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This is just brutal.  Basketball is off for 10 days, the Humanitarian Bowl still feels like forever away, and there just doesn’t seem to be anything to do.  We’ll luckily College Football will be back at it soon enough.  On Saturday Navy will take on Wake Forest at 11 in DC for the first ever Eagle Bank [...]

Well regardless to how you feel about having to settle for the Humanitarian Bowl, after darn near clinching the Atlantic Division, the fact is, our next game is in Boise on December 30th, so we might as well get used to it.  And “getting used to it” is the key word.  What I’m going to [...]

With the Terps Men’s Soccer Team winning another National Championship, it got me wondering how many the school has in all sports.  Here is the list I could come up with from Wikipedia.   It is interesting they already had the 08 soccer championship on there.  Anyway here is the list. Men’s Basketball 2002 Women’s Basketball [...]

Wow, we launched this site just over a week ago and we already have a National Championship to write about.  Congratulations to Sasho Cirvoski and the University of Maryland Men’s Soccer Team.  Once again Graham Zusi came up huge putting away a deflection into the lower left hand side of the net with just 23:50 [...]

Jut wanted to remind everyone, today at 1:00 PM, Maryland Terps Soccer faces the University of North Carolina for the College Cup (National Championship).  The game will be televised on ESPN 2.  (I hope it is in HD).  MD is 22-3 and on the year after defeating St. Johns to get to the championship game, [...]

Remember in my pregame article I talked about how the Terps used to slap on the press and the other team would look like a deer in headlights?Well the boys used full court pressure to help lead to easy baskets against Delaware State.  In fact there was a time where I started to feel bad [...]

Of course we all know 1 pm on Sundays is football time, but this Sunday you have an option to the NFL slate.  Congratulations to the Maryland Terrapins Soccer Team and Coach Sasho Cirovski.  For those who didn’t tune in, the Terps won a thriller in overtime to advance to the NCAA Championship where they will take on [...]

I just read Jerome Burney is out 3-6 weeks with a stress fracture in his foot.  Just when the guy looks like he could play a few minutes of defense, he goes out.  I guess this will open the door for Braxton Dupree to try and earn some more minutes.  I don’t think it will [...]

With the departure of Chris Cosh, the defenisve reins appear to be going to Al Seamonson, or as my one lettered friend J says “Al Seamonster”.  Though Seamonson has the interim title for now, it doesn’t appear that he will necessarily be the man for the job moving forward.  According to the Baltimore Sun Ralph [...]

On Friday night the Beloved Terps face off against the Hornets of Delaware State at 8 pm, and televised on Comcast Sports Net (Get Your Game on, Comcast Sports Net).  Here are some pregame nuggets for you.  Since we don’t often get to play the Hornets, we will give you a little background about the [...]