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Jim Speros moved another piece into place for his prospective Canadian Football League team in Baltimore yesterday, when he signed veteran coach Don Matthews to a three-year contract with options for three more years.Matthews will be formally introduced today in a news conference."I don't think I could find a better coach," said Speros, a Virginia businessman who is trying to bring a CFL expansion team to Memorial Stadium for the 1994 season."I had a lot of guys who wanted the job. Matthews was a step above everybody I interviewed."

Martin Ennals, 64, the former secretary-general of Amnesty International who helped build it into a leading human rights group, died Saturday in Saskatoon, Canada, after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. Mr. Ennals led the development of the London-based group as a major international monitor of human rights during his tenure as secretary-general from 1968 to 198. In 1977, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Amnesty's behalf. Born in England, he earned a degree at the London School of Economics in international relations.

In the spirit of the holidays, credit two priests and a monk in Saskatchewan in western Canada for helping Al Stewart put his life together and become a regular in the National Hockey League with the New Jersey Devils.Stewart has had plenty of misfortune in professional hockey.He was on the verge of making the Devils last season, but suffered a broken left leg during an accident in practice. He suffered fractures of the tibia and fibula while waiting his turn for a drill.Along with losing a season as a hockey player, he lost his faith in life in general.

July 7Baltimore at Toronto ... 8July 16Calgary at Baltimore ... 7:30July 22Toronto at Saskatchewan* ... 9:30July 29Las Vegas at Toronto* ... 7:30Aug. 3Calgary at Ottawa* ... 7:30Aug. 10Sacramento at Calgary ... 9:30Aug. 18Edmonton at Sacramento* ... 10:30Aug. 25Calgary at Toronto* ... 7Sept. 2B.C. at Sacramento ... 10:30Sept. 9Calgary at Edmonton ... 9:30Sept. 16Las Vegas at Calgary ... 9:30Sept. 20B.C. at Winnipeg ... 8:30Sept. 30Sacramento at Saskatchewan ... 9:30Oct. 7Las Vegas at Baltimore ... 7:30Oct.

REGINA, Saskatchewan -- Charlie Baumann wasn't perfect, but he was good enough to get a second chance.The Baltimore CFLs' new place-kicker made two field goals in a 35-18 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders yesterday -- but missed a 22-yard chip shot with the wind in the second quarter.A week ago, a missed 22-yard field-goal attempt by Donald Igwebuike cost the CFLs a 30-29 loss to the Sacramento Gold Miners and ultimately cost Igwebuike his job."I think that's our tough range," Baltimore coach Don Matthews said yesterday.

The Baltimore CFL Colts lost one of their top recruits to a better business proposition yesterday when free-agent slotback Jeff Fairholm signed with the Toronto Argonauts.Fairholm opted for the familiarity of home and an off-season job in his father's business over the chance to follow Don Matthews -- his coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders the past three years -- to Baltimore."Until a week and a half ago, I was going to go to Baltimore," Fairholm, 28 and a six-year Canadian Football League veteran, said from Toronto.

On November 9, 2003, BERNICE M. "BERNIE" DUNN, of Severna Park, MD., was born in Leslie, Saskatchewan, Canada on November 3, 1923. She was educated in Canada and traveled to Washington, D.C. in 1942 where the British Army Staff employed her as a secretary. In 1947 she went to New York and worked as a secretary for Courtlaulds, Ltd., while in New York she met and married her late husband, John R. Dunn of Maplewood, N.J. She lived in Summit, N.J. until 1965 when they were transferred to Severna Park, MD. Bernie was active in the Overlook Hospital Follies while in N.J. In Severna Park she worked with both the Girl and Boy Scouts and was active in the PTA. An avid golfer and bridge player, she belonged to the Chartwell Golf and Country Club and the Severna Park Duplicate Bridge Club.

Baltimore CFLs coach Don Matthews led the exodus out of Regina, Saskatchewan, last winter, taking with him most of the Roughriders' coaching staff and two of the team's best defenders -- nose tackle Jearld Baylis and halfback Charles Anthony.By the time spring arrived in the western Canadian prairie town, the Roughriders had also lost quarterback Kent Austin, receiver Jeff Fairholm, cornerback Barry Wilburn and lineman Craig Hendrickson, all key players.Matthews and several other defectors are going back Sunday, when the CFLs play their first day game of the season against the Roughriders.

Kay Stephenson went through 103 players in his first Canadian Football League season trying to find the winning mix for the Sacramento Gold Miners. A year later, the revolving door continues.In an off-season of perpetual motion, Stephenson, the Gold Miners coach, has been moving bodies at a frenetic pace. Scratch defensive backs John Wiley, Kip Texada, Walter Bailey and Tommy Henry, receivers Joe Howard-Johnson and Carl Parker, tailback Charles Thompson and defensive end Randy Thornton -- all starters or contributing players, most sent out in trades for future considerations.

The Canadian Football League permitted two B.C. Lions to play in Saturday's game in Baltimore, even though it was an apparent violation of a league rule on player movement.Safety Sean Foudy, who blocked a punt that set up a B.C. touchdown, and cornerback Tony Collier are the players in question.The Lions attempted to place them on the waived-injured list before an Oct. 15 game at Saskatchewan, but filed too late. Both players went on the reserve list for the Saskatchewan game, then automatically to waived-injured.