Football Player

With sympathy, shock and even a little humor, fans have reacted to the news that Raven Ray Lewis is out for the season with a torn triceps. Here is a sampling of the reaction as it registered on Twitter: Cody Hillard ‏@codyhillard : If Ray Lewis career is over I might shed a tear. Hes the most passionate player I've ever watched. You cant replace someone like that. Ever. Mr. Local Celebrity ‏@So_Fly_Jy : If you believe that Ray Lewis is retiring you obviously haven't listened to any of his motivational speeches or watched him play Andrew Fowler ‏@Uncle_Fowl : We have not seen the last of Ray Lewis turbo malarkey ‏@tedisLaw : you think ray lewis and derek jeter are just hanging out and being awesome together right now?

More than 100 student athletes from 73 Baltimore-area  high schools will be honored Monday night at the 73 rd Annual McCormick Unsung Heroes Award Banquet at the Hunt Valley Inn. One football player and one girls basketball player will be awarded the Charles Perry McCormick scholarships, valued at $36,000 over four years of college. They keynote speaker will be best-selling author Wes Moore, whose book 'The Other Wes Moore" is set to be made into a movie. An paratrooper with the Army in Afghanistan, Moore played football at Johns Hopkins, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2001.

Football player's appeal scheduled for argumentThe Maryland Court of Special Appeals will hear arguments in March in the case of Tawana Hammond, Carroll's first female high school football player whose $1.5 million lawsuit against the Carroll County school board was thrown out of Circuit Court this summer.Ms. Hammond, a former Francis Scott Key Eagles halfback and safety, was severely injured during a 1989 practice game. Ms. Hammond sued the school board in 1992, claiming that officials did not adequately warn her of the inherent dangers of high school football.

Each member of b's third 10 to Watch Under 30 edition has excelled in their respective fields: from the football player to the fundraiser to the businessman. View the photo gallery But what really sets them apart is an unending drive to not only better themselves but impact others. They're always looking toward the future -- the next project, big or small. They don't quit; they keep moving. And we're all better for it. Here's our 10 to watch class of 2012.

There was an excellent article in The Sun describing American fields ripe for harvest that are not getting picked because of a shortage of immigrants ("Labor shortages plague farms," July 7). The American Farm Bureau Federation projects $5 billion to $9 billion in annual produce industry losses because of "the labor shortages which have become commonplace for farmers" who claimed "there were 10 applicants for every job five years ago" and now must hire anybody who shows up. The cause of this labor shortage is said to be, among other things, "a crackdown on illegal immigration.

In the beginning, the people in the admissions office at Johns Hopkins weren't sure. Tom Dretler was a B student with board scores 200 points below the school average. There were better candidates. Dretler got in because a couple of alumni lobbied, and because he was a good football player.In the beginning, he wasn't sure he could measure up in the classroom. He was confident he would make a mark in football -- "It was my identity," he said, "the only thing I was good at" -- but he got so nervous during his first test that his nose started to bleed.

He had a lot to giveChucky Mullins, the University of Mississippi football player whose determination to live a normal life after a paralyzing injury won the admiration of a nation, was eulogized yesterday, two days after he died of complications from a blood clot in his lungs."

At the corner where Tauris Johnson used to play football with his best friend, a somber group of city leaders called for swift measures yesterday to save the lives and dreams of the rest of Baltimore's children.Eleven City Council members gathered with ministers at Regester and East Oliver streets to condemn the society in which a 10-year-old boy was gunned down while tossing a football at dusk. They demanded the immediate enactment of a nighttime curfew to protect young schoolchildren and summoned schools, civic groups and religious institutions to shake the conscience of a city grown accustomed to the sound of gunfire on its streets.

If you ever doubt that America is the land of opportunity, look no farther than Ricky Williams, the running back who is on his fourth or fifth chance at a pro football career with his recent return to the Miami Dolphins. Williams looks different. He's clean-shaven, from dome to chin. And he sounds a bit different. He's not utterly the vague, navel-gazing guy we had come to know. Last week, he said he wanted to be a football player and that he realized it was what most fulfilled him. "Someone asked me a question.

The latest evidence that Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo won't be muzzled about his support for same-sex marriage: He is hosting a Monday Night football party for the cause. Gov. Martin O'Malley this morning applauded Ayanbadejo for "tackling the issue" (O'Malley's pun, not ours), and plans to join. The party is set for Oct. 8 at Mother's Federal Hill Grille in Baltimore. The football player has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage, but received a flood of attention after Baltimore County Del. Emmett Burns, a Democrat, tried to stop him from talking publicly about the issue.