Time once again, sports fans, for another of your favorites and mine, a "Q's without A's" session. Yes, "questions without answers," our column together that stimulates and provokes.

You the reader are so kind to keep calling my 24-hour Sportsline and filling it with "Q's" for me to use in this space. The number to call any time, any day, any hour, is 647-2499.

* First and foremost, let me tell you that the ninth annual Anne Arundel County Sun All-County Academic-Athletic Team will be announced on Sunday, April 28, with the banquet to honor the 12 boys and 12 girls chosen set for Thursday, May 2, at the Annapolis Ramada Inn.

Those selected will be notified by next week as we delve into close to 100 outstanding applications. This year's list of candidates is absolutely mind-boggling but a credit to the so many well-rounded student/athletes in this county.

Now let's hit the big "Q's," which are more popular around here than any David Letterman or Roch Eric Kubatko top 10s.

* You haven't forgotten, have you, that the very first high school baseball game to be played in the new Joe Cannon Stadium at Harmans is set for 7 p.m. Friday with No. 3-ranked Northeast (9-0)meeting No. 8 Old Mill (6-3)?

* In all seriousness, how is it that the panel of baseball coaches who vote for The Sun top 10 in baseball voted Old Mill No. 8 and Severna Park (5-1) honorable mention? Shouldn't the fact that Severna Park defeated Old Mill, 7-5, last Fridaymean something?

Are those guys aware that the Falcons' only loss came in the first game of the season to the metro area's second-ranked and unbeaten Archbishop Curley (9-0)?

* No question that Old Mill's Eric Scott, Craig Everett of Northeast, Derek Hasselhoff of Chesapeake and Shawn Crews of Arundel are all outstanding players, but isn't junior pitcher/shortstop Rob McCandless of Severna Park the county's best all-around baseball player?

Isn't McCandless the best pitcher-hitter Coach Jim Pitt's Falcons have had since David Grier starred from 1974-1976?

Grier went on to sparkle at Virginia Tech and later in the Milwaukee Brewers' system.

Did you know that McCandlesscredits the Falcons' 5-1 start and early success to the winning attitude he and several others, including outfielders Mark Budzinski and Steve Neuberger, developed playing on Coach Charlie Becker's 18-and-under Severna Park American Legion team last summer?

"We got it together in summer ball, and it has carried over," said McCandless afterbeating Old Mill last Friday with his arm and bat (3-for-3, including a home run). "We believe we can win, but I'm not saying right now if we are the team to beat in the county."

* When Glen Burnie's Dave Lanham tied the county record for hits in a game (five) shared by fiveothers last week against South River, did you know his five stolenbases were one short of Scotty Rowe's county record six in a game for Brooklyn Park in 1982?

* Did you see where John Brady has taken the head basketball coaching position at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.? No. it's not April Fool's Day, and it's not the AnnapolisHigh coach.

How could it be the same John Brady when the Annapolis coach was leading his previously unbeaten (was 14-0) Kazmarek Insurance Unlimited men's hoop team to a disappointing 1-2 record this past weekend in the annual Ocean City Rec & Parks Department tournament at the O.C. 125th Street Gym?

Led by former Annapolis High and James Madison University star, the 6-foot-8 Dan Ruland, Brady's Kazmareksquad competed against 31 teams from all over the state and beyond, including a Baltimore contingent with Dunbar High legend Skip Wise.

* Speaking of the old guys, did you know the increasingly competitive 30-and-over Chesapeake Men's Senior Baseball League is set to openon Sunday, April 28, at Joe Cannon Stadium with three games beginning at noon?

The league has expanded from six to eight teams and is nationally affiliated. League spokesman Dave Conrad said some teams had to turn away players this season.

Conrad said opening day will be a festive occasion at Cannon Stadium with the league planning to have a Dixieland combo on hand to entertain in pre-game activities, which will include the introduction of all eight teams and the first ball to be thrown out by the "Mayor of Glen Burnie" Charlie Eckman.

Eckman, the 40-plus-year native of Glen Burnie, is Anne Arundel's most famous sports personality who is not in the Maryland State AthleticHall of Fame.

For those of you who want to see some of your high school heroes of 12-15 years ago, the 30-and-over opening day at Cannon Stadium is the place to be with such catchers as ex-major leaguer John Stefero and ex-minor leaguer Steve Jordan playing in the league (with the Broadneck Dodgers).

Also, isn't it a great idea for the Chesapeake league to sponsor a Memorial Day weekend tournament with out-of-town teams?

Don't you know that there is one negative to theopening day and that's compliments of the county Rec and Parks Department? You will have to pay $2 to get in with the proceeds going to the recession-badgered county. In addition, the teams will play $60 per game to use the stadium that day.

Isn't that great, paying admission to watch amateur baseball? Shouldn't Rec and Parks be applauded for doing all this to promote sandlot baseball after telling us that they wanted to do something for amateur baseball by constructing the state-of-the-art facility?

Did the county build Cannon Stadium to promote the great game of amateur baseball or did it build the facility to make a buck?

What was that line in the movie, "Field of Dreams" -- "if you build it they will come?" Believe me they won't come in big numbers if they have to pay, and you can count on that.

Great stuff isn't it, with the county making money on admissions, concessions and rental fees?

When are they going to start charging those softball fans at Upton Park?

* Other than that bureaucratic rip-off, isn't it great to know that baseball is booming in the county withthe Anne Arundel Amateur Baseball Association 18-and-under Connie Mack League going from seven to 11 teams, and the Mickey Mantle 16-and-under from 10 to 13 teams?

* Isn't it too bad that there is a basketball position vacant at the University of Notre Dame with the retirement of Digger Phelps instead of the head lacrosse job with Dan "Knute Rockne" Hart, as they call him at Annapolis, a hot commodity?

Has there ever been an innovator like Hart who thwarts the scouting efforts of foes by having his Panthers change their jersey numbers every game so opponents don't know who's who? How slick is that to have your guys do their pre-game bit in their warm-up jackets so the other team doesn't see the uniform numbers until the last second?

And these guys are worried about illegal sticks? Pretty serious game, this lacrosse, isn't it?

How thrilled do you think Hart was to learn that his Panther boys team was to play last night's game at Chesapeake on the Cougars' lumpy practice field while the Annapolis and Chesapeake girls played in the school's stadium?

Hasn't girls sports come a long way when they can bump the guys?

* Did you billiards nuts know that the newly opened Shooters Sports Bar and Grill on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park is starting a pool-playing league and eventually will add darts?

* Have you ring fans marked Saturday, May 4, on the calendar as an evening for dinner and amateur boxing at the Bowie-Elks Lodge on Route 450 in Crofton? For ticket information on the Crofton Jaycees-sponsored boxing show call Jeff Novotny at 721-7388.

* Finally, is it right for high school coaches to make athletes trying out for their teams to participate in fund-raising whether they make the team or not? Is it right to pressure the kids, as some do, into making them think if they don't sell the item they won't make the team?

Isn't this pressure fund-raising something that the Board of Education needs to look at?