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Ravens Ex-reserve fullback Cotton reported dead at 36 Former Ravens fullback Kenyon Cotton has died, according to a report in the Minden (La.) Press-Herald. He was 36. Cotton, who was a backup for the Ravens in 1997 and 1998, underwent outpatient surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon last week. After returning to his Baton Rouge home from the procedure, Cotton experienced breathing complications. He was admitted to a south Louisiana hospital and later placed into a medically induced coma.

WNBA Ex-Terp Langhorne an All-Star reserve Washington Mystics forward Crystal Langhorne (Maryland) has been selected as an Eastern Conference reserve for the All-Star Game. It will be Langhorne's second consecutive All-Star appearance. The team's leading scorer, she is averaging a career-high 17.3 points per game and grabbing 7.9 rebounds per game. All-Star reserves were selected by the WNBA coaches. The game will be broadcast on ABC on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. from San Antonio.

WNBA Langhorne's career-best 31 points lift Mystics, 95-85 Crystal Langhorne (Maryland) scored a career-high 31points and added 10 rebounds and the Washington Mystics (9-5) won their fourth straight home game with a 95-85 win over the Phoenix Mercury (5-9) on Sunday. Lindsey Harding added 24 points for the Mystics (9-5), who have won five of their past six. Langhorne scored 27 points Thursday and has averaged 27.6 points and 13 rebounds in her past three games. Elsewhere: Iziane Castros Marques had 25points and Angel McCoughtry (St. Frances)

The plan was for Laura Harper and Crystal Langhorne to lead Maryland into Tampa, Fla., this week for the Final Four and to lead the Terps to a second national title in three years before heading to the WNBA. Stanford's win in the Spokane Regional last week interrupted part of that plan, but Harper and Langhorne still made it to central Florida, where the WNBA draft will take place today at 1 p.m. Neither of frontcourt player is expected to wait long to be taken. Langhorne, Maryland's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, and Harper, the Terps' leader in blocked shots, are widely considered to be first-round picks and were among 20 collegians invited to Tampa for the draft.

SPOKANE, Wash.-- --In March, every senior feels it. By this point, it's as much a fear as it is a reality. But Crystal Langhorne never even let on. Sure, it crossed her mind before the game, but there wasn't a single second last night anyone in Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena could have thought that Langhorne might be playing her final game. Langhorne was prepared to single-handedly carry the Maryland women's basketball team to victory over Vanderbilt, even though she didn't really have to. There were plenty of willing contributors in last night's win in the NCAA tournament's regional semifinal.

Golf Hurley finishes second in Nationwide event Billy Hurley III , a former All-American at Navy, shot 8-under-par 64 Sunday and finished a career-best second in the Nationwide Chiquita Classic at TPC River's Bend in Maineville, Ohio. Russell Knox , a rookie from Scotland, earned his first tour win by posting a 6-under 66 for a 25-under 263, three strokes better than Hurley. Knox led by five strokes before Hurley got hot on the back nine, birdieing the par-five 11th and adding birdies at 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18. "My game has been close to firing on all cylinders for a while now," Hurley said.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Perception, in basketball, as in life, can be as powerful as reality. To wit, a week ago, the Maryland women's basketball team appeared to be listless and on the ropes in an 80-66 win over Coppin State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Six days later, the Terps held the same 80-66 advantage in a regional semifinal win over Vanderbilt, but while the score was the same, the lasting image left from the win could hardly be more different. Last night, a Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena crowd saw in Maryland (33-3)

WNBA Langhorne's 25 not enough as Mystics lose to Sun Crystal Langhorne (Maryland) scored 25 points and Jasmine Thomas added 17 points off the bench, but the Washington Mystics lost their third straight game Sunday, falling to the Connecticut Sun, 94-86. Monique Currie had a team-high eight rebounds. The Mystics rallied to pull within three points with just over two minutes remaining but were unable to contain Sun center Tina Charles , who thwarted Washington's comeback attempt with a 30-point performance.

COLLEGE PARK -- Vicky Bullett's name stood atop the Maryland women's basketball scoring and rebounding lists for nearly 19 years, long enough for someone to get attached to that spot. But when Crystal Langhorne, a toddler when Bullett was leading her generation of Terps to a Final Four appearance, grabbed first the rebounding and then the scoring crowns, Bullett was all too willing to move aside. Maryland women@North Carolina Saturday, 1 p.m., Comcast SportsNet Records: No. 4 Maryland (22-1, 6-0 ACC)

COLLEGE PARK - If the Maryland women's basketball team was looking for a carefree tuneup before the start of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Northern Colorado proved to be quite unaccommodating. The Bears, who average eight three-pointers a game, connected on a season-best 16 shots from behind the three-point line, but the No. 25 Terps relied on freshman center Crystal Langhorne to escape with an 87-79 victory before 2,437 at Comcast Center last night. Northern Colorado (10-15)