Reggie Williams

BaseballAngels: Invited C Ben Molina to spring training as nonroster player.Giants: Named Jim Fregosi special assignment scout/instructor.Orioles: Agreed to one-year contracts with OF Danny Clyburn, OF Eugene Kingsale, P Tom Davey, P Jimmy Haynes, P Mike Johnson and C B. J. Waszgis.Red Sox: Agreed to terms with SS John Valentin on one-year, $3.75 million contract, avoiding salary arbitration.BasketballBulls: Placed G Randy Brown on injured list.Kings: Signed G-F Jeff Grayer for rest of season.

BaseballAngels: Agreed to terms with P Steve Ontiveros and IF Luis Alicea on minor-league contracts. Designated IF Robert Eenhoorn for assignment.Blue Jays: Agreed to one-year contract with OF Jacob Brumfield with club option for 1998, avoiding salary arbitration.Brewers: Signed 1B Dave Nilsson to three-year contract with club option for 2000.Expos: Signed OF Cliff Floyd, IF Orlando Cabrera, IF Ryan McGuire, P Mike Thurman and P Steve Falteisek.Mets: Signed C Yohanny Valera to minor-league contract and invited him to major-league camp.

BaseballDiamondbacks: Named Mel Didier director of player development.Expos: Agreed to terms with manager Felipe Alou on two-year extension through 2000.Phillies: Agreed to terms with P Jerry Spradlin.Rangers: Placed IF Lou Frazier on waivers for purpose of giving him unconditional release. Former Orioles coach Greg Biagini will return as manager of Triple-A Oklahoma City.BasketballMagic: Waived F Cliff Rozier.Nets: Placed F Reggie Williams (Dunbar) on injured list with stress fracture of left tibia.

In its 39-year history, the State of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame has never has an induction like the one that will take place Monday at Martin's West.Let's pray there'll never be another.The script doesn't call for athletes to be inducted when they've barely come into their best years.Each year our Hall of Fame, which is for native Marylanders, admits three living athletes and one deceased. The deceased honoree is not supposed to be like Reggie Lewis, who died at the age of 29 of a heart attack in Boston last July 27.Lewis, who will be enshrined along with football's Tom Gatewood, jockey Phil Grove and golfer Ralph Bogart, had just come into his own with the NBA Celtics.

The NBA held a draft lottery yesterday at the Baltimore Arena.And commissioner David Stern wasn't even there.A former basketball coach, an NBA mascot and two local sportscasters took Stern's place, selecting the two teams for the Muggsy Bogues All-Star Classic on Sept. 8.The game features 19 NBA players, including two of Bogues' Charlotte Hornets teammates, Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson. The proceeds benefit Baltimore Reads, a non-profit organization designed to assist adults.But yesterday, former Dunbar and University of Maryland basketball coach Bob Wade was the big winner.

In a year that has seen the loss of, among others, Arthur Ashe and Davey Allison, the inevitable unanswerable question becomes: "Why do such bad things happen to such good people?" Reggie Lewis was a very good person.Reggie died as captain of the Celtics, the leader and take-charge player on the NBA's proudest franchise. These achievements are all the more impressive due to the obstacles that Reggie quietly and persistently dodged along the way.Reggie came into the NBA along with his more highly regarded high school teammates -- Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues and David Wingate.

LANDOVER -- When a team (Denver) with the second-worst NTC road record meets a team (Washington) with the third-worst home record, something's got to give.And last night it was the Bullets who collapsed in the fourth quarter when they were outscored 36-22 by the Nuggets, who registered only their fourth road victory in 25 games, 106-99, before a sellout crowd of 18,756.In a sense, two of the Nuggets -- center Dikembe Mutombo and small forward Reggie Williams -- felt more at home playing at the Capital Centre than their Washington rivals.

NEW YORK -- The first two dunks executed by the lithe Boston Celtic with the bulging deltoids are emphatic and eye-catching, if not spectacular. But just wait, Michael Jordan, you haven't seen anything yet.Suddenly, the basketball world is turned topsy-turvy, like Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling. Only this is more breathtaking. The basketball player, equipped with his special Reeboks, is literally flying head down as he slams the ball through the bottom of the net in a reverse jam. Strutting off the court, he says pointedly, "That's Reggie . . . Lewis."

Basketball Denver Nuggets -- Signed G Reggie Williams (Dunbar).College NCAA -- Cleared San Diego State QB Dan McGwire to play in the East-West Shrine Game. McGwire's amateur status was called into question when he announced his intention to retain attorney Leigh Steinberg to represent him for his pro football career. Denied appeal of 5 years' probation by Upsala.

PHILADELPHIA -- The jump shot was gorgeous. When all else failed, he could make a ball dance in the air. He would stand at midcourt during practice and watch the ball's flight and then its descent, smiling when he heard the sound, that woosh, of leather meeting net.He could do it once, twice, three times. He would move, five steps here, five there, and do it again.And then, the shot vanished. They had taken his confidence in Los Angeles, his dignity in Cleveland, his job in San Antonio. They had taken the gift from him in four years of basketball torment.

Men's college basketball Reggie Williams named coach of Chesapeake College Former Dunbar High and Georgetown star Reggie Williams has been named coach at Chesapeake College, a community college in Wye Mills in Talbot County. Williams, 45, was hired Monday to replace John Mappas, who guided the Skipjacks to an NJCAA Region XX championship in 2008 but retired last week because of family considerations. Williams became available when Towson Catholic closed in July; he had been hired as boys coach in May. Williams, who played 10 NBA seasons, coached the Washington Justice of the National Rookie League - at that time an unaffiliated minor league for the NBA - to the 2000 championship.

Former Georgetown University star and NBA player Reggie Williams is the new boys basketball coach at Towson Catholic, the school's athletic director said Saturday. Williams, a former star at Dunbar who has coached previously in Prince George's County, was introduced to the team Thursday, athletic director Jeff Palumbo said in an interview. Williams, 45, said he learned several weeks ago that the school where he coached this past season - Jericho Christian Academy in Landover - was closing.

The University of Miami and the 2004 class of wide receivers set records in the NFL draft yesterday. The Hurricanes had six first-round selections, breaking the record of five they had in 2002 and shared with Southern California (1968). There were seven wide receivers taken in the first round, topping the previous high of five set in 1988 and matched in 2001. Altogether there were 19 offensive picks in the first round, most in the past 15 years. 1. CHARGERS* Philip Rivers, QB, North Carolina State The Chargers wanted to trade back all along and take Rivers.

The opening of any college football season brings change, but is there any game this weekend where the two teams have had more tumultuous offseasons than Ohio State and Washington? The second-ranked Buckeyes will play host to the No. 17 Huskies tomorrow night at Ohio Stadium with preseason Heisman favorite Maurice Clarett sitting out the first of a multi-game suspension for exaggerating the cost of the items that were stolen from a car the tailback had borrowed from a Columbus car dealer.

One of the nation's most storied high school basketball programs, that of Dunbar, will go all out July 20 to showcase much of the talent that led the school to national championships in the early 1980s and early 1990s. The main event of a daylong basketball alumni extravaganza at the school will send the 1982-83 national championship team (31-0) against the 1991-92 national championship squad (29-0) at 6 p.m. The 1982-83 team produced three first-round NBA draft choices (Reggie Williams, Muggsy Bogues and Reggie Lewis)

DISTRICT HEIGHTS - Reggie Williams has hands that define him. They are weathered with effort, the long fingers fading into the leather of an ever-so-worn basketball. For years he used the hands to send up shot after twine-stroking shot, first at Dunbar High, then at Georgetown and in the NBA. But now, over three years after washing away the rosin and sweat for a final time, Reggie Williams' hands are full again. He is a coach. A first-time boss in a first-time league, Williams has taken the reigns of the Washington Justice, one of six teams in the National Rookie League, a minor-league training ground for aspiring professional players that begins its inaugural season Sunday.

Baseball Brewers: Re-assigned OFSteve Truitt and OFArmando Villero to extended spring training. Indians: Placed P Ricardo Rincon on 15-day DL , retroactive to May17, with irritation in left elbow. Signed P Scott Sanders. Recalled P Jim Brower from Triple-A Buffalo. Recalled P Mark Watson from Buffalo. Mets: Activated P Bobby Jones from 15-day DL . Optioned P Bill Pulsipher to Triple-A Norfolk. Rangers: Recalled P Dan Kolb from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Optioned P Doug Davis to Oklahoma City.

BaseballAngels: Invited C Ben Molina to spring training as nonroster player.Giants: Named Jim Fregosi special assignment scout/instructor.Orioles: Agreed to one-year contracts with OF Danny Clyburn, OF Eugene Kingsale, P Tom Davey, P Jimmy Haynes, P Mike Johnson and C B. J. Waszgis.Red Sox: Agreed to terms with SS John Valentin on one-year, $3.75 million contract, avoiding salary arbitration.BasketballBulls: Placed G Randy Brown on injured list.Kings: Signed G-F Jeff Grayer for rest of season.

BaseballAngels: Agreed to terms with P Steve Ontiveros and IF Luis Alicea on minor-league contracts. Designated IF Robert Eenhoorn for assignment.Blue Jays: Agreed to one-year contract with OF Jacob Brumfield with club option for 1998, avoiding salary arbitration.Brewers: Signed 1B Dave Nilsson to three-year contract with club option for 2000.Expos: Signed OF Cliff Floyd, IF Orlando Cabrera, IF Ryan McGuire, P Mike Thurman and P Steve Falteisek.Mets: Signed C Yohanny Valera to minor-league contract and invited him to major-league camp.

BaseballDiamondbacks: Named Mel Didier director of player development.Expos: Agreed to terms with manager Felipe Alou on two-year extension through 2000.Phillies: Agreed to terms with P Jerry Spradlin.Rangers: Placed IF Lou Frazier on waivers for purpose of giving him unconditional release. Former Orioles coach Greg Biagini will return as manager of Triple-A Oklahoma City.BasketballMagic: Waived F Cliff Rozier.Nets: Placed F Reggie Williams (Dunbar) on injured list with stress fracture of left tibia.