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The wait is over and all that remains is a few days in the wet here in College Park than the team hops on a charter to Austin, Texas.  Maryland opens it’s 125th football season against the #23 ranked Texas Longhorns, who also celebrate 125 years of football.  The last time the Terps met the […]

It is that time of year when local attention in Montgomery County turns to the start of the new school year. High school student athletes are now getting ready for the array of sports activities in the fall semester. Add to this a new dimension of the rising profile of Maryland high school sports, which […]

Strategic partners, the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) today marked the first phase completion of the new Cole Field House. In what can clearly be recognized as a rebirth of Cole, a second ground breaking took place after the football field dedication, known as the Terrapin Performance Center, […]

Montgomery County Swim League (MCSL) celebrated it’s 60th anniversary of holding summer swimming events for the youth of the county.  I am sure that there were parents and possibly grandparents at Sunday’s All Stars meets who grew up with memories of swimming competitively in those 60 years against neighborhood clubs.  So it was delightful to […]

Four inches of torrential rains into the wee hours of Saturday, July 29th did not dampen nor delay the start to the MCSL All-Star weekend in Rockville.  It started with the All-Star Relays.  As I have done in the past I wait until mid morning for the Section II of the relays to capture the […]

This weekend I left the early morning sunflower fields in Poolesville to the crowds gathering there and headed a few miles eastward to the Germantown Pool near Kingsview Middle School to briefly capture the top league swim teams – to find the pool and pool area packed. There are many great rising talent swimmers across […]

Updated views of the Sunflower Fields at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolesville as of Wednesday, July 19.  

Sunflowers. Everyone is going crazy about the sunflower bloom. In the next 14 days all focus (ahh!) will be on the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area (MBWMA) in Poolesville. I got out this weekend to take a sneak peak at the fields. Believe what the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is telling you. The bloom […]

It was an old fashioned Irish wake in a contemporary British styled pub. Beer flowed, food overwhelmed the tables, and the bourbon salute to a life well lived fulfilled “Griff’s” wish for a celebration rather than a church service for his friends and family. Over 250 gathered this past Saturday, at Union Jacks Gaithersburg Rio […]

The Cedarbrook Seahawks traveled to Quince Orchard for a splash clash between these two B Division Montgomery County Swim League (MCSL) teams.  Both are swimming it out for ranking points in the Division with Seahawks  with a narrow lead over the QO Otters.  The Otters secured a 5th place position with a 439 to 353 […]