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MCPS says “play ball”. As part of the Return to R.A.I.S.E strategic plan, MCPS sports resume on Saturday. As schools plan to reopen, MCPS has allowed school sports to prepare for their fall semester seasons. The Return to R.A.I.S.E plan is a reimagined framework that outlines the safe return of MCPS athletics due to COVID-19. The plan […]

Montgomery County Public Schools announced on Friday that its fall sports season will begin on Feb. 27 and will last through April 17. MCPS lays out its plan for resuming its  athletics program in its seven page long Return to R.A.I.S.E., Second Semester Plan document. MCPS announced on its website, “all in-person programming will be […]

Montgomery County Recreation is returning to in-person programs on a limited basis. Beginning Feb. 16, there will be a limited number of indoor, instructor-led sports and fitness activities at four recreation centers. RecFit-Limited marks the first in-person programming offered since March 2020. RecFit -Limited will be offered evenings at Bauer Drive, Nancy H. Dacek North Potomac, Plum Gar and White […]

Former Montgomery County football player Ross Cockrell has a Super Bowl ring to add to his resume. The Tampa Bay cornerback and special teams player was a member of Walt Whitman’s junior varsity squad before he transferred to a private school in Charlotte. He played college football at Duke where he reunited with former Whitman […]

Kansas City Chiefs’ linebacker and Good Counsel grad Dorian O’Daniel is trying to win another ring. It’s what he does. His mother Kerri says he’s been on winning teams since he started playing football when he was 5. She says she has missed only four of his games since then. Kerri is the keeper of […]

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Dorian O’Daniel, a Good Counsel High School alumnus, is trying to win his second straight Super Bowl. MyMCM’s Joe Yasharoff spoke to O’Daniel, 26, on the MoCo’s Most Famous podcast ahead of the big game on Sunday. In this clip from the interview, O’Daniel explains what it means to reach the […]

Dorian O’Daniel knows winning. In high school, he won a state championship at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney, won four ACC Championships and a National Championship at Clemson University and last year was a member of the Super Bowl winning Kansas City Chiefs. On Sunday, O’Daniel, a special teams player and linebacker, and […]

Originally published on Feb. 20, 2020. Warren Crutchfield is a legend at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring. Shawn Hillman, a teacher at Sherwood and a Class of 1990 alumnus, considered Crutchfield — who died at 82 years old in July 2019 — to be a mentor and father figure. “He’s an absolute warrior and […]

Ten years removed from his senior year as an All-Met receiver at Good Counsel High School, Stefon Diggs and his Buffalo Bills are on the precipice of playing in Super Bowl LV on February 7 in Tampa. While they are only one step away, it’s a big step. They’ll have to take out the defending […]

Dwayne Haskins has found a new home. The former Washington Football Team quarterback has agreed to one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Haskins was selected with the 15th pick in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft out of Ohio State where he threw 50 touchdown passes his sophomore (and final) season. The Bullis […]