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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Sammy Sosa reports today. It's big enough news that the Orioles sent out a release. "There will be a lot more people here than you six guys," Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli said in the dugout yesterday, smiling at the small contingent of regular beat reporters. And forget the Chicago media and the national media that will descend upon Orioles camp. Those "a lot more people" Mazzilli spoke of will just be the people inside Sosa's limo. Unless, of course, Sosa takes this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start downsizing his larger-than-life image.

Five hours to game time, the vigil begins. A cadre of baseball fans stakes out Oriole Park, awaiting the players' appearance. Pens in one hand, cameras in the other, they've come to gawk -- and beg a few keepsakes -- as the Orioles wheel into the high-fenced lot that keeps autograph hounds at bay.Fans fawn over each arrival, baseball's answer to the Oscars. Who's pulling up, and with whom? Here's Brady Anderson and friend in a black BMW, Rafael Palmeiro and son in a red Ferrari, Roberto Alomar and father in a Mercedes convertible, Cal Ripken and phone in a Chevy Suburban.

"She looked at me with this look, like, `Mom, are you dumb or what?' She said, `These are my friends. I want to be with them.'" Deborah McFadden, whose wheelchair athlete daughter, Tatyana, has challenged the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association for the right to participate and have her points counted in state meets. "Right now, spending time with the people you care about and your friends and your family every day is, I'm pretty sure, what every student needs." Virginia Tech outfielder and former Dulaney player Steve Bumbry, after the April campus rampage in which 32 Virginia Tech students and the shooter were killed.

Crouching to examine the contours of a gleaming Ferrari 360 Spider convertible Monday afternoon, 21-year-old Daniel Giron couldn't help but imagine himself as owner of the luxury car, seized by the U.S. government from Byron Keith Brown, a Maryland man convicted last year of wire fraud and money laundering. After admiring the car at a vehicle auction site in Elkridge, Giron whipped out his phone, leaned in close to the cherry-red exterior and snapped a couple of pictures of his face next to the Ferrari logo.

Downtown Baltimore's first car dealership in decades, planned for the ground floor of a high-profile parking garage at Pratt and President streets, won't be your typical auto showroom. Anyone walking on the south side of Pratt will be able to peer through the tinted windows and watch the mechanics at work, in much the same way diners at some trendy restaurants can observe chefs in action. If that's not catchy enough, Antwerpen Automotive Group plans to stock more than the latest Volkswagens.

In the end, the umpires got the call right. But it sure took long enough. And a rough five-game homestand for the Orioles got even rougher in the sixth inning Sunday when Tampa Bay's Matt Joyce hit a soaring fly ball down the right field line in the Rays' eventual 3-1 win. That's when all the fun started. Actually, it was only fun if your idea of a good time is a long game delay while both managers and all four umpires yak endlessly about whether Joyce's shot was a foul ball, a double or a homer.

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Ayrton Senna of Brazil drove his McLaren-Honda to victory, pulling away from Britain's Nigel Mansell in the last 25 laps.Mansell, who had won the last three races for Williams-Renault, was second, 4.99 seconds behind after making a strong challenge for the lead midway through the race.It was Senna's 31st Grand Prix victory, but his first since Monaco in May.1. Ayrton Senna, Brazil, McLaren-Honda, 1 hour, 49 minutes, 12.796 seconds, 104.301 mph . 2. Nigel Mansell, Britain, Williams-Renault, 4.599 seconds behind.

Joshua Cox, a disabled boy who attended the presidential inauguration ceremonies as a guest of Vice President Al Gore's wife, Tipper, died Saturday at Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio from complications of pneumonia. Dean Cox, father of the 12-year-old, said the boy had been in a coma for eight days. Joshua suffered from multipli, a severe form of mental retardation and cerebral palsy caused by a lack of oxygen at birth. He couldn't walk or talk, and could hear only with hearing aids. The Coxes became friends with Mrs. Gore when she visited the hospital during a campaign stop last summer.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Britain's Nigel Mansell led all the way and Italian teammate Riccardo Patrese finished second as the new Williams-Renault cars dominated the first race on the 1992 circuit.Mansell, who had won the previous Formula One event in South Africa in 1985, opened a huge lead in the early stages of the race and never was challenged.He covered 72 laps on the 2.64-mile Kyalami race track in 1 hour, 36 minutes, 45.320 seconds.Mansell's archrival, world champion Ayrton Senna of Brazil, was third in a McLaren-Honda, and Michael Schumacher of Germany was fourth in a Benetton-Ford.