

Democratic Senate candidate C. Anthony Muse's campaign is distributing a new flyer at polling locations Tuesday that does not note the number of Jews in the Senate. Muse, who is running against incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin, faced questions over a flyer his campaign had distributed that provided the racial breakdown of the Senate, noted that there are no African Americans in the chamber and then included the percentage of people who are Jewish. No other religion was included. Muse is black.

PHILADELPHIA -- The Flyers have experienced some of the hardships struggling teams often endure in the NHL, and they haven't exactly liked it.Several players privately blamed Saturday's 5-1 loss in Calgary on a penny-pinching travel itinerary they say left them exhausted. Travel plans for last week's trip to Vancouver and Calgary and this week's trip to San Jose and Los Angeles have been the subject of spirited discussion between players and management."It took its toll against Calgary, there's no question about that," team captain Rick Tocchet said Monday.

MONTREAL -- In a stunning turn of events, the Eric Lindros saga entered a new world yesterday.The Quebec Nordiques, who were unable to trade Lindros anywhere for the last year, apparently made deals with two teams in the morning before the NHL's entry draft.Philadelphia's entourage of front office staff at the Forum openly celebrated the apparent acquisition of Lindros. The Flyers even called the 19-year-old Lindros at his relatives' home in Northern Ontario to find out whether he was willing to play in Philadelphia.

Center Eric Lindros is three points from leading the NHL scoring race but all he can talk about is his Philadelphia Flyers teammates."I haven't changed," said Lindros, who is in his third NHL season. "Our team has changed."Lindros arrived in Philadelphia with great expectations, but by himself could not solve the Flyers' problems. The team missed the postseason party for the fifth straight year last season.Then came coach Terry Murray and the Feb. 9 trade that sent right wing Mark Recchi to Montreal for center John LeClair, defenseman Eric Desjardins and left wing Gilbert Dionne.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Forward Toni Siikai headed in a goal with three minutes left to lift the Raleigh Flyers over Baltimore, 2-1, last night, extending the Bays' losing streak to two games.Earlier, Siikai had put in a loose ball to give the Flyers (7-2) a 1-0 lead. Baltimore's Terry Locklear tied the score on an assist from Rob Elliot at the 65-minute mark.Baltimore faces host Charlotte tonight at 7:30.

The Washington Capitals will wrap up their 1991 preseason schedule with back-to-back games against the Philadelphia Flyers, including one at the Baltimore Arena, the team announced yesterday.The Capitals will play the Flyers at the Baltimore Arena on Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. and at the Spectrum the next day at 7 p.m.Washington's only preseason game at the Capital Centre will be Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. against the Buffalo Sabres.The Capitals also will play the Hartford Whalers and the New York Rangers twice and Buffalo three times during preseason.

Fred Shero, a Renaissance man of hockey who won two Stanley Cups as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, died yesterday. He was 65.Shero died about 5:30 a.m. at Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J., after a long battle with cancer, Flyers spokesman Rodger Gottlieb said.Shero coached the Flyers from 1971-72 through '77-78. The Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975 and reached the finals in 1976, losing to the Montreal Canadiens. He left the Flyers to coach the New York Rangers from 1978 until November 1980, leading them to the finals in his first season.

Updated with additional response from Muse campaign.   The head of the Baltimore Jewish Council raised questions Wednesday about a campaign flyer from Democratic Senate candidate C. Anthony Muse that notes that there are no African-Americans serving in the U.S. Senate but that there are 12 Jews. Muse, a state senator from Prince George's Countyis black. He is running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, who is Jewish. The primary takes place Tuesday. "I'm not happy with it," said Arthur C. Abramson, the council's executive director.

PHILADELPHIA — In what sometimes seemed more like a comedy routine than an impromptu news conference in the Flyers' locker room at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday, Ilya Bryzgalov revealed that backup Sergei Bobrovsky would be the team's starting goalie in Monday's Winter Classic against the New York Rangers. "I have great news and even better news," said Bryzgalov, who has lost four straight and struggled through most of the season. "Great news: I'm not playing (today). And good news: We have a chance to win the game.

If the Washington Capitals' meeting with the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night truly represented a measuring stick of their progress under coach Dale Hunter, as players billed it in the hours leading up to the game, then they came up far short. Washington fell, 5-1, at Verizon Center in a game in which its offense fell dormant for stretches, the defensive zone coverage eroded and the goaltending allowed soft goals. The Capitals are 3-4 under Hunter and have lost six of their past nine.

The Washington Capitals were one of the busiest teams Friday when the doors to the 2011 NHL free agent market opened, as general manager George McPhee sent goalie Semyon Varlamov to Colorado for a pair of draft picks and added three veterans to the lineup. In signing role player and former Capitals captain Jeff Halpern, two-way defenseman Roman Hamrlik and a big-bodied, hard working winger in Joel Ward, Washington elevated the leadership in a still-young dressing room and filled holes in the roster that will be left by the departure of up to five unrestricted free agents.

The NFL is reportedly investigating whether the Exxxotica Expo 2011 pornography event illegally used photos of NFL players and draftees to promote a May event at a Miami strip club called Club Play, and Ravens draft pick running back Anthony Allen was one of the nine names listed on this racy promotional flyer . The league is looking into the matter because action photos of six players in team gear -- including Chiefs safety Eric Berry,...

With five games left in the regular season, the Capitals have pretty much locked up the Southeast Division title and are likely to secure the second seed in the Eastern Conference. But Washington coach Bruce Boudreau doesn't want his team to let up. " All of these games are important to us ," he told The Washington Post . And it's not because the Capitals trail the Flyers by three points in the conference standings. The Capitals mailed it in down the stretch last season, and were unable to get back on track in the playoffs.

PHILADELPHIA -- After five days of contentious debate about his future, Eric Lindros, the only player ever traded by the same team at the same time to two different clubs in the NHL, finally has one team.It's the Philadelphia Flyers.Flyers president Jay Snider and general manager Russ Farwell completed the biggest trade in NHL history when an arbitrator ruled yesterday that they -- and not the New York Rangers -- had acquired the rights to Lindros, 19, who never has played a minute in the league but is expected to become its next superstar.

Greg de Vries scored 3:05 into overtime after Atlanta wiped out a two-goal deficit with power-play scores in the final two minutes of regulation as the Thrashers defeated the host Philadelphia Flyers, 6-5, last night. After Peter Bondra cut the deficit to one with 1:50 remaining, Patrick Stefan tied it at 5 with seven seconds left. De Vries won it on a breakaway as Atlanta ended a three-game losing streak to the Flyers. "There was nobody around," de Vries said. "I tried to settle the puck down a bit. Luckily, it went in."

The Capitals are finally clicking with a month remaining in the regular season. They have won five straight games and seven of eight to reclaim the top spot in the Southeast Division, and Monday night's 2-1 shootout victory over the Lightning gave Washington a two-point lead over Tampa Bay. Early returns show that the Capitals are a better team after their trade-deadline dealings. They have won four straight games since acquiring center Jason Arnott and defenseman Dennis Wideman.

This hasn't been an easy Stanley Cup finals for goalies. The wide-open play has led to 40 goals, most through the first five games of the finals since the Islanders and North Stars combined for 42 in 1981 and most in a finals series of any length since the Rangers and Canucks had 40 in seven games in 1994. "I don't think we envisioned scoring at the rate we're scoring at," said Hawks coach Joel Quenneville, whose team has 21 goals to 19 for the Flyers. While Quenneville has stuck with Antti Niemi despite the occasional soft goal, Flyers coach Peter Laviolette has yanked starter Michael Leighton in Games 1 and 5. It is the first time a goalie has been pulled twice in the finals since North Stars coach Bob Gainey did it to Jon Casey during the last two games in 1991.