Georgia Institute of Technology

Terps Trio: Final ACC hoops schedule, Vertrail Vaughns, Stefon Diggs & Tavon Austin

2013-04-26 09:42:00

�Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Is the Atlantic Coast Conference being vindictive with Maryland regarding its basketball schedule for its final season?...

Corey Fuller hopes next stop is in the NFL

2013-04-19 14:23:00

There was a time, not too long ago, when the NFL draft wasn't on Corey Fuller's radar. Without a football scholarship offer during his senior year at Woodlawn, Fuller went to Kansas to run track and compete in the triple jump. After two years there,...

Injury-prone Terps women have plenty in common with Michigan State

2013-03-24 12:41:00

When the Maryland women's basketball team steps onto the court Monday night for its NCAA tournament second-round game at Comcast Center, the Terps will be without two starters and a reserve because of injury and another starter who's recovering from...

Short-handed Terps women find a way to beat long odds

2013-03-08 00:00:00

Shortly before the 10th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team was to begin practice the other afternoon, junior forward Alyssa Thomas was bothered by a touch of stomach discomfort. Coach Brenda Frese didn't think twice before telling the Terps' most...

Terps Trio: Surprise football players, top ACC hoops venues, Melo Trimble

2013-03-01 09:24:00

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.� Who could be some of the surprise players to emerge from spring practice for the Terps? Don Markus:...

Laurel products prepare for March Madness [Commentary]

2013-02-28 13:27:00

Jonathan Arledge is a smooth 6-foot-9 basketball player with a nice outside shooting touch for a big man, and the ability to also make nice moves near the basket. With little body fat, the Laurel Boys and Girls Club product and former Meade High School...

College Lines

2013-02-13 00:00:00

BREVARD COLLEGE: Brevard College in Brevard, N.C., has named Antonio Johnson of Forest Hill to the honor roll for the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Hanna Stambaugh, a 2012 graduate of Bel Air High School, was...

Public Records Requests Yield Glimpse of ACC Special Admit athletes

2012-12-24 03:46:00

We know that universities often use forgiving admissions criteria to admit top athletes who wouldn't otherwise get in. But what happens to these football and basketball players once they arrive in their college classrooms? Do their grades ever catch...

'Special admissions' bring colleges top athletes, educational challenges

2012-12-22 11:22:00

It has become part of college sports -- as ingrained as dunks and FieldTurf -- for large universities to accept prized basketball and football recruits and other athletes under more forgiving admissions criteria than are used for other students. Less...

Wide receiver Brandon Turner returns to leadership role for Midshipmen

2012-12-22 09:53:00

There are days when Navy wide receiver Brandon Turner wonders how he is still at the academy, his college football career winding down and graduation within sight. Many of those who Turner started with at the Naval Academy Prep School five years ago are...

ACC files lawsuit against Maryland in North Carolina court

2012-11-27 16:52:00

University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh has asserted repeatedly that the school would not end up paying the full exit fee of more than $50 million to the Atlantic Coast Conference. Loh, a Yale law graduate, has said the court would throw that...

Navy hopes to reverse trend of bowl defeats Saturday vs. Arizona State

2012-12-26 14:27:00

If anyone wants to nitpick at Navy's football success over the past decade, a starting point — and finish line — might be the team's record in bowl games. Going into Saturday's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against Arizona State (7-5) at San...

Kyle Seymour has been appointed president of SC Electric Company. Seymour has served on SC's board of directors since 2010. He succeeds John Estey, who will continue to serve full time as SC's executive chairman. Seymour brings extensive leadership and manufacturing experience to SC.

2013-01-09 10:55:00

Matthew Wagner has joined Ghafari Associates as manager of structural engineering in Chicago. He comes to Ghafari from Walter P Moore, where he served as a principal, chaired the construction administration task force and led the design of numerous projects.

2012-11-28 22:41:00