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SO WHAT DO I do now? With the Super Bowl becoming another NFL Films footnote more than 24 hours ago, that's become as much a personal question for me as it could be a credo for anyone who is a sports fan in this city. This is the cruelest of seasons: the annual February sports swoon. I suppose last week's announcement that I'd decided to step down as a daily sports talk show host on WNST after 13 consecutive years of spending afternoons chatting comes with impeccable timing. The truth is that there's not a whole lot that's going to happen around here anytime soon anyway.

Columbia's peaceful lakefront has seen a lot of musical acts over the years, but not too many mosh pits. So when a group of young men began enthusiastically throwing themselves into each other in front of a hard-rock band Tuesday night a few feet from the serene statue of James W. Rouse, it appeared the Columbia Association's Lakefront Festival had succeeded in broadening its appeal. The festival offers more than 60 nights of free movies or musical performances each summer. This year, for the first time, Tuesdays will be dedicated to teenage solo musicians and bands.

IT'S GOOD TO be Sports Illustrated publisher David Morris. The guy runs the world's most respected sports magazine and, on his very good days, gets his picture taken at A-List parties with some of the most beautiful women on the planet. That's exactly how I envisioned a career in sports journalism when I was in college, but I guess I didn't study hard enough. Because while Morris was standing arm-in-arm with the two finalists from the 2005 SI Swimsuit Search on Saturday night, I was standing outside the ropes trying to figure out just went wrong with my career.

Susan C. Warner, 93, a retired fitter in the alteration room at Stewart's Department Store in Baltimore, died Saturday at the home of herniece, Mildred P. Hummel. Daughter of Ephrim Eli and Sally Margaret Weaver Warner, she was first employed at Julius Gutman's Department Store. The last of her immediate family, she was one of 14 children. Surviving are numerous nieces and nephews.DATELINE: GamberHilda M. Jordon, 82, formerly of here, died Friday at Carroll County General Hospital in Westminster.

The Western Maryland College dean's list has been announced for the 1995 fall semester. Inclusion on the list requires a minimum 3.4 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Highest honors are earned for a 3.8-4.0 average, high honors for a 3.6-3.79 average and honors for a 3.4-3.59 average.Students from Carroll are:Detour : Kristen R. Coffman, highest honors, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Coffman.Eldersburg : Frederick M. Butler, high honors, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Butler; Melissa L. Meehan, highest honors, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Meehan; William M. Reigel, highest honors, son of Sharon Reigel of Eldersburg and Robert Reigel of Sykesville; Sharon C. Snyder, highest honors; Christy A. Veneziani, honors, daughter of Cheryl and Michael Veneziani.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- John Daly's battle with alcoholism has taken a turn for the worse.The mercurial Daly withdrew from The Players Championship after one round. His excuse was a sore hip, but that was apparently just a front for the erratic behavior that has hampered his career. Daly has checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in Palm Springs, Calif."As part of my ongoing battle to overcome alcoholism, I have decided to immediately enter the Betty Ford Alcohol Rehabilitation Program," Daly said in a statement released by the PGA. "In August of 1996, I suffered a setback in dealing with my disease.

Ninety-six Western Maryland College seniors and candidates for masters degrees from Carroll County were among the 485 students to receive their diplomas during the college's annual commencement ceremony May 25 in the Gill Physical Education Learning Center.Members of the Class of 1996 from Carroll County are:Detour: Kristen R. Coffman, business administration major, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Coffman.Eldersburg: Jennifer L. Cross, sociology major, daughter of Virginia and Raymond Cross; Lisa J. Davis, master of science degree; William M. Reigel, history major, son of Sharon Reigel of Eldersburg and Robert Reigel of Sykesville.

Rena D. Sugar, 90, city teacher, principal Rena D. Sugar, a longtime Baltimore elementary school educator, died Sunday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. She was 90. Mrs. Sugar, a Glen Avenue resident for more than 50 years, began her teaching career in city public schools in 1929 and retired in 1974 after several years as principal of the old Springhill Elementary School in Northwest Baltimore. She taught from 1941 to 1951 at Liberty Elementary School. Born in Baltimore, Rena Deitsch was the daughter of Russian immigrant parents.

CRESCENT CITY, Fla. - An Amtrak Auto Train loaded with more than 450 northbound snowbirds and tourists jumped the track and crashed 60 miles north of Orlando late yesterday afternoon, killing at least six people, injuring 12 seriously and hurting 150 others. Rescue workers who streamed into the rural crash area from throughout Central Florida were left to deal with a chaotic tangle of wrecked, half-buried train cars, dazed passengers, and local traffic jams that stretched for miles. Barely an hour after Amtrak Auto Train No. 52 pulled out of the Sanford station at 4 p.m., the derailment in a forested area near the Volusia and Putnam county line turned dinnertime on a leisurely 855-mile journey to suburban Washington into a scene of misery and confusion.

Monday marks the seventh Memorial Day since the United States invaded Iraq and the eighth since American troops went to war in Afghanistan. At latest count, 4,299 American servicemen and women had lost their lives in Iraq, and another 686 had died in Afghanistan. Since the last Memorial Day, nine Marylanders have been killed in those two wars, four in Iraq and five in Afghanistan. Two of them were just teenagers. Pvt. Charles Yi Barnett, 19, of Bel Air, was a sweet kid, a mama's boy, who joined the Army shortly after turning 18. His family said he wanted to better himself and go to college in a few years.