New Hampshire

The UMBC women's lacrosse team has announced its 16-game schedule for the 2013 season, including its first game against Maryland in five years and contests against three other teams that advanced to the NCAA tournament a season ago. “We are very excited to get started with the spring of 2013,” co-coach Amy Appelt said. “We have some great competition next spring. If we want to be the best we have to play the best, so we are very enthusiastic to get the season started.” The Retrievers open the season on the road against American (Feb.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown's spokesman is taking a leave of absence to work on a gubernatorial campaign in ... New Hampshire. Marc Goldberg will do press for Maggie Hassan, who is running for a seat that became open when a long-serving Democratic incumbent, John Lynch, decided to retire. Goldberg says he'll be back working for his old boss in November after the election. That means he'll be just in time for the Maryland 2014 gubernatorial contest to begin -- likely a fierce fight over a seat that will be open because long-serving Democratic incumbent, Martin O'Malley, is term-limited out of office.

Matt Miller thought he could play Division I basketball coming out of high school, and the Mount St. Joseph guard did have his fair share of DI inquiries. But when none of those interested colleges offered him a scholarship, Miller packed his bags for Greensburg, Pa., where for two years he suited up for Division II Seton Hill. After averaging 16.3 points for the Griffins as a freshman and a team-high 20.1 points as a sophomore, the former Gaels star decided to try his luck at the DI level once again.

— Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took center stage before a convention of New Hampshire Democrats Saturday, rallying the faithful in a state important to his party's hopes to hold the White House in November — and to his own future should he run for president. The 22-minute keynote address to the New Hampshire Democratic Party marked O'Malley's debut as the main attraction at an event in this first-in-the-nation primary state. The visit was part of a four-state tour kicking off what looks to be a summer packed with political travel for the 49-year-old governor.

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.

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....

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,...