Underrated: Pittsburgh. The Panthers lost six games between Feb. 2 and March 1; thus their No. 6 seed. But it's worth noting that they have since avenged two of those losses, to Notre Dame and West Virginia, and that their loss to Rutgers in early February was only by four points. With All-America candidates Marcedes Walker and Shavonte Zellous delivering a reliable inside-out attack, the Panthers are dangerous.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama pulled support from virtually all sectors of the voting public Tuesday on his way to defeating rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Democratic primaries, according to CNN exit polling.
Republican front-runner John McCain fended off former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Virginia's presidential primary Tuesday and cruised to wins the other two "Potomac Primaries," but exit polls show the party's conservative core remains cool to the Arizona senator.
Business was brisk at polling places in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday, where primaries could answer key questions in the Democratic and Republican nomination races.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The moment was made for an end-of-the-game SportsCenter celebration highlight. Maryland senior Barnable Osby jumped on James Gist, his face lit up with excitement and his Ben Wallace-style hair shaking, after Gist drew a charge and sent the Terps into halftime with a nine-point lead. The Maryland crowd, which came armed with Duke-hating signs and wearing T-shirts like "Duck Fuke", was wild with excitement, waiting for another upset of a top-five Tobacco Road team.
I once heard a friend of Maryland coach Gary Williams describe him thusly: "He has an overriding sense of misery, which sustains him in times of happiness." That may not sound like a compliment, but in Williams' bizzaro world, it is. If the best of times are never as good as they seem, then the worst of times can't be all that bad.
Dear FSB: I'm starting a small business in building services. I'm already operating in two small locations. My first service has been to clean the offices in these buildings on a trial basis for the owner, who has other properties. The owner says he really likes my work. The owners of the buildings I've been working in know that I don't have a business license and that I'm trying out this type of business for the first time. I know that the next step is to get a business license but after that, what next? Help.
SI.com's Stewart Mandel analyzes the matchup.
Add Bill Clinton to the list of people who want answers to the most vexing questions in women's college basketball. Last May the former president approached Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer at a birthday party in Atlanta for civil rights activist Andrew Young. "He sees me and he says, Come here," recalls Stringer. "I was like, Oh, my God'. Then he put his arm on my shoulder and said, 'Man, I taped those games. I love those games. I was sure you were going to win the game against Tennessee. And you just made short order of LSU.' I said, 'You watched the games?' He said, 'Are you kidding me? I didn't know what you were going to do with Sylvia Fowles?'" Not many people do. How to stop the LSU All-America center is just one of the questions teams will have to answer on the road to the Final Four in Tampa. With the season just underway, let's go around SI's preseason Top 10 to answer some burning questions:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The buzz around here may be about Saturday's Kansas-Mizzou football game, but there was some pretty good college hoops on the docket at the CBE Classic, which was played at the new downtown Sprint Center. I enjoy coming to these two-day events because it gives me a chance to see good teams play twice in person.
Underrated: Pittsburgh. The Panthers lost six games between Feb. 2 and March 1; thus their No. 6 seed. But it's worth noting that they have since avenged two of those losses, to Notre Dame and West Virginia, and that their loss to Rutgers in early February was only by four points. With All-America candidates Marcedes Walker and Shavonte Zellous delivering a reliable inside-out attack, the Panthers are dangerous.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama pulled support from virtually all sectors of the voting public Tuesday on his way to defeating rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., Democratic primaries, according to CNN exit polling.
Republican front-runner John McCain fended off former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Virginia's presidential primary Tuesday and cruised to wins the other two "Potomac Primaries," but exit polls show the party's conservative core remains cool to the Arizona senator.
Business was brisk at polling places in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday, where primaries could answer key questions in the Democratic and Republican nomination races.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The moment was made for an end-of-the-game SportsCenter celebration highlight. Maryland senior Barnable Osby jumped on James Gist, his face lit up with excitement and his Ben Wallace-style hair shaking, after Gist drew a charge and sent the Terps into halftime with a nine-point lead. The Maryland crowd, which came armed with Duke-hating signs and wearing T-shirts like "Duck Fuke", was wild with excitement, waiting for another upset of a top-five Tobacco Road team.
I once heard a friend of Maryland coach Gary Williams describe him thusly: "He has an overriding sense of misery, which sustains him in times of happiness." That may not sound like a compliment, but in Williams' bizzaro world, it is. If the best of times are never as good as they seem, then the worst of times can't be all that bad.
Dear FSB: I'm starting a small business in building services. I'm already operating in two small locations. My first service has been to clean the offices in these buildings on a trial basis for the owner, who has other properties. The owner says he really likes my work. The owners of the buildings I've been working in know that I don't have a business license and that I'm trying out this type of business for the first time. I know that the next step is to get a business license but after that, what next? Help.
SI.com's Stewart Mandel analyzes the matchup.
Add Bill Clinton to the list of people who want answers to the most vexing questions in women's college basketball. Last May the former president approached Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer at a birthday party in Atlanta for civil rights activist Andrew Young. "He sees me and he says, Come here," recalls Stringer. "I was like, Oh, my God'. Then he put his arm on my shoulder and said, 'Man, I taped those games. I love those games. I was sure you were going to win the game against Tennessee. And you just made short order of LSU.' I said, 'You watched the games?' He said, 'Are you kidding me? I didn't know what you were going to do with Sylvia Fowles?'" Not many people do. How to stop the LSU All-America center is just one of the questions teams will have to answer on the road to the Final Four in Tampa. With the season just underway, let's go around SI's preseason Top 10 to answer some burning questions:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The buzz around here may be about Saturday's Kansas-Mizzou football game, but there was some pretty good college hoops on the docket at the CBE Classic, which was played at the new downtown Sprint Center. I enjoy coming to these two-day events because it gives me a chance to see good teams play twice in person.
A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths on America's tolerance of homosexuals.
A roof collapsed Wednesday at a hotel in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
American Home Mortgage Investment bounced property tax checks for some Maryland homeowners, local and state officials said Monday, and they have demanded an explanation from the bankrupt mortgage lender and servicer.
Four winning tickets were sold -- one in each of four states -- for a Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $330 million, lottery officials said early Saturday.
Maryland is now the wealthiest state in the union, as measured by median household income, according to the latest stats from the Census Bureau.
Based on the arrival of offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, other changes to the offensive staff and the return of 15 starters, Florida State expects to be significantly improved.
Maryland beekeepers have lost 45 percent of their bees since last year -- but the death toll is likely attributable to weather, not a national trend of mysterious die-offs
"They got themselves into this mess and I don't want my tax dollars used to get them out of it." That's the attitude of many when it comes to bailing out subprime borrowers from bad loans.
What's happening in Maryland? On Tuesday, Maryland became the first state in the union to drop out of college. The electoral college, that is.
The University of Mississippi didn't lose a thing in the fall of 1962. Oh, the history books might say something different, telling as they do of a black man named James Meredith and the failed, violent efforts to keep him from enrolling at the school, and the beginning of the end of segregation in the depths of the South. But posterity also records that after the gun smoke and tear gas had blown from the campus, the Ole Miss football team went 10-0, even as it shared its practice field with the federal troops bivouacked there. It was no small balm to white Mississippians, who watched what they called "our way of life" come forcefully to a close. In his autobiography the coach of that undefeated team, John Vaught, described the effect in a chapter titled "Football Saves a School."
HARTFORD, Connecticut -- On the jumbo screen high above a sparsely-populated Hartford Civic Center, they showed highlights at halftime of better times for Maryland. As the film of last year's national championship rolled to a close, the crowd watched Duke's Jessica Foley miss a desperation 3-pointer from long-range in overtime. It marked the beginning of the party in College Park. The end came hard Tuesday night in Hartford.
When it comes to how U.S. states are adapting to an evolving economy, not all are created equal, according to a study released Tuesday.
A record snowfall -- never before have as many as 25 inches fallen in Burlington, Vt., in a 24-hour period -- led my ABA team, the Vermont Frost Heaves, to postpone our game with the Maryland Nighthawks last Thursday. The decision didn't follow only from prudence, though a snow emergency still had the streets around Memorial Auditorium choked with heaps of the white stuff, and we certainly didn't want our opponents to hurry their bus ride up from the mid-Atlantic in hazardous conditions. By carrying the game over a day, we bridged it to a walkup-friendly Friday night, and got another news cycle of promotion out of the player Maryland had somehow folded into that bus.
We'll have to wait another week to see if Duke falls from its spot atop the Power Rankings. The Blue Devils and North Carolina will settle that on Thursday. They might not have changed position this week, but several of our top teams have. Ohio State and Connecticut are moving up while other title hopefuls head in the opposite direction, including defending national champion Maryland. Back-to-back losses have the Terrapins on the slide. They're out of the top five for the first time this season.
Duke sophomore guard Abby Waner hesitates to use the word redemption, but she knows that's one of the possibilities offered by Saturday's game between No. 3 Duke and No. 1 Maryland, a rematch of the 2006 NCAA title game that Maryland won 78-75 in overtime.
The cost of a college education may be rising scary fast, but the act of saving for it is finally getting cheaper. Competition has broken out among providers of 529s--the tax-advantaged plans for f...
Four more years in the classroom should be looking pretty good to high school graduates if future salary is important to them, according to new Census data released Thursday.
From a Santa Monica, California, office building on the West Coast to a Gaithersburg, Maryland, youth center in the East, buildings designed to be energy efficient and conserve natural resources are sprouting up across the country.
A federal judge in Baltimore has overturned Maryland's so-called "Wal-Mart healthcare bill," which forced the nation's biggest retailer to provide more employee health care benefits.
Traffic backed up on the major highway into Annapolis, Maryland, after a wayward barge loaded with rocks temporarily got stuck under a bridge, officials said Tuesday.
Officials in some states are considering caps to control increased electric rates, according to a published report.
I'm 25 years old and have about $10,000 in my 401(k). My plan offers a number of index and actively managed funds and I contribute 6 percent of salary a year, which, combined with my employer's full match, adds another $8,500 annually. I'd like to employ an aggressive investing strategy that will make my savings grow over the next 35 years. What do you recommend?
By passing the so-called "Wal-Mart healthcare bill," Maryland became the first state in the country to set a law that would fine big companies for not picking up their fair share of employee healthcare coverage.
I heard on a radio program that if you invest $1,000 in stocks or stock funds and earn 20 percent a year, you will be a millionaire after 36 years. Is this true, and, if so, how would I get started on such a plan?
Worried Republican leaders from both the House and Senate cleared out staffers Wednesday for the first night of their three-day retreat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to discuss their anxiety about the question of ethics.
Call it the Quest for the Holy Trail.
My husband and I are planning to move back home to Ohio from suburban Maryland, where we own a house that we figure has increased in value by $200,000 or so. Our plan is to buy a cheaper house in Ohio (which shouldn't be a problem given the difference in real estate prices between Maryland and Ohio) so I can work fewer hours a week and spend more time taking care of our infant daughter.
I'm restarting my life after my divorce. Now that I have to pay child support, I'm not sure how much I can afford to pay in rent each month. Is there a certain percentage of income I should devote to rent and, if so, should I base that percentage on my gross or take-home pay?
In order to take better care of my mother-in-law, who is fighting emphysema and alcoholism, my wife and I have decided to sell our townhouse in Virginia and move to Maryland. We have lived in our home less than two years, however, so we are afraid we will have to pay capital gains taxes on the profit when we sell.
A suspect arrested Wednesday morning in connection with the D.C. serial arson investigation has confessed to at least 33 fires that had been linked to the probe, and to some others that had not been, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.
I'm 28, single and make $66,000. I'm thinking of buying a house to save on taxes. What else can I do to pay as little tax as possible?
Five men accused of arson in a December spree that damaged or destroyed more than 40 homes in the Washington suburbs were indicted Monday on federal charges, prosecutors said.
A security guard was arrested on arson charges Thursday in connection with the fires that destroyed 10 homes under construction in a Maryland subdivision outside Washington last week, authorities said.
Nineteen of 26 homes burned in a Charles County, Maryland, subdivision were the result of arson, authorities said Wednesday.
Authorities investigating suspicious fires that destroyed 12 homes and damaged 14 others in a Charles County subdivision are looking for the driver of a blue van that was seen in the area when the fires broke out, a federal law enforcement source close to the investigation told CNN on Wednesday.
A new federal law that entitles consumers to free credit reports sounds great, but the devil is definitely in the details.
The seven semifinalists that vied with our winners should make a mark. Besides the four profiled here, they include Carnegie Mellon's ClearCount, which has found a way to keep surgical sponges from...
On September 14, the Maryland Court of Appeals -- the state's highest court -- issued a crucial ruling. In its decision, it rejected a challenge to Maryland's current electronic touch-screen voting machine system -- slated to be used on November 2, everywhere in the state but in Baltimore.
The parents of an abandoned 3-year-old girl who calls herself Courtney have been identified, a Maryland official announced Thursday evening.
Jeffrey Liss had finished making his selections on Maryland's Democratic-primary ballot and strolled out of the polling place at Chevy Chase Elementary School on the morning of March 2, Super Tuesday.
A woman's fitness on a treadmill exam may help determine a woman's risk of heart disease, a study suggests.
A freight train carrying a hazardous material derailed Saturday in northeastern Maryland, forcing the evacuation of a small community. No injuries were reported, said a spokesman for the Cecil County Department of Public Safety.
Q. My New Year's resolution was to rebalance my portfolio and replace my stinker mutual funds with index funds. When I reviewed my portfolio's 2003 performance, however, I noticed that many of my losers had 20 to 30 percent gains and my biggest loser had a 60 percent gain. I'm still way below my break even point for these funds, but now I'm wondering if I should continue with my index fund strategy. What do you think?
Preliminary tests on a white, powdery substance found in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist indicate the presence of the deadly substance ricin, a Homeland Security official said Monday.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 95 south of Baltimore, Maryland, have reopened about 12 hours after a tanker truck fell from an overpass, exploding on impact and killing five people, officials said.
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