Maryland Sports

Baltimore will get a chance to show its Olympic spirit again this year. The Inner Harbor has been chosen as the site of the first-ever men's and women's U.S. Olympic Beach Volleyball Trials.USA Volleyball and International Marketing Group will announce today that the Olympic qualifying tournament will be held June 5-9 at HarborView Marina & Yacht Club. Baltimore, one of six locales to make a serious bid for the trials, was chosen from a short list of finalists that also included Dallas and Kiawah Island, S.C."

When it comes to capitalizing on economic development opportunities, Carroll County's commissioners can be counted on to fumble them.It should not come as much of a surprise that Carroll's commissioners declined to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to host the U.S. Olympic cycling trials.The county was among five finalists for these races, which will determine a few of the cyclists who will represent the United States in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Maryland Sports Group Inc., a local non-profit group organized to bring sporting events to Maryland, had assembled a proposal for the U.S. Cycling Federation.

Every Sunday afternoon was golden. The athletes played only for love of the game. And the stands were always full of Baltimore fans -- the best sports fans in the world.That's pretty much the rose-colored view of "Gone But Not Forgotten II," another nostalgia-rama from Maryland Public Television. "Gone II," which airs at 8 tonight on Channels 22 and 67, revisits Maryland sports franchises and leagues from the 1930s to the '50s.Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks narrates the program. It's important for readers to know that I consider Rodricks a friend.

Girls soccerThe under-19 Joppatowne Soccer Club Thunder defeated Edgewood, 5-2, to win the Red Conference Championship at the Maryland Sports Arena.Amanda Laughton and Nicole Simone scored twice each for the Thunder, and Nikki Terzigni scored once. Assists were made by Carrie Gorsch and Holly Harris.On Friday, the Thunder will meet Joppatowne Purple at the Edgewood arena for the league championship.Boys soccerUnder-8 -- Fallston tallied its sixth straight win in a 17-0 shutout of Joppatowne in indoor action at the Maryland Sports Arena.

Girls soccerThe under-19 Joppatowne Soccer Club Thunder defeated Joppatowne Purple, 2-1, in indoor soccer action at the Maryland Sports Arena. Eva Pierorazio scored two goals, with one assisted by Brandi Frederick.Goalkeeper Nicole DuVal recorded six saves for the Thunder.Boys soccer* Under-12: The Harford County Boys and Girls Bombers were edged by the White Marsh Soccer Club, 6-4, in a league game at the Maryland Sports Arena last weekend.Maguel Barowski scored a goal and added an assist.

Boys soccerWhen members of the D & M Storm traveled to the National Indoor Soccer Championships in Atlanta last weekend they expected to play well, but after advancing to the finals, the team was in position to win the national tournament.What they got was a second-place finish, cruising to the finals but losing to a tough Canadian team, the Maverick Magic, 4-2.opened with a win over the Georgia Steamers, 8-1, but then lost to the Wisconsin Wave, 3-0. The Storm then played the Syracuse Blitz, needing a win to advance to the quarterfinals.

SoccerThe Genstar Booters never looked back from a 3-1 halftime lead and went on to defeat the Hickory Lazers, 11-1, Sunday night at the Maryland Sports Arena.Tim Gober led the scoring with four goals, followed by Eddie Griffin with a hat trick. Joe Dilworth scored twice, and teammates Pat Dempsey and Alison Healy scored one each.Dempsey also added four assists, and Ryan Byrd, Griffin, Healy and Gober each added one.Byrd and Gober combined in goal for 23 saves. The defense was anchored by Dan Magee, Liz Pyzak, Alexander Ioannidis and Ryan Letke.

There was never an issue he couldn't skirt, a fence he couldn't straddle, a wishy he couldn't washy and a hockey game he couldn't get to within an hour to provide play-by-play.Jeff Rimer developed as many detractors as he did fans during his decade-long stand as the sports director at WBAL Radio. Which, in the final analysis, tells you he did a bang-up job.Positively or negatively, people reacted to Rimer and his evening talk show, "Sports Line." They were rarely indifferent to the show, which is priority No. 1 for any ratings- and advertiser-driven program.

FootballTen-year-old Kiel Kauserud of Bel Air not only had a chance to enjoy the Washington Redskins game at RFK Stadium last weekend, the Redskins picked up the tab and provided the turf for Kauserud to play on during the NFL's annual Gatorade Punt, Pass & Kick Contest.Kauserud joined youngsters ages 8-13 at RFK at halftime last Sunday for the competition. Kauserud won the age-10 bracket with 190.3 points. He may have a chance to compete at the Pro Bowl in Honolulu on Feb. 6 for a national title.

A new exhibition in Baltimore carries a reassuring message about the business of sports. The person across the street might be making your bowling ball, aerobics leotard or lacrosse stick."

He was the youngest of five boys, his father a high school coach, and by the time he was big and strong enough to run on a field or dribble on a hardwood floor, Terry Hasseltine was taking naturally to two positions that augured his future career: soccer midfielder and basketball point guard. For the uninitiated in the sporting world, those are athletes who aim to keep a clear vision of the field, control the ball as much as possible and get it to the scorers who can do the most damage.

Bernard F. "Bernie" Cavanaugh, who was a company controller and avid sports fan, died of a heart attack Monday at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Baldwin resident was 49. Mr. Cavanaugh was born in Baltimore and raised in Loch Raven Village. He was a 1975 graduate of Loch Raven High School and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1980 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 1992, he earned a master's in business from Loyola College. Mr. Cavanaugh had worked in the aerospace industry for 30 years, and was controller for many years of a General Electric Co. subsidiary in Middle River.

Adrian, Odenton: Are there any plans to expand the stadium capacity at Byrd Stadium? Yes, a $95 million expansion is planned, but that can't happen until the naming rights for the field are sold. When I last spoke with AD Debbie Yow about it, she said the university was still in the process of finding and interviewing bidders. The plan includes 10,000 seats and luxury boxes. Mike G., Miami, Fl.: With the great recruiting classes of the last few years, do you think the Terps will contend for the ACC football title in 2006?

Sports are a religion in Maryland. The Colts, the Orioles, the Ravens, the Bullets, the Blast - people are passionate about all the state sports and always have been. And, indeed, Maryland has a rich sports heritage. So as the Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation and the Maryland Stadium Authority prepare for the grand opening Saturday of the new Sports Legends at Camden Yards museum, so, too, do Maryland sports fans. The 22,000-square-foot museum in the restored Camden Station railway terminal at the gateway to Oriole Park will store and display more than 10,000 Maryland sports artifacts.

Twenty-one years after he conceived the idea of a sports museum for Baltimore, Mike Gibbons will watch that dream take a giant leap forward today when ground is broken to transform historic Camden Station into an expansion of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum. The proposed $16 million project will celebrate Babe Ruth, but it also will showcase Johnny Unitas and stories about the Orioles, Colts and Ravens, along with local baseball and the Negro leagues. While preserving the historic 1856 building, the site will portray the tradition of Maryland sports through the Maryland Terrapins, Naval Academy, the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame and other sports avenues.

John Steadman, who chronicled the Maryland sports scene in his newspaper columns, books and commentaries in a career that spanned seven decades, died of cancer yesterday at a Towson hospice. He was 73. A one-time minor-league baseball player, Mr. Steadman rose to the top of his craft and won election to the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame last year. With a bent for the offbeat and a passion for the past, he fleshed out the seminal figures in sports, both celebrated and obscure, enlightening readers of Baltimore newspapers for more than a half-century.

It's integral to the rich, proud legacy of Maryland sports including the names of Babe Ruth, Bob Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Joe Gans, Al Kaline and of 175 other athletes, all native born. They must have that exclusivity. The annual election for the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame, with well-defined rules, has been going on for 44 years. As for prerequisites, the nominees, male and female, either have had to be born in Maryland or have immigrated from another country. The emphasis is on excellence as an athlete, which is why almost every conceivable sport is included, such as bowling, jousting, Olympic rifle shooting, speedboat racing.

Baltimore will get a chance to show its Olympic spirit again this year. The Inner Harbor has been chosen as the site of the first-ever men's and women's U.S. Olympic Beach Volleyball Trials.USA Volleyball and International Marketing Group will announce today that the Olympic qualifying tournament will be held June 5-9 at HarborView Marina & Yacht Club. Baltimore, one of six locales to make a serious bid for the trials, was chosen from a short list of finalists that also included Dallas and Kiawah Island, S.C."

When it comes to capitalizing on economic development opportunities, Carroll County's commissioners can be counted on to fumble them.It should not come as much of a surprise that Carroll's commissioners declined to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to host the U.S. Olympic cycling trials.The county was among five finalists for these races, which will determine a few of the cyclists who will represent the United States in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Maryland Sports Group Inc., a local non-profit group organized to bring sporting events to Maryland, had assembled a proposal for the U.S. Cycling Federation.

Every Sunday afternoon was golden. The athletes played only for love of the game. And the stands were always full of Baltimore fans -- the best sports fans in the world.That's pretty much the rose-colored view of "Gone But Not Forgotten II," another nostalgia-rama from Maryland Public Television. "Gone II," which airs at 8 tonight on Channels 22 and 67, revisits Maryland sports franchises and leagues from the 1930s to the '50s.Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks narrates the program. It's important for readers to know that I consider Rodricks a friend.