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- From an imposing wide receiver who spent his childhood in Baltimore to a Delaware native who starred for the Terps, here's who could stand out in Indianapolis.
- New Maryland football coach Michael Locksley is finishing three-year run at Alabama while he gets prepared for return to College Park.
- Five days after World War I ended, Navy beat Ursinus, 127-0. A week later, the Midshipmen lost by a point.
- Jim Hyson and Colin Formulak were part of the officiating crew for the 2018 Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 1, 2018.
- College Football Hall of Famer Rex Kern had a brief but memorable pro career mostly with the Baltimore Colts.
- After winning the Big Ten championship game last season, Penn State sets its sights on national title
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Hopefully this finds you just back from the gym, or enjoying a slow start to your last day off before heading back to work after a lon
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His 18-year-old son was home for the weekend, and Tim Gaia expected to have "The Talk." It was July 2012, and Brian Gaia had driven back from State College,
- In four football games against Army, Napoleon McCallum rushed for 489 yards, scored two touchdowns and never lost. But that's not what sticks with the former Navy All American: "I remember hurting."
- Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin has emerged as a strong candidate for the Maryland head coaching job, according to Yahoo! Sports.
- Even with Michigan State's star quarterback out, Maryland (2-8, 0-6 Big Ten Conference) didn't pose much of an upset threat. The Terps turned the ball over five times.
- Joe Rexrode is the Michigan State beat writer for the Detroit Free Press. Maryland travels to face No. 13 Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich., this weekend, so Joe was kind of enough to take the time to answer some questions about how the Spartans will rebound from a heartbreaker, what makes Connor Cook tick and what makes the front seven strong.
- During a run in which its won a Big Ten Conference-best 61 games since 2010, Michigan State has built a reputation around a hard-nosed, stingy defense. In the past four years, the Spartans have ranked at least seventh or better in yards allowed per game and 12th or better in points allowed per game. The unit has helped Michigan State win the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl in the past two years.
- When Darrell Perkins took over as Maryland's defensive backs coach in March, he was inheriting one of the team's most veteran position groups with four projected upperclassmen starters. But he was also taking over a position group in transition, with roles and schemes changing as the Terps switch from the 3-4 defense to new defensive coordinator Keith Dudzinski's 4-3.
- "You look at the discussions and the things that are being talked about nationally, the excitement, it's a 180-degree turn from the conversations that were going on a year ago," Penn State coach and former Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin said Thursday.
- The Foster Farms Bowl will be the first time many local fans will see Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan play since his days at Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C.
- We preview the the Foster Farms Bowl between Maryland and Stanford with a beat reporter who covers the Cardinal.
- Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, the Heisman Trophy favorite, has been named the winner of the 2014 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
- Mike Locksley always has tried to play one role with his four children: dad.
- Former Calvert Hall quarterback Colar Kuhns headed to Michigan State instead of Cornell
- Who's to blame for Maryland not winning close games, Mark Turgeon or his players?
- Former Maryland starting quarterback Danny O'Brien said today that he won't return to Wisconsin next season and is looking for a suitable spot to transfer for his final year of eligibility.
- The playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Indianapolis Colts did monster numbers locally, but wound up finishing third for the week nationally among all telecasts with an audience of 29.6 million.
- Midshipman First Class Tim Cadigan, a Lutherville native and Calvert Hall graduate, is in charge of the Naval Academy's 30th annual running of the Army-Navy game ball, which will begin Friday afternoon in Annapolis and end 125.5 miles later at the 50-yard line of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
- I've been a University of Maryland athletics fan as long as I can remember and I'm graduate of a Big Ten school - Northwestern - so last week's announced move of Maryland from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten ought to be a great marriage for me.
- 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.
- The sorry tableau of two replacement referees standing side by side in the end zone making opposite calls on a controversial play at the end of ESPN's "Monday Night Football" led to the largest audience on record for the post-game SportsCenter show.
- 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.
- Sometime around 2020 -- maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later -- we will get sick of the four-team playoff.
- Perseverance was the NCAA wrestling champion's subject for the evening as he addressed the room of athletes and their families at the 38th annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic, Pennsylvania's "Rose Bowl" of wrestling that, this year, invited Maryland all-stars to attend.
- Maryland coach Randy Edsall was ranked 65th among the 125 Football Bowl Subdivision coaches by The Sporting News.
- 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.
- NFL Combine: Peter Konz is considered the best center in the draft class and his combination of size, strength and smarts is expected to make him the latest Wisconsin offensive lineman to be taken in the first round.
- No. 2 Alabama (11-1) edged out No. 3 Oklahoma State (11-1) in Sunday's final Bowl Championship Series standings to earn the right to play No. 1 LSU for the national title Jan. 9 in New Orleans.
- Northwestern: Northwestern will head to Houston seeking first bowl win since 1949
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- The town will be cut in two during Labor Day weekend and plans for avoiding a traffic nightmare are being floated.