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You may think I am thinking about the little trick-or-treaters that will soon be knocking on the door asking for MY Reese’s Cups, but actually I am referring to the Maryland Basketball team.  In both the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, and the AP Poll the Terps are the first team listed in “Others Receiving Votes”.  [...]

Where have you been bye week?  We’ve been waiting forever for you.  Of course by now there is nothing a Bye Week can do to turn this season around.  It’s like calling a timeout after a team has gone on a 27-2 run (you see I’m starting to get my mind into basketball mode).   Anyway, [...]

After watching the game Saturday, I was fortunate to have to go to a wedding, with an open bar.  What game?  I pretty much moved on when I was yelling for my wife to hurry up because the cab was here.  Anyway, I just want to throw some points out there.
This season is a wash, [...]

I’m not going to recap the Duke loss.  I can only re-write the same material so many times.  Turnover this, penalty that…whatever.  I find the fumble of the punt to end the game more ironic now than anything to get angry about.  Sure if Tony Logan held on to it we might of had a chance to [...]

Boxing is one of those sports where I never once fantasized about being a champion.  As a child, I dreamed of catching the winning pass in the Super Bowl, I dreamed of hitting the walk off bottom of the ninth, down 3 runs in game 7 with the bases loaded grand slam.  I even dreamed about [...]

This is weird.  Maryland is heading into Duke, and is not favored. If it were basketball, we wouldn’t really think anything about it.  However, this is football, and that is a sad state of affairs.  Enough, about what could have been and let’s take a look at the Devils.  First of all, they are coming [...]

I don’t even know what to say anymore.  We are offically underdogs going into Duke.  If this was the show “Intervention” this would be the part where we wake up naked in a ditch somewhere.  We have indeed reached rock bottom.  What scares me the most about this year is that we could very easily [...]

They are not reverting back to the days of Miami, when it was cool to wear fatigues while getting off the plane.  The Terps (and South Carolina) are going to wear specially designed camouflage uniforms on November 14th vs Virginia Tech in honor of Veterans Day and in support of a program called the Wounded [...]

In a game the Terps needed to keep both bowl hopes and division championships alive, they fell flat again, and to make it worse, it was against UVA.  This week (like most weeks when they have lost) they were bitten by the turnover bug, with the most unfortunate being Chris Turner’s pass that was deflected [...]

Well I’ll be leaving pretty soon for College Park, but before I do I just wanted to do a quick post.  I never say that when a player is out for our opponents it is good news because A. It isn’t very sportsmanlike and B. Usually the player who replaces them does just as well [...]