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Greivis Vasquez is entering his name for the NBA draft.  The good news for Maryland fans is he is not hiring an agent.  This allows him to withdraw his name from the draft by June 15th, and return to the Terps.  This allows Vasquez to guage the interest of NBA teams, while working out at [...]

All major local media outlets (turtledroppings.com included) are reporting Sophomore Center Braxton Dupree will be transferring.  In 25 games with the Terps, Braxton averaged 2.1 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.  He showed promise a couple of times, and then he would regress.  Each season his minutes decreased as the season moved on.  There has [...]

Well we are in the final week leading up to Draft Day.  Now I love the NFL, it is a great league, perhaps the pinicle of what professional sports could be (are you listening Bud Selig?).  But I don’t get excited for the draft.  I mean how exciting is it to watch an event that [...]

The Terps Men’s Basketball team held it’s annual Basketball Awards Celebration last week.  Gary Williams gave the team MVP award to both Greivis Vasquez and Dave Neal.  For Neal it was based on his much needed leadership, as much as his play.  Vasquez also won the award for the most assists with 176 for the [...]

The Terps held their second scrimmage yesterday at Byrd Stadium.  Last weeks scrimmage belonged to the defense.  This weeks belonged to Torrey Smith and the offense.  Smith had 5 catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns.  He also recorded a TD with a 96 yard kick off return.  Chris Turner again didn’t have great numbers, [...]

MASN.com is reporting Greg Paulus spent his Wednesday visiting the University of Michigan to explore the possibility of becoming the next Wolverine Quarterback!  For those that remember, Greg Paulus was a super recruit for football coming out of high school, but he instead choose to play Basketball for Coach K and the Duke Blue Devils.  [...]

The first true Maryland football scrimmage took place Saturday.  The day belonged to the Terps defense.  There were four interceptions (two by Kenny Tate), eight sacks, and a blocked FG attempt.  Seeing stats like that from our defense remind me of a line from We Are Marshall.  “The offensive line isn’t so good.  Yeah and [...]

First of all Happy Easter from Turtledroppings.com.  May you get plenty of products that combine both chocolate and peanut butter. I wish I had more good news to write about, but that doesn’t appear to really be the case.  Yesterday the Terps Lacrosse team lost yet another game to John’s Hopkins (this rivalary seems to [...]

Though their college careers ended a little earlier than they would have liked, they didn’t have to wait long to hear their names called to start their professional careers.  Former Terps Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver were selected 2nd and 3rd respectively in the WNBA draft.  Coleman went to the Washington Mystics with the second [...]

According to the Baltimore Sun, Darrius Heyward-Bey has been busy lately.  This week he made trips to Minnesota and St. Louis to meet with the coaching staffs there.  Add in his work outs with Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, and Miami Dolphins and it is easy to say that Heyward-Bey is drawing much interest.  In fact there [...]