London Olympics

• COLLEGES : Illinois will name two assistant football coaches to the staff Wednesday, a team spokesman said. Louisville assistant Greg Nord and Florida Atlantic quarterbacks coach Jeff Brohm , who previously coached at Louisville, have been reported as new staff additions. That would be three new members with ties to Louisville with the Illini after coach Ron Zook announced Paul Petrino the new offensive coordinator earlier this week. Illinois is expected to name a defensive coordinator by the end of the week.

The human fish from Rodgers Forge was not supposed to be the star of the 2012 London Olympics. American Ryan Lochte was expected to break out of Michael Phelps' shadow, and in the run-up to the games, one of Mr. Phelps' other teammates publicly criticized his work ethic. And when the games began, it looked like the doubters might be right. After his stunning, eight-gold-medal performance in Beijing in 2008, Michael Phelps looked flat and listless in his first final of the Games, the 400 individual medley, an event he had once dominated.

Some days, Michael Phelps clearly wouldn't mind if he could swap the rest of his competitive swimming career and replace it with an amateur golfing career. Instead of rising at dawn to swim thousands of laps until his muscles burned in preparation for the London Olympics in 2012, he could spent his afternoons virtually anonymous, crushing mammoth drives, dropping long putts and joking with friends. But disappearing from the spotlight and living a life of leisure, Phelps knows, would make it harder to accomplish some of the goals he vowed to achieve when his Olympic career was taking off: raise the profile of swimming, help more people learn how to swim and raise money through his foundation to help kids lead healthier lives.

ON THE SITE... Woman dies after crash with suspect being pursued by city police : A 22-year-old woman died and her infant child was injured when a suspect city police were chasing crashed into the woman's car in West Baltimore. Two die, one injured in Monday night shootings : Three separate shootings killed two men in East Baltimore and Gwynn Oak, and a third was injured in Sandtown-Winchester. Unusual weather worsened Chesapeake Bay's health : The bay's ecological grade slipped from C- to D+ from 2010 to 2011, though there were improvements in the Patapsco and Back rivers' health.

College basketball Terps ' Stoglin honored as ACC Player of Week Maryland sophomore guard Terrell Stoglin was named Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 28 points and four rebounds as the Terrapins split a pair of games. The conference's leading scorer (22.4points per game), Stoglin opened the week with a 25-point, three-rebound effort in a 71-62 loss to Illinois. In Sunday's 78-71 win over Notre Dame in the BB&T Classic, Stoglin had a game-high 31 points, hitting on 11 of 20 shots from the field and pulling down five rebounds.

Each morning, Monday through Friday, I'll hook you up with reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday -- that way I'll have an excuse to do the same at the start of mine.   Running it back: The Orioles finally ended their seemingly interminable losing streak at Rogers Centre with a 4-3 win on Thursday afternoon, but they might have lost one of their most important players to injury. Starter Jeremy Guthrie, who pitched well before leaving the win over the Blue Jays, expects to see team physician Dr. John Wilckens Friday in Baltimore to have his upper back strain evaluated . ... Orioles designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero picked up his 2,500th career hit ( his 2,501st may come as a pinch-hitter )

ROME - - His words sounded hopeful, rather than pretentious. Whether Michael Phelps was in Barcelona, Athens or even Long Beach, Calif., at big meets and small ones, he has resolutely stayed on message since 2004. Phelps spoke of wanting to elevate the sport during non-Olympic years, keeping swimming afloat once the last anthem was played. Elbow room on the ESPN crawl and highlight shows in 2009 and 2010? You almost felt like saying: Good luck with that. It seemed a far more difficult prospect than winning the eight gold medals he took home from Beijing less than a year ago. Years from now, Phelps' greatest accomplishment at the World Championships may not have been that barrier-breaking, epic victory against Milorad Cavic of Serbia in the 100-meter butterfly, one of his five gold medal results in Rome (the last one came Sunday in a world-record performance in the 400-meter medley relay with teammates Aaron Peirsol, Eric Shanteau and David Walters in 3 minutes 27.28 seconds)

Olympics Blankers-Koen, 4-time gold winner in 1948, dies at 85 Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won a record four gold medals in track and field for the Netherlands at the 1948 Olympics, died yesterday in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was 85. The International Association of Athletics Federations, which in 1999 honored her as the best female athlete of the 20th century, announced her death on its Web site. She won four of the nine women's track and field events at the London Olympics. At the time, she was 30 and the mother of two children.

Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff is changing coasts in an effort to jump-start her stagnant career. The Towson resident said yesterday that her decision to leave Baltimore and train in Fullerton, Calif., for the 2012 London Olympics leaves her anxious, excited, sad and more than a little nervous. That swirl of emotions is not unlike those of a freshman heading off to college, she said. For Hoff, though, the stakes are higher. The 20-year-old Towson resident heads west next month to try to regain her form.