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The Maryland Woman’s Lacrosse rallied today from a 6-0 hole to beat the defending Champion Northwestern Wildcats.  Not only is Northwestern the defending champs, but they have won 5 straight National Championships coming into today’s match up. Caitlyn McFadden scored the 12th goal of the day for the Terps with just over 5 minutes left.  [...]

I was going to wait until the end of the Maryland and Syracuse Ladies Lacrosse Semi Final.  That was when the score was 8-4.  The Terps have since rolled off 6 more goals and currently lead 15-5 with just over 2:00 minutes remaining in the game.  With the win at Johnny Unitas Stadium, Maryland will [...]

Under all the speculation, following the Terps early departure from the Lacross Tournament, Dave Cottle is stepping down from the head coaching position.  I don’t think there is any surprise amongst Terp fans that this is happening.  It was pretty much put in writing that if Maryland dind’t make the Final Four this year, Cottle’s [...]

The Maryland Men’s Lacrosse team failed to advance to the final four, falling to Notre Dame 7-5 in Princeton, NJ today.  This makes this years classs of Seniors only the second classes since 1971 to have never played in a Final Four.  That fact will certainly increase the temperature of Dave Cottle’s hot seat.  Cottle’s Terps [...]

The Terps turned away a pesky Hofstra team 11-8 to move to the Elite 8.  The Terps, taking a cue from Gary Williams Basketball Team are now 12-3 in first round NCAA action.  They will travel up to New Jersy next Saturday to take on Notre Dame who knocked off Princeton.  This will be interesting [...]

According to Matt Bracken at the Sun, the Terps have added the final piece to the incoming freshman class, by signing 6-10 Juco Center, Berend Weijs.  He will have two years of eligibility remaining after and will be available to play immediately. There have been some rumblings around the message boards about a big on [...]

Well, in my rant of all things I detest about the Big Ten yesterday, I picked on Penn State.  Low and Behold, the Terps Basketball Team will be traveling to Happy Valley to take on Penn State.  Not the marquee matchup I had hoped for, but I guess you couldn’t expect the powers to be [...]

This time of the college sports season is tough to come up with news worthy post, but there is one topic floating around out there that won’t go away.  Talk of Maryland to the Big 10(11) when they expand, which seems very likely, won’t go away, and here Andy Katz mentions Maryland.  It has been [...]

As the Terps move into the Post Season for Lacrosse, once again the story on the field is dwarfed by the events off of it.  The Murder of one UVA female Lacrosse player, by a member of the UVA Men’s team is a story that doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.  And it [...]

Though the late signing period for basketball has yet to pass, the Terps seem to be looking at a top  25 class in 2010.  In fact ESPN is putting them just outside the top 20.  Twenty First to be exact.  The Terps will be bringing in 5 kids this fall (maybe more since one scholarship [...]