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- Loyola Maryland senior attackman Pat Spencer was named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the top college lacrosse player, for a third time.
- Westminster High School on March 12, 2019 named Chris Bassler, a former all-county standout at Francis Scott Key, its new football coach.
- Vin Scully's career in broadcasting is singular. His start was just as unique: on the roof of Fenway Park, in frigid weather, calling a college football game.
- In the 2004 and 2009 NFL drafts, Maryland had five players selected. In 2002 and 2006, three Terps were drafted by NFL teams. But in the past four drafts, only four Maryland players have been selected. In the fickle world of scouting and drafting, there can be myriad factors for the drop off: lack of talent, lack of development and, in some cases, lack of luck.
- Elmer H. Wingate Jr., who played one season with the Baltimore Colts in 1953 and was an All-American football and lacrosse player at the University of Maryland, College Park, died on Feb. 27 of Alzheimer's disease. He was 88.
- Maryland coach DJ Durkin finalized his coaching staff last week with the hiring of offensive line coach Dave Borbely. In the process of hiring nine assistants, Durkin combined elements of experience and youth, along with recruiting prowess and coaching talent. It¿s an impressive staff on paper.
- Ed Modzelewski, the star fullback on Maryland's undefeated 1952 Sugar Bowl champions, died Friday of congestive heart failure at his home in West Sedona, Ariz. "Big Mo," as he was known, was 86.
- Maryland is still in great shape to return to the Big Dance for the first time since 2010, but the Terps' stock is dropping after blowout losses at Indiana and Ohio State sandwiched around a last-second escape against Northwestern.
- There was a lot at stake on Saturday at Byrd Stadium and everybody knew it. The Maryland Terrapins were in a position to improve their bowl status with a victory over Rutgers and -- for most of the first half -- it looked like they would do that without much resistance from the Scarlett Knights.
- Maryland football coach Randy Edsall wants C.J. Brown to relax. The quarterback's job might depend on it.
- The Big Ten Network announced Wednesday that ex-Terps football stars Scott McBrien and Shawne Merriman and former basketball standout Drew Nicholas will join the coverage as Maryland enters the conference.
- Who's to blame for Maryland not winning close games, Mark Turgeon or his players?
- Pam Shriver, Jack Marin and Ed Fullerton are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 29 to Jan. 4
- John Joseph Idzik, 85, who coached the Baltimore Colts during two stints in the 1970s and 1980s after playing for and later coaching the Maryland Terrapins football team, died on Tuesday.
- Big Mo Ed Modzelewski, a former Maryland and Cleveland Browns fullback, is living in Arizona, not resting on his laurels.
- Victor "Vic" Turyn, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond official, died August 11 from heart failure at his Ellicott City home. He was 91.
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- Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School whose career spanned more than two decades who earlier had been an outstanding football player at the University of Maryland, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton. He was 88.
- Vernon E. Seibert, a former athletic director and coach at Glenelg High School whose career spanned more than two decades who earlier had been an outstanding football player at the University of Maryland, died Saturday of cancer at Union Hospital in Elkton. He was 88.
- Atholton coach played with San Francisco 49ers' Vernon Davis and Baltimore Ravens' Matt Birk; coached Ravens Torrey Smith
- It's West Virginia week. Does it feel like a rivalry game, Terps fans?
- John J. Condon, a retired insurance executive and sports fan, died Sunday of pneumonia at his Columbia home. He was 87.