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Moves Baseball ORIOLES -- Announced that hitting coach Terry Crowley will return in 2008. Promoted pro scout Jim Howard to advance scout, replacing Deacon Jones. REDS -- Named Dusty Baker manager and agreed to terms on three-year contract. Basketball NETS -- Waived F Rod Benson. SUNS -- Waived F Doug Thomas and F Rawle Marshall. Colleges INDIANA -- Announced that men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson will forfeit a scheduled $500,000 raise and that team will lose scholarship for exceeding NCAA limits on calls to recruits.

On January 8, 2006, JOHN STRICKLAND, JR.; husband of Dianna Strickland. He is also survived by his children, Karen Raines, Carlene, Kim and Kelvin Strickland; sister, Pearl Mae Archable; five grandchildren and a host of step-children and other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Tuesday, after 9 A.M. where the family will receive friends on Wednesday 11:30 A.M. followed by funeral service at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.

A Circuit Court jury convicted a city man of first-degree murder and a handgun violation yesterday in connection with a shooting outside an East Baltimore carryout in December 2003. Prosecutors said Martinez Brown, 26, of the 2300 block of E. Chase St., shot Kelvin Knight, 18, at point-blank range outside New Land Chinese Carry Out at Montford Avenue and Biddle Street. Knight was killed after interrupting an argument between Brown and a woman. When Knight laughed at the couple, Brown said, "Do you think I am playing?"

SUN SCORE **1/2 Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is an uptight movie - the opposite of his scintillating Out of Sight. Caution and pretension afflict this usually quicksilver director. Under the burden of creating a metaphysical sci-fi picture, he doesn't leave room for jokes, jittery action or erotic tension; the film's only real poetry, visual or verbal, is quoted from Dylan Thomas Soderbergh tiptoes through the same Stanislaw Lem novel that Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky turned into a weighty cult epic 30 years ago. (All three versions have the same title.

HERNDON, Va. -- It is vexing to Kelvin Bryant when a linebacker obstructs his pass route with illicit hands, but there is a trace of a smile when he tells about it. It is recognition, most sincere."

I WAS TOO HIGH on PCP to remember," Tyrone Gilliam said in response to the question of who, indeed, had shot Christine Doerfler in the back of the head with a sawed-off shotgun the night of Dec. 2, 1988.Gilliam is to be executed this week for that murder. His cohorts that night, brothers Kelvin and Delano Drummond, are serving life sentences for the murder. Kelvin Drummond testified that Gilliam was the shooter. Gilliam confessed twice but now says his PCP-induced state impaired his memory."

An article in Thursday's editions of The Sun omitted the last name of a Glen Burnie man charged with breaking into the homes of three elderly people in Glen Burnie and Pasadena. He is Kelvin Theodore Johnson, 34.The Sun regrets the error.Anne Arundel County police have arrested a 59-year-old man in connection with break-ins at the homes of three elderly residents in Glen Burnie and Pasadena and an assault on a 77-year-old man whose dresser was overturned on top of him.Kelvin Theodore of the 300 block of Kess Circle, Glen Burnie, was charged Wednesday with three counts of burglary and one count each of assault, destruction of property and purse snatching.

A Baltimore man convicted in the execution-style slaying of a man who interrupted an argument was sentenced yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court to life plus 20 years in prison. Martinez Brown, 26, of the 2300 block of E. Chase St. was convicted in November by a city jury of first-degree murder and using a handgun during a crime of violence. Prosecutors said Brown shot Kelvin Knight, 18, in the forehead and chest Dec. 7, 2003, outside a Chinese takeout restaurant at Montford Avenue and Biddle Street in East Baltimore.

Kelvin Collins Old Mill, football The second-team All-Metro running back rushed for 242 yards and a school-record five touchdowns on 32 carries in Friday's 38-28 victory over Anne Arundel County rival Annapolis in the season opener for both squads. The 6-foot, 195-pound senior, who doubles as a defensive back, runs a 4.6-second 40-yard dash. Collins ranks among the state's top returning rushers from a year ago. A member of the Patriots' basketball team last winter and a three-year member of the school's track program, Collins has scored 900 on his SAT, which he plans to take again.

BaseballDodgers: Named Ed Creech assistant to GM; he had been director of scouting for Cardinals.Royals: Agreed to two-year contract with Single-A Charleston (W.Va.).Basketball Basketball Hall of Fame: Selected Bulls assistant Tex Winter, whose 51 years is tops among active college and pro coaches, to receive John Bunn Award.Idaho (CBA): Signed G Spud Webb.CollegeACC: Named North Carolina's Laurie Schwoy (McDonogh) women's college soccer Player of the Week.Centennial Conference: Named Western Maryland setter Jessica Rouse volleyball Player of the Week.