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A 21-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty Friday in an Indiana federal court to seven counts of producing child pornography, prosecutors said. Trevor J. Shea, of Mechanicsburg, was sentenced to 33 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, according to a statement Friday from the U.S. Department of Justice. Shea admitted to blackmailing 10 girls, between the ages of 13 and 16, to be video recorded while engaging in "sadistic and masochistic abuse and other sexually explicit conduct," the statement said.

Indiana has hired Towson assistant coach Kenny Johnson to fill a spot on its basketball staff. Towson head coach Pat Skerry confirmed the hire in a Tweet saying, "Congrats to coach kenny johnson and getting the job at indiana. He helped lay a strong foundation this year and will do great things at IU" Johnson is a 1999 graduate of Maryland whose playing career was cut short by an injury when he was in high school at Oxon Hill. He was a head coach at Paul VI High School in Fairfax, Va., and began his collegiate coaching career under Skerry at Towson.

Towson (0-0) at Indiana (0-0) Time: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Radio: 1370 AM Television: Big Ten Network Series record: First meeting What's at stake: The Tigers will open their 42nd season of football by traveling to play a FBS opponent for the third straight year. They've been beaten, by Navy and Northwestern, respectively, 41-13 and 47-14. Though Indiana is a perennial also-ran, tonight's game should probably follow the same pattern.

We think we know what Peter Franchot will be next year for Halloween. Just a guess, but Maryland's Comptroller seems to have a bit of an Indiana Jones fantasy -- one that he lived out Sunday morning in a weighty special section delivered with The Baltimore Sun. The 184-page publication features a grinning Franchot on the cover, trying to look as Harrison Ford-y as possible. There's the Indiana Jones whip in one hand, what looks to be an artificact in the other and atop his head, of course, is the archeologist's signature fedora.

Maryland coach Gary Williams didn't call Tuesday night's game here at Assembly Hall a must-win for the Terrapins, but he certainly didn't want to look back on the Big Ten/ACC Challenge meeting with the Hoosiers the same way he did on last week's trip to the Maui Invitational. With a strong finish that quieted a raucous and sometimes expletive-chanting crowd, Williams and the Terps won't have to do that. Desperate for a confidence-builder after falling out of the Top 25 with back-to-back losses in Hawaii, Maryland turned its first true road game of the 2009-10 season into an 80-68 victory.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Top-ranked and host Indiana topped third-ranked Maryland, 1-0, on Aleksey Korol's goal in the 21st minute of the second half in the season opener for both men's soccer teams at the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic last night.Maryland dominated much of the game, earning 12 corner kicks to four for Indiana. Maryland will play Butler at noon tomorrow, followed by Indiana and Saint Louis at 1: 30 p.m.The World Wide Web address for the games is http: // broadcast.iu.edu/adidassoccerclassic/ or can be reached from the Maryland athletic department home page at www.umterps.

The road to the NCAA final EAST REGIONAL (No. 1 seed)Maryland beat: * (16) Siena, 85-70 * (8) Wisconsin, 87-57 * (4) Kentucky, 78-68 * (2) Connecticut, 90-82 FINAL FOUR * (1) Kansas, 97-88 SOUTH REGIONAL (No. 5 seed)Indiana beat: * (11) Utah, 75-56 * (13) N.C.-Wilmington, 76-67 * (1) Duke, 74-73 * (10) Kent State, 81-69 FINAL FOUR * (2) Oklahoma, 73-64

BOISE, Idaho -- It wasn't exactly with a flourish that Missouri entered this year's NCAA tournament. Five losses in their past six games and a recent history of early exits made one wonder whether the Tigers' tournament run would be brief.The Tigers, at least temporarily, silenced their critics by defeating eighth-seeded Indiana, 65-60, in the first round of the West Regional last night."Every paper I see, it has that we've lost five out of six," Tigers coach Norm Stewart said. "It's been tough.

LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Indiana University basketball fans came here by the hundreds last week, many of them bemoaning the preseason effort of their beloved Hoosiers and not very hopeful of their team's chances in the Maui Invitational.fTC Asked about a possible second-round matchup against seventh-ranked Maryland, one ardent supporter said, "Forget Maryland. I don't think we're going to beat Utah the way we played in those two exhibition games."Talk about knowing one's team. Despite leading by nine points in the second half, the 11th-ranked Hoosiers were inconsistent on offense and uncharacteristically soft on defense.

It took the anticipation of the playoffs for the Indiana Pacers to finally become interested in the NBA season.After sleepwalking for most of the regular season -- during which the Pacers had just one 20-point win for almost the first three months -- Indiana has had wins of 23, 22 and 22 points in its past five games.That includes blowouts over New York and Cleveland in the last two games of the regular season and a 22-point win over Milwaukee in the opener of their first-round playoff series.

An article in the April 6, 1912, edition of The Argus reported a resident's actions to make the dissolution of his marriage official. Calvin B. Green , a well-known resident of Oella, Saturday, by his attorney, John S. Ensor , filed a bill in the Circuit Court at Towson for an absolute divorce from his wife, Mrs. Emma Green . Mr. Green states that he was married in 1887 and that he and his wife separated 23 years ago,...

Finally, the Final Four light shone through for Maryland's Lonny Baxter, a steady force in his team's 64-52 win over Indiana for the national championship. With 15 points and 14 rebounds last night, the senior from Silver Spring, Md., erased unpleasant victories in the final game of his college career. During last season's semifinal loss to Duke, during which the Terps squandered a 22-point lead, Baxter shot 2-for-10 from the field and fouled out on a questionable call late in the game.

On Wednesday night, the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team played North Carolina Central - the Big Ten, despite having an even number of teams now, still has bye weeks in basketball, leading to absurdities like this one - and welcomed a new manager to the sideline: San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh. According to reports from Yahoo! *, the Indianapolis Star and the Indiana Daily Student , Harbaugh, in Indiana for the NFL scouting combine, was seen setting up chairs and eavesdropping on his brother-in-law Tom Crean's frantic in-huddle coaching.

Whether it was beating Illinois and Duke when he was a sophomore or Connecticut in the East Regional final to keep his college career alive, Juan Dixon always had a flair for the dramatic, and the final three-pointer of his magnificent run at the University of Maryland went down as the biggest shot of the 2002 Final Four. There was no doubt that the senior from Calvert Hall would be named the Most Outstanding Player at the climax of the college basketball season, not after he cooled off a surging Indiana team with two clutch baskets that seemed to soften the hardened Hoosiers.

A 21-year-old Maryland man pleaded guilty Friday in an Indiana federal court to seven counts of producing child pornography, prosecutors said. Trevor J. Shea, of Mechanicsburg, was sentenced to 33 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, according to a statement Friday from the U.S. Department of Justice. Shea admitted to blackmailing 10 girls, between the ages of 13 and 16, to be video recorded while engaging in "sadistic and masochistic abuse and other sexually explicit conduct," the statement said.

Loyola cut No.3 Kentucky's lead to four points on the first possession of the second half, but the Wildcats later used a 15-2 run to put Thursday's men's basketball game out of reach in an 87-63 win before an announced 22,274 at Rupp Arena. "We withstood the first couple of minutes when they came out strong, and then we made it a really close game in the first half," Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos said. Erik Etherly, who led Loyola (8-3) with 14 points and 11 rebounds, caught a lob pass from Shane Walker and laid it in 13 seconds into the second half to cut the Wildcats' lead to 45-41.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The coaches wanted intelligent shots, intense man-to-man defense and good basketball. They got one of three.Third-ranked Kansas (2-0) defeated No. 2 Indiana (4-1) yesterday, 74-69, before 31,197 at the Hoosier Dome. The Jayhawks' tough defense coupled with Indiana's inaccuracy from the foul line led to the Kansas victory."I really thought it was a defensive struggle on both ends," said Jayhawks coach Roy Williams. "I was not as pleased with our offensive play as I was our defense.

ST. LOUIS -- Injuries will certainly play a part in the outcome of tonight's NCAA Midwest Regional final between top-seeded Indiana and second-seeded Kansas, with both teams a little banged up in the frontcourt.The Hoosiers came into the NCAA tournament with junior forward Alan Henderson playing in a limited role because of a knee injury. Then they lost freshman forward Brian Evans with a hand injury early in the second half of Thursday night's 82-69 victory over Louisville.Evans, who had replaced Henderson in the starting lineup, kept the hand in ice as he sat on the bench, but he seemed fine afterward.

If ever a city was bracing itself to revel in a healthy dose of karma, it's Baltimore. The city spurned by Colts owner Robert Irsay in March 1984 once again welcomes the Indianapolis version to M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday. The Ravens are 9-3 and battling the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans and New England Patriots for the AFC's No. 1 playoff seed. The Colts? They're 0-12 for only the second time in the club's 59-year history and in jeopardy of joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the NFL's only 0-16 teams.

Indana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, did something pretty amazing recently. With bipartisan approval in the legislature and working with state employees, he was able to bring about a surplus in the state's budget. He generated $1.2 billion dollars worth of surplus by not raising taxes. All of the savings were from carefully cutting expenses. Indiana's financial situation is far better than its neighboring states, particularly Illinois, which implemented massive tax increases to shore up its finances.