It just wouldn't be New Year's without the annual list of predictions and resolutions from yours truly, sports fans.

Some of these predictions and resolutions are serious while others are simply tongue-in-cheek, good-natured locker room kidding. By all means, there is no intent here to hurt anyone's feelings.

You determine those that are serious and those that are not. Someof them may require county sports knowledge to understand. You have to be a real fan to get them all.

If you don't get any of them, just call me on the 24-hour Sportsline at 647-2499, and I will gladly explain them to you.

Prediction: Severna Park's Andy Borland will celebrate his 20th season as head football coach by letting his hair grow for the first time since seventh grade, start wearing all black, a cowboy hat, snake-skinned boots, leave tickets for Elvis at the Falcons' will-call, go to the red-gun offense and multi-laterals on kickoffs and adopt the slogan of "Too Legit to Quit" for 1992.

Resolution: To stay away from the guy at Severna Park games.

Prediction: Taking the cue of established TV magazines such as "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace and "48 Hours" with Dan Rather, Annapolis football coachRoy Brown will host his own show in September. It will be appropriately called "30 Seconds of Football Strategy" with Roy Brown.

Resolution: Not to bring up those final 30 seconds of the Annapolis-Old Mill football game again.

Prediction: Annapolis High will win the 4Acounty and Region IV football titles in 1992.

Prediction: Football will return to Anne Arundel Community College with Broadneck coach Jeff Herrick returning to coach his alma mater. Herrick, an AACC Hallof Famer, will wear two hats, also remaining as head coach at Broadneck.

Since Herrick obviously doesn't spend much time on offense, that will free him up to coach the Fighting Pioneers right down the street from Broadneck.

Resolution: To get off the backs of the county's collection of high school football riverboat gamblers and just accept the fact that they are card-carrying members of the "Run, Run, Run, Punt and Hope for a Fumble Lodge."

Prediction: With Dennie DeWitt joining Kenny Dunn at South River this spring as assistant baseball coach, some enterprising TV executive will broadcast all the Seahawks games and end up with the most hilarious sitcom on cable TV.

Resolution: To send help to the South River players when DeWitt and Dunn start screaming and hollering at the players, then themselves.

Prediction: Southern's veteran hoop coach Tom Albright will lobby theGeneral Assembly for a redistricting alignment that will make his Dawgs a member of either Prince George's or Calvert counties.

Resolution: To try and remember that "Tom Terrific" and his Southern program is still a member of Anne Arundel County when they want it to be.

Prediction: Despite opposition from Southern's Albright, Annapolis and South River high schools will merge. Taking a page from those ingenious innovators at North County, the new school will be named SouthCounty High.

The merger will become necessary because Dunn is head basketball and baseball coach at South River, but assistant football coach at Annapolis. In addition, DeWitt is head indoor track coach at Annapolis but will be an assistant to Dunn in baseball this spring.

Also, Annapolis administrator Mike Codd, who has coached at several schools, will be on standby.

Resolution: When South County opens its doors in 1992-1993 and basketball season starts, I promise notto make any jokes about head coach John Brady sitting on one end of the bench and assistant Jack Jordan balancing it on the other end.

Prediction: Anne Arundel Community College hoop coach Mark Amatucci finally will escape and get back into coaching at the NCAA Division Ilevel as the successor to the retiring "Tark the Shark" Jerry Tarkanian at the UNLV. As coach of the Running Rebs, Amatucci will be called "Mark the Shark."

Resolution: To remember to call Amatucci and AACC athletic director Buddy Beardmore once a week to remind them thatgrades have to be checked.

Prediction: With his background in security and knack for remembering players' names, Mike Miles will return to the AACC staff as an academic monitor. Hillory Dean will be named his assistant and when asked about his new job will say, "No comment."

Resolution: To try and appreciate coaches who don't have the time to read important things, like the rules.

Prediction: The county will start an Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame with the following criteria for induction:

1) Have to know how to take orders and whereto get coffee and doughnuts; 2) Must have a Maryland license to drive the team bus and always have enough quarters in your pocket for thelaundromat (team uniforms have to be washed); 3) Be willing to relocate and take the Brien McMurray-Denis Schanberger two-credit course at AACC, "Have Job will Travel;" 4) Possess no recognizable traits that will indicate you could replace the head coach if he starts losing.

Resolution: To understand that those assistant coaches who owe loyalty to several schools are actually great humanitarians and not people just looking for an extra paycheck.

Prediction: The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association no longer will count volleyball winning streaks by using each game rather than the final result. In other words, winning by 15-10, 15-10 and 15-9, for example, will count as one win, 3-0.

Reason for the change will result from complaints by football and soccer coaches, who say it isn't fair that they don't get credit for winning the first or third period, or a half, but only the final score.

Resolution: To be nice to soccer people in 1992 and try to score points with them since they sure as heck don't want to score points at all and love those 0-0 quadruple-overtime games.

Prediction: The state association will allow basketball,baseball, softball, lacrosse and other sports teams to play 30 gamesif they desire to balance the inequity of allowing wrestlers (or should it be fall guys?) to hit the mat 30 to 40 times a season.

Resolution: To thank the fall guys for setting the precedent and getting away with it for so long and to be more objective about Lem Satterfield's love of wrestling, realizing that he really is not a bad guy.

Prediction: Meade football coach Hayse Henderson will appear on the Arsenio Hall show in the fall, Roy Brown of Annapolis on "Studs"; Andy Borland on "Candid Camera" with Dom Deluise; Roch Eric Kubatko on "Roc"; Annapolis' John Brady on David Letterman; Betty Hallmark, Pat Chance and Sally Entsminger on "The Golden Girls"; Arundel's Buddy Hepfer on a new show to be hosted by Chuck Noll; and Spalding baseball coach Tommy Lind on "The Love Connection."

Resolution: Not to watchany TV in '92.

Prediction: Because of her personality and background as daughter of a football coach, Annapolis girls basketball coachTeresa Ross will be named East Coast recruiter and scout for the SanDiego Chargers of the NFL.

Resolution: To root for the Chargers in '92, which would be the first time to do so since Don Coryell split.

Prediction: North County boys basketball coach Brad Wilson (0-7)will win his first game before his wife, Molly (0-5), the Meade girls coach does.

Resolution: To assist Brad and Molly in landing a cable TV family show entitled, "The Family Loses Together, Stays Together."

Prediction: Glen Burnie umpire Frank "Jocko" Svoboda will admit that he once called Babe Ruth out on strikes.

Resolution: To appreciate the job Max Powers does as Glen Burnie Gophers public address announcer after learning that he ad libs and that if he wasn't doing it, Terry Bogle might be.

Prediction: The Severn School preppie environment finally will overwhelm football and basketball coach Jim Doyle, and he will get the spirit, shave off his beard, get rid of the cowboy boots and go to Docksiders and designer jeans.

Resolution: Through my connections to get Doyle a shot on the cover of Esquire magazine.

Resolution: To be nice in '92.

Prediction: No, I won't.