Madden

Only a year ago, he was the toast of Navy and Marine men everywhere, this former Oklahoma state high school wrestling champion who was recruited by several Big 12 schools to play defensive back, but chose the Naval Academy to prove he could be a college quarterback. Brian Madden couldn't have been riding any higher in early December of 1999. He had just been named the most valuable player in the Army-Navy game after leading his team to a 19-9 victory in Philadelphia, climaxing a five-game stretch in which he had rushed for a national-quarterback high of 897 yards.

The last word, appropriately enough, went to John Madden, even if it was via tape.At the end of yesterday's NFC championship telecast, CBS left the NFL with these words: "These are the memories, and the great thing is they last forever."So concludes CBS' 38 consecutive years of televising the NFL.Very little is final in the world of television, so we shouldn't get too choked up over this. Already, there are reports that Madden and partner Pat Summerall will be back together in the fall on the Fox network.

Robert W. Madden, 74, physicist, adviser to NSA Robert W. Madden, a retired physicist who lived in Hampstead, died Friday at Carroll County General Hospital of heart failure. He was 74. Mr. Madden served as a scientific adviser to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade from 1967 until his retirement in 1994. His professional accomplishments included patents in navigation, stable platforms, high-altitude bombing and short-wave antennas. He also published several articles. He was born in Worcester, Mass.

The former witness protection officer for the Baltimore state's attorney's office contended yesterday that the office failed to do all it could to protect the Dawsons, the family of seven who police said were killed in a retaliatory arson last year in East Baltimore. State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy called the allegations untrue, saying the Dawsons declined to be relocated by her office -- an offer made after an earlier attempt on the family's lives. The Dawsons were killed in an October house fire that police believe was set because the family complained to authorities about drug dealing in their Oliver neighborhood.

The Naval Academy's football team was limping through its worst season in history last fall when the coaches decided to make an unusual request: They wanted the school to let star quarterback Brian Madden stay past his senior year, to play football. The proposal would cost taxpayers as much as $125,000 in extra tuition. It would also require a rare exception to the rule that seniors in good standing graduate and head to sea as Navy officers. But Madden was a ray of hope on an otherwise dismal team.

In what some state officials say is an unprecedented federal court order, Del. Martin G. Madden, D-13B, was forced Friday to testify about legislation he sponsored in 1992 that bans nude dancing in public places where alcohol is being consumed.The case involves Good Guys Bar & Grill, a 3-year-old nude dance club in North Laurel that is challenging the state law in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.Mr. Madden and others have warned that the order forcing him to testify could set a troublesome precedent for state lawmakers.

Take one part myth and one part ritual, stir in a -- of hyperdrama and simmer with philosophy, and the result will look pretty much like what happened when Dance Process, a collective of performers featuring the work of Peter Madden and Janet Kaylo,took the floor at Goucher College last night for a weekend runThe hour--and -a-half program, intriguingly titled, "The Fire and the Rose are One," contains two works, "Pandora's Dilemma" choreographed by Mr....

Former manager Jeff Torborg has emerged as a leading candidate to replace Mike Flanagan as lead analyst on Orioles television broadcasts this season, though his candidacy could be damaged by his status as an analyst on Fox telecasts, sources said.Torborg, 56, formerly managed in Cleveland, as well as with the Chicago White Sox and the New York Mets, and has been an analyst for Fox television and CBS Radio broadcasts, and is one of the best color announcers in baseball.However, sources familiar with the process said Torborg's schedule with Fox, which would require him to miss virtually all weekend games from June, when the network's schedule begins, through the end of the season, might be a major stumbling block to his candidacy, as the Orioles and Home Team Sports would want him to be available for the team's broadcasts.

Motorists stopping at the northbound rest stop on Interstate 95 in north Laurel will soon find themselves surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire.The State Highway Administration will add barbed wire to chain-link fences already surrounding the rest stop and to new chain-link fencing that will be built inside the old fences.Together, the two fences will create a moat-like effect, separating the rest stop from the heavily wooded terrain that leads to nearby neighborhoods.Police believe a man and a male teen-ager from Washington, D.C., entered nearby Bowling Brook Farms from the cover of the woods at the rest stop last week and hijacked a car with a child inside and the child's mother, who had become entangled in a seat belt, was then dragged two miles to her death.

Ethics, jury trials, domestic violence and marriage licenses are among the topics addressed by 20 local bills the Howard County legislative delegation plans to present to the public tomorrow night.The delegation plans to begin voting on the bills Nov. 18 and will present those that pass to the General Assembly in January.One of the more contentious debates should revolve around competing ethics bills, proposed by Dels. Martin G. Madden and Virginia M. Thomas.Mr. Madden has proposed requiring anybody with a 5 percent interest in a rezoning request to submit an affidavit disclosing any contributions of more than $500 over four years to a Howard County official.