- After training to stay in football shape while working a full-time job, former Towson star Darius Victor leads the USFL in rushing yards and touchdown runs and has helped the New Jersey Generals sit atop the league standings with a 7-1 record.
- After guiding Bowie State to three straight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles and five NCAA Division II Tournaments in 13 years, Damon Wilson is eager to help Morgan State experience similar success in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
- Harry E. Silverwood Jr., a former executive CitiFinancial executive and partner in the Smith, Somerville & Case legal firm, died in his sleep of cardiovascular complications May 24 at his North Baltimore home. He was 87.
- Wilson comes to Morgan after serving for 13 seasons as coach at Bowie State, where he won three straight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association conference championships, earned five NCAA Division II postseason berths and won three CIAA Coach of the Year awards.
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- The Biletnikoff Award winner announced his decision Thursday on social media, ending weeks of speculation on where the top receiver in college football will play this season.
- Former Calvert Hall standout Chance Campbell, who excelled at linebacker for Maryland and Mississippi, has the on-field intelligence and physical capabilities that could get him drafted next week, Mike Preston writes.
- The 24-year-old Haskins was a first-round draft choice of Washington in 2019.
- Albert N. āNealeā Smith Jr., former owner of A.N. Smith & Co., a sugar brokerage, died March 22. He was 82.
- Brian Williams called defensive signals for Maryland football in a late-season win against Rutgers and a bowl victory over Virginia Tech. Now he's the Terps' defensive coordinator.
- With Maryland freshman linebacker entering the transfer portal, the Terps have lost their top three players from the 2021 recruiting class.
- Kerry Dixon, a former college quarterback, most recently served as Georgia Techās wide receivers coach.
- āKobe was just one of those guys where if you saw Kobe, he would put a smile on your face,ā Towson football safety Robert Topps III said of running back Kobe Young, who died at his family's home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at age 23 this weekend. āHe was just one of those guys that would always greet you. He was a good guy."
- At least seven football players with ties to the Baltimore area and Maryland were chosen in the eight-team, 35-round United States Football League draft. The season begins April 16 and concludes July 3.
- Tyrone Wheatley has worked with new Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett at Syracuse, the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- Former Terps standouts Jake Funk and Keandre Jones and ex-Maryland head coach Mark Duffner are among a handful of players and coaches with local ties set to compete in Super Bowl 56.
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Morgan State athletic director Edward Scott leaving Jan. 31 to join Virginiaās athletic department
Dr. Edward Scott, who had been athletic director at Morgan State for more than five years, will oversee menās basketball, baseball, track and field, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, nutrition, sports psychology, and diversity, equity and inclusion at Virginia. - Morgan State's Tyrone Wheatley is one of four coaches from Historically Black College and Universities who will join the staffs at the Senior Bowl.
- The Bulldogs (14-1) hadnāt won a national title since freshman Herschel Walker led them there in 1980.
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- Terps point guard Fatts Russell is one of a growing number of Maryland college athletes who have taken advantage of the NCAAās decision this summer to permit them to profit from their names, images and likenesses.
- Bailey Zappe broke a pair of single-season FBS records by passing for 422 yards and six touchdowns in a Boca Raton Bowl win over Appalachian State, finishing the season with 5,967 yards and 62 touchdowns.
- For some members of the United States Military and Naval academies, one of college footballās oldest rivalries begins when they depart their respective home bases in West Point, New York, and Annapolis, for a nonstop running relayāwith game balls in tow for each unit.
- Pickett is the first Pitt player to win the prestigious award, which has been presented annually by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation and A.O. Smith Corporation to the top upperclassman quarterback set to graduate with his class since 1987.
- Bowie State was held to 221 yards of total offense in a 41-17 loss to host Valdosta State in an NCAA Division II quarterfinal Saturday.
- Conference championship weekend is finally here. Hereās a look at the biggest storylines heading into the most important games of the year.
- Jaārome Johnson completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Keshane Hinckley with 1:33 left in the game to lift host Bowie State over Newberry, 13-10, in the second round of the NCAA Division II football playoffs Saturday.