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The Terrapin is the mascot for the University of Maryland at College Park athletic department. Regularly referred to as the Terps, Maryland sponsors 27 Division I varsity sports. The Terrapins mascot is Testudo the Turtle. The school colors are red, black, gold and white the same colors as the Maryland state flag. Maryland's athletic director is Dr. Deborah Yow, a former women's college basketball coach at Kentucky and Florida. Some of the more recognizable faces in the Terrapins athletic department are head football coach and Maryland alumnus Ralph Friedgen, men's basketball coach Gary Williams (also an alum) and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese. Friedgen graduated from Maryland in 197...
The Terrapin is the mascot for the University of Maryland at College Park athletic department. Regularly referred to as the Terps, Maryland sponsors 27 Division I varsity sports. The Terrapins mascot is Testudo the Turtle. The school colors are red, black, gold and white the same colors as the Maryland state flag. Maryland's athletic director is Dr. Deborah Yow, a former women's college basketball coach at Kentucky and Florida. Some of the more recognizable faces in the Terrapins athletic department are head football coach and Maryland alumnus Ralph Friedgen, men's basketball coach Gary Williams (also an alum) and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese. Friedgen graduated from Maryland in 1970, worked as an assistant football coach for several years in the 1980s, and has been head coach since 2001. The Terrapins football team plays at Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium. Williams coached the Terrapins to the 2002 national championship, a team on the floor by players by Juan Dixon, Steve Blake, Lonny Baxter and Chris Wilcox. A 1968 Maryland graduate, Williams, like Friedgen, quickly turned around a losing program, putting together a streak of 11 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances from 1994-2004. Frese coached the Terrapins women's basketball team to the 2006 national championship. Both Terps basketball programs play their games at the Comcast Center, which was completed in 2002. Other traditionally strong Terrapins athletic teams are women's field hockey (five-time NCAA champions), men's lacrosse (two-time NCAA champions), women's lacrosse (nine-time NCAA champions) and men's soccer (two-time NCAA champions). While the Terps lack a true rival across all sports, several individual programs have developed rivalries over the years. Duke is considered Maryland's primary men's basketball rival, while Johns Hopkins has taken that role in men's lacrosse. West Virginia and Virginia are most frequently mentioned as football rivals, for geographic reasons as much as anything else.
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Michigan tailback runs into trouble with law
Michigan RB Kevin Grady tested for a blood-alcohol level of 0.281, more than three times the state's limit, when he was arrested last month, police records obtained by The Grand Rapids Press show. Grady pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated July 30...Tags: Boston Bruins, Florida State University, Teaching and Learning, Punishment, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Steffy gets call at UM
Sun reporterMaryland coach Ralph Friedgen and offensive coordinator James Franklin went around and around over who should be the Terps' No.1 quarterback, and yesterday morning Friedgen announced that senior Jordan Steffy is the man. What it came down to was...Tags: Ralph Friedgen
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Once again, Terps, Ravens share questions under center
Time for the weekly football training camp quiz. (Well, not "weekly," just today, actually.) Which prominent coach in the state - the Ravens' John Harbaugh or Maryland's Ralph Friedgen - said the following this week: "I'm really looking for the guy who's...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Brian Billick, Cam Cameron, M&T Bank Stadium, Ralph Friedgen
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Point guard Epps impresses at tourney
Special to The SunMaryland point guard target Isiah Epps impressed last week in Las Vegas. Rivals.com's Jerry Meyer named the Plainfield, N.J., prospect one of the top class of 2010 performers at the Vegas Amateur Athletic Union tournaments. It's safe to say that in... -
Terps want big buildup
Sun ReporterFrom his office overlooking the east end zone, Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen can peer inside Byrd Stadium and track the progress of its renovation. He can hear the satisfying rumble of construction and feel its vibration. The makeover of the 58-...Tags: Natural Science, Virginia Tech, Physiology, Ralph Friedgen, Satchel Paige
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Davis selling Heels' revival
Sun ReporterMost coaches arrived for their Atlantic Coast Conference preseason football interviews this week wearing polo shirts or pullovers in their schools' colors. Not North Carolina's Butch Davis, who met the media wearing a pinstriped suit and sporting a...Tags: University of Miami, Super Bowl, Sales, Cleveland Browns, Virginia Tech
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In Johnson's view, his options open
Sun reporterPaul Johnson folds his arms and inhales. It's not that the former Navy coach is tired of answering questions from the media. Rather, it's one query that has exasperated him. How, Johnson was asked at least a half-dozen times yesterday during the Atlantic...Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, M&T Bank Stadium, Ralph Friedgen
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Davis aims for turnaround with Tar Heels
Sun reporterMost coaches arrived for their ACC preseason football interviews this week wearing polo shirts or pullovers in their schools' colors. Not North Carolina's Butch Davis, who met the media wearing a pin-striped suit and sporting a bulky, gold Super Bowl...Tags: University of Miami, Super Bowl, Sales, Cleveland Browns, Multi-Sport Events
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Terps fans in state of denial
The Life of KingsI've never been a big fan of recruiting stories, mostly because high school kids are probably the flakiest people on Earth. I know this because I used to be one. But I make it a point to read recruiting stories involving Maryland, in part because I used...Tags: International Boxing Federation, Penn State Nittany Lions
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Lions' recruiting march again cuts deep into Md.
Sun ReporterWhen Darrell Givens and Malcolm Willis of Charles County gave oral commitments to play football for Penn State, they knew they would have much work ahead of them. The first assignment for the two Lackey seniors: Get on their cell phones and try to lure...Tags: Mike Farrell, Penn State Nittany Lions, Colleges and Universities, Larry Johnson, Health and Safety at School
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Evans won't attend UM
Sun reporterMaryland basketball recruit Tyree Evans has asked to be released from his letter of intent, ending a campus debate over whether the talented guard should be permitted to play for the Terrapins despite a string of criminal offenses. Maryland released a...Tags: Florida State University, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, Contracts, Prosecution
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Wildcat dynasty
The Northwestern women's lacrosse team won the NCAA championship Sunday night, its fourth consecutive national title. That's a Yankee-esque kind of dynasty. Actually, it's more than that. The New York Yankees would compare only if the Yankees had been...Tags: New York Yankees, American League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Baseball
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