New Hampshire

Towson (1-9) @ New Hampshire (6-4) Time: Noon Radio: 1370 AM Site: Cowell Stadium Series: New Hampshire leads 6-0. What's at stake: The seventh meeting between the teams is the regular-season finale for both. Towson has not defeated a Colonial Athletic Association opponent since beating Rhode Island on Oct. 10, 2009. The Tigers ride an eight-game losing streak into Saturday's contest after falling, 28-18, to Maine last week. New Hampshire is ranked No. 14 in The Sports Network/Fathead.

No. 17 Navy proved its resilience Wednesday night. Coming off a 20-8 loss to top-ranked Northwestern on Sunday, the Mids women's lacrosse team (11-2) opened with a big run and won, 15-5, over California. After trading goals in the opening six minutes, the Mids scored four straight to take a 5-1 lead. Jess Fellows scored on a free-position shot to end the spurt with 5:48 left in the first half. The Golden Bears (4-5) scored the next two before Navy went on an 8-0 run that spanned both halves.

- Maryland coach Gary Williams insisted this week that his Terps wouldn't be distracted by the thought of their impending trip to paradise and potential matchups with other high-profile teams in this year's Maui Invitational. Maybe Maryland just pretended that New Hampshire was another school located in a place called Durham. It didn't take long for Maryland to realize that this team, from bucolic Durham, N.H., wasn't that other team, from Durham, N.C. The Terps took control early and turned in their most consistent performance of the season, cruising to an 82-55 victory at Comcast Center.

It is plain that many people who write about journalism, and some who have corporate authority over it, have no more idea of what constitutes editing than they do of Mycenaean Linear B. So I thought I would demonstrate a few of the basics of micro-editing and macro-editing for you. The specimen text is not a journalistic article, but an announcement that appeared years ago on the website of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland....

No. 7 New Hampshire (7-2, 5-1) @ No. 12 Towson (7-2, 5-1 Colonial Athletic Association) Time: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Site: Johnny Unitas Stadium Radio: 1570 AM Series: New Hampshire leads 7-0. What's at stake: In a critical contest between two of the three teams tied in first place in the CAA, Towson will look to beat New Hampshire for the first time in program history. The Tigers are coming off a 40-30 win against Maine, which gives them a school-record five CAA wins this season, and will honor their 13 seniors before the game.

The politics-by-the-numbers game we play has been quirkily friendly to Mitt Romney. He was able to waltz into New Hampshire a week before its Republican presidential primary boasting of being a winner in the Iowa caucuses. He could do so despite the fact that he beat former Sen. Rick Santorum, a mere asterisk in the standings a week earlier, by the infinitesimal margin of eight votes. In doing so, and after spending millions in an 11th-hour effort to make up for his near-absenteeism in Iowa, he actually won six fewer votes than he had garnered in his second-place finish there four years ago. Until that late gambling surge, the former Massachusetts governor had pretty much kissed off Iowa as unwelcome terrain.

EXETER, N.H. -- "I haven't been here since Monday. Won't be back 'til tomorrow," Bob Dole told supporters the other day when he arrived for a TV debate in Manchester, N.H.Presidential candidates always have plenty of time for New Hampshire, even when there appears to be more important business elsewhere -- as there is now, in Congress, where it's make-or-break time for the Republican revolution.The Kansas senator's three visits in four days may seem excessive, especially with the primary election more than four months away.

When New Hampshire, a conservative, Republican-dominated state, takes the lead on a controversial issue, it's worth taking note. Last week, the state's lawmakers approved a resolution volunteering their state as a testing ground for RU-486, the French drug that has been termed an "abortion pill" because it prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. With RU-486, ending a pregnancy can be almost as simple as taking an aspirin. The pill is seen as a grave threat by abortion opponents, and they have convinced the French manufacturer of the drug that trying to market it in this country would result in JTC boycotts and other political troubles to the manufacturer)

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The Democratic presidential campaign, in which Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley both started by vowing to take the high road and stay on it, wound up in a ditch in the New Hampshire primary. Actually, the vice president had already slipped off that road in Iowa. He misrepresented fellow-Democrat Bradley's health-care proposal there by saying Bradley was abandoning the elderly by eliminating Medicaid -- without reporting that Mr. Bradley's plan called for something better to replace it. Mr. Gore in Iowa also resurrected a Bradley Senate vote against a disaster relief amendment -- without noting that the former senator had voted for the relief bill itself.

One more win, and Towson's worst-to-first journey in the Colonial Athletic Association will be complete. One more game like the one he had Saturday against New Hampshire, and Terrance West will be a lock for the Jerry Rice award given to the top freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision. The turnaround Tigers continued their remarkable season and their star but not starting tailback continued his breakout season. After falling behind on the game's first possession, No. 12 Towson scored three touchdowns in less than three minutes and seven in the first half — three by West — en route to a wild 56-42 victory over the No. 7 Huskies at Johnny Unitas Stadium before an announced crowd of 8,366 Saturday night.

Now that we're well and truly launched on 2012, we'll see no more of those tedious retrospectives about 2011 - high points, low points, deaths, regrets. For my part, my only regret, apart from not being a Powerball winner, is that “spritzing the bonobos” as an expression of futility did not catch on last year. I should mention to you, though, in case you got an early start on Hogmanay, Friday's post on why you should pay no attention to cranks complaining that this, that, or the other is “ruining” the language.

New Hampshire Republicans are practical people. As I traveled around the state this past week, voters who said they supported Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential primary consistently offered two reasons for their choice. One was Mr. Romney's resume: his experience as both a businessman and a reasonably successful governor of Massachusetts. But the selling point voters cited most frequently was Mr. Romney's "electability": their sense that in a general election against President Barack Obama, he's more likely than any other Republican to win. "I want to get rid of socialism.

One can only hope the Baltimore Ravens do a better job of clock management than the Maryland Democratic Party did during its annual pre-session legislative lunch gathering Tuesday. Gov. Martin O'Malley, the party's leader and the subject of fulsome praise from state legislative leaders and congressional representatives alike, had to sit through extended remarks by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, House Speaker Michael E. Busch, five of Maryland's six Democratic U.S. representatives and U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin before getting the chance to speak.

When Jordan Page was a boy of 11 with a yen for acting, his greatest thrill was playing the Crown Prince in '"The King and I" onstage. Two decades later, in the middle of an odyssey that began on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he's starring in a real-life rock tour with lyrics a lot more volatile than "Shall We Dance" or "Getting to Know You. " As a singer and writer of protest songs that decry big government, big business and the military-industrial complex,...

The politics-by-the-numbers game we play has been quirkily friendly to Mitt Romney. He was able to waltz into New Hampshire a week before its Republican presidential primary boasting of being a winner in the Iowa caucuses. He could do so despite the fact that he beat former Sen. Rick Santorum, a mere asterisk in the standings a week earlier, by the infinitesimal margin of eight votes. In doing so, and after spending millions in an 11th-hour effort to make up for his near-absenteeism in Iowa, he actually won six fewer votes than he had garnered in his second-place finish there four years ago. Until that late gambling surge, the former Massachusetts governor had pretty much kissed off Iowa as unwelcome terrain.

In Wednesday's news, those poor candidates can stop eating all of that bad fried Iowa food.  It's on to New Hampshire, where, in Manchester, there's a cafe/wine bar named Republic that publishes a manifesto on its website. It's hard to tell Repubic is kidding, or if it ever is. ("Republic accepts only legal currency, but bartering is encouraged. What have you got?"). It looks like the last place in the Granite State you'd expect to see any campaigning this year. Time's Josh Ezersky on the case for eating horse meat . You might as well, he says, feed the hungry with it. An Eastern Shore Crab Cake recipe from Serious Eats.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Like skiing and ice skating, presidential politics in New Hampshire is usually a winter sport. Every four years, the candidates of both major parties flock here when snow is on the ground for the traditional Granite State voting that kicks off the political primary season. Then as soon as the results are in, they're off to other parts of the country where other primaries are to be fought. After that comes the general election, which is focused usually on the largest states with rich electoral vote prizes.

WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- With his avuncular smile, his shopworn homilies, his lanky first-baseman gait and his rusticated innocence, he hardly looks the part. But within a year it may be clear: For Republicans seeking the GOP's 2000 presidential nomination, Bob Smith will be the most dangerous man alive.Not because Mr. Smith, the New Hampshire senator who officially entered the nomination fight here last week, has much of a chance to be president. But because he has almost no chance to be president.

Although the first voting for presidential delegates is still four days off in Iowa, the political crystal-ball gazers are already speculating which Republican candidates will survive and which will fall off the cliff into oblivion. It's being said that if Mitt Romney wins in a state in which he only began to campaign in earnest in recent days, and then goes on a week later to repeat the feat in the New Hampshire primary, the ballgame will be over. If, on the other hand, Mr. Romney falls short in Iowa, it will be said that victory in New Hampshire will be vital to his hopes, and the other Republican candidates may live to fight another day. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was expected to sweep through Iowa, but he showed up only on the weekend before the state's precinct caucuses and got bloodied by the hard-working team of George H.W. Bush.

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released 37 new Maryland endorsements on Tuesday, including Anne Arundel County state Sen. Bryan W. Simonaire and Baltimore County Del. William J. Frank. Recent polls show Romney running even or slightly behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich among likely Republican voters nationally. But in terms of organization and endorsements, Romney appears to be leading in traditionally blue Maryland. Romney unveiled his first round of endorsements in the state in September . Whether the state's April 3 primary will matter for helping to choose the party's nominee remains to be seen.