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Rick Snider: Maryland doing right by Lefty Driesell
Rick Snider
Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013
Amen Corner has come to Comcast Center. Former Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell returned to College Park on Tuesday for the unveiling of a bas relief of him on the sideline. It hangs next to the large center court piece of the floor of Cole Field House, where Driesell spent 17 years...
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Maryland honors Lefty Driesell with sculpture at Comcast Center
Kevin Dunleavy
Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013
Lefty Driesell never quite lived up to his promise to make Maryland the "UCLA of the East." But with outsized ambition and foot-stomping audacity, he propelled the Terrapins to relevance, bringing big-time college basketball to the area and forever changing the Washington sports landscape....
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Rick Snider: Maryland's Alex Len may find that leaving college early doesn't always work out
Rick Snider
Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013
Sometimes, lifetime dreams are irresistible. Hopefully Alex Len isn't hearing a siren's call. Maryland's 7-foot-1 center will forgo his final two years of eligibility to enter the coming NBA Draft. He's a probable top-10 pick, maybe the first overall, says coach Mark Turgeon. First overall?...
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Maryland center Alex Len heading to NBA Draft
Kevin Dunleavy
Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013
When Alex Len committed to play for Maryland, his mother, Juliya, presented Terrapins coach Mark Turgeon with a tiny turtle figurine and asked him to take care of her son. Less than two years later, Turgeon helped Len grow from a 7-foot-1 boy to a man and a probable NBA lottery pick. In...
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Georgetown's Otto Porter Jr. leaving for the NBA
Craig Stouffer
Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013
Hoyas star 'prepared' to take the next step John Thompson III knew before the season began what its end might bring for Otto Porter Jr. The 6-foot-8 sophomore from Sikeston, Mo., announced Monday at McDonough Arena that he would forgo his remaining college eligibility and turn professional....
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Alex Len could have used another year at Maryland
Kevin Dunleavy
Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013
There was a congratulatory atmosphere Monday at Georgetown as Otto Porter Jr. announced his intention to enter the NBA Draft. It was the celebration of two seasons of progression and success. After being named a first-team All-American and Big East player of the year, the consensus opinion is...
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Georgetown's Otto Porter Jr. expected to announce his intentions Monday
Craig Stouffer
Updated: Sun, Apr 14, 2013
Hoyas sophomore is projected as lottery pick if he declares for NBA Draft Otto Porter Jr. appears ready to declare whether he's staying at Georgetown or heading to the NBA. The Hoyas announced that Porter and coach John Thompson III will meet with the media on Monday at 3 p.m. The...
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Status of quarterbacks at Navy, Maryland quite different this spring
Kevin Dunleavy
Updated: Thu, Apr 11, 2013
Midshipmen are set with Reynolds, while Terps still figuring it out Last season, the quarterback situations at Navy and Maryland were feast and famine, respectively. In Annapolis, the emergence of sensational freshman Keenan Reynolds left the Midshipmen with an overabundance of signal callers,...
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