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Thursday’s scheduled meeting of baseball’s expansion committee instead will be a conference call. One committee member said little would be done. . . . Oakland and Alameda County will lose about $2.6 million on a 10-year stadium lease negotiated to keep the Athletics, an official said. . . . The Dodgers have scheduled three exhibition games for those players who don’t travel to Los Angeles for the Freeway Series: March 30 against Montreal in West Palm Beach, Fla., March 31 against Boston in Ft. Myers and April 1 against Boston in Vero Beach. . . . The Dodgers have reached an agreement on a triple-A contract with pitcher Ramser Correa. . . . Former Milwaukee Brewer Gorman Thomas, 44, says he’d like to catch on as a replacement player for the team if he’s physically up to the task. . . . Ila Borders of Southern California College, the first woman to pitch in a college baseball game, will be part of a “Women in Baseball” exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Football

The Rams will interview San Francisco defensive coordinator Ray Rhodes today for their vacant head coaching position, said Steve Ortmayer, vice president of operations. The club also intends to talk with former Chicago coach Mike Ditka, Ortmayer said.

San Diego Charger quarterback Stan Humphries broke his left elbow while practicing on the driving range at Pebble Beach Golf Links, where he was to play in this weekend’s Pro-Am. . . . Darren Carrington, San Diego’s starting strong safety, joined five teammates exposed to the NFL expansion draft. Carrington was beaten on Steve Young’s first touchdown pass to Jerry Rice in Sunday’s Super Bowl. . . . Jack Pardee, former Houston Oiler coach, will coach the Birmingham, Ala., entry in the Canadian Football League. . . . The Minnesota Vikings acknowledged they have settled a sexual harassment complaint against assistant coach Richard Solomon that had been filed by a former employee.

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Basketball

The Roundball Classic, the oldest national all-star high school game, has been canceled after a 30-year run in Pittsburgh. . . . Former Georgia State basketball coach Bob Reinhart is demanding his job back in a federal lawsuit, contending he was fired because the university did not want to give the women’s coach a raise of $50,000 a year. . . . Rosalyn Lanier, 17, who played on the Carrollton High girls’ basketball team, collapsed and died during a game at Tuscaloosa County in Alabama.

Miscellany

Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes increased its lead on four of the six legs against America 3, winning by 1 minute 29 seconds in the second round of the America’s Cup defender trials at San Diego.

Police in Milan arrested a 17-year-old boy and charged him with complicity in murder and illegal possession of arms in the stabbing death of a Genoa soccer fan that sparked riots in Italy. . . . Major League Soccer said Indiana midfielders Todd Yeagley and Brian Maisonneuve, America’s top college players, have committed to play in the proposed league. . . . Danyon Loader, 18, of New Zealand beat world champion Antti Kasvio of Finland in the 400-meter freestyle in three minutes 40.84 seconds at a World Cup swimming meet in Espoo, Finland. . . . South Korea upset Colombia, 1-0, in the Carlsberg Cup soccer tournament in Hong Kong. . . . Retail sales of licensed merchandise for major league baseball, the NFL, NBA and NHL increased more than 400% from 1988-93, to $8.7 billion, Financial World magazine reports.

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