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Remember the batting stance guy? (If you said no, he is Internet-famous for doing crazily spot-on imitations of the batting stances of real-life baseball players and putting them on YouTube.) Well, now he has done some crazily spot-on imitations of baseball reporters, including former Baltimore Sun baseball scribes Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian and Ken Rosenthal. His Tim Kurkjian impersonation makes me giggle. [ Via Deadspin ]

Dr. Howard Louis "Jim" Levy, who maintained a family dental practice in Deale for two decades, died Aug. 4 of spinocerebellar ataxia, a rare neurological degenerative disorder, at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Pinehurst resident was 60. The son of a pharmacist and an artist, he was born and raised in Annapolis, where he graduated from Annapolis High School in 1969. Dr. Levy never used his given name but rather the name "Jim" that was bestowed by an older brother at his birth.

A 15-year-old Baltimore girl pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and related assault, handgun and robbery charges for shooting two men in the head last year after they laughed at the sight of her brandishing a silver Smith & Wesson revolver. Arteesha Holt, who was 14 when she killed one man and injured the other as they sat outside on an August night, faces between 15 and 50 years in prison at her sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 21 in Baltimore Circuit Court. She was led into court in handcuffs and chains Tuesday, baby-faced and smiling in the direction of her family.

We have countless awesome sports photos in the archives here at The Baltimore Sun , and I have decided to share one with you each week in a regular feature called "Throwback Thursday. " Since I fantasized about Peter Angelos -- let me finish this sentence -- using his Exxon money to sign slugger Prince Fielder in this Thursday morning post , I decided to do an extensive search of Mr. Mesothelioma in our photo archives. God, did I find an amazing photo of Angelos and Governor William Donald Schaefer back in 1993.

When she was 11 years old, Alexis Ross discovered she had type 1 diabetes. She had lost 20 pounds, lacked any energy and was unable to quench her thirst. Finally, one day, she was rushed to the hospital by her mother, Caroline. "My blood sugar was over 1200," Alexis said quietly. "Normally it should be between 80 and 150. " She spent a week at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. The seventh grader learned to give herself four injections of insulin a day, and to check her blood sugar six to nine times daily.

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Sharp and svelte but also funny, Nicole Ari Parker typically hits the screen as put-together characters like Eddie Murphy's ex-wife in "Imagine This. " So she leapt at the chance to play Zenobia, the comically confused sportscaster heroine of "35 and Ticking. " Parker was born in Washington and raised in Baltimore from age 2. She also lived for six years as an adult in Atlanta. "35 and Ticking" opens Friday in Atlanta, D.C., and in Baltimore at the AMC Owings Mills and the AMC Security Square.

So now Governor O'Malley wants to travel to Asia — no doubt with a large entourage, and at state expense — to get new business for Maryland. He could get plenty of new business if taxes were lowered to encourage it. What a joke, and the laugh is on us. F. Cordell, Lutherville