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After scouring all three local newspapers, and Heather Dinich’s Blog on ESPN, it appears Patrick Stevens and his Washington Times Blog has the most, and best info on practice day one for Maryland Football.  Here are some highlights I read around the web today. Coach Friedgen and Don Brown are experimenting with moving Jared Harrell [...]

The Cal game is about 3 weeks away and already Maryland is a 21.5 point dog.   Cal is ranked very highly this preseason and they have possibly the nations top running back and a solid offense and defense.  They will be playing at home late in the evening just about the time the Terps would normally [...]

I just watched the Maryland Football Media Day interview with Coach Friedgen, and jotted down a few notes for those of you who don’t want to watch the half hour presser.  Today is after all the start of the football season for the Terps, but the first practice is going to be delayed until 7:00 [...]

Well I’m sitting down here in North Carolina, aka the heart of ACC Country as I begin my vacation.  Up in College Park there are a bunch of kids in the exact opposite situation.  For tomorrow is the start of fall practice, and for all intensive purposes, the start of the season.  In a way [...]

Personally I love kids like this.  Here is a quote from new Terp DB, Avery Graham in a Q & A with Matt Bracken:  “It was Maryland all the way. A lot of schools were contacting me, but I always liked the      Terps. I’m from Baltimore and I wanted to stay near my brother. I [...]

Good afternoon everyone.  I kind of alluded to this earlier, but over the last few days both Chris and I have been working on an interview with our friend over at the ACC and SEC blog.  The results have now been posted so please use the link on the right to go and check it [...]

We Terp fans have been very fortunate to have had great punters in the recent past, and Travis Baltz fits right in with the players before him.  Yesterday he was announced as one of 9 players on the Ray Guy Award Watch List. Sometimes you forget how valueable a punter can be, but anyone that [...]

Hello Everyone, the dog days of summer are upon us, which means students on their summer vacation are sadly coming to grips with the approach of fall.  But the atmosphere here at TD.com could not be any better.  We are just 5 days away from the opening of fall camp.  This of course means there will be a lot [...]

Next up in our “Meet the Newbies” series is Ryan Donohue.  Ryan is a LB prospect from Montvale, NJ.  For those keeping score, he is one of 7 LB’s we have coming in this year.  Actually I take that back.  We have 6 coming in this year.  David Mackall is going to prep school.  Now [...]

Sometimes on signing day you get an unexpected loss.  Rarely (at Maryland) do you get an unexpected gain.  Nick Klemm fits that mold.  He originally verballed to Boston College, but with the firing of Jeff Jagodzinksi he decided to make a change.  WIth that the Terps get a little more depth at offensive line, and [...]