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BaseballAstros: Purchased the contract of P Joe Slusarski from Triple-A New Orleans.Brewers: Activated P Jeff D'Amico. Fired assistant GM Fred Stanley and scouting director Ken Califano.Reds: Activated 1B Hal Morris.Rockies: OF John Cangelosi retired.BasketballMavericks: Named Kiki Vandeweghe assistant coach.CollegeAmerica East: Named Boston University's Allison Merkle (Catholic) women's soccer Rookie of the Week.Loyola: Brianne Higgins and Kristin Longo were named to first-team collegiate honor roll by US Rowing.

The Skipjacks, who will have two new faces on the ice tonight, likely will add another player today -- one you might have seen on television during the Winter Olympics.The Washington Capitals are expected to sign defenseman Brad Schlegel, who played for the Canadian silver-medal team in Albertville, France.Schlegel, 23, was the eighth draft choice of the Capitals in 1988. A 5-foot-10, 180-pound defenseman from Kitchener, Ontario, he played for Team Canada the past four years. He had two goals and three assists in the Olympics.

John Byce couldn't have regained the Skipjacks' scoring lead in much more dramatic fashion.With a backhand flick of his stick, Byce jammed in his 22nd goal of the season with 2:20 remaining to give the Skipjacks a 7-6 victory over the Hershey Bears last night before 2,651 at the Baltimore Arena.Byce entered the game with a one-goal edge over Reggie Savage. After Savage tied him with his 20th, Byce scored his 21st only to have Savage match him again.Byce's 22nd broke a 6-6 tie, the fifth deadlock of the evening.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- If he were a betting man, Barry Trotz said, he probably wouldn't put a nickel on his Skipjacks. Instead, he'd bet the farm on the Binghamton Rangers."

The last time Donald Halverson was on a Liberty ship, he was heading across the Atlantic Ocean, a fresh-faced draftee who would spend the next 21/2 years fighting his way across Germany, France, Italy and North Africa during World War II. A more recent trip, a leisurely six-hour sail down the Chesapeake Bay on the refurbished Liberty ship John W. Brown, a floating museum that has been plying the waters around Baltimore since 1991, proved a lot...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- "Greed is the universal motive, sincerity is a pose, honesty is for chumps, altruism is selfishness with a neurotic twist, and morality is for kids and fools." That was Walt Harrington writing in The Washington Post on Dec. 27, 1987, in response to the financial and sexual scandals of that period. Then, the ethical violations were committed by men named Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. Their means to immoral ends were junk bonds and insider trading. The most prominent (though by no means only)

BaseballBrewers: Activated P Steve Woodard from 15-day DL.Yankees: Recalled IF D'Angelo Jimenez, IF Alfonso Soriano, P Ed Yarnall and P Mike Buddie from Triple-A Columbus.CollegeAustin Peay: Named Doug Peterson assistant golf coach.FootballChargers: Released RB Tremayne Stephens.HockeyIslanders: Sent LW Scott Pearson and Daniel Lacroix to IHL Chicago. Sent RW Bret Meyers to AHL Lowell. Sent RW Radek Matejovsky to Duklajihlva of the Czech League. Sent D Johan Halverson to HV7 of the Swedish League.

Dinesh Singh, 70, a former foreign minister of India and member of Prime Minister P. V. Rao's Cabinet, died yesterday in New Delhi after a long illness. He had been a member of Parliament for 38 years and became foreign minister in 1993. He won a seat in Parliament in 1957, about a decade after India gained independence. He served in the External Affairs Ministry from 1962 to 1966 and held Cabinet posts under then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.The Rev. Richard C. Halverson, 79, a Presbyterian minister who retired in March after 14 years as the U.S. Senate's 60th chaplain, died of an undisclosed cause Tuesday in Washington.

HAMILTON, Ontario -- The Skipjacks all but knocked the Hamilton Canucks out of the American Hockey League playoff picture last night with a 3-1 win.The victory put the Skipjacks eight points in front of the Canucks in the league's Southern Division and six ahead of the Hershey Bears. Baltimore has nine games remaining, Hershey eight and Hamilton 10.After a sluggish start, the Skipjacks scored a couple of goals in the second period and added an insurance goal in the third. Martin Gendron, Trevor Halverson and Martin Jiranek scored for the Skipjacks, and Danny Kesa was the lone Canuck to beat Byron Dafoe.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Centers Don Biggs and Mike Stevens had a goal and two assists each to lead the Binghamton Rangers to a 6-4 victory over the Skipjacks last night before a sellout crowd of 4,808 at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.Reggie Savage led the Skipjacks with one goal and one assist. Chris Longo, Trevor Halverson and Randy Pearce scored the Skipjacks' other goals.Per Djoos, Brian McReynolds, Steven King and Dave Tomlinson also scored for Binghamton.King's goal, at 8:14 of the third period, gave the Rangers a 5-4 lead that they would not relinquish.