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Baseball

Free agent Mike Cameron and the Mets reached agreement Saturday on a three-year deal for about $19 million, ending the team's search for a center fielder with outstanding defensive skills. Cameron also had been courted by San Diego and Oakland. But the Mets were more desperate for an everyday center fielder, having tried without success to fill the full-time spot since trading Jay Payton during the 2002 season.

The World Series champion Marlins traded outfielder Juan Encarnacion to the Dodgers on for a player to be named. The Dodgers were eager to add offense after scoring a major league-low 574 runs last season. Encarnacion joined catcher Ivan Rodriguez, first baseman Derrek Lee and closer Ugueth Urbina as players to leave the Marlins since they won the title.

Free-agent closer Keith Foulke reached agreement with the Red Sox on a deal that guarantees him $24 million, choosing to join the escalating arms race in the AL East rather than re-sign with Oakland. Foulke, who led the AL with 43 saves this year, joins starter Curt Schilling as top pitchers acquired by the Red Sox since the season ended. Boston also is talking about getting AL MVP Alex Rodriguez from Texas in a trade for Manny Ramirez.

Major League Baseball plans to flip-flop the first two April series between the Yankees against Tampa Bay, having New York return to Florida from Japan instead of opening the North American part of its season at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees would play a two-game series against Tampa Bay at the Tokyo Dome on March 30-31 under the plan the commissioner's office is negotiating.

Colleges

Gerald Fitch scored 25 points to lead eighth-ranked Kentucky to a 79-74 victory over No. 21 Michigan State before a basketball world-record crowd of 78,129 at Ford Field in Detroit. Basketball's previous attendance record was 75,000, set in 1951 when the Harlem Globetrotters played at Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The NCAA attendance record was 68,112, set in 1990 at the Louisiana Superdome when Notre Dame played LSU. The NBA record is 62,046 from a Chicago-Atlanta game at the Georgia Dome in 1998.

Kansas coach Bill Self will meet with Jeff Graves and his family on Monday to talk about the suspension he has placed on the senior center for "irresponsible behavior." Self issued the suspension on Friday after Graves, who was averaging about four points and four rebounds, missed practice. He has been chronically late to practice and team meetings.

Golf

Davis Love III made four straight birdies to leave Tiger Woods in the dust and pull away from a world-class field, finishing with a 9-under 63 to build a three-shot lead in the Target World Challenge. Despite a bogey on the par-3 17th, Love tied the tournament record set last year by Padraig Harrington in the third round. Harrington built a record six-shot lead and hung on to win against Woods.

-- From wire reports