Manhattan

Et cetera Pitcher Harman, Terps take Manhattan, 9-0 Brett Harman pitched seven strong innings, Maryland's offense churned out 14 hits and the Terrapins completed a four-game sweep of Manhattan with a 9-0 victory Sunday afternoon. Maryland (9-1) outscored the Jaspers 26-4 in the series and controlled the finale, with Harman in command throughout. The senior struck out five and allowed just three hits in seven innings. It was the fourth dominant performance by a Maryland starting pitcher in as many games — the starting rotation of Brady Kirkpatrick , David Carroll , Sander Beck and Harman allowed just two earned runs in 27 innings of work on the weekend.

College baseball UM now 6-1; Towson's Gottlieb wins his 600th Ryan Holland delivered a two-out, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth to break a 2-2 tie and lift host Maryland (6-1) to a 3-2 victory over Manhattan (1-4). The Terps are off to their best start in 37 years and have an ERA of 1.20. ... Coach Mike Gottlieb earned his 600th and 601st career victories as Towson (3-5) earned 9-2 and 6-0 victories over visiting Central Connecticut (0-2)

Baltimore's Mittens is officially a celebrity. The abused cat, recently named ASPCA's Cat of the Year , just returned to Baltimore after a whirlwind trip to Manhattan where she not only stayed at a fancy hotel and enjoyed limo service, but was presented with a major award and made an appearance on the Today Show. While we can only imagine how all the hoopla seemed to an unassuming cat, she's filling us in on how it all went down. Here is Mittens' diary from last week's big trip, as told to Unleashed with the help of Cindy Wright, her foster mom who knew a great cat when she saw one and adopted her: Wednesday morning So, I'm headed to New York City to receive the ASPCA's Cat of the Year Award!

Seven years ago, when Nichole Schiro had already wowed upperclassmen on her high school team by scoring goals at will, her soccer coach at Okemos (Mich.) High sat her down in his office. Rob Antcliff wanted to know what his young star wanted to accomplish in her career. Naturally, the modest freshman listed the basics — play well, help the team win, maybe try to play in college. Then she blurted out something that still sticks out to Antcliff. "Well, I like to break records," Schiro said.

A federal judge rejected Friday a last-ditch effort by prosecutors to keep Barry H. Landau behind bars while the New York collector awaits trial on charges he pulled off one of the country's biggest theft of national memorabilia over a span of years. The 63-year-old will be put on a train in Baltimore on Monday and sent back to his $2,700-a-month, rent-controlled Manhattan apartment in Midtown under the strict conditions of electronic GPS monitoring. He will be barred from accessing the Internet, cannot keep his passport, can have no contact with museums, can't sell assets without approval and can't have any communication with his co-defendant, Jason Savedoff.

A detention hearing for Barry H. Landau, one of two men charged with stealing dozens of valuable historic documents from archives and museums in New York and Maryland, was postponed Monday so federal investigators can search his Manhattan apartment a second time. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Warwick told the court the he expects to find "additional information" necessary in the case. Last week, Warwick said prosecutors were considering new charges against Landau, 63, and were concerned that the defendant had an undiscovered stash of pilfered documents that he would try to sell or destroy if released from jail before trial.

The nation recently received two contradictory signals about the importance of immigration reform. President Barack Obama stood near the Mexican border in El Paso last month and called (again) for immigration reform. The next week, Gallup released a poll showing that a scant 4 percent of Americans consider immigration to be the nation's most important problem. That's down from 11 percent four years ago. What's happened to our national immigration angst? Clearly, the economic slump that began in late 2007 has given us other things to worry about.

During the summer of 1975, Manhattan Transfer was riding high.The vocal group's first major-label album was a critical smash, its single "Operator" was a top-40 hit, and the band even had its own network television variety show. So when it came time to record a second album, the advice the singers got from their manager was totally unexpected. "He said, you're going to have to completely change what you're doing," recalls vocalist Alan Paul by phone from his home inLos Angeles.

Louis August Scholz, a self-employed patent attorney and inventor who had worked in photography on the Manhattan Project during World War II, died April 20 of complications from a fall at his Sykesville home. He was 92 and died at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Born in Baltimore and raised in Rockdale near Randallstown, he was a 1935 Catonsville High School graduate and earned a degree in mathematics and physics at what is now Loyola University Maryland. As a young man, he exhibited an invention, a fluorometer, at the Central Enoch Pratt Free Library . Mr. Scholz worked at the Social Security Administration and the old Monitor Controller Co. on South Gay Street.