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Nov. 12, 2000: "I've worked my whole career to play with a bunch of guys like this," quarterback Trent Dilfer says after driving the Ravens 70 yards for a touchdown in the final 2:18 to defeat Tennessee, 24-23. The victory lifts Baltimore to 7-4 and deals the division-leading Titans their first loss in 12 games in their new stadium. Nov. 17, 1986: Dunbar names Pete Pompey, the basketball coach at Edmondson, to replace Bob Wade, who left to take the job at Maryland. Asked about Edmondson's 5-11 record last year, Pompey says, "I just haven't had the same type athletes for basketball at Edmondson that Dunbar has had. " Nov. 11, 1983: Randy Boyd's late goal gives the Skipjacks (8-2-4)

Calvin Maddox was buried today, in the city where he won acclaim. The point guard on Dunbar's 1977 and 1978 Maryland Scholastic Association A Conference basketball champions, he was 54 years old. Maddox, who lived in Baltimore, died Nov. 2 after battling diabetes for a number of years. A three-sport standout at Dunbar, he was The Evening Sun's Male Athlete of the Year in 1978, after earning All-Metro honors in basketball, winning the MSA long jump and starring in football as a running back.

Dunbar Armored has been in the armored-car business for nearly 90 years. But the Hunt Valley-based company now is branching into a new way to protect banks' and businesses' money and valuables: cybersecurity. The company is launching a subsidiary, Dunbar Digital Armored, early next year to tap into the growing need to protect online transactions for its thousands of bank and retail customers. Dunbar will focus its cybersecurity products on small and mid-size companies that are looking for tech-savvy solutions but don't have the deep pockets or cybersecurity expertise of the big banks.

Dunbar football coach Lawrence Smith has been named the Ravens' High School Coach of the Week after the No. 8 Poets christened their new William F. “Sugar” Cain Field with a 64-0 win over Carver on Friday night. Smith, who was also a Ravens Coach of the Week in 2009, has the Poets (8-1) in first place in Baltimore City's Division I. Since falling to No. 2 Calvert Hall, 30-6, in the season opener, the Poets have shut out six opponents and allowed just 14 points in those eight wins.

The crowds ringed the fence at Dunbar's re-done football field long before the start of the game Friday. Fans were calling the school six hours before kickoff trying to score tickets, and it sold out three hours early. Dunbar has always been a major part of the community, but the new football field that opened Friday took that to another level. The Poets always had a place to play, but now they've got someplace special. The William F. "Sugar" Cain Field - named in honor of one of the school's most famous coaches - opened in style thanks to No. 8 Dunbar's 64-0 rout of an overmatched Carver team.

For the last couple months, Dunbar athletes have been keeping an eye on the renovation of their football field, hoping they would get to play a few games there this fall. "They think it's Christmas," Poets football coach Lawrence Smith said of the anticipation when the players found out the lighted field would be ready for their homecoming game Friday night against Carver. "I just think it's magical. It's going to be electric here Friday night," Smith said. Poets junior running back Coleman Blackston eagerly monitored the final weeks of construction.

If Dunbar's Carlos Austin slips a tackle, his next stop likely will be the end zone. The senior slot receiver and kick returner is just plain fast. That's no surprise, however, considering his last name and high school. Carlos is the half-brother of former Poets superstar Tavon Austin , who set a handful of state rushing records at Dunbar and is now blazing trails as a college senior at West Virginia. After seeing Carlos' speed, it's easy to draw comparisons to Tavon, Dunbar coach Lawrence Smith said.

Dunbar's football team went into Friday night's game against Edmondson having shut out its first four Baltimore City opponents. The Red Storm ended that streak, but Dunbar's defense came up big in the final four minutes to keep the No. 8 Poets unbeaten in the city league. Carlos Austin's fumble recovery led to the winning touchdown, and Wilbur Young's interception all but ended No. 14 Edmondson's hopes for an upset, securing a 13-8 comeback win at Poly's Lumsden-Scott Stadium. The Poets (5-1, 5-0 division)

Sarah Bowyer and Gledys Laguna-Lopez -- two freshmen on the Digital Harbor girls soccer team -- zigged and zagged their way through Dunbar's defense in a game Monday. The two players combined to score six goals as the more experienced Rams won the game comfortably, but there were no losers in the matchup at Swann Park. Digital Harbor is celebrating its 10th year of varsity soccer with its finest season ever. The Rams are now 6-0, including a win over Baltimore City perennial power Western.

If you tune in Saturday to watch Maryland play No. 8 West Virginia, do yourself a favor: Keep your eyes on the Mountaineers' Tavon Austin , the Baltimore kid who wears No. 1 and might be the most exciting player in the whole country. It's hard to believe he's a senior already, a slot receiver with the same Smurfs body-type he had during a legendary high school career at Dunbar. The Mountaineers list him at 5-foot-9 and 171 pounds, and that looks generous. But he's still the classic little man in a big man's game.