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A GREAT Yiddish word is kvell. It means "to glow with pride." Charles Shubow has a really serious case of the kvells. He's been kvelling all over the East Coast. He's a big-time kveller, this one. Who is Charles Shubow? He's "Britt Shubow's dad," and if that means nothing to you now, please hold all tickets. This could be the start of something big. Seems like only yesterday Charles Shubow was telling -- and kvelling! -- about his daughter's great experiences in high school, at Carver Center for the Arts in Towson.

Mike Obringer won three state titles at Baltimore County's Dulaney High School. Still, he was eager to prove he belonged in the Maryland Lacrosse Coaches Senior All-Star Game at Goucher College yesterday. "I was a little nervous playing with and against this caliber of players," Obringer said. "They're a great bunch of guys, and they'll show me how tough it will be at the next level." Obringer erased any doubts with a three-goal performance that helped the Gold team to an 18-14 victory over the Red team.

Carver's boys lacrosse team, off to a 3-0 start, has two difficult city league games this week with Douglass today and four-time defending league champ Patterson on Friday. The Bears, who ended Patterson's three-year winning streak, 17-12, earlier this year, are led by attackman Delfonda Cooper (16 goals, six assists), junior midfielders Brandon Davis (12, six) and Jerrell Ingram (10, eight) and junior attackman Marqus Robinson (three, 15). Anchoring the defense are senior Reginald Goodman and juniors Shawn Leach, Marlon Taylor and Gerald Brown (goalie)

The women's pole vault made its debut in the Olympics Games this year in Australia, and the United States captured gold. That meant a great deal to 16-year-old Stephanie Wells, a pole vaulter for Dulaney High School in Baltimore County. Last year, as a junior, Stephanie finished second statewide in the indoor pole vault, clearing a height of 9 feet. She also finished fourth in the outdoor state championships, with a vault of 8 feet 6 inches. And at a pole vault camp last summer, she made it over the bar at 10 feet 6 inches, a mark that moves her closer to the girls' state record of 11 feet 2 inches.

PALMER LAKE, Colo. - The red sandstone cliff to the north of Red Ranch Road looms over the valley in stark, rugged majesty. Pillars of stone, carved by the wind into strange, compelling shapes, rise from the foothills.The scene could be the backdrop of a Western movie if it weren't for all the subdivisions crawling up the slopes of the Front Range.This is not John Denver's Colorado. This is sprawl, Westernstyle, unchecked development that spreads into regions of extraordinary natural beauty and meager water supplies.

When I go to Winston Cup races now, I see so many women working. They are reporters, photographers, public relations representatives, lawyers and television producers.There weren't always so many women covering racing. It used to be a man's world.Not long ago, Humpy Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, referred to me as a pioneer in the covering of Winston Cup racing. And when I started back in 1976, working for The Evening Sun, there were only a few women who would be seen regularly on the beat.

Thomas "T. J." Hundley long ago stopped listening to his mother's advice - or "nagging" as he good-naturedly calls it. So when Rita Hundley said she'd found the perfect mate for her only unmarried child, T. J. easily ignored her pleas that he at least take the woman on a date.Peggy Radasky was a widow whose daughter, Britt, was enrolled in Rita Hundley's first-grade class in the fall of 1996. Radasky, with Britt and younger daughter, Bo, had moved back to this area from Colorado, after her husband was killed in a car accident in the spring of 1996.

Though he lost in court, a Howard County inmate seems to be nTC winning at the dinner table -- he's getting an extra scoop of vegetables.Michael W. Britt, 31, took unsuccessful legal action against the Howard County Detention Center last month, alleging that the jail was violating his right to expression of religion by failing to provide him with vegetarian meals.Britt, awaiting trial on charges he stole an 84-year-old woman's purse and broke her arm in three places, is a Buddhist.Though Circuit Judge Lenore Gelfman dismissed his case because of technical flaws, she sent a letter to the jail director asking that Britt's culinary complaint be investigated.

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has suspended four Coppin State women's basketball players after an altercation during Monday's loss at Norfolk State, Coppin announced yesterday.Liesha Mitchell, who leads the team in scoring (15.3 points per game), Simone Adams, the Eagles' top rebounder (10.2 rpg), Gloria Schley and Liani Adair all will miss tomorrow's game against Morgan State."It's unfortunate that it happened and unfortunate that it happened in a game that did not mean anything to us as far as our goals in the MEAC are concerned," said Coppin State coach Britt King, who will have only seven players in uniform tomorrow night.

King Britt Presents Sylk 130When the Funk Hits the Fan (Ovum/Ruffhouse/Columbia 67906)Pop fans often think of dance music as being simplistic and shallow, a style more concerned with getting a groove going than with telling a story or engaging the listener's emotions. That's understandable, too, given the number of love-you/miss-you dance songs that end up in the Top 40.Hit singles, though, are just the tip of the iceberg. Dance music these days isn't just funk and disco; it covers an enormous amount of musical ground, from acid jazz and ambient to trip-hop and techno.