Field House

John Houser III reviews Field House in Canton, the former home of Ray Lewis' Barbecue and Spike Gjerde's Atlantic. Field House is a great place to watch sports on TV, but can you get something good to eat while you're doing that? Here's that review .

The demise of Towson University baseball is testimony to the sad reality of college athletics ("Angry coach says officials kept quiet about folding team," Oct. 4). It's not about what is best for the student, the full experience of college, the growth of the young people. It's about chasing the dollar. The baseball program has prospered at Towson University despite the lack of support or acknowledgment from the administration. It has been the hard work of one man, the coach, who has authored the success and reputation it has realized.

With TVs on the walls, in the booths and hanging from the ceiling, the Field House in Canton is a wonderful place to have a few beers and watch multiple games at once. On a recent visit, however, some of the food played third-string to the entertainment and libations. The enormous space, which used to be Ray Lewis' Full Moon BBQ, gives off a steak house-meets-frat house vibe: High-backed leather booths and college banners abound. Our first server was a bartender who, upon being asked whether the "local calamari" ($10)

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living. He was 85. "It's important for America to remember Wesley A. Brown. He was a pioneer like Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson," said Navy historian Robert J. Schneller Jr., who wrote about Commander Brown's years at the Naval Academy in his book "Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality.

The United States Naval Academy will dedicate the Wesley Brown Field House at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The facility, which has been under construction since March 2006, will be a new center for physical education, varsity and intramural athletics, club sports and personal fitness. The field house is named for retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, who in 1949 became the first black graduate of the Naval Academy. Nonprofit Holistic Moms plan new chapter The Holistic Moms Network is planning to launch a new chapter in Annapolis.

After a year of delay, the state Board of Public Works awarded an $11.8 million contract yesterday to a Lanham construction company for the renovation and expansion of the Hill Field House at Morgan State University.The board, which consists of the governor, the comptroller and the treasurer, awarded the contract to Columbia Construction Co. Inc. over the objections of losing bidders, including James W. Ancel Inc. of Towson, which was the low bidder by $366,000.The state accepted bids for the job last August, but the lowest was $1.8 million above what had been budgeted.

A planned field house at the Naval Academy will be named for the college's first African-American graduate. The U.S. House of Representatives approved last month a military appropriations bill that includes $24.9 million for the first phase of the construction. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, a 3rd District Democrat, said he expects the remaining money for the $50 million project to be included in authorizations for fiscal year 2007. The field house is to be named in honor of Wesley A. Brown, who became the academy's first black graduate in 1949.

Striving to offer more athletic and recreational activities for its growing student population, Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills is proposing to build an equestrian center and field house.The private girls school submitted preliminary plans to Baltimore County officials this week seeking approval of the projects with the hope of starting construction this spring, said G. Peter O'Neill Jr., the school's head.The equestrian center would provide two additional indoor riding rings, allowing the school to hold three riding classes at a time, O'Neill said.

Just a few days after 1,000 or so midshipmen become officers in the Navy and Marine Corps on May 26, the U.S. Naval Academy will begin several multimillion-dollar construction projects, completing more than $80 million worth of work in two years. The changes will include sprucing up the academy's main tourist entrance at King George and Randall streets, building a sprawling field house named after the school's first black graduate, remodeling the King Hall dining facility and adding an ice rink across the Severn River.

Morgan State's Hill Field House, devoid of activity other than that of construction crews for nearly two years, is nearing completion as the basketball team prepares for its first game there Feb. 20 against Maryland-Eastern Shore.The Bears' basketball teams will be playing their final games at Gilman today against North Carolina A&T and Monday night against South Carolina State. A lead in the MEAC could be on the line for the men (9-10, 8-3), a game behind the Bulldogs and tied with the Eagles.

John Houser III reviews Field House in Canton, the former home of Ray Lewis' Barbecue and Spike Gjerde's Atlantic. Field House is a great place to watch sports on TV, but can you get something good to eat while you're doing that? Here's that review .

With TVs on the walls, in the booths and hanging from the ceiling, the Field House in Canton is a wonderful place to have a few beers and watch multiple games at once. On a recent visit, however, some of the food played third-string to the entertainment and libations. The enormous space, which used to be Ray Lewis' Full Moon BBQ, gives off a steak house-meets-frat house vibe: High-backed leather booths and college banners abound. Our first server was a bartender who, upon being asked whether the "local calamari" ($10)

Before Monday night, it had been eight years since the Loyola men's basketball team traveled the two miles across Cold Spring Lane to play at Morgan State. The Greyhounds had also won five consecutive games in the series since 1979. Loyola continued that streak with a physical 73-67 victory, spoiling the Bears' home opener before an announced 2,708. Loyola's win was also impressive because the Bears are 35-7 at Hill Field House under fifth-year coach Todd Bozeman. Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos was just happy to get a road victory over a team that played in the past two NCAA tournaments.

With hydraulic lifts pumping and air blowers whirring under a carpet of artificial turf, the Naval Academy unveiled a high-tech new field house yesterday where its varsity athletes can train, club teams can play and midshipmen can stay in shape. Located on the southeast edge of campus near the Severn River, the $50 million Wesley A. Brown Field House succeeds the Academy's Halsey Field House as the home for six varsity teams and as a centerpiece for fitness training and physical education for all midshipmen.

Morgan State has continued to dominate opponents at Hill Field House, where they have yet to lose a game this season. The Bears put on another solid performance last night by controlling both ends of the floor in a 59-50 victory over Bethune-Cookman in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game. Reggie Holmes scored a team-high 16 points and Marquise Kately added 15 for Morgan State, which improved to 4-1 in the conference and 5-0 at home. "It is a game-by-game thing, and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves," Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman said.

One day after Barry Bonds was indicted on federal perjury and obstruction charges, the sports world's other famous subject of a federal investigation, Michael Vick, was back in the news yesterday. The infamous Surry County, Va., house that was headquarters for Vick's dogfighting operation, Bad Newz Kennels, was sold this week to a developer who plans to auction it off. So, are you looking for new digs and don't care about bad karma? There's a public showing of the house, a 4,300-square-foot two-story white brick building with a backyard basketball court, Dec. 8-9. The auction is Dec. 15. No word on what the developer paid, but reportedly, it's less than the $747,000 assessed value.

A diverse crowd of several hundred students gathered last night in College Park to express still-raw emotions after the discovery last week of a noose hanging on the campus of the state's flagship public college. "We reject intolerance," said Barrie Adleberg, 21, a senior majoring in African-American and Jewish studies. "Instead of empowering the complacent attitude that racism will exist, we unite as a united voice of resistance." Police are looking for whoever dangled a 3-foot rope with a small loop at its end from a tree outside a campus cultural center that is home to several black organizations.