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The Linthicum-Ferndale Yellow Jackets won the inaugura Anne Arundel Optimist Invitational Early-Bird 11-12 boys basketball tournament last week at Brooklyn Park/Lindale Junior Middle School.The Yellow Jackets of Ron Brown defeated the Anne Arundel Optimist Thunder, 48-21, in Friday's tournament opener.Linthicum-Ferndale opened with a full-court press and quickly built an 11-6 first-quarter lead.With Adam Sutton and Chad Brown running the fast break to near perfection, the Yellow Jackets claimed a 25-13 halftime lead.

Kudos to the nonprofit Pride of Baltimore, Inc. for showing kids that learning can be fun, as was apparent in the published photographs ("Pride II takes to the bay as a floating classroom," April 11). But there was something blatantly missing - life jackets! Let's be sure to also use these learning excursions to teach the importance of water safety. Terry Callanan, Catonsville Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A man armed with a shovel robbed a Linthicum man and a Baltimore man Monday of their jackets and jewelry at the Linthicum light rail station, county police said.Santo Spencer, 18, of the first block of Hampton Road in Linthicum and Thomas Crowder, 18, of the first block of S. East Ave. in Baltimore, told police they were waiting for a call at a pay phone on Nursery Road when a man riding a bicycle approached them and asked for a cigarette. When they said they didn't have one, the man left, but returned about 10 minutes later on foot with a long-handled shovel and threatened them,police said.

What you need to understand about Augusta National Golf Course's decision to admit women for the first time is this: It was never about golf. For those who supported the 80-year-old home of the Masters, it was about the right of a private club to choose its members on its own terms. It was about, for example, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates reportedly being denied consideration for a time (he is a member now) because he made it known that he wanted to be a member. For those who found the exclusion of women unsupportable and unseemly — the club finally admitted black men only in 1990 — it was about power and access.

Two men face up to two years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to robbing two teen-age boys of their "Starter jackets" last December outside a Pasadena movie theater.Antonio Dinard Barnes, 19, of the 2900 block of Second Army Drive, Fort Meade, and Charles Cornelius Smith Jr., 19, of the 500 block of Rita Drive, Odenton, both pleaded guilty yesterday to robbery in the Dec. 20 incident outside the Jumpers 7 Cinemas in Pasadena. In exchange for the guilty pleas, prosecutors will recommend a sentence of no more than two years for both men.Like pricey designer basketball shoes a few years ago, Starter jackets became a fashionable target for robbers last year, when at least seven were stolen in the county within a month, police reported.

WASHINGTON - Martha Stewart, Yahoo, Yellow Jackets. Don't laugh. Just buy, which means pencil in Georgia Tech for a few rounds on your NCAA tournament bracket. This is a safe bet, even if it's going to be the latest, greatest fad among March's mad day traders. By the time this newspaper hits your front walk, Georgia Tech's long-festering secret will no longer be a secret. The Yellow Jackets will probably be rated by Morningstar. Not a bad surge for an unranked team that got zero respect most of the season for its NCAA tournament run last year.

A man stole 10 jackets worth $1,575 Wednesday evening from a Woodward and Lothrop store in Parole Plaza and escaped in a Cadillac, county police said yesterday.Cynthia Muller, a security officer at the store, said the man entered the store shortly after 6 p.m. He picked up 10 Polo jackets and walked around the store until an employee asked him if he needed help. The man ran from the store with the jackets, police said.He ran to a beige Cadillac with Virginia tags and drove from the parking lot toward Riva Road, police said.

The Linthicum-Ferndale Yellow Jackets 11-12 boys basketball team beat Lake Shore, 27-19, in the Anne Arundel Gridiron Rebels Sunday League matchup last weekend at North County High.The Yellow Jackets used a strong defense to take a 12-8 halftime lead and then used their transition game to extend the lead to 23-14 after three quarters.David Dolch led the Yellow Jackets with 14 points and Ryan George added seven. Adam Sutton chipped in three for the victors and Joe Anarino and Eric Larson contributed two points and one, respectively.

Stop for a moment. When you hear "leather," what's the first thing that comes to mind?If you're like a lot of folks, you're thinking jacket, black or biker. Think again.Advanced tanning and dyeing methods have made leather more than just Harley wear. It's everywhere."What's become mainstream is the comfort," said Lili Glassman, managing director of the Leather Apparel Association. "People love the feeling of wearing it. It's fashionable and it's sensual, but it's also practical."But don't take slink to work.

About odd jackets, gray flannel slacks, and button-down oxford-cloth shirts worn without a tie -- is this still a preferred mode of dress? I've always thought it is a classic.A: I agree. The combination you described is a widely accepted way of dressing; it is one outfit every man looks good in. For casual occasions that do not require a tie, this weekend wardrobe staple is almost never wrong. Yet, even within these limits, a great many variations present themselves as options.Jacket possibilities include: a single-breasted blue blazer or a more formal double-breasted navy wool; a camel's hair jacket; a gray houndstooth or tan tweed sports coat; a beige raw silk; a white wool-and-linen blend resort look; one of the fashion-forward draped rayon-and-wool jackets for spring; summer pastel cotton or linen blazers; narrow-striped seersuckers.

Jim James can't seem to slow down. Besides fronting one of the most beloved rock bands in the country - the Louisville, Ky., quintet My Morning Jacket - James has just put the finishing touches on his first solo album, still untitled and tentatively due in February. Besides the solo work, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter has been remixing songs for up-and-coming artists such as Floating Action, a folk-hybrid act signed to James' own Removador label. It's also been more than a year since My Morning Jacket released its sixth album, "Circuital," and James is still touring heavily in support of it. Right now, he's in a familiar position - in the thick of a brutal summer schedule that began with large European festivals and has continued as a My Morning Jacket headlining tour in America.

Maryland fans did not need to step outside to feel the chill. For much of Sunday's game, the shooting percentages of Maryland and Georgia Tech hovered in the 20s -- lower than the temperature outside Comcast Center. But that was fine with the Terps, whose defense and foul shooting allowed them to overcome a sub-freezing shooting spell in a 61-50 victory over Georgia Tech -- Maryland's ninth victory in its last 10 games. Maryland won largely because of senior Sean Mosley, who scored 18 points -- including the last seven of the game -- and played airtight defense on leading Georgia Tech scorer Glen Rice Jr. Both teams' shooting percentages thawed as the game wore on, but a key for Maryland was that Rice -- son of the former NBA star -- was never allowed to become his hot-shooting self.

To give you a look at Maryland and this week's opponent, Georgia Tech, I traded five question-and-answers with Ken Sugiura, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Georgia Tech beat writer. Here are Ken's responses to my Georgia Tech-themed questions.   1) Does Paul Johnson ever refer back to his Navy days? Can you even find crabs in Atlanta? He mentions his teams at Navy occasionally, usually, not surprisingly, in response to questions about his background or experiences in coaching.

Paul Johnson had grown tired of the question. It was 2008, and the former Navy coach — entering his first season at Georgia Tech — was repeatedly asked by the media whether the option-based offense he ran so successfully at Navy would translate in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Johnson folded his arms and exhaled. "I get a kick out of, 'Will this work on this level?' he said. "I'm like, 'Are we playing the NFC East?' Last I looked, the last six years at Navy, we were playing Division I teams.

It was less than an hour after Maryland's 28-3 victory over Towson, but it wasn't too soon for the Terps and their coaches to begin preparing — at least mentally — for the daunting challenge of slowing down Georgia Tech's triple-option offense. After two straight losses, Maryland's win over the previously unbeaten Tigers served an important purpose. "This makes us feel like winners again," said linebacker Lorne Goree. But Maryland's celebration was fleeting by necessity.

My Morning Jacket performed Friday at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. b editor Anne Tallent reviews the show below. "Told me not to smoke drugs, but I wouldn't listen Never thought I'd get caught and wind up in prison" The lyrics of My Morning Jacket's "Outta My System" might draw skepticism from the Parents Television Council. But the Beach Boys-esque melody is pop-py, and, six songs into Friday's show at Merriweather Post Pavilion, wild-haired drummer Patrick Hallahan did kinda resemble the Muppets drummer Animal.

Three young men and a 17-year-old youth, all from Annapolis, were charged with robbing two men at gunpoint of their jackets and money in Pioneer City Wednesday night.According to the police report, Dante Thomas, 21, and James Thomas Cash, 20, were standing outside a home in the 8400 block of Pioneer Drive at 8:38 p.m. when four young men pulled up in a silver Subaru. Three got out of the car and demanded the victims' jackets and cash.Mr. Cash and Mr. Thomas gave their jackets and money to the robbers, two of whom had handguns.

Under all the lace and velvet, sturdy tweed and filmy chiffon, fall fashion's modern fantasies of Edwardian dandies, Russian officers and Scottish Highlanders are built on old-fashioned jackets.Romantic is the operative word this season, as international designers ransack archives to revive vintage jacket shapes drawn from across the centuries and across the globe, from the snowy Tyrolean Alps to the misty English hunt country.Blowing the dust off the foppish styles first set in the drawing rooms of late 19th-century London, designers on both sides of the Atlantic dote on dandy looks this season.

I just read the article "Save boaters from themselves" (May 18) and I have to disagree with author about making it a law to wear PFDs (life jackets). That is what is wrong with this country today, there are too many laws telling people what to do. People need to start thinking for themselves and become responsible for their own actions, and the government needs to stay out of peoples' lives. The people are bigger than the government since we created the government. We do not need laws to protect us from ourselves.

L. Alan Keene, you're all wet on your article "Save boaters from themselves" (May 18). Your comparison to cell phones while driving and helmets for motorcycles is overstated. Using cell phones while driving, like drunk-driving, directly endangers the lives of others. The chances of critical injury or death from falling into the water are vastly lower than head injury in a motorcycle crash. People like you would legislate every personal freedom we have away. What's next — you have to wear a PFD ( personal flotation device)