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The Orioles are trolling for a corner infielder who can get on base, and the Miami Marlins are apparently considering dealing three-time All-Star Hanley Ramirez , who owns a .374 career on-base percentage and switched from shortstop to third base this year. So is there a fit between the clubs with Tuesday's non-waiver trade deadline approaching? Well, theoretically, absolutely. Realistically, probably not. ( Note : The Dodgers acquired Hanley Ramirez from the Marlins several hours after this story was posted .)

Orioles third-round pick, high-school shortstop Adrian Marin, has tweeted that he has signed a deal with the Orioles. He also posted a picture of him signing a contract. Marin, a 5-foot-10, 160-pound infielder out of Gulliver Prep School in Miami, was the 99th pick overall in this week's draft. Orioles scouting director Gary Rajsich told the Sun earlier on Thursday that he thought Marin was eager to sign even though he had a commitment to play at the University of Miami. “He's got a live body, an athletic, five tool player.

The Orioles know very well the level of prep baseball talent that comes out of South Florida. Two years ago, the team tabbed shortstop Manny Machado out of Brito Miami Private with the third overall pick. And on Tuesday, the Orioles used their third-round pick (99th overall) on another talented Miami shortstop, Adrian Marin of Miami Gulliver Prep. Marin, who has signed to play at the University of Miami, projects to be a top-of-the-lineup bat given his well above-average speed.

Tommy Streeter at a glance Wide receiver, Miami Ht./Wt.: 6 foot 5,  220 pounds Born: October 7, 1989 in Miami High School: Northwestern HS (Miami) College highlights: Caught 46 passes for 811 yards as a junior in 2011, when he started 7 of 12 games. ... Eight catches went for touchdowns, which tied him for eighth place on Miami's single-season list. ... Received Nick Chickillo Most Improved Player of the Year Award ... Had only six catches and one touchdown as a redshirt freshman and sophomore.

With the 198th pick in the 2012 NFL draft (sixth round), the Ravens drafted speedy Miami wide receiver Tommy Streeter. The Ravens have said they hoped to add a wide receiver during the draft, and Streeter is a tall vertical target that, in theory, would help them expand their developing downfield passing attack. A hair under 6 feet 5, Streeter has excellent downfield speed for his size. At the scouting combine, he ran the 40-yard dash at 4.40 seconds, which was among the top times among wide receivers.

MIAMI - Wearing a sand-colored sportcoat he'd been handed as one of the night's guest of honors, Bryant McKinnie was sharing University of Miami memories with a small group of people when the college, and now NFL teammate, he'd just mentioned strolled into the room. McKinnie spotted him and chuckled. “Hey, Bryant McKinnie how does it feel to be back in Miami?” Ed Reed bellowed jovially at his former Hurricanes and current Baltimore Ravens teammate. McKinnie and Reed, who helped lead Miami to the program's fifth and last national championship in 2001, headlined the Class of 2012's induction into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday night.

Steve Blake has carved together what is now a nine-year NBA career by feeding the ball to a list of All-Stars - from Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas in Washington, to Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony in Denver, to LaMarcus Aldridge in Portland and, for the past two seasons, to Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles. Though the lights are much brighter now and Blake, as a steady and much sought-after point guard, has parlayed his skills into his current four-year, $16 million contract with the Lakers, it is not much different than the role he played during his four seasons at Maryland . Back then, the stars were named Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter and Chris Wilcox.

In a couple of weeks, hordes will descend upon Miami again. It seems people are always mobbing Miami - for international art fairs, for Martin Luther King Jr.weekend, for sporting events, and of course, for those famed beaches, which always seem overwhelmed with bronzed bodies in tiny swimwear. But this crowd - as many as 200,000 over three days - will come wielding glow-sticks, furry boots, designer drugs and paraphernalia promoting their favorite superstar DJs as they descend on the Ultra Music Festival, the largest electronic music festival in the United States.

Maryland came into Tuesday's game at Comcast Center against Miami trying to chase away some ghosts from its recent past. The demons came from a double-overtime loss to the Hurricanes three weeks before in Coral Gables, Fla., and a second-half collapse at Virginia three days ago. Recovering from their most lopsided defeat of the season, the Terps did a major exorcism, scoring 10 straight points in a game-closing 14-4 run in the final 97 seconds to...

On paper, Maryland's two biggest wins this season have come against Notre Dame and Miami. The 78-71 win over the Irish at Verizon Center in the BB&T Classic gave the fans hope for this season, but it came against a tired team on the back end of a West Coast trip trying to figure out how to play the rest of the season without its leading scorer. The 75-70- win over the Hurricanes on Tuesday night at Comcast Center came against a team that had won six of its past eight games and had beaten Duke in Durham, N.C., two weeks ago. The team the Terps were facing, and the way they came back by scoring 10 straight points in a game-closing 14-4 run, was the reason their win over Miami was the first signature win of the Mark Turgeon era. Here are some thoughts about how things played out: If the win over the Irish showed Terrell Stoglin's talents as a big-time scorer, the win over Miami showed that the sophomore point guard is buying into Turgeon's season-long struggle to turn his best player into a team player.