La Salle

The Morgan State women's basketball team - led by Corin Adams with 20 points - held off a late rally by visiting La Salle to win, 71-70, last night. The Explorers (4-4) set a school record for most three-pointers in a game with 13 and were down by 13 points with less than two minutes to go. Morgan Robertson led La Salle with a double double (16 points, 13 rebounds), and Margaret Elderton matched her 16 points and added five assists and three steals. The Explorers used a pair of 9-0 runs through the game's first eight minutes to take their largest lead of the first half at 10. La Salle led 32-27 before the Bears (6-1)

Rodney Green and Kammani Barrett each scored 15 points, and Jerrell Williams had 12 points and 11 rebounds as host La Salle defeated Morgan State, 64-61, yesterday in the season opener for both teams. Jermaine Bolden had 14 points and Rogers Barnes 13 for Morgan State, which made only 21 of 64 shots. Neither team had more than a five-point lead in the second half, which had 10 lead changes and six ties. With the score tied at 58, Williams scored five straight points, giving La Salle (1-0)

Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman said the Bears are going through a tough patch with starting point guard Jerrell Green injured. The way the Bears played for the first 38 minutes of yesterday's game, you would have thought they never missed him. Sophomore point guard Reggie Holmes (St. Frances) scored 26 points and senior guard Jamar Smith added 25 as the Bears defeated La Salle, 93-87, at Hill Field House yesterday. The Bears (5-4) turned up their defensive pressure just before halftime to build a small lead, and then extended it early in the second half.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bank of America Corp.'s $21 billion gamble on Chicago received a tepid reception yesterday from some analysts and investors worried about the bank's continued appetite for big deals. The Charlotte, N.C., bank confirmed an agreement to buy Chicago's LaSalle Bank from Dutch parent ABN Amro Holding, which is being acquired itself by Britain's Barclays PLC for $91 billion. The takeover would give Bank of America the top spot in the nation's third-biggest city and would also make it the largest player in struggling Detroit.

Five years ago, Billy Hahn was a hot commodity. Now, he's confronted by the likelihood of a third straight season out of the game he loves. Hahn spent nearly half of his 33 years in college basketball at Maryland, where he was a reserve guard on some great teams in the early 1970s and an assistant coach to Gary Williams from 1989 to 2001. After the Terps reached their first Final Four, in 2001, Hahn became the head coach at La Salle. Two years ago, he was forced to resign in the wake of sexual assault charges against three of his players.

On Wednesday, March 8, 2006, BERNARD FISHER, beloved husband of Natalie F. Fisher (nee Rudolph); loving father of Sanford R. and Lois I. Fisher, devoted father-in-law of Darlene Fisher and Leo Jackson; beloved brother of Doris Schwartzman and Jean Lazinsky; loving grandfather of Jennifer and Stephen Fisher and Samuel Jackson. Services at SOL LEVINSON BROS INC, 8900 Resisterstown Road at Mt Wilson Lane, on Friday, March 10 at 2 P.M. Interment at Beth Tfiloh Congregation Cemetery - 5800 Windsor Mill Road.

Gary Neal draws stares wherever he goes. They gaze and gawk and still come away with no answers. They can't believe what they've seen and aren't sure they believe what they've heard. Do you trust your eyes? Or do you trust his words? Do you trust your judgment? Or do you trust the jury's? Neal has never wavered. "When I looked at the situation, it was always through the eyes of an innocent man," he says. He's flashy on a basketball court, a bright star who has returned from banishment.

Everything surrounding Gary Neal's debut in a Towson basketball uniform was quiet -- and considering the circumstances of his arrival, it was for the best. Nothing Neal did in that uniform last night, however, was quiet. He was like nothing anyone has seen at this school in years. Within two minutes of his entrance into the game against Virginia Military Institute at Towson Center, he was not only the best player on his team, or the best player on the court, he also was the best college player in the city.

Roger Clemens hasn't decided whether he will pitch next season, again leaving the Houston Astros in a bind as they plan for 2006. "Today, he would retire if he had to make the decision," Clemens' agent, Randy Hendricks, said. Hendricks added that the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, who hobbled off the mound after only two innings in Game 2 of the World Series against the Chicago White Sox because of a strained left hamstring, probably won't make a decision until late January or early February.

One month after being acquitted of a rape charge by a Philadelphia jury and nearly 21 months after playing his last collegiate basketball at La Salle, junior guard Gary Neal is restarting his career as the newest member of Towson's men's team. Neal will join the Tigers at practice today and is eligible to appear in his first game Dec. 21 against visiting VMI after being cleared to play by Dr. Robert Caret, the university president. Caret decided last week to approve a recommendation by an administrative committee that reviewed Neal's request to play for Towson.