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In the wake of WWE's Over the Limit pay-per-view, a new Intercontinental champion has been crowned, four other champions continue to hold onto their titles and John Laurinaitis remains employed. Sunday night's show delivered an evening of quality entertainment and good in-ring performances. On a non-major PPV event, WWE delivered a product that surpassed the expectations of many. Here's a match-by-match look at the show: Battle Royale This last-minute addition to the card was a means of crowning a No. 1 contender for one of the midcard titles.

Bodemeister will hang on Joseph Schwerdt Sun Sentinel Had the Kentucky Derby (at 1 1/4 miles) been the same length as the Preakness Stakes (1 3/16 miles), we might be talking about Bodemeister winning the Run for the Roses. But that last sixteenth of a mile was just enough for I'll Have Another to win at Churchill Downs. This time around Bodemeister will hold off the challenge to take the Preakness and we'll have to wait yet another year for a Triple Crown winner.

If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station and back. But the flight won't be just another NASA resupply mission. Instead, the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule built by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - SpaceX for short - will be the first commercially owned and operated vehicle ever to rendezvous with the station's orbiting astronauts.

Not everything in childhood is bowls of mush and little old ladies whispering "Hush," and Maurice Sendak understood that. Our children understand that, too. Instinctively. That's what makes his books, like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen" such a delicious experience for them. They could feel that frisson of fear and adventure without ever leaving the crook of Mommy's arm. This was especially true for our sons, who found kindred spirts in the unruly little boys of Sendak's stories.

Ocean City -- It's as much a part of the Boardwalk as the worn brown planks: The sweet smell of fresh taffy blends with the buttery aroma of popcorn and the heavy perfume of chocolate as you round the corner at Wicomico Street.Dolle's Candyland has been on the corner since 1910, when the present owner's father came to Ocean City, bringing a small merry-go-round he'd built in Baltimore to put on the corner of Wicomico and the Boardwalk."My dad came here to live in 1910. . . . there was a man making saltwater taffy right on this corner," says Rudolph Dolle, who inherited the business from his father.

Much of the draw of a small, neighborhood grocery store is the neighborliness it fosters. In the Roland Park area we've had several over time. Graul's once sat where Eddie's on Roland Avenue is today. Graul's was also farther down Roland in the space where Roland Park Wine & Liquor is. Victor's sat at the center of the Roland Park Shopping Center, and the A&P at the corner of Roland and Colorado Avenues. Today Eddie's on Roland Avenue is the only small grocery store in the Roland Park area.

With Cary Williams apparently set to start at cornerback, speculation has intensified on who will start at the other spot in the Ravens' season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. One candidate, rookie Jimmy Smith, said after Friday's practice that he has not received any confirmation that he could be the other starter. Asked if he'd like to know sooner rather than later, Smith said, “It doesn't matter. If I'm starting, I'm starting. But I'll be going in with the same mentality anyway.” Smith, the organization's first-round pick in April, is a big, physical talent who can match up with the Steelers' speedy corps of wide receivers.

Defensive backs are scheduled to meet with teams and reporters today, which should serve as a reminder to the significant improvements the organization has made at the cornerback spot in a year's span. Last year at the NFL Scouting Combine, one of the Ravens' biggest needs was a cornerback and they wound up using two of their first five picks in the draft to address it, selecting Jimmy Smith (Colorado) in the first round and Chykie Brown (Texas) in the fifth. This year, the cornerback position is barely on the Ravens' radar. Now, I'm not saying that the Ravens won't use a mid-to-late-round pick on one because you can never have enough corners these days in the NFL. But I am saying that the Ravens consider the position one of their chief strengths going forward and feel no urgency to upgrade it, just like at quarterback and tight end. That's because Lardarius Webb, a third-round pick out of Nicholls State in 2009, is emerging as a legitimate shutdown corner at the age of 26. Webb is a restricted free agent and the Ravens are expected to put a first-round tender on him. But what they'd really like to do is sign him to a long-term contract extension.

I live in South Baltimore, on Light Street between Heath and Barney, and I have been here for several years. Though I rent, as most do here, I feel committed to this neighborhood. But South Baltimore isn't just my or my neighbors' home. The boys with baseball caps and team jackets own a piece that no one seems to be able to take back. They sell balloons of rock-cocaine on the corner of Heath and Light.Now, when it is lighter outside and the Orioles are winning, you'd expect that my neighborhood would be ringing with the sounds of summer, people walking back from Cross Street or washing their cars.

MEN HAVE hung out at Preston Street and Collington Avenue for more than 20 years. Most of them do not live in this area. They drive up as early as 6 a.m. and remain on this corner as late as midnight. April 25, 1999, 5 p.m. The Collington Square Neighborhood Association (CSNA) met today to discuss what can be done to impact the neighborhood. Things have been bad for so long, it will take something special to give confidence back to this area. Our thinking is that if we can get the "old men" (whose ages range from 18 to 80)

OK, so Dylan Bundy is better than the other boys at Low-A Delmarva . The Orioles' top pick last year (fourth overall) has demolished the competition in the South Atlantic League. On Monday, he pitched four more scoreless innings - for a total of 17 in his pro career. In his first four pro games, Bundy has allowed one hit, two walks and struck out 25 batters.      The Orioles will stretch him out a little bit more, with at least one more four-inning stint at Delmarva, but one has to assume the 19-year-old will be at High-A Frederick soon enough.

Corner Bakery Cafe, a Dallas-based fast-casual chain, will open its first Baltimore store on Monday. The Baltimore location is in Lockwood Place, across from the aquarium, where the Best Buy is. "Feed the Day" is the motto at Corner Bakery Cafe, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The first 100 customers on Monday will receive a commemorative Corner Bakery Cafe travel mugs and free daily refills for the remainder of the year. The specialties at Corner Bakery Cafe, which had its start as small bread bakery in downtown Chicago, are breakfast scramblers, panini and made-to-order sandwiches and pastas.

The two men, wearing slacks and ties, are standing on an East Baltimore street corner in front of a vacant lot. Raymond Staubs, 29, squats down and flips on a guitar amp. In one hand is a Bible, in the other a microphone. "It's time to repent - commit to God!" Staubs shouts. "Keep the Ten Commandments - thou shall not kill! Holler it from the rooftops! Put away the guns, put away the dope. Hallelujah!" It's the middle of the afternoon, and Staubs' words are mere background noise as city police investigate another fatal shooting.

For at least two years, there has been hanging on the northeast corner The Promenade, a block-sized apartment building in the Harbor East development. "Authentic Greek Cuisine & Lounge Coming Soon," it says. It's really coming. It will be called Limani, and it will occupy a waterfront space on the Promenade's southeast corner, at Central and Lancaster. (Charleston is on the southwest corner.) The restaurant will put a modern take on traditional Greek cuisine. The menu will include fresh fish flown in from the Mediterranean, grass-fed lamb and beef and homemade Greek favorites.

Another Gino's Maryland's second Gino's Burgers & Chicken opened Monday in the Honeygo Shopping Center in Perry Hall. Former Gino's executive Tom Romano engineered the current Gino's revival. A company-owned store opened in King of Prussia, Pa., in October 2010, and the first franchise operation opened in August 2011 in Towson. Another store is operating in Bensalem, Pa. Gino's was founded in Baltimore, but the company relocated its headquarters to King of Prussia before it was acquired by Marriott Corp.

The Corner Bistro & Wine Bar in Ridgely's Delight is observing the 30th anniversary of the University of North Carolina's NCAA basketball championship with a three-course "March to Wine Madness" menu. No, you haven't been re-routed to the Daily Tar Heel. Ridgely's Delight, and the Corner Bistro, are right here in the Old Line State. It's a free country. The menu includes "tip-off" appetizers, a "full-court press" house salad, "3-point play" entrees and "highlight jam" desserts.

Moises Kaufman's off-Broadway hit, "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde," opens at Fell's Point Corner Theatre tomorrow. The play begins with Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas and proceeds to examine the devastating legal trials that grew out of Wilde's discord with Douglas' father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Barry Feinstein directs this Baltimore premiere, which stars Patrick Martyn in the title role, Kevin Chap as Lord Alfred and Rodney Bonds as his father.

THIS IS THE WAY it was at Preston Street and Collington Avenue for more than 20 years: Men hung on the corner every day. Most of them did not live in the area. They brought with them very negative behaviors. Loitering, drinking and drugging, urinating, profanity, littering and womanizing were the order of the day. But on April 25, 1999, the Collington Square Neighborhood Association (CSNA) made the decision to get these men off of this corner. The newly formed association needed to send a message to our neighbors to show that we would take on the tough, longstanding problems and see it through to what we hoped would be a successful end. CSNA wanted to raise awareness of negativity and to promote a sense of pride for our residents.

Defensive backs are scheduled to meet with teams and reporters today, which should serve as a reminder to the significant improvements the organization has made at the cornerback spot in a year's span. Last year at the NFL Scouting Combine, one of the Ravens' biggest needs was a cornerback and they wound up using two of their first five picks in the draft to address it, selecting Jimmy Smith (Colorado) in the first round and Chykie Brown (Texas) in the fifth. This year, the cornerback position is barely on the Ravens' radar. Now, I'm not saying that the Ravens won't use a mid-to-late-round pick on one because you can never have enough corners these days in the NFL. But I am saying that the Ravens consider the position one of their chief strengths going forward and feel no urgency to upgrade it, just like at quarterback and tight end. That's because Lardarius Webb, a third-round pick out of Nicholls State in 2009, is emerging as a legitimate shutdown corner at the age of 26. Webb is a restricted free agent and the Ravens are expected to put a first-round tender on him. But what they'd really like to do is sign him to a long-term contract extension.