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Gary Williams has tried to keep his distance from the Maryland basketball program since he retired in May 2011, allowing Mark Turgeon to build his own program.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and producer-editor Jonas Shaffer weigh in on the retired-jersey policy and the recruiting impact of Maryland's loss to Florida State.

Former Maryland basketball star Juan Dixon said Wednesday that he received a telephone call over the summer from current Terps coach Mark Turgeon, who asked if it would be all right for incoming freshman Roddy Peters to wear No. 3.

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.

As Maryland prepares for its 2014 entry into the Big Ten — a potent conference boasting football stadiums with nearly twice the capacity of Maryland's — the state's flagship university needs to grow its fan base, its athletic fundraising and its imprint on the region.

Alex Len was given the Len Bias Award as Maryland's most valuable player at the team's awards banquet.

Lefty Driesell is more than 26 years and 220 miles removed from Maryland's men's basketball program. At 81, the former coach doesn't get to many games anymore. But Driesell thinks about his Maryland days often.

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.

Lefty Driesell's career at Maryland was coming to an end when a sportswriter who had spent the first 10 years of his career in New York showed up to cover the Terrapins for The Baltimore Sun.

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.

10 Awkward Questions for Derrick E. Vaughan

Elvis Grbac, Elvin Hayes and Billy Vessels are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for January 20 to January 26

Ask Melo Trimble when he started following Maryland basketball and why he developed such an affinity for the Terps and you're likely to get an extensive list of reasons from the four-star combo guard.

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

Maryland coach Mark Turgeon's office features portrait of Maryland Terps greats.

There were times Gary Williams second-guessed his decision to help rebuild a Maryland program still reeling from the scandal surrounding the cocaine-induced death of All-American Len Bias three years before, and the turmoil that enveloped the Terps during Bob Wade's tenure.

On the 26-year anniversary of Len Bias' death, a D.C.-based clothing company has put its own spin on the life of the Maryland basketball legend.

Ex-NBA player Walt Williams enters Catoctin Challenge to benefit Camp Greentop and The League for People with Disabilities

Although a Charlottesville jury found one man — athlete George Huguely V — criminally responsible for the beating death of Yeardley Love, his former girlfriend and fellow lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, the young woman's mother wants to hold his coaches culpable, too.

10 years after the national title, Juan Dixon says he's 'going to get back to the NBA' Former Maryland star hopes to channel his improbable rise to success to pen the final chapter of his basketball career.

Dave Dickerson has often looked for stability in his college coaching career, in part because his own playing career at the University of Maryland was marked by instability -- and tragedy.

InsideMDSports: Terps check out Suitland point guard Roddy Peters

An estimated 12,000 prisoners across the country are eligible for release as lighter crack cocaine sentencing guidelines are applied to their cases. Some authorities, however, warn that potentially dangerous criminals with prior records of violence also could be released.

The debate over whether to name Maryland's basketball court for longtime coach Gary Williams was more complicated than the public knew and included discussion of a possible large donation to the university, according to Board of Regents members.

Maryland said Tuesday that it will name the Comcast Center basketball court for Gary Williams, who retired as men's coach in May after 22 seasons and a school-record 461 wins.

The Orioles scored five runs in the first inning Monday night and knocked out overmatched Pirates starter Charlie Morton after the second en route to an 8-3 victory. ... Jeremy Guthrie will start Tuesday against the Pirates, four days after he was diagnosed with a muscle strain in his back. ... Luke Scott and Brian Matusz appear to be OK after suffering injuries on Sunday.

Len Bias' death shocked the sports world, but a quarter century later, drugs are still a huge problem in sports.

Sunday marks 25 years since former Maryland basketball player Len Bias was pronounced dead of a cocaine overdose after his body began to shake uncontrollably in his College Park dorm room.