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November 15, 2009
Ricky Dobbs runs for five touchdowns, moving within one of tying the single-season NCAA record for a quarterback, and Navy defeats Delaware, 35-18 PG 8 No. 25 Stanford 55, No. 11 USC 21: : Toby Gerhart rushes for 178 yards and three TDs for the Cardinal PG 6 No. 10 Ohio State 27, No. 15 Iowa 24, OT: : Devin Barclay kicks a 39-yard field goal in overtime to send the Buckeyes to the Rose Bowl PG 6
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By CAMILLE POWELL | November 14, 2009
Delaware (6-3) at Navy (7-3) Time: : 3:30 p.m. TV: : CBS College Sports Radio: : 1090 AM, 1430 AM Series: : Tied 7-7 Last meeting:: Delaware beat Navy, 59-52, on Nov. 14, 2007 Murray means business: : Junior FB Vince Murray has rushed for more than 100 yards in each of the past four games, becoming the first Navy running back to do so since Napoleon McCallum in 1983. Since becoming the starter in mid-October, Murray is averaging 6 yards per carry and has scored five touchdowns.
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By Jamie Smith Hopkins and Hanah Cho | October 28, 2009
A hybrid-car maker plans to reopen the shuttered General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del., that employed several hundred Marylanders, igniting hope of new job opportunities for the laid-off workers. The fledgling Fisker Automotive of California announced Tuesday that it is buying the assembly plant, which made Pontiac and Saturn roadsters before it closed this summer under GM's bankruptcy. Fisker, which recently won approval for almost $530 million in government loans to develop plug-in hybrid electric cars, plans to begin production at the plant in late 2012 and to employ 2,000 there by 2014.
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By Mike Klingaman | October 17, 2009
Delaware (4-2) at Towson (2-3) Time: 3:30 p.m. Radio: 1570 AM Series record: Delaware leads 6-4 Last meeting: Delaware won, 31-21, on Nov. 8, 2008 What's at stake: Guess who scheduled a ringer for homecoming? The Tigers are underdogs to a much-improved Blue Hens team that matched its 2008 victory total last week with a 43-27 upset of then-12th-ranked Massachusetts. The win thrust Delaware into the Top 25 (the Blue Hens are ranked No. 23), which gives Towson more cause to knock off a team it hasn't beaten in three years.
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By Peter Schmuck | August 9, 2009
Let's all tip our caps to the National Football League and the governing bodies of the other major professional and college sports for taking a principled stand against Delaware's decision to add sports betting to its state lottery system. Yes, of course, I'm joking. The NFL, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and the NCAA joined together to file a lawsuit to stop Delaware's new sports betting plan, which would allow single-game wagering at the state's three racinos.
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By Melissa Harris | July 25, 2009
The nation's major professional sports leagues and the NCAA sued Friday to stop Delaware from launching single-game betting - and any wagering on sports other than football - before the NFL season starts this fall. If a federal judge grants the leagues' demands, Delaware's "sports lottery" would be limited, hampering efforts to balance the state's budget. A victory for the leagues also would curb, if slightly, an effort among Mid- Atlantic states to expand gambling, which is viewed as a politically safer revenue source than tax increases.
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By From Sun staff and news services | July 13, 2009
Horse racing 'Rachel' assigned top weight for Sunday's Delaware 'Cap Rachel Alexandra has been assigned top weight of 123 pounds for the 72nd running of the 1 1/4-mile, $1 million Grade II Delaware Handicap to be run Sunday at Delaware Park. The 3-year-old daughter of Medaglia d' Oro is 6-for-6 this year, including victories in the Preakness, Kentucky Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes. Acoma, the recent winner of the Grade III Mint Julep Stakes, and Unbridled Belle, the winner of the Grade II Delaware Handicap in 2007, have both been assigned 119 pounds.
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July 10, 2009
Looks like Marylanders threatening to leave the state over tax increases have one less place to go. Delaware, long the darling of anti-tax types in the Free State, just wrapped up work on closing an $800 million hole in its budget - no mean feat considering the whole thing is just over $3 billion. Gov. Jack Markell pushed for steep budget cuts but also about $200 million a year in tax increases. That comes out to about $229 per person. He increased the state's gross receipts tax to about 2.1 percent and the income tax on top earners to 6.95 percent.
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By Meredith Cohn | June 14, 2009
Salt air blowing through his hair and sun shining on his face, Justin Grossman was getting in a good ride just a block away from the Atlantic Ocean. True, Justin hasn't quite mastered pedaling because he's only 2. But soon enough he'll be hitting all the Rehoboth Beach area streets and trails with vigor, like his mother, Robin Grossman, and others who use their annual beach vacations to get some rays on their skin and some miles under their belts. The Maryland-Delaware oceanfront increasingly is attracting a crowd that wants to bike, as well as run and swim - even compete, according to those who organize workouts and races and market equipment.
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May 18, 2009
Below are reader responses to Delaware's legalization Thursday of table games and sports betting at its racetrack casinos submitted to The Baltimore Sun's talk boards and the blog baltimoresun.com/secondopinion. Table games better than slots My argument has always been for table games over slots. More revenue generated, and it attracts a better client. Maryland should have taken this approach years ago, instead of the compromise of slots and keno. Regardless, with the actions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and now Delaware (raising the bar)