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March is so much better when the Terps are great
By: Corey Johns
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 13 years since Maryland, the winners of the 2002 National Championship and participant in both the 2001 and 2002 Final Fours, has been to the Sweet 16. Maryland was a dominant force in college basketball in the 1990s and early 2000s, and always stayed relevant even during their darker years in the later 2000s and early 2010’s. But this now is a group that can beat any team on any given night if the play together.
Maryland does not have a pro basketball team to cheer for, with fans gravitating to the Washington Wizards for the most part, but there is no mistakes that the Terps are our team and when they are rolling, the basketball fans have something to rally around.
Sara Tarbert and the true meaning of amateur athletics
Perhaps you don’t follow NCAA Division III women’s basketball. It is not very likely you do, it’s definitely one of those things that you either had to play somewhere and just stuck with it or you have to know somebody who plays to check out what is going on; unless you’re a student of course, and even then. So in case you don’t follow it, here is the fill in: Stevenson has built a powerhouse.
Baltimore’s secret of a great basketball tradition
By: Corey Johns
Ten years ago I walked into Lids at White Marsh Mall and saw a Baltimore Bullets hat. It was a simple throwback cap with a blue base with the logo and red brim. I didn’t buy it, I was a broke high school kid with no money to pay for it at the time but figured after I got my paycheck from my little part time job I had while I was 16-years-old I would be able to go spend the $24.99 plus-tax to get it.
Two weeks later I walked back into that same store, but to my dismay the hat was gone. I asked the cashier what happened to them and they told me they were sold out and the retro-hats go on a five-year rotation, so I would have to wait five years before I could ever buy that hat again at a Lids store or from their website.
I was so upset. I really wanted that hat.
Transfers have been key to Terps success
By: Corey Johns
As great as Melo Trimble is and as big a game-changer as Jake Layman has the ability to be, Maryland is where they are right now because of their two transfers. Rasheed Sulaimon led Maryland with 21 points as they beat the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday to earn their fourth-straight victory. Robert Carter Jr. finished with 19 points and one of his four 3-pointers was a huge one with six minutes left that completely changed the momentum of the game and sparked Maryland’s run to victory.
All season long Sulaimon and Carter Jr. have been the difference makers for Maryland and both are playing this season with a chip on their shoulder.
Gallardo is the pitcher the O’s need
By: Corey Johns
Free agent pitcher Yovani Gallardo is expected to pick where he is playing in 2016 very soon and the Orioles are one of the three teams he remains interested in, along with the Houston Astros and Colorado Rockies.
Gallardo is far from Cy Young material and he’s only ever been selected to one All-Star game and that was back in 2010. But the 29-year-old right-handed pitcher who will be 30 by the start of the season is exactly what the Orioles need to help bolster their starting rotation that lost Wei-Yin Chen to the Miami Marlins.