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With Maryland and Rutgers set to join the Big Ten beginning in 2014, second-year coach Bill O'Brien said Wednesday that he is looking forward to having new, closer neighbors to battle with for recruits and ultimately in the league's recently aligned East Division.

In a perfect world, Randy Edsall can envision the day when the Maryland football team plays before packed crowds at Byrd Stadium, when the Terps challenge perennial powers in their league, when he and his staff attract most of the top high school talent in the state as well as from other parts of the country.

Maryland has self-reported a series of secondary violations to the NCAA.

Former University of Maryland players Vernon Davis and Torrey Smith will share the field when the 49ers and Ravens meet in the Super Bowl.

Baltimore Ravens and Maryland Terrapins

After outplaying future Hall of Famer Champ Bailey, Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith ready for next big challenge

University has mishandled decision to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference

The University of Maryland's move to the Big Ten could be a defining moment in the presidency of Wallace Loh.

Washington State is barely on anyone's radar when it comes to college football, so fans on the East Coast might not be following what has transpired in Mike Leach's first season in Pullman. It has a striking resemblance to Randy Edsall's first season in College Park.

After Maryland went 2-10 last season, senior starters Joe Vellano, A.J. Francis, Kenneth Tate, Kevin Dorsey and others imagined that their final seasons would coincide with a turnaround performance punctuated by a bowl game.

Darrius Heyward-Bey likes a challenge. Or perhaps more appropriately, he enjoys being challenged. From adolescence to McDonogh to Maryland, Heyward-Bey has encountered doubts and at each turn, he has overcome those obstacles.

Despite alarming scene in Week 4 when he absorbed a blow to his facemask, McDonogh graduate and Maryland product Darrius Heyward-Bey's sole focus was to return to field as quickly as possible

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson deserves some credit for helping get Dez Wells eligible before the Terps take the court at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday night against defending national champion Kentucky.

It's hard to miss the illustration of an oversized pyramid posted on a wall inside the Gossett Football Team House.

Nick Ferrara had such a promising start to his Maryland career. He won the job in his first season and kicked well enough to be named to The Sporting News freshman All-ACC team.

ZMount Hebron first-year football coach Phil Zacharias talks about his team¿s strong start, playing Howard County powerhouse River Hill this week and his coaching philosophy.

Maryland football coach Randy Edsall offered condolences today to former Terp and current Raven Torrey Smith, whose younger brother, Tevin, was killed in a motorcycle accident.

It's West Virginia week. Does it feel like a rivalry game, Terps fans?

Coachspeak interview with Atholton football coach Kyle Schmitt

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.

Bill Vaughan, of North Laurel, has gone from being part of the excitement to watching it through a camera lens. The son of a firefighter, Vaughan spent 28 years with the Montgomery County Fire Department and reached the level of master firefighter before retiring in 1996.

Maryland football fans will get a look at the new field at Byrd Stadium -- as well as the team's next starting quarterback -- when Fan Appreciation Day is held Saturday beginning at 3 p.m.

Junior quarterback C.J. Brown became the first major casualty of preseason practice. Second-year coach Randy Edsall announced in a statement Wednesday afternoon that Brown will miss the 2012 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

It was four years, three defensive coordinators, two head coaches and one knee surgery ago that Kenny Tate took his spot on Maryland's kick-return team and watched as the ball was kicked high into the warm, late-summer air to begin his freshman season.

Assistant Maryland football coach Greg Gattuso pointed across a dining-hall table at Joe Vellano and said in his best deadpan: "His dad was better."

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and intern Connor Letourneau -- co-sports editor of The Diamondback -- weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Ralph Friedgen has a gripe with Maryland more than a year in the making.

Each morning, Monday through Friday, we'll hook you up with some reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday.

An interesting e-mail was sent today to members of the Baltimore-Washington media covering Maryland athletics. It came from former Terps football coach Ralph Friedgen.

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

As the Maryland football team prepares for year two under coach Randy Edsall, wide receiver Kevin Dorsey is convinced better times have arrived for the Terps.

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.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and intern Connor Letourneau -- co-sports editor of The Diamondback -- weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said he is not talking to Stanford about becoming the AD there.

Sometimes on football Saturdays, Randy Edsall's wife will slip into the Gossett Team House auditorium, barely noticed by the media assembled to hear the Maryland coach's post -game remarks.

Terps football has lots of bulletin-board material

All that mattered to Mike Williams, a lineman from Archbishop Spalding, and DeAndre Lane, a record-setting running back from Catonsville, was that their hometown school selected them to be part of a potentially unprecedented turnaround built on local players.

Defensive tackle Maurice Hampton was always one of the most interesting Maryland football players to interview.

Plank encourages Maryland fans to embrace Edsall

Former Maryland punt returner and wide receiver Tony Logan discusses his Terps career, and his plans for the future.

The comments former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin made about the criteria he uses in choosing his assistant coaches at Vanderbilt came as a surprise to me.

Preakness 2012 winner I'll Have Another gave bettors at Pimlico plenty of reasons to celebrate. Those who bet on the potential Triple Crown winner were abuzz with excitement after his victory.

University of Maryland fans made their presence felt Saturday through their ownership of horses whose names clearly showed their allegiance to the Terps.

At Maryland, Austin Walker lived the dream of walk-on football players everywhere.

Tim Downs, who graduated from Maryland in December with a degree in history and is living in Tyson's Corner, spoke to The Sun about his Terps career and life after college.

University of Maryland's athletic director and football coach appear to be out of their depth

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 football and basketball.