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SATURDAY'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ON-AIR HIGHLIGHTS George Mason@James Madison ESPNU11 a.m. Nyack College@Dominican College CBSCS11:30 a.m. Georgia Tech@Virginia 5, 54Noon Ohio State@Illinois 13, 9Noon Richmond@Massachusetts CSNNoon Villanova@Syracuse ESPNNoon Rutgers@Seton Hall MASNNoon Arkansas-Little Rock@Fla. Atlantic ESPN21 Eastern Kentucky@Morehead State ESPNU1 Tennessee@Connecticut 13, 92 Charlotte@Duquesne CSN2 Kansas State@Texas A&M ESPN2 Loyola@Marist MASN2 Clemson@Maryland 54, 52:30 Temple@Xavier ESPN23 Buffalo@Ohio ESPNU3 Texas@Kansas 13, 94 VCU@Old Dominion CSN4 Ariz.

U.S. government meteorologists predict a “possibly extremely active” hurricane season in 2013, the top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said Thursday, with as many as half a dozen major hurricanes. NOAA expects 13 to 20 named tropical cyclones, seven to 11 of them reaching hurricane status, with maximum winds 74 mph or higher. Of those hurricanes, three to six could become major hurricanes, with winds of at least 111 mph. The forecast echoes outlooks released earlier this spring calling for another active hurricane season, which starts June 1 and ends Nov. 30. It continues an active trend stretching nearly two decades.

THE ROLAND PARK Second Presbyterian Church looked absolutely stunning last Saturday for the wedding of Natalia Pia Melanie Sommer and Richard Matthew Dohler. Thousands of wildflowers, miles of lace ribbons and tulle, and window sills decorated with Singapore orchids set the stage for the nuptials of the daughter of pop music star Donna Summer and her first husband, Helmut Sommer,and the son of Dick and Bonna Dohler, he's an Ellicott City builder.The church was filled with the music of German trumpeteer Langston Fitzgerald and selections of Bach, Beethoven and Vivaldi, played by the church's music director Margaret Budd on the organ.

Moving to Maryland has been a learning experience for Chad Barnhill, general manager of the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that will fill the sweeping vacant lot currently greeting drivers coming into the city on Russell Street. At home within the walls of a casino - he's worked for Caesars Entertainment since graduating from college in 1994 - this is the first time he's overseen the building of a new facility. When he's not meeting with city officials regarding building permits, he's addressing neighborhood associations concerned about what plopping a casino near their houses might mean.

IN SAXIS, VA., RESIDENTS say they knew something big was up when the call went out this spring for anyone with a pickup truck that could haul fish.Big catches of fish and crabs are nothing new in Saxis. The Eastern Shore village, on Pocomoke Sound about six miles southeast of Crisfield, is as dedicated to harvesting bay seafood as Iowa is to growing corn.Still, people had to search back decades for a catch of "hardhead," or Atlantic croaker, to exceed what two watermen reportedly landed that day.Their haul of this popular sport and commercial species was too big to empty from the net all at once.

On Memorial Day weekends, Kim Yates and Albert Kullman measure success by speed. Yates steers her bright yellow tow truck toward trouble, with the goal of getting disabled vehicles out of the roadway or back in business before traffic has time to clog. From his toll booth at the Bay Bridge, Kullman can make change for a $10 or $20 in under 12 seconds. "We want you on your way," Yates said. "Safely. " The summer season kicks off this weekend when 718,200 Marylanders are expected to leave town for the beach or mountains, 1.2 percent fewer than a year ago, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

The Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse program plans to surrender its status as an independent and join a conference, the university announced Friday. The Blue Jays have competed independently for 130 years, winning nine NCAA championships and qualifying for 41 consecutive NCAA tournaments before getting left out of the postseason earlier this month. In a letter to the Johns Hopkins community and posted on the school's website, president Ronald J. Daniels said he accepted the recommendation of a seven-member special committee that proposed that the program pursue a conference affiliation.

The state's largest casino plans to open 122 table games to the public at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Maryland Live, in Hanover, will become the second of the state's three operating casinos to take advantage of expanded gambling laws passed by voters in November. Hollywood Casino in Perryville began operating 20 table games March 6 and brought in nearly $1.5 million from them last month. Officials from the state's lottery and gaming agency watched a controlled demonstration of the table game operations Friday, and were scheduled to spend more time at the facility through Tuesday night.

At one point Saturday, City Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va., was so overwhelmed with patients injured on the Tough Mudder obstacle course that it had to turn people away from its emergency room. Two people who participated in the race in nearby Gerrardstown, W.Va., suffered heart attacks, according to Teresa McCabe of West Virginia University Hospitals-East, which runs City Hospital. Ten people had hypothermia, orthopedic injuries or head injuries. And two people were treated for drowning, including Avishek Sengupta, a 28-year-old Ellicott City man who died Sunday.

Baltimore Sun reporters Don Markus and Jeff Barker and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Given the 2014 schedule announced Thursday by the Big Ten, how tough will Maryland's road back to respectability become? Don Markus: Maryland's $52 million exit fee from the Atlantic Coast Conference after next season seems exorbitant, but its indoctrination into the Big Ten is pretty steep in its own right. Everyone knew the Terps would be stepping up in class in football by switching leagues.