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STX, the Baltimore-based sports gear manufacturer, announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Major League Lacrosse to provide sticks, gloves and pads to league players for the 2014 season.

Archbishop Spalding quarterback Zach Abey has decommitted from Buffalo and instead plans to play football for Navy.

For months, speed cameras have quietly been clicking away in Annapolis, recording speeders and sending the drivers tickets carrying $40 fines.

Herbert Charles Wagner, a retired pharmacist, died Dec. 21 at Sinai Hospital after suffering a fall a week earlier. He was 82 and lived at the Kensington Park Retirement Community.

Hundreds gathered at Ruck Towson Funeral Home to celebrate the life of Orioles great Paul Blair, a smiling, always-chatting Gold Glove center fielder who helped lead Baltimore to four World Series and two world championships.

Harry M. Wilgar Jr., a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad foreman of the Riverside Roundhouse, died of lung disease Dec. 24 at his Westview Park home. He was 85.

In the hours after many began to hear about the passing of former Orioles center fielder Paul Blair, former teammates came to grip with the news.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is reporting that a multi-vehicle accident on southbound I-95 in Harford County prior to Churchville Road this morning has been cleared.

Veteran sportswriter Mike Klingaman tracks down a former local sports figure and lets you know what's happening in his/her life in a segment called, "Catching Up With ... "

While I left Charm City for good in 1955 (long before the advent of that moniker), I still subscribe to Major league Baseball's Extra Innings so I can watch the Orioles on TV all summer. And for years I tried to put a hex on the Indianapolis Colts for sneaking out of town with our name in he middle of the night. But that feeling eroded after the Ravens came to town; and all year I have been proudly strutting around New Jersey wearing my Ravens Super Bowl Champions jersey.

After five years in the nation's capital, the Military Bowl is staking out its future in Annapolis.

Quintin Dailey, Jean Ratelle and Lefty Driesell are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 22-28

At start of the very first Ravens game, back in Memorial Stadium, a recent graduate of Morgan State University stepped forward to sing the national anthem, burnishing the words with his velvety baritone.

When his family's foundation began building fields around the country, Cal Ripken learned just how many kids need a place to play.

Terry Reardon, Kevin Loughery and Terry Dischinger are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 15-21

A restaurant/sports bar in Portsmouth, Va., where Roger Browns lives bears his name. Brown, a onetime 300-pound All Pro defensive tackle, also owns establishments in Williamsburg and Newport News. On the menu is a club sandwich called the "Fearsome Foursome," a nod to the nickname given the celebrated defensive lines on which Brown played in both Detroit and L.A.

Delegation of venture capital people and quasi-Chinese government officials tour the Green House Residences at Stadium Place to see the Green House model for caring for the elderly. China has a an aging population and is behind the curve on caring for them.

Gus "Honeycomb" Johnson, Tori Harrison and Nick Shuk are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Dec. 8-14

Patricia H. Burch, a homemaker and Loyola High School benefactor, died Nov. 30 of Alzheimer's disease at the Edenwald retirement community. She was 89.

Gerald Allen Elkins, a retired Department of Planning mapmaker and graphic artist who detailed Baltimore's transformation for more than four decades, died of cancer Nov. 28 at his Ocean Pines home. The former Overlea resident was 65.

Chuck Foreman, meet Earl "The Pearl" Monroe. "It would be a joy to run into Earl some day," said Foreman, who's from Frederick and played seven years with the Minnesota Vikings.

Covering Harford County sports years ago, I thought the lull between the end of the fall season and the beginning of the winter was dreadful.

William A. Miller Jr., a seasoned newsman who was the first managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, died Wednesday of heart disease at Gilchrist hospice Care in Towson. He was 88.

Raul de Pablo, Lefty Driesell and Lou Michaels are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Nov. 24-30

The Military Bowl announced today that gameday festivities Dec. 27 will begin with a parade led by the Budweiser Clydesdales. The parade will travel through downtown Annapolis prior to the 2013 Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The game kicks off at 2:30 p.m.

With the Ravens playing the Pittsburgh Steelers at home on Thanksgiving night, the 94th annual Turkey Bowl will be played at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium, rather than the NFL facility that has been the game's home more often than not.

There's a boogie board in his basement, a mountain bike in the garage and a black lab named Jake at the back door, begging for a five-mile walk. At 69, Elmer Collett doesn't want for things to do.

Thomas M. Bailey Sr., a retired Baltimore City Fire Department captain and fire academy instructor who was a decorated World War II veteran, died of cancer Saturday at Brightview Avondell independent living in Bel Air. The former Cedarcroft resident was 96.

Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, Chicago's Soldier Field and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., are the finalists to host the 2015 to 2018 men's lacrosse championships, the NCAA announced Wednesday.

Joan A. Spurrier, a retired legal secretary and family matriarch, died of kidney failure Sunday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Idlewylde resident was 80.

Earl Weaver called Don Buford "the best leadoff man in the game," and who's to argue? In five years with the Orioles, Buford batted .270, ran the bases with ferocity and helped the club reach three World Series.

Gerald "Gerry" Kelly, a onetime soccer writer for The Evening Sun who went on to become a much-loved bartender at a handful of area bars, most notably Jerry D's on Harford Road, died of heart failure Oct. 13 at his home in Parkville. He was 63.

Bert Jones, Brooks Robinson and Debbie Meyer are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Oct. 20-26

George Petrides doesn¿t remember the first varsity football game he coached at City College in 1975. Years from now, however, his 387th game should remain memorable.

Collier, who starred at Edmondson High and Morgan State, played on Pittsburgh's Super Bowl championship team in 1975-76. A rookie, he made the Steelers as a 14th round draft pick, scored a touchdown in his first game and even left his mark on Super Bowl X.

Dr. William R. Bell, an internationally known Johns Hopkins Hospital hematologist who conducted research into bleeding and clotting disorders, died Oct. 4 from complications of a blood clot at his Roland Park home. He was 78.

Tom Matte, Tito Landrum and George Shaw are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Oct. 6-12

A decision about this week's college football game between Navy and Air Force in Annapolis will be made Thursday after "a legal review" is completed on how the game will be funded and staffed during the government shutdown, a U.S. Department of Defense senior official said Wednesday.

If the Naval Academy's football game against the Air Force Academy is canceled due to the federal government shutdown, schools and businesses in the Annapolis area would miss out on money-making opportunities.

Roger Staubach, Jim Gentile and Buddy Young are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for Sept. 29-Oct. 5