Marbury

To reach her desk each day, Baltimore County police Officer Karen Marbury usually has to dodge a basketball or two, sidestep checkerboards and maneuver around a plastic toy auto garage and cars on the floor.For the former Marine, a world weightlifting champion, these minor obstacles are part of the job as Hillendale's new Police Athletic League officer, coordinating activities for children ages 7 to 17.A seven-year veteran of the county police force, Marbury, 32, took over the post June 2, leaving Western Traffic Division.

MARBURY -- Early on, the list of leaders in the Kmart Bassmaster Top 100 pro-am tournament was sprinkled with familiar names -- Martin, VanDam, Eaker, Houston, Fritts, Grigsby and Guido Hibdon.But the man of the hour in bass fishing, Hibdon's son, Dion, who won the BASS Masters Classic in Alabama a few weeks ago, was far down the board on the pro side of the standings.So far down, that Mike Terry, a pro from Tennessee in 25th place after Day 1, was more than 2 pounds ahead of the Classic winner's 12 pounds, 2 ounces.

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- North Carolina's Dean Smith, the feudingest coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference, picked another fight yesterday.This time, he went after the Duke fans who have become immortalized as the "Cameron Crazies" for their antics at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C.Smith objected to the treatment his point guard, Jeff McInnis, received from the Duke crowd last Sunday. Fans not only called McInnis crude names, but also brought up his love life."The Duke faculty, the esteemed Duke faculty, had to be embarrassed," Smith told media here for the ACC tournament.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Cincinnati's Danny Fortson says power will beat finesse tonight.Georgia Tech's Stephon Marbury says quickness will win out over muscle.It's a theme that will play out more than once when classic matchups fill Rupp Arena in the Southeast Regional semifinals.In the first game, top-seeded Connecticut plays the finesse role to fifth-seeded Mississippi State's power game.Then No. 2 seed Cincinnati takes on No. 3 seed Georgia Tech in a matchup featuring a little pre-game primping from both teams yesterday.

For Stephon Marbury, the question most asked these days is simply why? Why leave Georgia Tech after his freshman year? Why give up college life for the hectic pace of the NBA? Why exchange college greatness for possible struggles at the next level?Marbury usually answers the question with a question: Why not?"If you were to tell a college student, 'Here's $2 million to come out, or stay in school,' what would you do?" Marbury, speaking two weeks ago at the NBA pre-draft camp, asked. "If it's something you enjoy doing and you can make a lot of money, why not?"

MARBURY -- Dan Morehead, a three-year pro angler from Paducah, Ky., stepped to the scales at the $273,000 Bassmasters Maryland Top 100 Pro-Am yesterday knowing he had a good chance to win his first major bass tournament.What he didn't realize was that he won by going where few fishermen had gone before -- to the head of Broad Creek, a shallow bay on the Maryland shore of the Potomac River just upriver from Fort Washington."I guessed I had found something," said Morehead, who completed the three-day tournament with 54 pounds, 11 ounces and a winning margin of more than 6 pounds.

ATLANTA -- Stephon Marbury communicated through body language at Lincoln High in Brooklyn, N.Y., last year. If the language was basic; the results were spectacular."

MARBURY -- Dan Moreland of Paducah, Ky., worked the shallows of an undisclosed creek off the Potomac River for almost 19 pounds of largemouth bass yesterday and took the lead in the Bassmasters Maryland Top 100 Pro-Am being fished out of Smallwood State Park.The final round of the three-day competition is today."I've never fished the Potomac in competition before, so I am learning as I go," said Morehead, who has a total of 34 pounds, 6 ounces. "But I have yet to catch a fish less than 14 inches, and I am impressed [with the river]

Each has been compared to a playground legend in his city. Both have received local as well as national media attention.For Shawnta Rogers of Lake Clifton and Stephon Marbury of Lincoln High of Brooklyn, N.Y., another page to their careers will be added tonight when their teams meet at 8:45 p.m. in the first round of the Southeast bracket of the First National Bank Charm City Classic at Loyola College's Reitz Arena."

Reminiscent of the anarchy in the college basketball polls a year ago, Kentucky lasted two weeks -- and a scant two games -- atop the AP rankings this season.Most folks in Lexington expected the Wildcats to stay there all year, of course. Coach Rick Pitino was not one of them, though. Pitino did not harbor visions of a wire-to-wire run for the 'Cats, and freely said so.Holding on to No. 1 at this point was not a priority with Pitino. What is a priority is building a framework in which he provides enough playing time to keep all his players reasonably contented.

Arenas feels like player of old again wizards Gilbert Arenas has been practicing at full speed with the Washington Wizards for more than a week as he works his way back from his latest knee surgery. The extent of Arenas' participation had been kept under wraps, but he spilled the beans yesterday when he told The Washington Post: "I'm out there feeling like the old Gilbert Arenas again." According to the newspaper's Web site, Arenas said: "The only thing I'm not doing is playing in games."

The New York Knicks needed Stephon Marbury to play, then suspended him a game and docked him nearly $400,000 in salary yesterday after saying he refused. The disgruntled guard insists he never told coach Mike D'Antoni "no" and plans to appeal. D'Antoni wouldn't go into specifics of their conversation that took place before Wednesday's loss in Detroit, though he made it clear he asked the point guard to play because the Knicks were short-handed. Marbury will not be paid when he sits out tonight's home game against the Golden State Warriors and will lose an additional game's pay for Wednesday's actions.

Et Cetera Knicks' Marbury files grievance Stephon Marbury has filed a grievance over the fine the New York Knicks gave him for missing a game in Phoenix last month. Marbury believes he was given permission to miss the game and has asked the National Basketball Players Association to begin the grievance process, a person with knowledge of the decision told the Associated Press yesterday. The point guard left Phoenix before the game Nov. 13, after clashing with Isiah Thomas when the coach was considering removing him from the starting lineup.

NEW YORK -- Knicks guard Stephon Marbury testified yesterday in the case of a fired team executive who has accused coach Isiah Thomas of sexual harassment, calling the lawsuit absurd while downplaying an encounter with a drunken intern. After hearing about the lawsuit brought by Anucha Browne Sanders, "I laughed," Marbury said in U.S. District Court. "It was more of a joke than anything." Browne Sanders says she is owed her vice president position back and at least $10 million for enduring a sexually harassing workplace for five years.

Jeffrey F. Liss, a co-managing partner of a Washington law firm who had been the gubernatorial campaign treasurer for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in 2002, died of complications from pancreatic cancer Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Chevy Chase resident was 55. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Fallstaff neighborhood, he was a son of the late Judge Solomon Liss. A 1968 graduate of Northwestern High School, he earned his bachelor's, master's and law degrees at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Stephon Marbury calls the tour that comes to Eastpoint Mall this afternoon the Starbury Movement Tour, because he wants the basketball shoes and clothing he is promoting to clear a path to a new way of marketing and selling such popular gear to lower-income buyers. "To really be honest, this is a people story more than a basketball story," Marbury, the New York Knicks guard, said by phone yesterday. "For us, we don't see it in that [basketball] sense; we see it as being a movement for the people ... a movement for the people who want to have shoes and gear they can afford.

On February 21, 2005, LOUISE R., wife of the late Salvatore S. Franco; dear mother of Salvatore J. Franco and his wife Eleanore; grandmother of Elise L. Marbury; great-grandmother of Luke Marbury. Friends may call at the GONCE FUNERAL SERVICE , P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, on Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Rose of Lima Church on Friday, at 10 A.M. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

By historical standards, the issue was petty. William Marbury had been named a justice of the peace in 1801 by John Adams, the departing U.S. president. Thomas Jefferson, the incoming president, had denied him the job. So, Marbury sued. Marbury never got the job. But his case, Marbury vs. Madison, made legal history, resulting in the Supreme Court striking down a congressional act, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told an audience of 600 yesterday at St. John's College in Annapolis. Speaking at St. John's as part the school's "Great Issues" program, O'Connor explained that, through Marbury, the Supreme Court established the principle of judicial review, which would allow citizens over the next two centuries to challenge federal law and presidential decisions.

MARBURY -- Early on, the list of leaders in the Kmart Bassmaster Top 100 pro-am tournament was sprinkled with familiar names -- Martin, VanDam, Eaker, Houston, Fritts, Grigsby and Guido Hibdon.But the man of the hour in bass fishing, Hibdon's son, Dion, who won the BASS Masters Classic in Alabama a few weeks ago, was far down the board on the pro side of the standings.So far down, that Mike Terry, a pro from Tennessee in 25th place after Day 1, was more than 2 pounds ahead of the Classic winner's 12 pounds, 2 ounces.

To reach her desk each day, Baltimore County police Officer Karen Marbury usually has to dodge a basketball or two, sidestep checkerboards and maneuver around a plastic toy auto garage and cars on the floor.For the former Marine, a world weightlifting champion, these minor obstacles are part of the job as Hillendale's new Police Athletic League officer, coordinating activities for children ages 7 to 17.A seven-year veteran of the county police force, Marbury, 32, took over the post June 2, leaving Western Traffic Division.