Hargrove

Let us hope that Mike Hargrove keeps his new job longer than his predecessors did.The Orioles are a promising business organization with a strong franchise and assured revenue but disappointing performance, not improved by abrupt discontinuity in management.Mr. Hargrove is a proven winner, at the top of his game, who took the Cleveland Indians to fie division titles and two pennants in five years.After a disappointing lapse in performance in this post-season, he was fired in a fit of ownership pique that is bound to be regretted, hence his availability.

The John R. Hargrove Sr. building of Baltimore's district court closed shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday because of a nearby water main break that left the facility without water. It's unclear when the building,  on the 700 block of E. Patapsco Ave.,  will reopen and resume hearing cases. Bail reviews were transferred to the Borgerding district court location at 5800 Wabash Ave, and other cases were postponed, said judiciary spokeswoman Terri Bolling. The water main break occurred on the 3600 block of Brooklyn Ave., Bolling said.

On October 6, 2005, MARY VIVIAN HARGROVE, devoted wife of Walter Hargrove. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Thursday at the Trinity Baptist Church, 1600 Druid Hill Avenue at 10:30 A.M. follow by funeral service at 11 A.M. See www.marchfh.com

Youth basketball Girl forced to miss part of game because of headscarf A 12-year-old Muslim girl in Hagerstown was forced to sit out the first half of a basketball game by a referee who said her headscarf posed a safety risk. Seventh-grader Maheen Haq was allowed to play the second half wearing the hijab after a league administrator granted her a religious exemption. Daphnie V. Campbell says the girl's parents will have to provide a letter stating that the headscarf is part of their daughter's religion and accept liability for any injuries.

On April 30, 2004; FLORENCE V. HARGROVE, beloved mother of Melvin and Allen Hargrove, devoted grandmother of two granddaughters, loving great-grandmother. She also is survived by a host of other relatives and friends. On Wednesday friends may call at THE NEW VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road, from 3 to 8 P.M. On Thursday, Mrs. Hargrove will lie instate at New Psalmist Baptist Church, 4501 Old Frederick Road, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M. with services to follow.

On August 18, 2008 B lanche, Friends may call at the Beverly D. Cromartie Funeral Service, 2700 Edmondson Avenue on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m a.m

So much for the notion that no quality candidates would be seriously interested in the Orioles' managerial opening. Former Cleveland Indians manager Mike Hargrove could sit home and collect $600,000 for doing nothing next year, but he was interviewing in Baltimore before the ink was dry on his severance deal.The guy put up with Albert Belle's strange antics for years, and he's willing to do it again. Maybe they should let him.The Orioles franchise has taken a huge public relations hit the past few weeks, and deservedly so. The team handled its recent front-office purge in such an amateur fashion that there was legitimate concern no one of any stature would be interested in joining the organization.

The hiring of Mike Hargrove wouldn't save the Orioles, but it would be an undeniably positive step, a move that would restore credibility both inside and outside the clubhouse.Hargrove isn't as respected as Joe Torre or as gifted a strategist as Davey Johnson, but he's a proven winner, which is more than can be said of the Orioles' other leading candidates.Hargrove over Grady Little or a holdover coach is an absolute no-brainer. Frankly, the Orioles are lucky that Hargrove is available to save owner Peter Angelos and his minions from themselves.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - With Opening Day just around the corner, maybe Mike Hargrove figured it was time to fire things up in the Orioles' camp. When a balk called against pitcher Rick Helling on Sunday resulted in a run for Montreal, Hargrove stomped out of the dugout to go chin-to-chin with the ump. Minutes later, when third baseman Tony Batista botched a tag on a throw from catcher Geronimo Gil, also allowing a run, Hargrove flung his cup of water...

He doesn't have the best pitching staff in the American League, but Cleveland manager Mike Hargrove is doing his part to develop durable starters.With veteran Dennis Martinez as his resident example, and a highly flammable bullpen as his nightly nightmare, Hargrove has resorted to the only tactic available to him. He's pushing his starting pitchers to the limit, and sometimes beyond.The statistics haven't always been pretty, but the results have been good enough to get the Indians to the top of the AL Central Division.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. - Recently acquired left-hander Rich Hill is progressing in his comeback from command issues in 2008, and he was throwing so well during his batting practice session yesterday that reserve catcher Guillermo Quiroz couldn't restrain his enthusiasm. "That's the best left-handed stuff I've ever seen," Quiroz said. Maybe that's a little bit much, but the issue with Hill has never been his talent. He was one of the brightest young pitchers in baseball a couple of seasons ago before he spun out of control.

LANHAM - At a production studio in suburban Maryland, a worker is applying glitter to a replica of the Liberty Bell - part of the Pennsylvania float in this month's inaugural parade - when Earl Hargrove strolls in. He's carrying a toy bugle in one hand and wearing a huge grin on his face. More than most people, Hargrove loves a parade. Barack Obama has promised to bring change to Washington, but when the inaugural committee hired Hargrove Inc. to orchestrate events around his swearing-in, it instead chose experience.

On August 18, 2008 B lanche, Friends may call at the Beverly D. Cromartie Funeral Service, 2700 Edmondson Avenue on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m a.m

A 16-year-old Baltimore youth pleaded guilty in city Circuit Court this week to second-degree murder in the shooting of a 20-year-old man on a west-side street corner last year, according to the state's attorney's office. Damon Simpson of the 3300 block of Brighton St. in West Baltimore was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Charles G. Bernstein to 15 years in prison, the first five without the possibility of parole. The judge suspended an additional 10 years, which he could impose if Simpson gets in trouble again.

There is no prescribed path, no blueprint Mike Hargrove can give Joe Gibbs. Dealing with death in sports is not in any coaching manual. In the aftermath of the shooting death of Pro Bowl safety Sean Taylor, Gibbs has to pull his shattered team together and get the Washington Redskins ready to play a game in four days. "All of us here are going to work together, go forward together, and I think each person here has to deal with it in his own way," Gibbs said during a news conference at the team's practice facility in Ashburn, Va., yesterday.

My assignment to photograph two lucky teachers who had been selected as winners of the $25,000 Milken National Educator awards felt more like being invited to a surprise party than an assignment. Kiara Delle Hargrove, a chemistry teacher at Baltimore's Polytechnic Institute, and Mabrooka Chaudhry, who teaches social studies at Atholton High School in Columbia, supposedly had no way of knowing they were in the running for the awards, which have been called "the Oscars of teaching" by Teacher magazine.

FREE-AGENT managers aren't a lot different from free-agent players. In the "walk years" of their contracts, they'd much rather be shown the love and the money long before the clock strikes midnight. It's one of those places in the big-business world of professional sports where the more vulnerable aspects of human nature can't quite reconcile with cold-blooded reality. Such is the situation of Orioles manager Mike Hargrove. His record (he's coming up on 1,000 career wins, one of only 50 major leaguers to reach that plateau)

BOSTON -- He has won five straight division titles and two American League pennants, and after tonight he might be a candidate to be the Orioles' next manager.Mike Hargrove, come on down!Work for Peter Angelos! Reunite with Albert Belle!On second thought, maybe Grover would pass.But if the Cleveland Indians fail to defeat the Boston Red Sox in Game 5 of the Division Series tonight at Jacobs Field, Hargrove indeed could be looking for work soon.Rest assured, someone is going to pay if the Indians blow a two-games-to-none lead to a Red Sox team that lost Pedro Martinez and, for one game, Nomar Garciaparra.

Howard County teacher Mabrooka Chaudhry came to the United States 25 years ago as a 9-year-old immigrant from Pakistan who spoke no English. Yesterday, she and Kiara Delle Hargrove, a 33-year-old chemistry teacher at Polytechnic Institute, learned that they each had won a $25,000 Milken National Educator award. Chaudhry, 34, a history teacher at Atholton High School in Columbia, said she exemplified the American dream. "My father told me to do whatever I want as long as I help others," said Chaudhry, who attended public schools in Howard and Baltimore counties and has degrees from University of Maryland, Baltimore County and University of Maryland, College Park.