Buddy

Name: Buddy Owner: The Coury family How They Met: He jumped out from under some bushes in an alley on a cold, rainy day in January to greet our yellow lab Chelsea. Age: We think he's about 7 Home: Towson Breed: Corgi, Terrier, and a few others we're not sure of Best Trick: Buddy can tear into a plastic trash bag and grab a snack faster than the speed of light Favorite Activity: Patrolling the yard for errant rodents Favorite Food: A discarded chicken bone on the side of the road Cutest Moment: Burying his bone in the garden, guarding it and then digging it up if he sees you looking at him. If Buddy Had a Motto For Life, It Would Be: Boy, I sure know how to pick 'em!

Kevin Marshall and Buddy Evans, like many cousins, are close. They keep in touch regularly and enjoy talking over a cup of coffee when they can get together. The two, who have spent much of their lives on the Chesapeake Bay as watermen, even took their cordial relationship to land to play in a softball league together. But when the 41st annual Crisfield Boat Docking Classic takes place Sept. 2, none of that will matter. Asked whether they were on the same team, Evans laughed at the thought.

If anyone has a good reason why Buddy's Crabs and Ribs in downtown Annapolis shouldn't be able to stay open and serve drinks until 2 a.m., he has yet to give it.Buddy's is only asking for permission to do what at least eight other restaurants in the historic downtown already are doing. We have to ask the same question posed on little signs Buddy's supporters wore at a recent City Council hearing: "Why not Buddy's?"Ward 1 residents who oppose the extended liquor license offer the same reasons they used when they fought plans last year for a shop called The Yogurt Tree and the expansion of the Middleton Tavern kitchen.

Stop the presses! Buddy Roemer is no longer running for president. If Mr. Roemer's name doesn't ring a bell, don't feel bad. Although he has been campaigning doggedly for a year and a half, most Americans surely have never heard his name. Mr. Roemer, a former governor of Louisiana, has the distinction - a dubious one, to be sure - of failing miserably to gain the 2012 presidential nomination of not one but two distinct political entities: the Republican Party and the nonpartisan group Americans Elect.

On December 13, 2005, CHARLES F. "BUDDY" MARSHALL; loving life partner of Debbie Rogers; loving son of John and Doris Marshall and the late Marion Marshall; loving brother of Brenda Finck, Mary Peterson, Sherry Fox, Butch, George, Johnny and Eddie Marshall. Friends are invited to call at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 130 E. Fort Avenue, (S. Baltimore), on Wednesday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where services will be held at 7:30 P.M. Interment private.

CHARLES "BUDDY" DORSEY, died Thursday, February 17, from heart failure. Buddy as we so finely called him was loved by everyone. He leaves to mourn his mother Emma Richardson; father Charles Smith; sisters Kitty Hall, Rita Richardson, Kim Nelson and brothers Louis Dorsey, Randy Dorsey, Bill Richardson and Bob Richardson. And a host of nieces, nephews and many friends and relatives. He will be missed by all. The family will receive friends in the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley Inc. 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road)

On November 25, 2004, ALBERT "BUDDY" Hite; beloved husband of the late Marguerite "Peggy" Hite; devoted father of Scott Hite, Timothy Hite, Tina Carver and Todd Hite; grandfather of Timothy Hite, Jr., Scott Hite, Jr., Rachel Hite, Dylan Stevens, Todd Hite, Jr., Hunter Hite and Watson Hite; brother of Bobby Hite, Jerry Hite, the late Beverly Hite and the late Vivian Crawford. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Monday at 10 A.M. Interment in Druid Ridge Cemetery.

Sunday, April 3, 2005, BERNARD "BUDDY" BURKOM, loving husband of Sylvia Burkom (nee Starr), beloved father of Sandra Abramowitz of Owings Mills, Md and Bonita Robinson of Santee, CA., devoted father-in-law of Jacob "Jack" Abramowitz and Randy Robinson, devoted brother of the late Evelyn Block, loving grandfather of Bryce and Rochelle Abramowitz, Cory and Troy Robinson Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane, on...

On October 17, 2004, LOUIS "Buddy" MARCUS; beloved son of the late Celia Speert and Abraham Marcus; loving father of Adam Marcus of Boston, MA, Eric Marcus of Baltimore, MD and David Marcus of Durham NC.; loving brother of Janet Steinberg and Robert Speert; brother-in-law of Dr. Murray Steinberg and Gloria Speert; son-in-law of Lucia Silberman; cherished uncle of Patricia Gerber, Dr. Marcus and Deborah Gerber, Anne and William Pearce and many grand-nieces and...

PHILADELPHIA -- The city of brotherly love wasn't so affectionate to its Buddy yesterday.Philadelphia Eagles fans taunted their former coach, and teased his players with banners hung on the old Veteran Stadium walls. The Eagles mugged his running game, smacked around his quarterback and bombed his secondary before sending Buddy Ryan on the next plane out of town.Tough town, this Philadelphia.Final score: Eagles 17, Arizona Cardinals 7, before a crowd of 64,952."A good old butt-kicking for homecoming, wasn't it?"

The city is looking for someone to operate the Hollywood Diner. The comptroller's office has issued a formal request for a new operator of the property, made famous as a filming location for the Barry Levinson film "Diner. " Late last year, the city terminated its lease with the Chesapeake Center for Youth Development, the nonprofit organization that ran the diner since 1991. The youth center vacated the diner last December but an operating partner was allowed to remain open until March 31. Funded entirely by private donations and opened to great fanfare in 1984 as the Kids' Diner, the restaurant was originally run by the city schools and the mayor's office as a job-training program for youths.

It was Happy Hour at the Poncabird Pub on Wednesday, and the South Baltimore tavern was as busy and bustling as usual, but as late-afternoon sunlight streaked through a side window, the expressions it caught on the faces at one table were decidedly grim. "This [stinks]," said Dane Sobus, a regular customer who has spent many evenings drinking with crew members and workers from the USNS Comfort, the hospital ship the Navy announced this week will be moving to Norfolk, Va., after a quarter-century in the port of Baltimore.

I urge my fellow citizens not to give in to despair over the choices being offered in this year's presidential elections. As an independent who is fiscally conservative, socially liberal and believes there is an appropriate role for government in our lives, I ask you to consider Buddy Roemer for president. We need economic reform, regulatory reform, tax reform, health care reform and education reform. But unless we achieve campaign finance reform, there's not chance of getting sensible reforms in any of these areas.

  At the ungodly hour of 5:30 this morning, they step off the Walt Disney World Half Marathon in Orlando: the lean, serious speedsters and the dedicated plodders and the fat guys in Mickey Mouse ears just hoping to make it to the first water stop. Among them will be 28-year-old Georgia Cleland, a small woman from Ruxton with a ready smile. And you can bet she'll be smiling today, because hers might be the best story in the entire field, a three-hankie tale of a family's love and a father's crazy idea that raised millions for cancer research and spawned the whole running-for-a-cause movement.

Albert Einstein is famously reported to have said that the definition of insanity was to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. By that definition, it appears that America has gone stark raving mad. Our economy is in tatters. We have mortgaged our children's future to the Chinese. We are mired in a state of perpetual war abroad and embarked on a ruinous course of nation building in distant, impoverished nations while our own infrastructure crumbles and decays around us. Our Congress is locked in perpetual gridlock, and our politicians are bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporate sponsors.

Name: Buddy Owner: The Coury family How They Met: He jumped out from under some bushes in an alley on a cold, rainy day in January to greet our yellow lab Chelsea. Age: We think he's about 7 Home: Towson Breed: Corgi, Terrier, and a few others we're not sure of Best Trick: Buddy can tear into a plastic trash bag and grab a snack faster than the speed of light Favorite Activity: Patrolling the yard for errant rodents Favorite Food: A discarded chicken bone on the side of the road Cutest Moment: Burying his bone in the garden, guarding it and then digging it up if he sees you looking at him. If Buddy Had a Motto For Life, It Would Be: Boy, I sure know how to pick 'em!

If anyone has a good reason why Buddy's Crabs and Ribs in downtown Annapolis shouldn't be able to stay open and serve drinks until 2 a.m., he or she has yet to give it.Buddy's is only asking for permission to do what at least eight other restaurants in the historic downtown already are doing. We have to ask the same question posed on little signs Buddy's supporters wore at a recent City Council hearing: "Why not Buddy's?"Ward 1 residents who oppose the extended liquor license offer the same reasons they used when they fought plans last year for a shop called The Yogurt Tree and the expansion of the Middleton Tavern kitchen.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Buddy Ryan spoke barely a word Wednesday during his first practice as coach of the Arizona Cardinals, a job he acquired on the merits of his brief, outrageous -- and, yes, outrageously successful -- stint as defensive coordinator of the Houston Oilers.Mostly, Ryan watched. He had an almost professorial posture standing there, arms crossed, wearing a black straw hat, designer sunglasses and a deceptively gruff poker face.In other words, he hadn't changed a bit, save for the color of his shorts.

On Tuesday, my niece came home from Charlottesville. I picked her up at the train station. We headed up Charles Street to pick up Kay Magruder, whom we both consider a close friend. The idea had popped into my head about a week ago.  I'm not sure how or why. Perhaps the importance of seizing the day and being with people we care about has been driven home sharply this fall by the deaths of three friends and longtime Roland Parkers Blair Barton, Bob Green and Anne Healy.   My niece at 22 finds Kay Magruder at 92 as stimulating as I do at 62. Trim and fit, she walks briskly every day, as she has as long as I have known her. She is in a book group that reads two books a month.

Parrish Gaines knew what to expect when he went into Navy's defensive team meeting Monday at Ricketts Hall. Making his second straight start in the team's 42-14 victory over Troy Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the freshman cornerback forced an early fumble and tied a career-high with seven tackles, but he had the same feeling as after the previous six games - all of them losses. "I still go into film [session] nervous, because when you watch film it's a totally different thing," Gaines said.