Jason Williams

Baseball Braves: Claimed P Trey Moore off waivers from Expos. Sent IF Steve Sisco outright to Triple-A Richmond. Brewers: Hired Larry Doughty as a scout. Cubs: Named Dan Evans consultant for salary arbitration. Dodgers: Named Manny Mota manager of Licey of Dominican Winter League. Basketball Celtics: Activated G Adrian Griffin. Placed F Chris Herren on injured list. College NCAA: TB Louis Ivory of Furman won Walter Payton Award as Division I-AA College Football Player of the Year.

In the first two months of his surgical training, Dr. Jason Williams has helped remove a gallbladder, excise tumors, repair hernias, save damaged limbs and patch up gunshot victims. With eight years of college and medical school behind him, Williams will spend about a decade under the tutelage of senior surgeons before he can practice on his own. Then, when he is pushing 40, he will launch a demanding career that could cost him some family dinners, Thanksgivings and birthday parties. What drives Williams, a resident in general surgery at the Johns Hopkins and Bayview hospitals, is the exhilaration of using his hands to heal sick patients.

After finishing their college basketball careers at the University of Maryland in 1996, Exree Hipp and Johnny Rhodes took their hoop dreams to faraway places. Hipp went to Brazil, Rhodes to Taiwan and Italy. They continue to travel the world, and, as they were in College Park, they are teammates. Tonight will be a homecoming of sorts for the two former Terrapins when their current team, the Harlem Globetrotters, makes a visit to the Towson Center. "It's like being in college for us," Hipp said earlier this week by telephone from Wheeling, W. Va. Except they didn't play nearly 200 games a year at Maryland.

On February 18, 2008 DORIS L. WILLIAMS (nee Kramer), beloved wife of Rowland R. Williams, Jr., devoted mother of Rowland L. Williams and his wife Linda, Mark J. Williams and his wife Carol, and the late Dawn L. Williams. Loving grandmother of Jennifer L. Williams, Jason R. Williams, Zachary Williams and De'siree Williams, Charity Evans and the late Michael D. DeAngelo. Friends may call on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the family owned BRADLEY ASHTON FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2134 Willow Spring Rd., Dundalk, MD 21222 at the corner of Dundalk Ave., where Services will be held on Friday at 11 A.M. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery.

Points Tayshaun Prince, Kentucky ...............27 George Evans, George Mason........... 27 Jeff Monaco, Southern Utah............... 26 Jason Collins, Stanford........................ 25 Kirk Haston, Indiana.............................. 25 Mekeli Wesley, BYU............................... 25 Trevor Huffman, Kent State................. 24 Byron Mouton, Maryland...................... 22 Juan Dixon, Maryland............................ 22 Sam Clancy, USC........................

COLLEGE PARK -- Maryland senior guard Juan Dixon wants to lead the second-ranked Terrapins to the first national championship in school history, and the Baltimore native and Calvert Hall product already has begun to go out in style. One day after leading Maryland to a 112-92 victory over Virginia that closed out the Cole Field House era, Dixon was named a first-team All-American, earned his third straight All-Atlantic Coast Conference first-team honor in a unanimous vote and was selected again to the ACC's All-Defensive team yesterday.

State police said excessive speed was a factor in two single-car accidents early yesterday in Wicomico County that claimed three lives. Jason Elmer Williams, 27, of Tyaskin was driving north about 1:30 a.m. when his 1997 Ford pickup truck ran off rural Clara Road and struck a telephone pole. Williams, who was not wearing his seat belt, suffered head injuries and died en route to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. About 2:30 a.m., Stephanie Lynn Horne, 31, of Willards was driving north on Green Branch Road when she lost control of her 1974 Mercedes.

In the preseason Centennial coach Jim Hill said, "We're sort of an unknown commodity right now, so it is hard to say where we'll finish. Most people probably will discount us."Two games into the season, any team that discounts Centennial will be making a serious mistake.After defeating C. Milton Wright by two points in its opener, Centennial took a powerful Thomas Johnson squad to the wire yesterday before losing, 59-54.Centennial rallied in the second half after trailing by as many as 11 points in the first half.