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Greivis Vasquez, a former Maryland Terps standout, is playing well for the New Orleans Hornets.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

The Maryland Terps lost to the Florida State Seminoles. Don Markus analyzes the defeat.

Seminoles' Michael Snaer hits game-winning 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to beat Maryland

After Mark Turgeon was widely praised for keeping the Terps competitive in his first season, fans are getting a little impatient with the progress the team has made in the coach's second year at Maryland.

Maryland has yet to win an ACC road game going into Wednesday's matchup with Florida State in Tallahassee.

Maryland's recent slump has not been a total shock to second-year coach Mark Turgeon. When he looked at the schedule before the season, Turgeon saw how difficult the first half of the Atlantic Coast Conference slate might unfold for a young team.

Don Markus looks at the Maryland Terps' loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels.

The Terps didn't show up for the first half of Saturday's game at the Dean Smith Center and the Tar Heels looked more like the kind of team they have had dating back to the years when the legend whose name is on the building was still coaching. The result was a 22-point halftime deficit for Maryland that turned into a 62-52 defeat.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Before his team began the Atlantic Coast Conference portion of its schedule earlier this month, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon begrudgingly acknowledged that the first three games could be pivotal for the Terps since the first two would be played at Comcast Center.

The morning after Maryland's second lowest-scoring game in his two years in College Park, Mark Turgeon was uncharacteristically upbeat about his team.

Maryland's sudden two-game losing streak in the Atlantic Coast Conference will likely result in more lineup changes for the Terps going into Wednesday's home game against North Carolina State.

The Maryland Terps' main problem right now is that no one can put the ball in the basket.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Maryland to host Syracuse next season in football

Don Markus takes a look at the end of Maryland's 13-game winning streak with the defeat at Comcast Center

Winner of 13 games in a row, Maryland said it wanted a test. It got one ¿ and then some ¿ Wednesday night from a rugged Florida State team that erased a 12-point, second-half deficit to defeat the turnover-prone Terps, 65-62, at Comcast Center.

The improved play of the point guards this season has contributed significantly to Maryland's 13-1 start going into Wednesday's 8 p.m. game against Florida State. The contrasting styles of Pe'Shon Howard and Seth Allen were on display when the Terps beat Virginia Tech at home Saturday.

Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon called the Terps' game against Florida State ¿the toughest opponent since the Kentucky game.

Should Maryland Terrapins be ranked in the top 25?

Three players scored in double figures Sunday to help the eighth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team hold off No. 19 Florida State, 71-64, at Comcast Center in College Park.

The Terps certainly answered some of their skeptics who questioned the soft non-conference schedule Turgeon put together for his young team. Again, the second-year Maryland coach showed that he knew what was best for his team.

Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon is not apologizing for the schedule that has helped produce the program's longest winning streak in more than a decade. Nor is Turgeon worried about whether Maryland is ready for its ACC opener Saturday against Virginia Tech.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Will Likely, ranked the No. 32 cornerback in the country by 247Sports.com, pledged to the Terps on Friday, according to InsideMDSports.

Maryland defensive lineman Joe Vellano ended his college career by being named All-Atlantic Coast Conference by the league's coaches.

Fifth-year senior defensive tackle Joe Vellano was named a first-team All-ACC selection, while senior linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield earned second-team honors.

Maryland recruits react to the Terps' move to the Big Ten conference.

Coach Randy Edsall had said Maryland needed to play ¿a perfect game¿ to upset No. 10 Florida State on Saturday, but it was another painfully flawed day for a Terps team that surrendered yards in chunks and immediately did what it could least afford: turn the ball over.

As the Ravens prepare for Sunday's AFC North showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers and the latest chapter of what many consider the NFL's best rivalry, The Sun caught up this week with several participants from the series to get some of their memories from past meetings.

On a November night in 2007, Maryland recruit Joe Vellano sat in the Byrd Stadium stands as a high school senior and watched the Terps upset Matt Ryan-led Boston College to gain its second win of the season over a Top 10 team.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Among the casualties this season for Maryland has been the playbook.

After Maryland went 2-10 last season, senior starters Joe Vellano, A.J. Francis, Kenneth Tate, Kevin Dorsey and others imagined that their final seasons would coincide with a turnaround performance punctuated by a bowl game.

Already down a touchdown in the heart of a deafening Death Valley, Maryland needed a response after Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd guided the No. 11 Tigers into the end zone on their second series of the game.

Despite a three-game losing streak and a seemingly never-ending string of depth-sapping injuries — the latest including the team's top offensive and defensive playmakers — Maryland enters the toughest stretch of its 2012 schedule with something it lacked a year ago: cohesion.

On his first play as a college quarterback, Shawn Petty hoped to make a statement, not only about Maryland's approach to Saturday's game with Georgia Tech, but about himself.

Keenan Reynolds' emergence at quarterback sparks Navy while injuries to succession of passers throw Maryland for a loss