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Much has changed since September 2011.

Anytime an athletic director offers a vote of confidence for a coach whose job is in jeopardy usually means one thing: the coach is about to get fired.

After two straight blowout defeats and amid a report that his firing is imminent, Maryland coach Randy Edsall reiterated comments he made earlier in the week ahead of Saturday's matchup at No. 1 Ohio State.

Saturday night's game against Michigan kicks off Maryland's second season in the Big Ten Conference, but it also begins a daunting stretch of games that could prove telling about the course of the Terps' season. After playing No. 22 Michigan, Maryland has matchups at No. 1 Ohio State, versus Penn State in Baltimore, at 4-0 Iowa, versus No. 19 Wisconsin, at No. 2 Michigan State and versus 4-0 Indiana before finishing up with a Thanksgiving weekend tilt against a discombobulated Rutgers program.

The Big Ten Network postponed its scheduled ¿BTN Football Pregame¿ broadcast at Maryland due to the forecasted inclement weather from Hurricane Joaquin, Maryland announced Wednesday morning.

The Washington Wizards are scheduled to play five games on national television — ESPN or TNT — and will not be in one of the five on Christmas Day.

Idaho State's Julie Wright is named new softball coach at Maryland after success in Big Sky Conference.

Maryland baseball coach John Szefc, who has led the Terps to consecutive NCAA super-regionals, has signed a five-year contact extension.

Randy Edsall, who has two years remaining on a six-year contract that pays him $2.1 million annually, has agreed to a three-year extension, athletic director Kevin Anderson announced Tuesday.

Said Sasho Cirovski: "We went from one nice neighborhood to another great neighborhood."

The message from Randy Edsall, Mark Turgeon and Brenda Frese was consistent: Baltimore is an important part of the athletic department's growth.

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation announced plans on Wednesday to reopen the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in Baltimore on Friday.

The Maryland men's basketball team will play its first game in Baltimore since 1999 when the Terps meet Princeton at Royal Farms Arena on Dec. 19.

Maryland wide receiver Juwann Winfree has been suspended indefinitely for violating the school¿s student-athlete conduct code, the university announced Monday.

Randy Edsall's team earned a multiyear score of .973 and a single-season score of .991 on a scale of 1.000 for the 2013-14 academic school year. The multi-year score improved from .950 last year, with the single-season score up from .922 in 2012-13 and a low of .905 in 2009-10.

Varun Ram and Malina Howard have had different kinds of basketball careers at Maryland, yet their performance in the classroom was remarkably similar. On Tuesday, Ram (River Hill) and Howard were named Maryland¿s inaugural Big Ten Medal of Honor award winners.

The first player to be dismissed by Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski in 35 years, Rasheed Sulaimon has found a new home at Maryland.

A local basketball rivalry that hasn¿t had a regularly-scheduled game in more than two decades will resume next season when Maryland plays Georgetown in the inaugural Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big Ten and Big East.

Maryland and Georgetown have not been scheduled to play during the regular season since 1993.

Brenda Frese and Mark Turgeon have more in common than the fact their Maryland basketball teams will both begin NCAA tournament play in the next two days.

Although poor weather conditions kept her from the seven-day goal of her Triple 7 Quest series, Kim Pursley has returned home after successfully running seven marathons on seven continents.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson has been appointed to the NCAA's Division I Baseball Committee.

Ryan Steinberg was a key figure behind the scenes, a North Potomac native and University of Maryland graduate who grew from a student manager with the Terps into Maryland's assistant director of football operations and recruiting.

A proposal by the Big Ten to make freshmen ineligible to play in men's basketball and football was discussed briefly Thursday by the University of Maryland's Athletic Council at its monthly meeting, though an official vote will not be taken until the matter is discussed more thoroughly.

Racing for the first time in Maryland, Misconnect made a dramatic surge in the final 50 yards to catch Cutty Shark at the wire and win the $250,000 General George Handicap by a neck Monday at Laurel Park.

After her son¿s battle with leukemia, the University of Maryland women¿s basketball coach makes the most of time with her family.

If the Terps had lost at home to a pesky Northwestern team that had won only one Big Ten game this year, they would have suffered back-to-back deflating conference losses and it would have been fair to ask if they were really as good as advertised.

The Terps know Saturday's game against Purdue (10-5, 2-1) will be a lot different in terms of both the team they face and the approach they need to take.

The Terps know Saturday's game against Purdue (10-5, 2-1) will be a lot different in terms of both the team they face and the approach they need to take.

Here are the top questions facing coach Randy Edsall and the Terps heading into the offseason.

The lasting image Gary Williams left when he retired as Maryland's men's basketball coach in 2011 was of one of combativeness and combustion.

In the days leading up to the Foster Farms Bowl, fans had the opportunity to attend events such as a pep rally for Maryland and Stanford in Union Square, at which the bands for both schools took turns performing.

Some quotes from interviews with Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson, former Terps men's basketball coach Gary Williams and former Maryland star football player Shawne Merriman.

2014 is proving to be a significant year for Kevin Anderson and Maryland's athletic department.

Twenty one football players were among the 64 Maryland student-athletes named to the Big Ten¿s All-Academic team on Wednesday.

Maryland wanted to play in a warm-weather bowl game, one reserved for the better teams in the Big Ten, that would have provided the Terps with a chance to further establish their viability as a football program.

When Maryland beat Michigan, it was more than just a win. This was the culmination of perhaps the most important week of Randy Edsall's four-year tenure at Maryland.

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank is providing $25 million for Maryland to repurpose the former Cole Field House. Also on school's long-range wish list is a new soccer field.

The Maryland Terrapins have played big games at Byrd Stadium before, but there is no longer any question that the decision to jump to the Big Ten Conference has electrified the atmosphere around the football program.

The Maryland football team's now-infamous handshake snubbing, the low point of a 20-19 win over Penn State earlier this month, has been addressed privately and publicly.

Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for week of Nov. 6

The Big Ten has suspended Maryland wide receiver Stefon Diggs and reprimanded Terps coach Randy Edsall for violations of the conference's sportsmanship policy.

There were a lot of Maryland football fans scratching their heads after the Terps refused to shake hands with their Penn State counterparts during the coin toss before Saturday's game and also were hit with a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for their pregame behavior.

Maryland football coach Randy Edsall began his postgame news conference Saturday with an apology.

The Board of Regents unanimously approved a policy Friday — believed to be among the first of its kind — denying bonuses to coaches and athletic directors whose players don't measure up academically.

A proposed policy that would require teams to reach academic benchmarks before their coaches and athletic directors can cash in on performance-based bonuses has drawn mixed reviews.

Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese were in Baltimore on Monday, having breakfast with boosters and talking about their teams' upcoming first season in the Big Ten.

Maryland beat Indiana, 37-15, and is 1-0 in conference play as a member of the Big Ten. Here is what went well and what didn't Saturday from a Terps perspective.