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The WWE routinely goes through highs and lows during the year. Unfortunately for wrestling fans, the WWE is in one of those lulls, and the Payback pay-per-view reflects that.

Thirteen high school athletes from around Maryland were invited to M&T Bank Stadium for a luncheon in their honor on Thursday. The 13 prep stars, four of whom are from the Baltimore metropolitan area, were awarded Minds In Motion Scholarships by the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association and Allstate Foundation.

Hunter Ritter's year on the wrestling mat just keeps getting better.

With five candidates lined up for the race to be the next president of the Harford County Council, county voters will get to narrow down that field in the upcoming primary election.

Catonsville wrestler Calloway Lee will be presented with the seventh-annual Hayley Milbourn Integrity Award, which honors a local high school athlete who demonstrates extraordinary character. Lee will receive the award during Wednesday's boys and girls high school Athlete of the Year banquet at The Baltimore Sun.

It seems like an eternity since the Fallston Cougars won a third straight boys lacrosse state championship, but in reality it was just a week ago as I write this column.

The question of what to do with the world heavyweight title has been hanging over the WWE since Daniel Bryan announced two weeks ago that he needed surgery.

Maggie Gallagher is the third straight female C. Milton Wright student athlete to bring home the $5,000 Al Cesky Scholarship, while Eric Eckstein is the second Patterson Mill student in that school's history to be awarded.

Evolution distracted Roman Reigns long enough for Bray Wyatt to get the pin on Reigns. After the match, Evolution came down and laid waste to The Shield, including delivering a triple powerbomb to Reigns.

I had a chance to talk to MCW owner Dan McDevitt about these events, as well as his views on the good and bad about independent wrestling, Lita thanking the company in her Hall of Fame speech, and the wrestlers on the roster he feels could make it to the top of the business

Beat the Streets — Baltimore, founded by Lydell Henry and Hermondoz Thompson, uses wrestling to get city students involved in the sport and engage them in academics