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When men's lacrosse coach Joe Breschi left Ohio State after the 2008 season to fill the same post at North Carolina, he took with him his network of connections with the Baltimore metropolitan area. Since his departure, however, the Buckeyes have maintained a pipeline to Charm City, using it to help build a roster that's only three wins from a national championship. Ohio State has six Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association players hailing from Baltimore, which is the second-most among the eight teams left in the NCAA tournament.

On April 11, 2004, WILLIAM EDWARD RINEHARDT; beloved husband of Judge Mary Ellen Travers Rinehardt; devoted father of William Travers Rinehardt of Northeast, MD and Dr. Richard F. Rinehardt of Richmond, VA; dear grandfather of Laura Travers Rinehardt Vanover, Katherine Anne Rinehardt, Andrew Paul Rinehardt, Christopher Edward Rinehardt, Mary Ellen Elizabeth Rinehardt, William Charles Rinehardt, Benjamin Travers Rinehardt, Sarah Rachel Rinehardt; dear...

The NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament will be missing Johns Hopkins for the first time in 42 years this season. After a 9-5 season, the Blue Jays were left out of the NCAA Tournament tonight. But three local teams will be playing next weekend. Maryland is the No. 6 seed and will face Cornell Sunday at 1 p.m. in College Park. Towson, the winner of the CAA tournament, will face No. 3 seed Ohio State Sunday at 3 p.m. in Columbus. Defending national champion Loyola will face Duke in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday at 5:15 p.m. The lack of quality wins hurt Johns Hopkins this season.

Maryland cornerback Trenton Hughes started all 13 games of a junior season highlighted by a big game (seven tackles, forced fumble) in a win over a ranked North Carolina State team in 2010.  But Hughes had to make some adjustments in 2011. The Terps had a new coach in Randy Edsall, and Hughes was no longer starting. But Hughes, who is from Virginia Beach, Va., won back his starting position for the last three games. He recently signed a free-agent deal with the Miami Dolphins and leaves Thursday for rookie minicamp, which opens Friday.

The day after Gov. Martin O'Malley's 18-year-old daughter was briefly hospitalized, apparently after drinking alcohol, the first lady called the incident a "teachable moment." "We … encourage all parents and teenagers to be safe this graduation season," Katie Curran O'Malley said in a statement Friday. Tara O'Malley, the second-eldest of the governor's four children, graduated Wednesday from Notre Dame Preparatory School and had been at a celebration Thursday. A Baltimore police officer found her "apparently unconscious" with a friend at the Inner Harbor about 7:30 p.m. She was treated at Harbor Hospital and released that night.

Wells and Covie Stanwick were practically born with lacrosse sticks in their hands. By the time they could walk, they were trying to emulate their older siblings Sheehan, Wick, Coco, Tad and Steele, who were beginning to lay the groundwork that would make the name Stanwick synonymous with Baltimore lacrosse. All five helped their high school teams win championships and went on to stellar college careers -- four as All-Americans who played in at least one Final Four. Wells, 19, and Covie, who turns 18 on Sunday, carry on that legacy.

Salisbury transfer Eric Law picked up a rebound on the edge of the crease and scored with 13.4 seconds left to cap a historic comeback and give No. 4 seed Denver a 12-11 win over fifth-seeded North Carolina in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon. The game, played before an announced 7,749, was the first men's lacrosse quarterfinal held at a venue not on the East Coast. Denver, the first team in men's quarterfinal history to win after trailing by five goals or more, will face No. 1 seed Syracuse in the semifinals Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

In January 1955, Morgan State College students staged an impromptu sit-in at the lunch counter of the Read's drugstore at Howard and Lexington streets in Baltimore, demanding that African-Americans be served. Their protest, along with others at local Read's stores, worked: That month, the retail chain began serving all patrons, black and white, at all of its 37 Baltimore-area lunch counters. But the students' victory has been largely overlooked in the annals of U.S. civil rights history, in part because it was not photographed or widely reported by the mainstream news media.

NEW YORK -- The operative words in contemporary furniture this year are "fun," "bright," "comfortable" and "suitable for cocooning" in the stay-at-home '90s.The sparse styles, sharp angles and basic black palette of past ** years were on the wane in May at the fifth annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair, replaced instead by bright colors, curves and some visual humor.Aris Paganakis' series of chubby, cheerful pieces look as if they just waltzed out of "Beauty and the Beast" or escaped from Toontown.

Bernard C. Ruck Sr., 68, funeral homes president Bernard C. Ruck Sr., former president of Ruck Funeral Homes Inc., died Oct. 25 of cancer at his home in Tavernier, Fla. He was 68. A longtime Annapolis resident who moved to the Florida Keys in 1995, Mr. Ruck served as president of Ruck Funeral Homes from 1970 until retiring in 1995. Mr. Ruck was born and raised in Hamilton, the son of Leonard J. Ruck, who in 1924 established the funeral home on Harford Road in Northeast Baltimore that bears his name.