Duel

Like, gag us with a spoon. For its 30th anniversary, Artscape is going all 1980s on us. So we figured that now’s the time to determine once and for all which was the better 10-year period: the ’80s or ’90s. Let the battle begin! FASHION ’80s: Neon; torn sweat shirts and leg warmers; the “Miami Vice” look; shoulder pads; goth ’90s: Grunge; “Blossom” hats; bell-bottom sleeves; cargo shorts/pants; babydoll dresses; that T-shirt-under-a-suit thing Winner : Tough one, but the ’ 80s ekes out a win (mostly thanks to not introducing cargo shorts/pants)

From the start of Friday afternoon's Bryn Mawr-Notre Dame Prep girls lacrosse game, Mawrtians' goalie Molly Wolf felt she was in a goalies' duel. Wolf and NDP goalie Mary-Sean Wilcox have known each other since the fifth grade and play on the same club team. Each started off the game hot, but in the end Wolf made the only save in overtime to preserve an 8-7 victory for the No. 2 Mawrtians. The No. 7 Blazers put a lot more pressure on Wolf than the visiting Mawrtians did on Wilcox, who made six terrific saves against 13 shots on goal.

On February 27, 2003, RICHARD E. of Baltimore, MD. He is the loving husband of Rosalie S. Duel; dear father of Barbara Johnson, Richard Duel, Larry Duel, Margie Duel, Ann Blum, Frances Kaufman, and the late Kevin Duel; father-in-law of Pete Johnson, Jerry Blum and Buddy Kaufman; grandfather of ten. Friends may call at the Loudon Park Funeral Home, 3620 Wilkens Avenue, on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. where service will be held on Monday at 11 A.M....

They start the show with a ridiculous graphic of Gavin in his rowboat on the dance floor, getting overwhelmed by a giant wave. Oh, silly dancing show, it's fun when you have a little bit of a big budget. It's Motown night and one can only hope that they've managed to rescue 71-year-old Fontella Bass for a performance on Motown night. That song is absolutely on my "Desert Island Jukebox. " Oh, cool - they've got a  spotlight replica of the Motown logo on the dance floor. And we start off with a performance from Smokey Robinson, "Tracks of My Tears" while the troupe dances.

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, used gracious and folksy back-to-back appearances last night on cable television to try to smooth over the rough spots in their respective campaigns.Clinton, appearing on MSNBC, the new cable and Internet service, took on the issue of Whitewater, dismissing polls that suggest that a majority of Americans do not believe that he and his wife are telling the whole truth about it. The president asserted that the Whitewater investigation has been "highly politicized."

TORONTO -- Arthur Rhodes vaguely remembers pitching against Doug Linton earlier this year, when both were in the International League."Yeah, I pitched against him [for Rochester] when he was at Syracuse," said the Orioles left-hander. But he couldn't recall any of the particulars.And Linton wasn't even sure the two had ever pitched in the same game. "I've seen him [Rhodes] before, but I really don't know if I faced him," he said.Chances are that both will remember a lot more about their duel here yesterday afternoon.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Imagine Vice President Al Gore challenging Florida House Speaker Tom Feeney to a duel. They march 10 paces apart, turn and fire. Feeney falls, mortally wounded with a bullet in his spine. Gore's considerable achievements are quickly forgotten as his reputation sours faster than milk in the summer sun. Unlikely? Probably. Unprecedented? Not really. The parallels between the presidential elections of 2000 and of 1800 are striking. Two men found themselves neck and neck at the end of an election; neither would concede.

A Westminster man has been acquitted of setting fire to another man's truck after a traffic dispute escalated into a duel with shovels at the Twin Kiss restaurant parking lot nearly 14 months ago.A Carroll County jury deliberated about 50 minutes yesterday before rendering its verdict in favor of Robert J. Dallatezza, 38, of the 800 block of Young Court.Dallatezza's version of what happened differed in critical aspects from that of Frederick W. Blickenstaff, 45, of the 2000 block of Herbert Ave. in Westminster.

Police continued searching yesterday for a purple pickup truck and its driver in connection with a fatal crash that investigators say may have resulted from a driving duel along Route 3 in Gambrills on Friday afternoon. Investigators said witnesses saw brake-slamming and lane-changing around 4 p.m. Friday near Church View Road, ending when Patrick Francis Smith tried to pull in front of the pickup truck and lost control of his black 1998 Honda Civic. The car spun around, jumped a curb and hit a utility pole, killing Smith, 22, of the 300 block of Wembly Way in Severna Park.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The competition between converted Orioles reliever Chuck McElroy and spring surprise Willis Roberts for the starting rotation's final berth became a two-coast affair yesterday, almost overshadowing the growing chance that manager Mike Hargrove may reconsider his staff's alignment for Opening Day. If there was little difference between the candidates before yesterday, the margin grew even thinner by late afternoon. While Hargrove watched McElroy hold down a St. Louis Cardinals' split squad, 4-2, at Fort Lauderdale Stadium, vice president of baseball operations Syd Thrift rumbled across Alligator Alley to take in Roberts' five shutout innings in a 6-5 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Fort Myers.

Robert Olson matched his career high with 21 points, but the host Iona men's basketball team came back from a five-point halftime deficit Sunday afternoon to defeat Loyola, 74-63, in an early battle for first place in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Lamont Jones scored 25 points for the Gaels (14-4 overall, 6-1 MAAC), and Mike Glover added 20 points and 15 rebounds. Loyola (12-5, 5-2) led by as many as seven in the game's early going after Justin Drummond converted a three-point play 7:03 into the contest.

We open this episode on Redemption Island, where Keith, Ozzy and Jim confab about the game. Why are all three of them there? When do they do another Redemption Island challenge? We can't really call it a duel anymore, can we? Coach shows that while he may be a strange man, he does understand a lot about the way people think. He knows that the person at the bottom of an alliance can't feel as if he's at the bottom of an alliance. And I must say, it's working for him so far. Oh, Jeebus.

Sailing Annapolis, San Fran. clubs to duel for Corinthian Cup The Annapolis Yacht Club and the San Francisco Yacht Club will take to the Chesapeake Bay in borrowed J/22s in a friendly competition Saturday and Sunday to hoist the Corinthian Cup Trophy. The San Francisco Yacht Club won last year's inaugural event on the blustery waters of San Francisco Bay, where wind speeds reached 20-25 knots. The Annapolis team is John Loe (skipper), Shane Zwingelberg (tactician)

Like, gag us with a spoon. For its 30th anniversary, Artscape is going all 1980s on us. So we figured that now’s the time to determine once and for all which was the better 10-year period: the ’80s or ’90s. Let the battle begin! FASHION ’80s: Neon; torn sweat shirts and leg warmers; the “Miami Vice” look; shoulder pads; goth ’90s: Grunge; “Blossom” hats; bell-bottom sleeves; cargo shorts/pants; babydoll dresses; that T-shirt-under-a-suit thing Winner : Tough one, but the ’ 80s ekes out a win (mostly thanks to not introducing cargo shorts/pants)

This year's election will be the third and last based on Howard County Council district lines drawn strictly along party lines a decade ago by a 3-2 vote and won by council Democrats after the last census. Republicans say they want to "take back the county" this year so they can redraw the lines themselves. That issue became clear at a fundraiser Sept. 16 for Republican Robert L. Flanagan. The candidate — former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s transportation secretary — is hoping to replace Democrat Courtney Watson as the council member for District 1, covering Ellicott City and Elkridge.

Chicago White Sox pitcher Gavin Floyd , a 27-year-old right hander from Severna Park (Mount St. Joseph), enters tonight's start against the Orioles having turned around what early on had the makings of a disappointing season. In his past six starts, Floyd (7-8, 3.54 ERA) is 3-1 with a major league-low 0.89 ERA. For his performance, Floyd was named the American League's top pitcher for July. Floyd, whose ERA had ballooned to 6.52 in early June, said before Friday's game that his recent improvement was the result of "my focus, my persistence of working at trying to get better and my conviction on each pitch.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Michael Phelps will continue his contrary ways in today's "Duel in the Pool." The one-day competition between Australia and the United States, the world's dominant swimming nations, lost some glamour when the visitors scratched national hero Ian Thorpe because of a meningitis-like virus, but the event will not be without star power, thanks to Phelps, the 17-year-old from Rodgers Forge and the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Phelps is the only American man entered in three individual events, and he'll be favored to sweep the 400 individual medley and both the 100 and 200 butterflys.

Two unearned runs separated a pair of senior right-handed pitchers named Jeff yesterday in Millersville as visiting and No. 4 ranked Arundel nipped No. 5 Old Mill, 2-0, in a game played in a rapid 1 hour, 25 minutes. Arundel's Jeff Feigl got the best of Old Mill's Jeff Koscielniak. Each pitched a two-hitter with very similar numbers, but the difference was the Wildcats taking advantage of Old Mill miscues to score single runs in the first and third innings, with Feigl driving in the second run. Pitchers' duel is an understatement to describe the superb performance of the two. Two of the four errors by the Patriots led to the runs.