There's some good news for the county's unsung heroes to start this Sunday's sports smorgasbrowse.
County athletic directors, who perform full-time jobs on part-time hours and salaries, might get a break.
The county school board plans to take a serious look at the position of athletic director to see what can be done for them. Athletic directors have a lot of responsibilities and stress. To do the job right, they must take it home with them.
The county in recent years did implement the hiring of aides and assistant athletic directors, but the need for the AD to be full time is still there. Higher salaries are long overdue.
It doesn't seem right that a coach handling three sports can make more money than the boss who does all the dirty work and sets up everything up for the coach.
You also can look for a study on out-of-area transfers and whether too many are actually athletic transfers. Much of this investigation should occur during the countywide redistricting committee analysis. Down the road, there eventually will be an athletic transfer rule.
And when it happens, there will be an uproar, but it will subside just as the commotion about the raising of the athletic grade-point average requirement from 1.66 to 2.00 did.
In fact, the constantly increasing number of Minds In Motion award winners (student-athletes with a 3.25 GPA or better during their season) indicates that the 2.0 requirement has created an atmosphere of academic awareness that is turning out more excellent students.
It's official, although the county has not actually announced it, but new divisions in basketball will be in place next season. County basketball coaches have received their 1995-96 schedules, and there will be two six-team divisions of public high schools.
The North Division will consist of Chesapeake, Glen Burnie, Meade, North County, Northeast and Old Mill. Annapolis, Arundel, Broadneck, Severna Park, Southern and South River will make up the South.
Glen Burnie notes
Have you heard that Glen Burnie has lost a promising athlete to North County in sophomore Mike Evans?
Evans, the son of former Glen Burnie star pitcher Mike Evans Sr., plays football, basketball and baseball. Mike Sr., one of four brothers to play at Glen Burnie, had a house built recently in the North County district, and the family moves this month.
The young Evans was the Gophers' backup quarterback to senior Jermaine Smith in Glen Burnie's "run and run," but this fall will be introduced to the North County run-and-shoot. Evans, a pitcher, will be going out for the Knights' baseball program this spring.
* Didn't Glen Burnie junior basketball player Desmond Dailey come close to eclipsing the county and his school's record for points scored with his 47 in the Gophers' 87-66 rout of South River Thursday?
Dailey's 47 is the county season high, passing the 41 by South River's Corey Davis hit nearly two weeks ago, but was five short of the 52 by Glen Burnie's Mike Thibeault in 1990 against Queen Anne's.
* How do you figure South River (11-4) upsetting (11-4) Annapolis, 75-71, in double overtime Tuesday in boys basketball action, then losing to struggling Glen Burnie (9-7) the next night after the Gophers had lost to Arundel (12-3), 69-59?
Was it because South River had to sit around and wait for Glen Burnie? A scheduling mix-up resulted in Glen Burnie showing up for a 5 p.m. game at 6:15 p.m. (the Gophers thought it was a 7 p.m. game). Those switching times of boys and girls games can be so confusing.
The South River and Glen Burnie girls saved the night by showing up early and playing the first game.
Boxing news
Did the wrong guy headline Thursday's pro boxing show at Michael's Eighth Avenue where more than 600 fans showed up?
Main event super middleweight Victor Davis (22-12-1) was knocked out a second straight time by Napolean Pitt (10-1) of Richmond 2:51 into the second round.
Local favorite Alfonzo Daniels (8-1) rebounded from his pro loss with a six-round majority decision over Paul Hansbury in a middleweight bout that highlighted the return of pro boxing to the county. The last fight in Anne Arundel had been more than a year ago.
Daniels is trained by Crofton's Jeff Novotny.
College tidbits
Former Spalding standout and The Baltimore Sun's Anne Arundel County Girls Basketball Player of the Year in 1993, Amy Langville, now a sophomore at Mount St. Mary's, recently had seven steals in one game and nine assists in another.
* How about congrats to St. Mary's midfielder Ryan Beard for receiving a lacrosse scholarship to the University of North Carolina?