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Former Dunbar standout Michael Lloyd, now in his second year at San Jacinto (Texas) Junior College, said Thursday that he has narrowed his college choices to Florida State, Maryland and Syracuse.Lloyd, now on Christmas break, attended Thursday night's Dunbar-Walbrook game at Coppin State. He leads San Jacinto (6-2) with a 35.0 scoring average.Lloyd said he has talked with Maryland coach Gary Williams and plans to include a visit to Maryland among his official college visits during the spring.

Round: Player, Pos., School, Hometown First round: Manny Machado, SS, Brito Miami Private (Fla.) School, Hialeah, Fla. Third round: Daniel Klein, RHP, UCLA, Los Alamitos, Calif. Fourth round: Trent Mummey, CF, Auburn, Jasper, Ala. Fifth round: Connor Narron, SS, C.B. Aycock (N.C.) H.S., Goldsboro, N.C. Sixth round: Dixon Anderson, RHP, California, Piedmond, Calif. Seventh round: Matt Bywater, LHP, Pepperdine, Thousand Oaks, Calif. Eighth round: Wynston Sawyer, C, Scripps Ranch (Calif.

POLITICS," Henry Adams observed, "is the systematic organization of hatreds."In Houston the country-club Republicans supplied the organization and the Buchanan-Robertson brigades supplied the hatreds.Even as the Democratic fringe was being shown the door by the party's new leadership, the GOP was surrendering to its own fringe, the San Jacinto Republicans.San Jacinto is the marshy site near the convention center where, in 1836, Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna managed to turn his overwhelming advantages over Sam Houston's small army of rebel Texans into a debacle.

Before he was a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts, before he was a late-night wisecracker on television talk shows, before he was Fatso, Art Donovan was something else. An honest-to-gosh, private first class, fighting U.S. Marine. He has a row of ribbons from World War II at home in Towson. He kept the old uniform, too, though it's currently on loan to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Donovan hasn't worn it in decades. "I can't get my arms in the sleeves," he said. It's the man, not his dress blues, that counts, leathernecks say. Hence, Donovan's induction into the U.S. Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame today at Quantico, Va. Donovan, a five-time All Pro who helped the Colts win back-to-back NFL championships in 1958 and '59, will be enshrined along with Richie Guerin, a six-time NBA All-Star, and Ken Norton, two-time heavyweight boxing champion.

Former Dunbar basketball standout Michael Lloyd has withdrawn from Syracuse University amid an NCAA investigation into credits he obtained while at a junior college.Thursday, Lloyd informed Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim he would not return to Syracuse for his senior season, but was instead leaving "to pursue opportunities in professional basketball."Lloyd, a 1992 high school All-American and Baltimore Sun Player of the Year, cannot play in the NBA this season because he missed the deadline to declare himself eligible for the June draft, an NBA spokeswoman said.

Make it an annual event -- the Dunbar High reunion at the Baltimore Arena. Tonight, Maryland's Keith Booth opposes Towson State's Scooter Alexander. Next year, Booth could team with Michael Lloyd against Massachusetts' Donta Bright.It's no mere fantasy. Maryland is trying to schedule UMass for a game at the Arena next season. And Lloyd, averaging 35 points at San Jacinto (Texas) Junior College, has narrowed his college choices to Maryland, Syracuse and Florida State.Two Dunbar players at Maryland?

EMMITSBURG -- How good is Riley Inge?Good enough to take nearly two years off from the game that has defined him for most of his life, then return and quickly prove to be an unusually talented point guard.Good enough to look like a veteran after two months in a college uniform. Good enough to get Mount St. Mary's to stop hoping, and start believing, it can win its first Northeast Conference title.How smart is Riley Inge? Smart enough to know that basketball isn't everything, even if he learned that lesson the hard way.Two years ago at Paint Branch High School in Montgomery County, Inge could do no wrong, at least when he had a basketball.

OCCASIONALLY some old-timers will complain that the basketball talent coming out of Baltimore City and environs isn't up to snuff compared with years past. But some recent classes are doing quite nicely.In particular, the backcourt talent in the Class of 1988 looks better with age.The Evening Sun Player of the Year was Dunbar's Sam Cassell. After a year at a prep school in Maine, Cassell is in his second season at San Jacinto, a junior college in Pasadena, Texas. He has signed a letter of intent with Florida State.

Michael J. Marino, a highly decorated Navy aviator who participated in some of the most significant Pacific naval air battles of World War II, died of cancer Thursday at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center. He was 82. Mr. Marino was born in Baltimore, the son of an immigrant stonemason from Palermo, Italy, and grew up in the home his father built on First Avenue in Brooklyn. He was a 1939 graduate of Glen Burnie High School, where he played second base for the school's baseball team.

East Baltimore may be home to former Dunbar High school standout Sam Cassell, but going to Houston to play professional basketball will be a homecoming of sorts.In Wednesday's NBA draft, the Houston Rockets made Cassell the 24th pick of the first round. Cassell is the first Baltimore player to be selected in the first round since former Dunbar stars Reggie Lewis, Reggie Williams and Muggsy Bogues went in the first round in 1987. In going to Houston, Cassell will be in the same area where he played his first two years of college basketball.

Michael J. Marino, a highly decorated Navy aviator who participated in some of the most significant Pacific naval air battles of World War II, died of cancer Thursday at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center. He was 82. Mr. Marino was born in Baltimore, the son of an immigrant stonemason from Palermo, Italy, and grew up in the home his father built on First Avenue in Brooklyn. He was a 1939 graduate of Glen Burnie High School, where he played second base for the school's baseball team.

COLLEGE PARK -- You better watch out.You better not pout, or walk out to the concourse to get a hot dog.Steve Francis is coming to town.Maryland's annual basketball appearance at the Baltimore Arena comes Saturday, when the fifth-ranked Terps take on Princeton. The Tigers are a lump of coal in an opponent's stocking, but can they spoil the celebration for a team that awoke this season to a flashy new sports car in its driveway?Decked out in red and white, Francis has quickened the pulse of Maryland and its followers, and become a prime topic of discussion for NBA scouts.

CUMBERLAND -- A few steps inside the Allegany College gym, jerseys hanging near the ceiling represent 75 players who have gone on to play Division I basketball since 1971. Beckoning with their rich reds, whites, blues and golds, they explain why a city kid heads for the hills, wondering along the way, where am I going?"When we started hitting those mountains, I woke up," said Derrick Worrell, 20, a would-be star who recalls being roused by the uphill struggle through five mountain passes on the ride.

Despite a short stay in the main draw of last week's National Claycourt Championships in Pikesville, UMBC tennis player Oscar Lopez followed the first rule of college life: Never waste a good weekend.After losing to Kansas' Luis Uribe in the first round of the tournament, and to Georgia's Talito Corrales in a consolation match, Lopez strolled north and beat Temple's Gio Sasaki, 6-3, 6-3, for the individual title at the ECAC Southern Division championships in Princeton, N.J.UMBC won the team title as well on the shoulders of Lopez, a junior from Torrejiva, Spain, who seems elfin in every way from his 5-foot-4 height and genial manner to the mischievous way in which he often chafes more imposing opponents into submission.

Former Dunbar basketball standout Michael Lloyd has withdrawn from Syracuse University amid an NCAA investigation into credits he obtained while at a junior college.Thursday, Lloyd informed Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim he would not return to Syracuse for his senior season, but was instead leaving "to pursue opportunities in professional basketball."Lloyd, a 1992 high school All-American and Baltimore Sun Player of the Year, cannot play in the NBA this season because he missed the deadline to declare himself eligible for the June draft, an NBA spokeswoman said.

Syracuse's 6-2 junior lead guard Michael Lloyd should get his biggest test to date tomorrow night when he matches up against All-America Damon Stoudamire when the 14th-ranked Orange (6-1) play sixth-ranked Arizona (7-1) in an ESPN game at Carrier Dome.Lloyd came to Syracuse from San Jacinto (Texas) Junior College, where he averaged 34.7 points last season as an off guard. Jerry Gernander, his coach there, says Lloyd is the most gifted player to come through that high-powered JUCO program in the last 15 years.

Michael Lloyd and Donta Bright, Dunbar High's two McDonald's All-Americans, will not be eligible to play during the 1992-93 college basketball season because they failed to score the minimum on entrance exams required by NCAA Proposition 48.Proposition 48 requires all incoming college freshmen to have a 2.0 grade-point average and a minimum score on either the Scholastic Aptitude Test (700) or the American College Test (17) in order to compete in NCAA Division I sports. Lloyd and Bright had 2.0s, but did not meet the requirements on the SAT or ACT.After leading Dunbar to a 29-0 record and the nation's No. 1 ranking, Lloyd signed with Arkansas and Bright signed with Massachusetts.

A federal grand jury has indicted America's second-largest potato grower, charging that Agri-Empire Corp. used nondisinfected waste water to grow its potatoes before shipping millions of them across the nation to supermarkets, potato brokers and ultimately fast-food restaurants.The company, one of the largest agricultural businesses in California, was not charged with endangering human health, and public health experts said it was impossible to say whether a health hazard would have been created by the practice alleged in the indictment.

Former Dunbar High All-American Michael Lloyd has signed a letter of intent to play basketball for Syracuse.During an official visit to the Syracuse campus this past weekend, Lloyd signed with the Orangemen, choosing them over Maryland, Oklahoma and Florida State. But Lloyd said yesterday it was a mere formality."There wasn't never a doubt," he said from San Jacinto (Texas) Junior College. "I had made my decision during spring break when I was home and Coach [Jim] Boeheim visited me. If I had visited Syracuse early, I would have signed then.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Arkansas has one of the best benches in the nation, and it would have been deeper if two Baltimore standouts had been able to stay with the Razorbacks.In the summer of 1992, coach Nolan Richardson thought his program was getting Michael Lloyd, an All-American guard out of Dunbar, and Craig Tyson, a Southern grad and a Baltimore Sun Player of the Year, who had taken a circuitous route to Fayetteville.Lloyd's freshman year was the last in which the Southeastern Conference accepted academic non-qualifiers, but when he didn't meet the NCAA's standards for initial eligibility he turned down the Arkansas offer and instead enrolled at San Jacinto (Texas)