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In the fall of 2004, Angel McCoughtry's parents weaved through Blue Ridge mountain roads as they took their daughter to her new life at the Patterson School in Lenoir, N.C. Their goal was for Angel - who begins her WNBA career Saturday when the Atlanta Dream plays host to the Indiana Fever - to immerse herself in schoolwork at the secluded prep school and become academically eligible to play college basketball the next year. But the 17-year-old found it hard not to focus on what she had left behind.

In response to The Sun editorial claiming that "Benghazi deserves a real review," (May 10), all I can say is, no, it does not! What we need to do is stop the political charade concerning this issue. The Accountability Review Board asked and answered all the questions necessary to get beyond this tragic case of typical bureaucratic bumbling and stumbling last year. Political wedge issue withstanding, right, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Rep. John Boehner? Disgusting, both of you! Col. Joseph C. Kopacz, U.S. Army (ret.)

BEEF O' BRADY'S BOWL Southern Miss (8-4) vs. Louisville (6-6) When: Today, 8 p.m. Where: St. Petersburg TV: ESPN About Southern Miss (5-3 Conference USA): The Golden Eagles were arguably one of the most balanced and talented teams in Conference USA this season, but a 50-49 double overtime loss at UAB cost Southern Miss the Western Division title and a chance to play for the league championship. Veteran QB Austin Davis has made sound decisions under pressure, helping Southern Miss rank No. 15 nationally in total offense with 458.2 yards per game.

On Wednesday at Churchill Downs, a crowd clad mainly in Louisville basketball shirts gathered at Barn 45 to watch Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as he visited a horse of which he owns five percent. Pitino, a month removed from becoming the first coach in NCAA history to win Division I basketball national championship tournaments with two different schools, appeared at trainer Doug O'Neill 's barn shortly after 8 a.m. and joined an entourage following Goldencents.

Women's lacrosse Paton's nine points lead Loyola over Louisville Marlee Paton had four goals and five assists and No. 11 Loyola tied a school record for best start in Big East play with a 17-8 victory over host Louisville. The Greyhounds improved to 8-3, 4-0; the Cardinals fell to 3-7, 1-2. More state women: Kaitlyn Larrimore (North Harford) had a hat trick, but host Mount St. Mary's (4-9, 3-2 Northeast Conference) fell, 12-10, to Bryant (3-8, 2-2)

COLLEGE PARK - As far as memories go, there wasn't much worth remembering the last time Maryland was here, fending off the bright lights of ESPN television cameras as it fought desperately to keep its season going past the NCAA tournament's first weekend. The Terps lost to their Big East visitor (Georgetown), lost a starter to a devastating injury (Diandra Tchatchouang), and lost whatever hopes they had of reestablishing themselves among the NCAA's elite. But lurking under the blanketing disappointment was a glimmer of hope from a freshman whose shooting stroke was always an asset, even if her knees were sometimes a trouble.

8 p.m. [ESPN2] The Cardinals moved this game to a Wednesday because the Ryder Cup is being played nearby this weekend. Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman has completed 76 percent of his passes, throwing for five touchdowns, in victories over North Texas and Montana State. Though the Wildcats averaged 57 points in those two wins, Louisville (1-1) ranks fourth in the nation in total defense, allowing 193 yards per game.

It takes some guts to pick Duke to win the NCAA tournament around these parts, but if anyone has the local clout to get away with it, it's probably Orioles catcher Matt Wieters. Wieters picked Duke on his NCAA bracket as part of a contest the Orioles are holding for fans . Basically, Dan Duquette, J.J. Hardy, Jim Johnson Brian Roberts and Wieters made their picks, and fans can win tickets or autographed memorabilia by backing the most accurate bracket. Because I know you're curious, Johnson and Roberts predict Kansas will cut down the nets in Atlanta, while Hardy and Duquette are rolling with No. 1 overall seed Louisville.

College soccer No. 9 Maryland blanks Louisville in opener Schillo Tshuma , Dan Metzger and John Stertzer scored, and the No. 9 Maryland men's soccer team avenged last year's NCAA tournament loss with a 3-0 opening-game victory over visiting No. 7 Louisville on Sunday. Sunny Jane paced the Terps with a pair of assists. On a pitch drenched by heavy rain leading up to the game, Maryland opened the scoring in the ninth minute when Tshuma slotted the ball home from close range after a feed from Jane; the goal was the heralded freshman's first as a Terp.

When he was 13 years old, Sunny Jane decided to leave his home country of Lesotho and move to the United States to advance his soccer career. Last Sunday, Jane took another step along that path as he contributed two goals and an assist as the second-seeded Terps cruised to a 5-1 victory over Coastal Carolina in the NCAA tournament. The win secured a trip to the quarterfinals and a rematch against Louisville on Saturday at 5 p.m. in College Park. The matchup with the Cardinals is particularly interesting for Jane because his first trip to the College Cup hinges on beating a college from Kentucky, the state in which he settled after coming to the country.

Cori Murray scored the game-tying goal with 42 seconds left in regulation and the game-winner with 1:57 left in the second overtime as No. 10 Massachusetts (10-2, 2-0 Atlantic 10 Conference) extended its conference winning streak to 22 games with a 12-11 victory over Richmond. The Spiders fell to 3-9 and 0-2. No. 6 Notre Dame 16, Louisville 15, 2OT: Betsy Mastropieri scored three minutes into the second overtime to push the visiting Fighting Irish (9-0, 3-0 Big East Conference)

Forward Monique Reid sank two free throws with 2.6 seconds remaining to give hot-shooting Louisville an 82-81 upset of defending national champion and top-seeded Baylor in the NCAA women's basketball tournament regional semifinals in Oklahoma City. Shoni Schimmel scored 22 points, including five 3-pointers, and Antonita Slaughter added 21 points, including shooting 7-for-10 on 3-pointers, to lead the fifth-seeded Cardinals (27-8), who connected on a season-best 16 3-pointers and led by as many as 19 points midway through the second half.

CBS Sports made a good call Sunday in not showing a halftime replay of a gruesome injury to Louisville guard Kevin Ware. The injury took place in the first half of Louisville's Elite Eight matchup with Duke. But the network did show it in slow-motion replay while Ware lay on the court attended to by trainers and medical personnel. To its credit, the network had one of the game announcers warn viewers before they showed it. I saw the play live, and I did not notice Ware's fall.

It takes some guts to pick Duke to win the NCAA tournament around these parts, but if anyone has the local clout to get away with it, it's probably Orioles catcher Matt Wieters. Wieters picked Duke on his NCAA bracket as part of a contest the Orioles are holding for fans . Basically, Dan Duquette, J.J. Hardy, Jim Johnson Brian Roberts and Wieters made their picks, and fans can win tickets or autographed memorabilia by backing the most accurate bracket. Because I know you're curious, Johnson and Roberts predict Kansas will cut down the nets in Atlanta, while Hardy and Duquette are rolling with No. 1 overall seed Louisville.

A division of the Baltimore-based Cordish Cos. has been named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit alleging discriminatory practices at The Maker's Mark Bourbon House and Lounge, a tenant at Cordish's Fourth Street Live! property in Louisville, Ky. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, alleges that the lounge's employees "demanded to know the ratio of 'black people' to 'white people'" who were expected to attend a party, then denied entrance to every black person who showed up. Andre Mulligan, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, is suing Louisville Bourbon LLC (doing business as Maker's Mark Bourbon House and Lounge)

When I was in high school, the drama group traveled to Louisville to see a series of plays (my first experience of Sheridan's Rivals !). As we walked to the theater, a gentleman was handing out some kind of document. It was typed, single-spaced, with no margins. It appeared to describe some elaborate scheme or conspiracy, and the text was littered with biblical notations. It was the first, but not the last, such text I ever encountered, and I scanned it with mild interest before discarding it. Back in the day, people who had, in Jonathan Swift's words, given their wits an unlucky shake were to be found on street corners, shouting or distributing their dense texts.

The state of Maryland has not been kind to Howard Schnellenberger over the past two decades.In 1974, he was dismissed as coach of the Baltimore Colts for defying owner Bob Irsay's orders to change quarterbacks. In 1982, his Miami Hurricanes lost to Maryland in College Park. And, in 1988, his Louisville Cardinals were beaten by the Terps at Byrd Stadium.But yesterday, Schnellenberger and Louisville survived a first-half scare from the Naval Academy and rolled to a 35-14 victory before 28,156 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis.

After four consecutive wins at home, the Navy football team leaves today for Louisville, Ky., and an afternoon game tomorrow with the tough Louisville Cardinals.In 113 years of football at the Academy, the 4-2 record this early in the season by Coach George Chaump's charges is the best start since George Welsh's last year at the helm in 1981, which ended with a wild Liberty Bowl loss to Ohio State, 31-28.Many observers consider the 28-24 Navy victory over the Air Force Academy two weeks ago as the "turnaround" game of the 1993 season.

Maryland's Jake Pace has come off the bench and made the most of his minutes this season. With the final seconds of the first half ticking down in the NCAA men's soccer quarterfinal, Pace got behind No. 10 Louisville's defense and scored the go-ahead goal on a header off a cross from Dakota Edwards. As a Howard County native, it was the type of goal Pace dreamed about his entire life. The No. 2 Terrapins later added another goal by leading scorer Patrick Mullins for a decisive 3-1 victory before an announced 3,556 Saturday.

When he was 13 years old, Sunny Jane decided to leave his home country of Lesotho and move to the United States to advance his soccer career. Last Sunday, Jane took another step along that path as he contributed two goals and an assist as the second-seeded Terps cruised to a 5-1 victory over Coastal Carolina in the NCAA tournament. The win secured a trip to the quarterfinals and a rematch against Louisville on Saturday at 5 p.m. in College Park. The matchup with the Cardinals is particularly interesting for Jane because his first trip to the College Cup hinges on beating a college from Kentucky, the state in which he settled after coming to the country.