Years Of College

Moves Baseball DIAMONDBACKS -- Purchased contract of P Micah Owings from Triple-A Tucson. Designated P J.D. Durbin for assignment. PHILLIES -- Acquired P Francisco Rosario from Blue Jays for cash considerations. Basketball HORNETS -- Recalled F Marcus Vinicius from D-League Tulsa. Colleges ARIZONA -- Announced that F Marcus Williams will forgo remaining two years of college eligibility to enter NBA draft. FLORIDA -- Announced that F Corey Brewer, F Joakim Noah, C Al Horford and G Taurean Green will forgo final year of college eligibility to enter NBA draft.

By all statistical accounts, Baltimore stallions kicker Carlos Huerta is having an outstanding season.Huerta leads the Canadian Football League with 154 points and 39 field goals.He has missed only nine attempts, hit a franchise-record 52-yarder, made 15 of 19 from beyond 40 yards and had a direct bearing on three Baltimore victories.But no Baltimore player is harder on himself than Huerta. Ask him about the year he is having, and Huerta will frown and talk about the few field goals he has missed.

Laid-off Sparrows Point steelworkers will have access to federal aid for retraining and other benefits, the state said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Labor approved the help through the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program. The steel mill is owned by RG Steel LLC, which filed for bankruptcy protection in May. RG Steel workers and some contractors who have already been laid off — or who are let go between now and February — are potentially eligible for the help, aimed at Americans who lose their jobs as a result of foreign trade.

Howard Community College has appointed Marbue Richards, a native of Liberia, as its men's soccer coach.Richards, 40, played for the Liberian national team in 1974 and served as an assistant coach for the squad in 1979.He returned to the United States in the summer of 1990 after spending 13 years in Liberia, where he also coached several club soccer teams between 1978 and 1990. He guided the Glenelg boys JV soccer team to a 7-2-3 record last fall."Coming back over, I didn't want to divorce myself from the game," said Richards, who lives in Gaithersburg.

The father of South Carroll graduate T.J. Swanson, The Sun's 2003 All-Metro Co-Offensive Player of the Year, said yesterday that his son will transfer from Mississippi State to Northern Colorado, where the quarterback will accept a full football scholarship. "T.J. ran the scout team at Mississippi State this fall and was named Player of the Week by [coach Sylvester] Croom, so they really like him, but they don't have any scholarships available," said Eric Swanson, adding that 1989 South Carroll graduate Warren Bell "was very instrumental" in contacting Northern Colorado.

Samuel Colgain, a Baltimore County educator who served for 25 years as the first principal at Edmondson Heights Elementary School and served in the Pacific during World War II, died of T-cell lymphoma and acute leukemia Sept. 10 at his Arbutus home. He was 83 and lived in Arbutus for 55 years -- the last 46 in the same house. Born in Easton, Mr. Colgain had completed two years of college before his service with the 699th Signal Corps of the 5th Army Air Force in New Guinea. He attained the rank of warrant officer.

Since her marriage last weekend to John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette has been breathlessly described as the beautiful and brainy new Queen of Camelot. Interviews with friends and former colleagues reveal a more recognizable young woman: a child of affluent suburbia, with less interest in academics than in downtown clubs, whose extraordinary looks, sophistication and ambition propelled her rapidly upward through the fashion industry in New York.Armchair Freudians have also noted the many similarities between Ms. Bessette-Kennedy, as she has chosen to be called, and Kennedy's famous mother, the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

The University of the District of Columbia has announced the hiring of Melynda Zwick Brown as the first-ever women's lacrosse head coach. The Firebirds will compete in the East Coast Conference beginning in the 2014 season. Zwick Brown has three years of college coaching experience at the Division I level as an assistant coach at Connecticut. Inheriting a 1-15 team, Zwick Brown helped the Huskies to consecutive winning seasons for the first time in program history. "Melynda's experiences as a student-athlete and coach are impressive, and she also has extensive experience with lacrosse clubs, camps and clinics throughout the country," UDC athletic director Patricia Thomas said.  "Her high energy and enthusiasm are exactly what we need to build a successful program at the University of the District of Columbia.

What has been anticipated around the Maryland basketball program for months has become reality: sophomore Alex Len will forgo the last two years of his college career, a source with knowledge of the situation said Sunday night. Yahoo Sports first reported Sunday that the 7-1 center from Ukraine has put his name into the NBA draft. It is not known whether Len, who is expected to be a lottery pick, has hired an agent. Len, who averaged 11.9 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Terps last season, had until April 28 to put his name in the draft.

This month's question: What is the best advice you ever got?* Lois Smith of Eldersburg: "I was raised on a farm in Anne Arundel County, the youngest of six children. Mom always told us, `Life wasn't meant to BE EASY.' "* Jane Driver of Marriottsville: "Although I didn't exactly understand my grandmother's advice, `Willful waste makes woeful want,' when I was a little girl, through the years it has come to mean a lot."In every aspect of life, that old-fashioned expression rings true. I especially think of it today, 70 years later, as I observe the water ban."