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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.

Dave Cottle had a very successful nine-year run as the head coach of the Maryland men's lacrosse team. During Friday night's Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft, the connections between the Chesapeake Bayhawks coach and president were on full display.

A little more than a month into the season, Navy had lost to all three Football Bowl Subdivision opponents it had played, and the closest result in any of those beatings was 12-0 at home to San Jose State.

Sophie Pruden scored a career-high 23 points to lead the visiting St.Mary's women's basketball team to an 87-82 triple-overtime win over Division II Washington Adventist on Tuesday night.

UMBC men's lacrosse coach Don Zimmerman today announced his team's 2013 spring schedule, which features four straight road games against preseason top-20 teams.

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Maryland and the Big Ten profit by the school's move.

Joining Big Ten Conference, moving to ECAC, becoming an independent loom as possible destinations for men's lacrosse program in transition, according to Maryland coach John Tillman

Maryland's decision to move from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten not only caught its fans and students — and possibly ACC officials — by surprise. The stunning announcement that was first rumored late last week and was made official Monday also came as a shock to many of the school's coaches.

Bobby Ross is still digesting the news that Maryland is moving to the Big Ten. Like many associated with the program when the football team was one of the best in the ACC, he is saddened by the move. Like many who follow college football, he is not surprised.

The University of Maryland is in serious discussions to join the Big Ten, and the Board of Regents plans Monday to discuss the proposed move, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks.

The Maryland football program has lost its second commitment to Penn State. Richy Anderson, a slot receiver/running back from Thomas Johnson in Frederick, pledged to the Nittany Lions last night.

Tanner Hartman, a 6-foot-4, 250-pound offensive lineman from Liberty Christian Academy in Lynchburg, Va., has committed to Penn State, according to 247Sports.com.

Navy football quarterback Trey Miller looks to get into a groove against VMI as freshman Keenan Reynolds waits for his chance

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.

Navy came into Beaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon hoping to add to Penn State's collective misery from the past 10 months. The Midshipmen had designs on keeping the Nittany Lions and their new coach, Bill O'Brien, winless.

Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said that his Midshipmen played near-perfect games to beat Notre Dame in 2009 and 2010, and came close to nirvana again before losing last season to nationally ranked South Carolina on the road.

Navy wide receiver Shawn Lynch's path to Saturday's game at Penn State is not unusual. The soft-spoken junior has Ping-Ponged from offense to defense and back again. Lynch climbed the depth chart to become a starter at safety last season, only to disappear amid a blur of blue and gold uniforms on the sideline.

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Matt Bracken rounds up the latest Maryland Terps recruiting news.

After finishing up practice with the Wisconsin football team, former Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien heard from a few of his old teammates. C.J. Brown, the man who took O'Brien's starting job 10 months ago, had torn his ACL during a noncontact drill and would miss the 2012 season.

To those on the outside, it would appear that much has changed for Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo and the Midshipmen over the past year.

Terps Vellano, Furstenburg named All-ACC

Anyone expecting Penn State's football program to be spared serious punishment for its involvement in the Jerry Sandusky child sex rape case, Monday's unprecedented sanctions by the NCAA were shocking, even for some PSU alums in Harford County who have been angered at the Sandusky scandal.

Punishment should have served to shift Penn State's focus, not make it harder for Nittany Lions to win football games.

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.

Former Maryland baskeball coach Gary Williams knows what Bill O'Brien is facing at Penn State

Penn State has enjoyed a fertile recruiting pipeline into Maryland high school programs during the past decade, and the most recent classes have been no different.

It will be interesting to see what the immediate fallout of the Penn State sanctions might be when it comes to Maryland's football program.

When Adrian Amos arrived at Penn State last summer, veteran cornerback Stephon Morris took the Calvert Hall graduate under his wing.

Granted, these are probably natural reactions on Delany¿s part. It¿s understandable that, given the situation, the commissioner¿s office wants to bring the hammer down hard, making a statement to its member institutions and all of college athletics. But these are the wrong statements to make.

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The Loyola Greyhounds, who captured their first Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament crown and are ranked third in the latest Sun rankings, will meet Canisius (6-7), the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion, in the first round.

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Tigers hope to have addressed struggles before Saturday's game vs. Drexel