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- Maryland punter Wade Lees is transferring to UCLA as a graduate student, he announced Thursday on Twitter.
- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will sign dozens more bills into law during a ceremony in Annapolis on Tuesday.
- Sophomore running back Javon Leake and linebacker Chance Campbell are among five players to watch in Maryland's annual Red-White spring game, scheduled for Saturday.
- A Maryland Senate panel wants to cut $1 million from the state university systemās top office in the contentious aftermath of a football playerās death and a separate case involving the systemās chancellor.
- The Maryland House of Delegates has approved a bill revamping the practices of the University System of Marylandās Board of Regents. The legislation was prompted by the 2018 death of Terrapins football player Jordan McNair, who collapsed during practice.
- Arguing University of Maryland officials placed athletics over academics last year following the death of football player Jordan McNair, state lawmakers in Annapolis are now pushing legislation to overhaul the university systemās Board of Regents.
- Dismissed University of Maryland football coach DJ Durkin was the highest-paid state employee in 2018, earning $4.7 million, including his buyout.
- Quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome and running back Lorenzo Harrison III are among six Maryland players who have withdrawn their names from the NCAA transfer portal since the hiring of football coach Michael Locksley.
- Dino Tomlin, the oldest son of Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, was one of six players to sign Wednesday as part of Michael Locksley's first recruiting class at Maryland.
- According to a report on AL.com, former Maryland coach DJ Durkin has been working with the Alabama football program for the past week as a consultant.
- Maryland football player Ellis McKennie never thought of himself as an activist until his friend Jordan McNair died. McKennie helped recruit McNair to Maryland.
- From the name he is now referred to, to the way he talked about his team's talent and its coaching staff, here are three takeaways from new Maryland's coach Michael Locksley's introductory press conference.
- Members of the stateās congressional delegation have expressed concerns to top officials of the University System of Maryland about how it handled the University of Maryland, College Park, football program after the heatstroke death of a Terrapins player.
- Seven years after being fired at New Mexico amid losing seasons and off-the-field problems, Mike Locksley is returning to College Park to guide a football program recovering from the aftermath of offensive lineman Jordan McNairās death.
- Maryland could have hired Mike Locksley the last time it was looking for head football coach, and the case can be made that the failure to do so put the Terps in the situation they're in now.
- Mike Locksley will return to College Park as the schoolās new football coach.
- Former Maryland offensive coordinator Mike Locksley, now in his second year as the offensive coordinator at Alabama, and Michigan assistant head coach Pep Hamilton will be interviewed early next week for the head coaching job in College Park.
- From the coaching situation to the quarterback quandary, here are 3 takeaways from the season for the Maryland football team, which finished at 5-7 after a 38-3 loss at No. 12 Penn State on Saturday.
- Maryland has its last chance to gain bowl eligibility Saturday when the Terps look to upset No. 12 Penn State on the road. But they have a bright future on offense with the likes of Anthony McFarland Jr. and some talented wideouts.
- More of the leadership at the University of Maryland should be held accountable for the debacle in the investigation into the death of football player Jordan McNair.
- Former University of Maryland football coach DJ Durkin told a task force that president Wallace Loh resisted his call to make players widely available for interviews by a consultant examining the heatstroke death of teammate Jordan McNair, according to multiple sources.
- Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, one of the universityās leading boosters, said Wednesday that āthereās fault everywhere aroundā for the the developments that lead to the ouster of UM football coach DJ Durkin and the resignation of the chairman of the regents.
- Maryland head football trainer Wes Robinson and assistant athletic director Steve Nordwall, who had been placed on administrative leave with football coach DJ Durkin, have been fired.
- A week after DJ Durkin was briefly reinstated and then fired three days before a 24-3 home loss to Michigan State, Maryland will try to get back to "normal" in preparation for a trip to Indiana, where the Terps could become bowl-eligible with a victory Saturday.
- Coastal Carolina coach Joe Moglia would be a good replacement for DJ Durkin at University of Maryland.
- Who are the people discussing University of Maryland's future behind closed doors?
- After a week that included the brief reinstatement and subsequent firing of coach DJ Durkin, Maryland lost Saturday to Michigan State, 24-3.
- With the firing of DJ Durkin on Wednesday, Matt Canada officially begins his audition for the job as Maryland's next coach.
- During the course of an hour-long interview at the state university systemās Baltimore headquarters, football coach DJ Durkin gave a speech that dramatically changed the course of events and convinced board members he should stay, according to several sources.
- Tim Tebow scolded the University of Maryland for reversing course on its decision to stand by former football coach DJ Durkin, saying the school caved to pressure.
- NCAA "death penalties" are extremely rare. And the football team supports other sports programs.
- The University of Maryland's national reputation is in tatters because of the Board of Regent's decision this week. Here's how to begin repairing it.
- A student protest at the University of Maryland Thursday quickly dissolved from a united front against the institution's handling of football player Jordan McNairās death into a heated quarrel over whether to boycott football games.
- In the wake of University of Maryland football coach DJ Durkin's brief reinstatement Tuesday, discord over the football program erupted in a fight among team players.
- James Brady, the chairman of the University System of Marylandās Board of Regents, resigned Thursday, overtaken by the whirlwind of controversy at the stateās flagship university that began with the June death of football player Jordan McNair.
- The University of Maryland debacle this week shows the danger of putting football wins above all else.
- The meeting comes a day after University of Maryland President Wallace Loh fired football coach DJ Durkin, defying the regents' recommendation.
- It remains unclear whether two University of Maryland athletic trainers will follow football coach DJ Durkin out the door as part of the fallout from 19-year-old offensive lineman Jordan McNairās death.
- Karen Levenson, a major donor to the school of public policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, has halted future gifts over how the University System of Maryland Board of Regents have handled the aftermath of Terrapins football player Jordan McNair's death.
- With its biggest game in two years approaching Saturday against Michigan State, Maryland will go in with interim coach Matt Canada looking to show he deserves a shot at a permanent job and a team that could come together or completely fall apart.
- University of Maryland President Wallace Loh has taken the initiative to fire football coach DJ Durkin and is reportedly reconsidering his decision to retire. We join former Chancellor William āBritā Kirwan, the provost and deans of UM, and scores of other Terps in urging him to stay on.
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- The University of Maryland's major fundraising arm sent a strongly worded letter to the Board of Regents, condemning their mishandling the aftermath of Jordan McNair's death, and saying they've damaged a $1.5 billion fundraising campaign.
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- Firing of Coach Durkin shows that not everyone at the University of Maryland lacks judgment.
- Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday morning that he was āshockedā and āoutragedā by the Maryland Board of Regentsā decision to reinstate football coach DJ Durkin and called school President Wallace Lohās decision to defy the board and fire the coach a ābig stepā forward.
- The University of Maryland student government association followed jubilation over the firing of head football coach DJ Durkin with further calls Thursday for the resignation of the Board of Regents chair James T. Brady.
- Alumni, player advocates and business reputation experts say the University of Maryland still has much work to do to restore trust with students and football fans in wake of coach DJ Durkin's dismissal.
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Schmuck: Firing Durkin was right decision, but there's no excuse for how badly situation was handled
The firing of DJ Durkin on Wednesday ended a strange two-day saga that further embarrassed the University of Maryland and the Board of Regents. - University of Maryland football coach DJ Durkin, who had been suspended since August, has been fired in the wake of the heatstroke death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair and two reports commissioned by the board of regents.