Games This Season

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In the aftermath of perhaps their most humiliating loss of the season, Washington Bullets coach Wes Unseld was asked whether he could pinpoint what went wrong during the team's 114-88 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night."

When the Blast plays in its Major Soccer League home opener Oct. 19, former Kansas City defender Doug Neely will be wearing one of the team's new uniforms with No. 15 on his jersey.The club announced yesterday, Neely is the latest player to sign for the coming season, bringing the current roster number to 10.The Blast's regular-season schedule is expected to be ready late this afternoon, but assistant general manager Drew Forrester said the team will open against Dallas, Oct. 19, and will play 18 of its 20 home games on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- This game has loomed in the back of their minds all season. Before, the players and coaches on the University of Maryland basketball team knew that no matter what happened on a given day or night, there would be other games to play.Today, no matter what happens here against Virginia at University Hall, there won't be another game until next season. Win or lose, the Terrapins will close out the 1990-91 season this afternoon. No Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. No postseason.

When the Los Angeles Lakers lost four of their first five games this season -- their worst start in 12 years -- a lot of fingers were pointed at Mike Dunleavy.After winning 63 games the previous season and five NBA titles the previous decade, the Lakers were not accustomed to such problems.Their first-year coach was the logical excuse but not the right excuse."We had a rough start, but it was just an adjustment period," Dunleavy said before a recent game. "Everyone was getting used to each other.

The Baltimore Blast and Channel 45 are near an agreement under which the station will televise six regular-season Major Soccer League games this season.Bruce Lumpkin, general manager for WBFF-TV, said yesterday: "We have the basis of an agreement. I presented it to the owners today [yesterday], and on Monday I'll have an answer. I feel that answer will be yes. I have no problems with it, and the Blast has no problems."Lumpkin said the first game on the schedule is set for Dec. 26, when the Blast will play the Kansas City Comets in Kansas City, Mo.Blast general manager John Borozzi said yesterday that Art Sinclair would do the play-by-play.

Ken Griffey Sr. says he won't decide whether to return to the Seattle Mariners as a player until well after the end of the season.Batting .460 with three homers and 15 RBI in the month since he joined his son, Ken Griffey Jr., the invitation seems guaranteed."