Jeremy

BASEBALL Orioles@Indians 7 P.M. [MASN2]: This is a Jeremy Guthrie start for the Orioles, so it means they will likely be in the ballgame. Guthrie (9-8) has won three straight starts and allowed just one run in each of those outings. The Orioles scored nine runs in his last start, but most of the season the offense has let him down. Guthrie was waived by the Indians in early 2007, so he might have extra incentive.

STANTON, Del. -- It has been three years since jockey Jeremy Rose rode Afleet Alex to a stunning victory in the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course. But as he sat on a bench outside the jockeys' room at Delaware Park this week, he still could feel the horse under him, still sense the disaster nearly averted. And still recall it as if he had just finished the race. "At the three-eighths pole, we were still six or seven lengths off it [the lead]," said Rose, excitement touching his voice. "The horse in front of me decided to go out, around Scappy T and another horse.

In his three seasons as the starting goalkeeper for the UMBC men's lacrosse team, Jeremy Blevins has stared down the likes of Johns Hopkins, Maryland and Princeton. His toughest adversaries, however, just might be his housemates. Blevins shares an off-campus house with five other juniors in defensemen Bobby Atwell, Brian Schneider and Steve Settembrino and midfielders Mike Burch and Alex Hopmann. Blevins and Hopmann are considered the "neat freaks" who find themselves in seemingly daily battles to keep the house clean.

SEATTLE -- In organizational meetings during spring training, Orioles officials pondered slotting right-hander Steve Trachsel, and not Jeremy Guthrie, into the No. 1 spot in the rotation. Their logic was that as a veteran, Trachsel, who had 141 wins entering the season, was better prepared to deal with the rigors of occupying that role. He wouldn't be overwhelmed by the high expectations or the challenge of facing the other team's top starter. It's not that Orioles officials felt Guthrie would be, but the right-hander did have just one full major league season of experience and 27 career starts.

Jeremy Guthrie was driving solo from his Utah home to Las Vegas to see a Justin Timberlake concert when he got the phone call that changed the course of his baseball career. The caller that day in January 2007 was Cleveland Indians general manager Mark Shapiro, who informed Guthrie he had just been designated for assignment, all but guaranteeing the pitcher's departure from an organization that thought he would become an ace but grew tired of waiting. "Honestly, my first reaction was excitement," Guthrie said.

On January 28, 2008, LEATHA E. GOSNELL (nee Kimmel), beloved wife of Samuel A. Gosnell, loving mother of Austin Gosnell and Donna Allen, devoted grandmother of Carla Hoey, Charles Tull, Daniel Tull, Austin Bayne, Aaron Bayne, Jeremy Gosnell. Also survived by great-grandchildren. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home Inc., 3631 Falls Road, on Thursday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 and Friday, from 3-5 and 7-8pm, at which time a Funeral Service will be held. Interment in Garrison Forest Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Monday at 1:45pm.

After a near-eight-month vacation, Ah Day, Maryland's 2006 Horse of the Year, is entered at Laurel Park today, looking to add depth to his resume. The 5-year-old will try to become the first repeat winner in the 14-year history of the $80,000 Fire Plug Stakes. "I think he'll come back running good," said King Leatherbury, who bred, owns and trains the horse. "Last year I gave him a little shorter break, and he came back and ran one of the best races of his life in this race." A year ago, with Mario Pino riding, Ah Day beat Crafty Schemer in the six-furlong test.

On the weekly Atlantic Coast Conference teleconference, Ralph Friedgen touched on a variety of topics in his allotted 10 minutes, from Wake Forest's defense to playing a true freshman at punter. He praised Erin Henderson's improvement from last year to this season but didn't answer one reporter's question about whether Henderson has practiced this week and is ready to go. (Henderson was at practice yesterday in a black, noncontact jersey, but Friedgen said he expects everyone to play this weekend.