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Mike Waddell, whose 2 1/2-year tenure as Towson's athletic director was marked both by the tremendous growth in its football and men's basketball programs and by the controversy surrounding the elimination of men's soccer and the proposed dropping of baseball, is leaving to become a senior associate athletic director at Arkansas. Waddell's departure comes a few months before the school is scheduled to open Tiger Arena and several months after Waddell found himself embroiled in an often nasty debate that ultimately reached the state legislature and was - at least temporarily - resolved with extra funding for the baseball program.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Jerome Oliver scored 23 points and Fayetteville State's defense forced Bowie State into 21 second-half turnovers as the Broncos took a 95-73 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association victory last night.The Broncos (6-3, 2-1) trailed 43-42 at halftime, but a 25-8 run midway through the second half secured the victory.Harvey Petty added 20 points and 10 rebounds for Fayetteville State.Brian Brooks, the CIAA's leading scorer with a 28.6 average, had 23 to lead Bowie State (5-4, 3-3)

The Mariners of the American Indoor Football Association will take on the Fayetteville Guard at 4 p.m. today at 1st Mariner Arena. The Mariners are looking to improve to 3-0, while the Guard is making its season debut. The Guard was founded in South Carolina in 2003, moved to Fayetteville in 2005 and is entering its eighth season of indoor football play under new coach Webbie Burnett . - From Sun staff and news services

Lillie Chappell was up about $50, then down about the same, and was into her third hour playing a video game — pressing a button on the computer screen and watching tumbling four-leaf clovers, bars, horseshoes, numeral sevens. Compared with slot machines she'd played at Delaware Park, she said this was "pretty much the same. " Chappell, a retiree from Catonsville, wasn't playing at a casino but in a game room at Patapsco Bingo in Baltimore — one of several that have opened in the area in the past year offering cash winnings on computer games.

Frances Smith of Fayetteville, N.C., was looking for a recipe for a cheesecake made in a bundt pan. It had a graham-cracker crust and when the cake was turned out of the pan, the crust was on the top. It was sliced like a regular bundt cake. Cheryl Lisi from West Monroe, N.Y., sent in a recipe she found for a cheesecake that is designed to be made in a bundt pan. It is prepared just like a traditional-style cheesecake except that it is made in a bundt pan, not a springform pan. It makes a beautiful and deliciously rich cake with a nice hint of lemon.

BOWIE -- For the second season in a row, Fayetteville State helped dampen homecoming day at Bowie State University.This time around, the Broncos waited until the final 40 seconds of the game before pulling off a 6-3 upset in front of 6,000 fans at Bulldog Stadium.Jermaine Bryant's 24-yard touchdown pass to Aris Young on a fake field-goal attempt gave the visitors their first win of the season, improving their record to 1-5-2 overall and 1-4-2 in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Llewellyn G. Longstaff, 82, oversaw civil service examsLlewellyn G. Longstaff, former director of civil service examinations for Baltimore City, died Wednesday of heart disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 82 and lived in Guilford.Mrs. Longstaff was in charge of overseeing city civil service examinations from 1967 until she retired in 1987.Earlier, she had worked from 1960 to 1967 as director of personnel for the Hochschild-Kohn department store.She was a 38-year communicant of St. David's Episcopal Church in Roland Park where she was a member of the Altar Guild.

Many retirees are opting to stay closer to the communities where they lived during their working years, deciding to be near their families and the areas they know. And builders and real estate agents are working to meet this demand by creating and finding communities where homeowners can have recreation, maintenance-free living and first-floor amenities as they choose a place to retire. Nearly six out of 10 homeowners said they expect to move to another home when they retire, according to the annual Baby Boomer Report by Del Webb Corp.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Bowie State linebacker Atcheson Conway just shook his head, unable to believe what had just happened. It wasn't the 17-14 loss to Fayetteville State yesterday in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship game that had the sophomore linebacker so stunned. It was that Bowie State watched the Broncos fumble nine times, but the Bulldogs couldn't recover any of them. "That made a huge difference," Conway said. "We weren't able to take advantage of any turnovers.

The host Mariners (3-0) made six sacks, forced seven turnovers and held the Fayetteville Guard to 69 yards of total offense, winning, 59-0, and becoming the first team in American Indoor Football Association history to record a shutout. Armar Watson had an interception, Adam Goloboski had 2.5 sacks and 2.5 tackles for a loss, and Brian Bradford had two interceptions. Running back Isaiah Grier rushed for three touchdowns and had one receiving. "Overall this was our best effort of the season.