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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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Terps' season of inconsistency
Oh, the irony. The Terrapins are 4-2, but it's not the 4-2 anybody expected.
By upsetting California and Clemson, both nationally ranked at the time, Maryland showed how good it can be. But losses to Virginia and Middle Tennessee demonstrated that this...Tags: Florida State University, Virginia Tech
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Virginia QB rebounds from bad week
Associated Press WriterIf Marc Verica can have a game like he did against Maryland after spending a week down in the dumps over his nightmarish second start as Virginia's quarterback, what might he accomplish now that his confidence is soaring? That's one of the questions...Tags: Al Groh
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Terps today: Maryland vs. Virginia
terps today Matchup: Maryland (4-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) at Virginia (1-3, 0-1) Time: 7 p.m. Site: Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Va. TV: ESPNU Radio: 105.7FM, 1300AM Line: Maryland by 13 1/2 Series: Maryland leads 41-29-2. Last...Tags: Ralph Friedgen, Multi-Sport Events
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Wujciak sniffs out big plays
Maryland defensive linemen Jeremy Navarre and Dion Armstrong crouched low on the Death Valley turf trying to protect a 20-17 fourth-quarter lead.
It was fourth-and-inches for Clemson - the biggest play of the young season for the Terps - and the two...Tags: Chicago Bears, August, Brian Urlacher
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Terps lack true rivalry game
If Auburn has Alabama and Arizona has Arizona State, then who does Maryland have? Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen was asked before the season about the sort of in-state rivalry games that make players and fans giddy -- obnoxious, even -- just talking about...Tags: Al Groh, Armed Forces, Ralph Friedgen, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia), Penn State Nittany Lions
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Even counting Virginia, Terrapins are unrivaled
If Auburn has Alabama and Arizona has Arizona State, then who does Maryland have? Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen was asked before the season about the sort of in-state rivalry games that make players and fans giddy - obnoxious, even - just talking about...Tags: Al Groh, Armed Forces, Ralph Friedgen, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia), Penn State Nittany Lions
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Vanquished in Va.
Certainly, Ralph Friedgen had known this could happen, perhaps even dreaded it.
"I've got butterflies," the Maryland coach had said two days before last night's football game against Virginia, a two-touchdown underdog.
Three hours before the contest...Tags: Hampton Roads, Ralph Friedgen, Orange Bowl
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Eugenia M. 'Jeanne' Kappler, nurse-midwife
Eugenia M. "Jeanne" Kappler, a nurse-midwife who delivered many babies during nearly four decades in Maryland, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Brakeley Park Care Center in Phillipsburg, N.J. She was 83. Miss Kappler, a native of Oxford, N.J., was the...Tags: Phillipsburg, Colleges and Universities, Medical Staff, Johns Hopkins University, Death and Dying
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Time to shine for Terps' Wujciak
Maryland defensive linemen Jeremy Navarre and Dion Armstrong crouched low on the Death Valley turf trying to protect a 20-17 fourth-quarter lead. It was fourth-and-inches for Clemson -- the biggest play of the young season for the Terps -- and the two...Tags: Chicago Bears, August, Brian Urlacher
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Issues with ACC's injury-reporting guidelines
jeff.barker@baltsun.comBefore the season began, the Atlantic Coast Conference implemented new injury-reporting guidelines under which the 12 schools are to list ailing players' status on the Thursday before games. It seems there are still a few kinks in the system. One...Tags: Injuries, Ralph Friedgen
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ACC injury-report guidelines leave plenty of wiggle room
Before the season began, the Atlantic Coast Conference implemented new injury-reporting guidelines under which the 12 schools are to list ailing players' status the Thursday before games. It seems there are still a few kinks in the system. One issue...Tags: Injuries, Ralph Friedgen, Philadelphia Eagles
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Nice surprise ends misery
| 247-4637Show of hands: Who saw this coming? Virginia had not shown the ability to get out of its own way on offense and was suspect on defense. Maryland, meanwhile, had beaten nationally ranked teams twice and appeared poised to take control of the ACC's...Tags: Al Groh, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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