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The Lady Terps fell a game short of making the Final Four by losing to Louisville last night.   It wasn’t the way Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver wanted to end thier careers, but when they look back they will have a lot of fond memories of their time as Terps.  Thought it will be of [...]

I don’t have time to go as in depth as I do for the men’s games, but when the Maryland Lady Terps are in the Elite 8, and have a chance to get to their second Final Four in 4 years, you have to give them some time.  First of all, they will face Louisville [...]

It was a great second week of the tournament.  Some of that may have been boosted by the fact the East Regional was in my home town of Boston, and I got to go see one of the best tournament games in years, but there were some good games, and some head scratchers out there.  [...]

We will start with the bad.  Today the Men’s Lacrosse team lost a heart breaker to the undefeated Cavaliers of Virginia down in Charlottesville.  The game went into a record 7 overtimes.  It didn’t end without controversy as the Terps scored an overtime goal on a play just seconds after the referee blew his whistle [...]

The Road to the Final Four is littered with ACC corpses!  With Dukes loss to Villanova last night there now remains just one ACC school in post season play.  Tonight UNC takes on Gonzaga to move on to the Elite 8.  I often have a conflict about how to feel when ACC schools get knocked [...]

Though basketball season isn’t quite officially over yet, and we now haveSpring Football to also talk about, one of the major stories going forward for the next month is going to be the drafting of Darrius Heyward-Bey.  The Baltimore Sun is doing a series of articles following Darrius as he prepares for the draft.  The [...]

Where to begin with this Maryland article?  There is so much to cover.  As the title suggest, the Lady Terps Basketball team defeated Utah 71-56 to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.  Seniors Marissa Coleman (18 points and 18 rebounds) and Kristi Toliver (17 points) led the way in a game that was close for the [...]

The Maryland Women’s Basketball Team will take on the #9 seed Utah after Utah defeated #8 Villanova on Sunday.  The Terps defeated Dartmouth on Sunday to set today’s 7:00 PM match up on ESPN.  The game will mark the final home game of Seniors Kristi Toliver and Marissa Coleman.  Toliver scored 23 of her 27 [...]

Well things did not go as planned yesterday afternoon.  In fact it was pretty much worse case scenario.  When top seeds struggle in the first round, history seems to dictate that they come out a lot stronger in the second round.  I guess you can add yesterday’s results to the evidence file that supports that [...]

When you ask a bunch of grade school kids what they want to be when they grow you will get a lot of ambitious answers.  Some will say President, some will say a Big CEO, Astronaught, or a famous athlete, but what these kids fail to realize at that these jobs, though well paying, also [...]