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Morgan State (1-2) vs. Howard (0-3) Time: 3:30 p.m. Site: New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. Radio: 88.9 FM Series: Morgan leads 38-24-1. What's at stake: The Bears and Bison will meet Saturday in the 39th annual New York Urban League Football Classic. Saturday's contest marks Morgan's Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference opener and its third consecutive game away from Hughes Stadium. The Bears fell to North Dakota State last week, 35-9.

You can add to a bison herd about as fast as you can add to your own family. There's no rushing Mother Nature. Bison meat has been selling so well in the Baltimore and Washington area that the people at Gunpowder Bison & Trading Co. in Monkton are wishing they could better keep up with demand. "It's not like we can turn production around very fast to create more product," said Nathan Stambaugh, Gunpowder's director of sales and marketing. "We're trying to — slowly — but trying to do it the right way."

Jamal Barney (Southwestern) scored 28 points and Loyola shot 69.6 percent from the field, as the Greyhounds defeated visiting Howard University, 85-51, in a nonconference game Saturday afternoon. The Greyhounds (5-5) made 32 of 46 shots from the field for the second-best field-goal percentage in school history. Loyola was 22-for-27 from the field (81.5 percent) in the second half. Loyola fell just short of the school record for field-goal percentage, set Jan. 21, 1978, when the Greyhounds shot 70.4 percent (31 of 44)

What's a nice semi-boneless quail with couscous and roasted shallots doing in a place like this? From what I understand, the new Reserve is a serious upgrade from what was there before. But the upgrade consists of two bars, more flat-screen TVs than you can shake a stick at, some high-top tables, exposed brick walls, really loud music and no fabric to speak of. All that adds up to a typical South Baltimore bar, nicer than some, but not exactly where you expect to find duck confit salad and creme brulee.

UM women top Duke for ACC title, 12-11 lacrosse Caitlyn McFadden scored four goals in the second half to lift the second-ranked Maryland women's lacrosse team to its first Atlantic Coast Conference championship in six years, beating No. 7 Duke, 12-11, Sunday in Blacksburg, Va. The Terps (18-0) have won six conference championships. They took a 4-0 lead before the Blue Devils (13-5) went on an 8-0 run that spanned both halves. Sarah Bullard (four goals) gave Duke an 8-4 lead with 23:42 left in the game.

Morgan State 74, Howard 69 - Marquise Kately scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half and Reggie Holmes added 10 after intermission to lead the visiting Bears to a win over the Bison in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game at Burr Gymnasium. The victory was the seventh straight for the first-place Bears (17-10, 11-2). The Bison (7-19, 5-7) dropped their third straight. The game was competitive throughout. Morgan State shot 50 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes to take a 37-30 lead at the half.

After watching his team struggle throughout the first half against lightly regarded Howard yesterday, Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman delivered a halftime speech that players said held back little. "I can't really tell you [what I said], but I wasn't happy," Bozeman said. Once play resumed, his outlook quickly changed. Paced by the long-range shooting of guard Reggie Holmes (St. Frances) - whose 22 points led five players in double figures - Morgan scored 16 straight points early in the half to take command, easily putting away the short-handed and overmatched Bison, 78-56, at Hill Field House.

Towson men's lacrosse coach Tony Seaman sees a season slipping away, and he's understandably not happy. Minutes after the Tigers lost their fourth straight in a 12-10 defeat to No. 16 Bucknell before an announced 1,136 at Johnny Unitas Stadium last night, Seaman's pained look of frustration spoke nearly as loudly as his words. "It's frustrating. This whole season has been frustrating," Seaman said. "We've got to score more goals than the other guy in one of these games. Once again, we didn't use our heads on a couple defensive possessions, and that gave them a couple easy ones."