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He was beaten in Indianapolis, hammered in Chicago, rejected in Baltimore.But even if Jim Speros lost courtroom battles in each of those legal settings over use of the Colts name, the owner of Baltimore's Canadian Football League team still might give the fans what they want most.That's the right to call the team the Colts -- no matter what the courts or the NFL's lawyers say."One option we have is Baltimore with no name," Speros said yesterday. "Just Baltimore and the horse logo."That's what the fans want.

Marianne Thomas of Bend, Ore., writes that she remembers the Depression years and a spicy cake that was "our favorite." It was a nameless cake that had "chocolate (maybe cocoa) and nuts. The frosting was fluffy and contained coffee as well as chocolate. Can you find such a recipe?"Kathy Dallam of Bel Air sent the response chosen by tester Laura Reiley. Dallam wrote:"My mother-in-law, Louise Ackerman, always made this cake for my husband's birthday when he was growing up. Here's her recipe, unchanged.

Fact: Five of the 12 teams in the CFL are having financial problems or contemplating moving (Ottawa, Hamilton, Las Vegas, Shreveport, Sacramento).Opinion: Baltimore and the NFL: a league without a team. Baltimore and the CFL: a team without a league.Fact: The past five Heisman Trophy winners -- Andre Ware, Ty Detmer, Desmond Howard, Gino Torretta and Charlie Ward -- have barely registered a blip in the NFL.Opinion: Upset special on Saturday: Auburn 23, Florida 20. (And Michigan 21, Penn State 16.)

/TC LAUREL -- You want to see sheer terror on people's faces, you go to the racetrack on a weekday afternoon with a reporter's notebook in your hand, and you start asking for last names.That's what I did the other day, innocently enough, because this is a big week for the resolute fraternity of horseplayers. Maybe their biggest week ever. So I went to Laurel and started asking them about the national Pick-7 coming up Saturday at the Breeders' Cup, with a pool expected to reach $10 million.

Apex Hides the Hurt Colson Whitehead Doubleday / 224 pages / $22.95 We'll start with the essentials: Do not read this book. Not yet, anyway. Not unless you're already a Colson Whitehead fan - and you know who you are. If you're not, put down the newspaper and go to your neighborhood bookstore (my house remains an Amazon-free zone) and get The Intuitionist, Whitehead's first novel. The Intuitionist is possibly the only novel about rival elevator inspectors. It's also a startlingly unlikely pulp fiction debate between, yes, intuitionists and empiricists.

Lorenzo Orestes is a hero. He is the Cuban pilot who defected to the United States in a military jet 22 months ago and then flew back to Cuba in a Cessna a few weeks ago to rescue his family.Jorge Proenza is also a hero. He and 47 others escaped from Cuba when they seized a commercial airliner last month, landing in Miami to applause and TV cameras.When it comes to Haitian refugees, however, we do not find heroes.In fact, we do not even find their names. After searching through dozens of stories on the men, women and children who have braved 600 miles of open water to come to the United States, I cannot find a single Haitian refugee named in the press.

After hundreds of marchers flooded the state capital in February to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally, a fired-up Annapolis group put together a petition with 861 signatures to name the planned traffic circle on West Street Unity Circle.Alderman Cynthia A. Carter, a Ward 6 Democrat, introduced the resolution in March, and Mayor Dean L. Johnson referred it to a citizens committee working on the circle.After nine months, a handful of meetings and other bureaucratic workings, it seems that naming the city's fourth circle isn't going to be easy or quick.

NEW YORK -- Ronnie Lott, TV broadcaster and former Hall of Fame defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers, takes the elevator down from Room 1806 and walks out onto Central Park South. He wears a black beret and a dazed look. Good evening, Mr. Lott: Tired from the flight? Blinded by the bright lights of nearby Broadway? Or is that a permanent look, from too many Sundays spent smashing helmets with Dallas Cowboys?"Something's weird with the hotel," he says, shaking his head.Weird, indeed.

An article in yesterday's Today section about ceremonies at Gettysburg National Military Park misidentified a pair of widows of Civil War veterans. Daisy Anderson, 96, of Denver is the widow of Pvt. Robert Anderson, a Union soldier, whom she married when he was 79. Alberta Martin, 90, of Alabama is the widow of Pvt. William Jasper Martin, a Confederate soldier, whom she married when he was 81.The Sun regrets the error.GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- They don't know who he was. They don't know where he came from.