Maryland Terrapins Rumors & News
Ferrara may not play; Eaton hasn't interviewed
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — *I did a brief piece on interim athletic director Randy Eaton noting that he has not been asked to interview for the permanent AD job. He's known among coaches as a good guy and a straight shooter, but he has not been a permanent athletic director before. I also wrote in the same piece about Maryland's just-released men's hoops schedule. *Adrenalin-fueled Maryland coaches have been pacing around Gossett Football Team House this week as if they've been drinking too much coffee. After all those intra-squad scrimmages, they can't wait to get to Baltimore to play Navy on Monday. I suspect they're ...
9 hours agoVirginia, Maryland men's soccer again should be near the top this season
Washington Post — The Cavaliers and the Terrapins are the past two NCAA champions.
20 hours agoTerps have challenging nonconference hoops schedule
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — Maryland's just-released men's hoops schedule is out, and the non-conference portion appears to be upgraded -- mostly because of the top-grade competition in the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. I knew about most of the opponents in advance -- as most of you did as well. But it's still fun to get the schedule, look at the dates and times. Happy schedule day! The Terps will play at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 18 against Pittsburgh, then play either Illinois or Texas the following night. The Terps always have a challenging early-season tournament -- and this one more than quali...
September 2, 2010Maryland hoops schedule is released
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — Here, courtesy of the ACC, is Maryland's just-released men's hoops schedule. Analysis to follow shortly. Terps men's basketball schedule N8 Seattle CSN 8:00 Coaches vs. Cancer, College Park, Md. N10 College of Charleston ESPNU 7:00 Coaches vs. Cancer, College Park, Md. N14 Maine CSN/NESN 2:00 N18 vs. Pittsburgh ESPN2 7:00 Coaches vs. Cancer, New York, N.Y. N19 in Coaches vs. Cancer ESPN2 5/7:00 Coaches vs. Cancer, New York, N.Y. N23 Delaware State 8:00 N26 Elon CSN 8:00 D1 at Penn State ESPN2 9:15 D5 vs. Temple MASN/FSN 8:00 BB&T; Classic, Washington, D.C. D8 UNCG CSN 7:30 D12 Boston College ...
September 2, 2010Maryland football Coach Ralph Friedgen is preaching patience this season
Washington Post — Even though A.J. Francis recognized the burly, balding figure roaming the locker room after Maryland's first practice of training camp, the sophomore nose tackle didn't believe his eyes.
September 2, 2010Defending Navy's Triple Option
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — Maryland defensive coordinator Don Brown didn't need to be introduced this year to the sort of triple option attack that Navy will employ Monday in the season opener at M&T; Bank Stadium. He had seen it firsthand before. The idea of practicing against the triple option without a ball -- which the Terps did recently -- had long been employed by Brown, the former University of Massachusetts head coach. The idea is to get your defenders to stick to their assignments and not be frozen by all the trickery. Brown's UMass teams had some success against the triple option. They also gave up some big ya...
September 1, 2010Maryland football shuffles players in an attempt to get up to speed
Washington Post — After a season in which the Maryland football team allowed too many big plays and finished 100th nationally in scoring defense, coaches addressed one of their primary weaknesses: speed.
August 31, 2010Injury leaves Terps kicking a question mark
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — * Maryland TE Devonte Campbell (knee) is out of the Navy game, coach Friedgen says. That means the top two at the position (Lansford Watson is the other) won't play. Campbell hopes to return soon, but Watson is done for the season. *Maryland's kicking is a question mark because K Nick Ferrara has a nagging groin injury and needs to improve his field goal percentage, Fridge says. Ferrara had a good freshman season last year, and Fridge hopes he will be back soon. If Ferrara can't play Monday -- it will be a game-time decision -- .punter Travis Baltz will handle all the kicking. *Fridge says ...
August 31, 2010For Terps, Navy week begins
Tracking the Terps | Baltimore Sun — Finally, a real game week is upon us. Maryland's training camp is officially over, and the season begins in a week. Actually, it felt like game week had already begun. That's because the Terps began preparing early for Navy. If there's one team you'd like to do extra homework on, it's Navy and its triple-option offense. As I wrote last week, the Terps practiced without a ball last week to simulate Navy's offense at full speed. The Terps say they got better at wrapping up everybody -- the quarterback,. the wing man and anybody else (Bill the Goat?) who might take a pitch from Ricky Dobbs. Nev...
August 30, 2010ACC hopes to be a player on the national football scene
Washington Post — Five ACC teams are in the preseason top 20, but whether any of those teams will be one of the last two playing in January is still up in the air.
August 29, 2010Maryland Terrapins merchandise
- Singler has arthroscopic knee surgery ACC Now | News & Observer Duke senior forward Kyle Singler, who was named the most outstandidng player of the 2010 Final Four, had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this afternoon at the Duke University Medical Center, the school announced. Singler is expected to make a full recovery before the start of practice on Oct. 15. “Kyle had some discomfort in his knee following a very busy summer so we elected to go in and clean it up prior to the start of the season,” said Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski. “By all accounts, today’s surgery was a success and Kyle will be back at f...
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- Duke's Singler has arthroscopic knee surgery Above the Rims | Charlotte Observer Duke senior forward Kyle Singler, who was named the most outstandidng player of the 2010 Final Four, had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this afternoon at the Duke University Medical Center, the school announced.Singler is expected to make a full recovery before the start of practice on Oct. 15.“Kyle had some discomfort in his knee following a very busy summer so we elected to go in and clean it up prior to the start of the season,” said Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski. “By all accounts, today’s surgery was a success and Kyle will be back at full strength before the start o...
- Trustees' chair backs Davis, Baddour Observations from 50-yard Line | Charlotte Observer UNC Board of Trustees chair Bob Winston said he is "extremely saddened and disappointed" with the school's football scandal today, but said he backs coach Butch Davis and athletic director Dick Baddour as the Tar Heels move forward.Twelve UNC players are being held out of Saturday's season opener against LSU, and three more have not made the trip to Atlanta for the game but may be cleared in time to play."I think we have the right guy as our coach," Winston said. "I feel that Butch Davis is going to take a look at what’s happened and will figure the best way to move forward. And I think he is ...
- Former UNC president on football: "Great sadness" Observations from 50-yard Line | Charlotte Observer In the early 1960s, then-UNC President William Friday had to deal with a point-shaving scandal involving basketball players at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State.Now long retired, Friday, 90, has been thinking about those bad old days a good bit lately as he follows the scandal enveloping the football program at Carolina."For people who care about the university, this is a moment of great sadness," Friday said today. "We've gone 50 years without even the remotest allegation of wrongdoing at Chapel Hill.Athletic ethics is an issue dear to Friday's heart. For more than 15 years, he co-chaired the Kn...