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This week's Maryland High School Football Media State Poll features a reversal of the Baltimore area's top two teams as Calvert Hall leaps over Gilman. The Cardinals moved from No. 4 to No. 3 while the Greyhounds dropped from No. 2 to No. 4. Calvert Hall improved to 2-0 with Friday's 30-6 victory over Dunbar, while the Greyhounds, who have a national-caliber season-opening stretch, dropped to 0-2 after falling to Good Counsel, 20-19, in overtime. Good Counsel holds onto the No. 1 spot while Quince Orchard, last year's Class 4A state runner-up to Old Mill, rose to No. 3 after a 28-12 win over Sherwood.

Did he or didn't he? That was the question that dominated the post-race conversation after Ryan Hunter-Reay jumped into the lead during a restart with five laps to go and sped to victory in the Grand Prix of Baltimore on Sunday afternoon. Well, Hunter-Reay certainly did take advantage of a late caution to dash past Ryan Briscoe and keep the IZOD/IndyCar points championship in doubt going into the final race of the season in Fontana, Calif., on Sept. 15. But some of the drivers that finished behind him - including Briscoe and overall points leader Will Power - seemed convinced that he illegally "jumped the restart.

A man trying to escape police jumped from a sixth-story hospital window in Annapolis Friday afternoon, landing on a rooftop three stories below. The jump caused life-threatening injuries to Bradly L. Poure, 40, who was flown from Anne Arundel Medical Center to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, officials said. As of 11 p.m. Saturday, he was in listed in critical condition, according to the hospital. "He did jump," AAMC spokesman Chad Dillard said, adding that Poure used a piece of hospital equipment to break the window around 4:30 p.m. — right before Poure was to be discharged.

- Not long after day broke at home thousands of miles away, the Notre Dame quarterback who can't fail sprinted onto the pitch to begin the season that can't go wrong. Everett Golson paraded past adoring throngs at Aviva Stadium. Steps later, he met Irish tackle Zack Martin, facemasks touching. Martin walloped Golson on the helmet with both waffle-iron hands. One play at a time, the senior told the sophomore. Stay calm. We believe in you. In a first step toward preempting a 2012 backslide, Irish supporters later had reason to believe in Golson.

A man jumped from the highest spot on the Bay Bridge early Monday afternoon and was pulled — alive — from the water by Natural Resources Police. The unidentified man was flown by State Police helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. There is no word on his condition. The incident happened shortly after 12:30 p.m. on the two-lane eastbound span. A witness said a man dressed in shorts, sneakers and a red T-shirt who appeared to be in his late 20s or early 30s was standing by a silver hatchback car in the left lane that was closed for construction.

As the Summer Olympics commence, Tom Carson and I raise a glass at the Swallow at The Hollow in Baltimore to Ray Ewry (pronounced Yew-ree), because attention must be paid: Tom's grandfather set a record in London in 1908 that the great Michael Phelps could reach in London in 2012, and such things have meaning across the ages. But before we go on, a clarification: Depending on how you count them, Ray Ewry won either eight or 10 individual gold medals as an amazing Olympic jumper — the Human Frog, they called him — early in the 20th century.

The last of the luxury townhomes in a project built on piers in Baltimore's Inner Harbor has finally sold, six years after the first buyers moved in. McWilliams Ballard, a Washington-based real estate sales team that took over the Pier Homes at HarborView project in 2010, announced Wednesday that everything in the 88-unit development had settled. Nearly half the project was unsold two years ago, prompting the developer to auction off 18 of the homes at big discounts to get buyers looking again.

Golf Terps ' Bosdosh shoots 69 to win Md. Open Sean Bosdosh , from Clarksburg and Holly Hills Country Club, sank an 18-foot birdie putt on the 18th green to close out a final-round 69 and win the Maryland State Golf Association's 91st Maryland Open championship with a 54-hole total of 12-under-par 204 at Old South CC in southern Anne Arundel County on Wednesday. "My brother [ Stephen , his caddie] told me the read - it was just outside right edge," Bosdosh said.

A growing number of thoroughbreds are being groomed for new roles following their days on the race track, including assignments as fox hunters, riding horses, pets and show jumpers. Maryland thoroughbred trainer Rodney Jenkins points to the intelligence of a horse as one of the reasons why the animal is able to easily make the transition into the next stage of its life. "It's really a thrilling thing to watch a horse in action," Jenkins said. "They're beautiful animals. They're not dumb.

Karl Max Jenkins, a former German merchant mariner who jumped ship in Baltimore and later became a stationary engineer and building superintendent, died Saturday of heart failure at Oak Crest Village retirement community. The former longtime Lauraville resident was 104. "He was an old salt and a walking history book," said Frank G. Lidinsky, a Baltimore attorney who was Mr. Jenkins' personal representative and friend for more than two decades. "He was a smart and engaging guy. " He was born Karl Max Jeglinski (a name which was later changed to Jenkins when he served in the U.S. Army)