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- The Maryland men's soccer team fell to UCLA, 1-0, Saturday at Ludwig Field. It was fourth-consecutive match for the Terps (0-2-2) against an opponent receiving
- Cal Thomas: The Parkland, Fla., teen upset by criticism from a Fox talk show host is "cowardly" and "immature."
- Maryland's home matchup on Super Bowl Sunday in 1973 against North Carolina State helped launch the career of Wolfpack star David Thompson and took college basketball to another level with fans.
- Cole Field House, or more formally the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building, was the University of Maryland¿s home for basketball for 47 years.
- I am a scientist who loves Groundhog Day, that least scientific of holidays. Every February, as Punxsutawney Phil shakes the dust off his coat, emerges from his burrow, glances at his shadow (or not) and allegedly prognosticates winter's end, I gather a group of professors, graduate students and other assorted science geeks at my UCLA lab to nibble, drink, schmooze and revel in groundhoggery in all its magnificent splendor.
- Patrick Mullins scored three goals, Patrick Nyarko had a goal and two assists and host D.C. United beat the 10-man Chicago Fire, 6-2, in Major League Soccer on Saturday night.
- No one stayed long enough to bear witness to the institutional brutalism of what goes on down here past the valve house and goes by the name of public education in Baltimore. Here we have a living history museum of separate and unequal, Jim Crow schooling in today¿s Baltimore. The Civil Rights Project at UCLA calls schools like Reach "apartheid schools."
- Baltimore's Donnell Whittenburg will compete for the United States in the floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, parallel bars and horizontal bar at the Pan American Games, which begin today in Toronto.
- This week's Five for Friday focuses on five storylines to get you caught up on the 2015 Terps as they begin their super regional against Virginia at 4 p.m. Friday.
- Terps recruit Billy Phillips fighting leukemia, pulling for the team that roots for him.
- Terps closer secures nine-out save the help Terps advance to Super Regionals at Virginia
- Maryland baseball¿s recent run of NCAA tournament success continued last night, as the No. 3 Terps outlasted top overall seed UCLA to capture the Los Angeles Regional.
- When Maryland baseball coach John Szefc returns to the dugout Sunday night, he will find his team a victory from advancing in the NCAA Division I tournament.
- The best season for a pitcher in Maryland baseball history got a little better during the NCAA Division I tournament Friday night.
- Morgan State University and the African American Policy Forum will host a town hall this month to discuss inequities experienced by girls and women of color.
- Thanks to shifting demographics, a greater focus on healthy eating and the rising popularity of ethnic cuisine, Lotte Plaza Market and others in the international grocery niche see demand continuing to grow. And competition is heating up.
- After earning his degree from Penn State a year early, Owings Mills graduate Donovan Smith is seeking to realize his untapped potential and be drafted by an NFL team.
- In November, Class of 2015 shooting guard Kobe Eubanks reopened his recruitment. His phone hasn't stopped ringing since.
- Johns Hopkins University on Sunday sent 294 erroneous acceptance emails to students that had previously been told they were denied admission, school officials said on Wednesday.
- The UMBC men's soccer team will compete in the College Cup this weekend, the first team in school history to make a Division I final four.
- Since the team's founding in 2008, the RoboDoves have conceived, designed and built their own remote-controlled robots that range from a couple of feet tall to more than 5 feet and more than 100 pounds.
- As Boys' Latin's Dom Maggio impressed the coaches at Wake Forest's kicking camp last June, he had no idea that the Demon Deacons' recruiting coordinator knew his name well, and not just because he stood out at the camp. Thirty years ago at UCLA, Bill Rees recruited another local Maggio who could kick pretty well, too.
- Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week Oct. 30
- Nearly 6,000 Delaware elementary school students with poor vision but without access to eye care are expected to get glasses as Los Angeles-based nonprofit Vision to Learn takes its mobile eye clinics across the country, starting in the nation's first state.
- Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III returned to the practice field for the first time since dislocating his left ankle in Week 2 and looked "fine" while handling a limited workload, coach Jay Gruden said.
- Baltimore-area high school football defensive players to watch during the fall 2014 season.
- George W. Hilton, a retired college professor who specialized in transportation economics whose definitive books on railroads and shipping also included the seminal history of the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad, died Aug. 4 at Lorien Health Park in Columbia. He was 89.
- Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and four other prominent institutions will spend the next five years trying to turn a theoretical "next-generation" form of encryption into a practical way to better protect software from hackers.
- Maryland's C.J. Brown and Prairie View A&M's Jerry Lovelocke named to Johnny Unitas Award watch list, which honors best senior or fourth-year quarterback
- Johns Hopkins Hospital still considered among best hospitals in many specialties
- Fitchitt, 44, is Vice President of Development for Howard Hughes, the primary land owner and lead developer of the Downtown Columbia Plan, a master planning document approved in 2010 that promises to develop 13 million square feet of mixed uses in Columbia's Town Center village.
- In a city that is nearly 65 percent black and known for families that haven't left for generations, Larry Harris, 35, and Leonard Martin, 31, say they feel just like any other couple. In a city that has more same-sex couples with an African-American householder, per capita, than any other city in the United States, they
- An all-girls experience, be it the Girl Scouts, a girls' athletic team, a girls' camp or a girls' school can be a spring board to achievement and a sense of self-worth for girls, who are too quick to underestimate their abilities.
- Jerry Rice Jr. broke into his pattern, caught the football cleanly and didn't stop sprinting until he reached the end zone before hustling back to the huddle Saturday afternoon.
- The son of Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice has been invited to audition for the Ravens during their rookie minicamp that starts Friday
- The Ravens take their recruiting and signing of undrafted rookie free agents extremely seriously, enlisting coach John Harbaugh to personally convince players to sign with them.
- Sixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in 21 states was unconstitutional, 10 percent of the schools in Maryland remain segregated, nearly all of them in Baltimore City and Prince George's County.
- Three players from the Maryland men's basketball team were granted their release to transfer Tuesday.
- Goucher College sent congratulatory emails to the parents of 60 applicants on March 12 telling them their children were admitted.
- New artistic director Arian Khaefi programs music reflecting city's history, diversity
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- How will Maryland fill out its football recruiting class?
- Dr. Thomas Russell Hendrix, a leader in the fields of gastric and liver disease, died of complications from heart surgery Dec. 23 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 93 and lived in Roland Park before moving to Chestertown.
- Looking back at 2013's most memorable moments in Baltimore high school football, girls lacrosse, girls basketball
- As a player in the Black Power and civil rights movements of the 1960s, even at only 25 years old, Maulana Karenga was concerned about legacy. He wanted to leave behind something that would both celebrate the accomplishments of his people and challenge them to go even further.
- In the era of the quarterback, the 2013 season might just be remembered as the year of the kicker.
- A little less than four months after Jonathan Ogden was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the lineman who was the Ravens' first-ever draft pick in 1996 will return to Baltimore to give another podium speech when he is inducted into the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation's Hall of Legends.