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Notebook: Mount's Scalley, Loyola's Ratliff earn conference honors

2013-04-22 21:35:00

A move to the midfield paid big dividends for Mount St. Mary's senior Andrew Scalley (Archbishop Spalding), who was named the Northeast Conference men's lacrosse Player of the Week for the fifth time this season. Scalley factored in on six of the Mount'...

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2013-04-01 00:00:00

To celebrate the start of a new baseball season, we've gathered some of our favorite longform baseball stories, by us and others, and are presenting them exclusively on our new tablet and smartphone site. Stories about Cal Ripken Jr.'s childhood,...

How much higher can Donkey Kong characters jump if they're on Mars?

2013-03-11 06:55:00

It's not quite Mother's Day in America yet, but you can send your parents cool footage of a physicist talking about rubber bands. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for Monday, March 11, 2013. Richard Feynman's discussion of hacking elasticity...

Is there an underdog in the AL East this season?

2013-02-22 05:00:00

Here’s another subplot in the build-up to what should be a free-for-all in the AL East this summer: Almost every team in the division can play the nobody-believed-in-us card. With the exception of maybe the Blue Jays, who generated the most...

Peter Schmuck's thoughts and observations from Orioles' intrasquad games

2013-02-20 11:19:00

No matter how pleasant it is to spend a few weeks in Florida this time of year, you can only watch so many pitchers cover first base or throw off the half-mound before you start pining for some actual competition. The players and coaches feel the same...

What they're saying about the Orioles (2/20)

2013-02-20 06:00:00

When sifting through the national media's coverage of the Orioles this offseason, it isn’t tough to notice a trend. The pundits love Dylan Bundy, they really like Buck Showalter – but ultimately they’re pretty sold that the Orioles are...

Mardi Gras, Grammy red carpet and The Walking Dead

2013-02-11 05:08:00

Welcome to Mardi Gras week. Even on a Monday, Internet users have plenty to gawk at as New Orleans avoids allowing a celebration to get in the way of a shooting, the Pope resigns for the� first time since the Middle Ages, and Jack White brings down...

The future may hold space porn over free Wi-Fi

2013-02-04 06:49:00

Happy Super Bowl Monday, Baltimore. Unsurprisingly, game-related topics are getting a lot of attention online today, along with several news stories that broke as the weekend was commencing. That latter category includes the possibility of large, free Wi-...

A fire in Brazil, a fake fight in Phoenix and a real one in California

2013-01-28 06:54:00

Dick Van Dyke brought his characteristic charm to the SAG Awards this weekend, and Internet users dutifully searched for all sorts of details on him -- anything to distract us from the icy weather that caused school closings from here to Ann Arbor.�...

Instagram, X specs and a Kevin Bacon premiere

2013-01-22 07:20:00

As traffic continues to flow to coverage of Super Bowl preparations, the Roe vs. Wade anniversary and post-inaugural activities, a few newer topics have also bubbled to the surface in our collective consciousness. Instagram is posting impressive numbers,...

Inauguration, Spanish politics and Super Bowl prep

2013-01-21 06:28:00

Barack Obama may already have been officially inaugurated yesterday, but don't tell that to the people on Washington's National Mall this morning: A second, more outdoor ceremony today will give the public a view as Obama starts his second term. Some of...

Digest: Terps' Hawkins, Thomas make Wooden Top 20 list

2013-01-22 21:37:00

College basketball Terps' Hawkins, Thomas make Wooden Top 20 list Senior Tianna Hawkins and junior Alyssa Thomas of the 10th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team were named to the John R.Wooden Midseason Top 20 list, released Tuesday. The forward...

As expected, there was nothing revolutionary about the boatload of upgrades introduced at today�s Google I/O conference, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a whole lot of very cool stuff announced.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Why: Roger Ebert, the popular film critic and television co-host who along with his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel could lift or sink the fortunes of a movie with their trademark thumbs up or thumbs down, died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 70.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

The tech giant's social network also got in on the jokes with a new feature called "photos +Emotion" that add emoticons to users photos.

2013-04-01 10:48:00