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Forecasters are watching an expected outbreak of severe weather from Illinois to Maryland that some are likening to last June's derecho; one meteorologist predicted it would be a "multi billion dollar storm" causing massive power outages. Storms were developing in Illinois and Wisconsin early Wednesday evening, bringing tornado threats from there through Indiana and into Ohio. Meteorologists say conditions could be conducive for those storms to strengthen into a massive squall line packing up to 70 mph winds, large hail and heavy rain.

In a move to strengthen its schedule, Johns Hopkins announced Wednesday that it had added Ohio State and Villanova to next year's slate. The Blue Jays will open the 2014 campaign against the Buckeyes and will meet the Wildcats in a midweek game late in the season. Ohio State, which upended then-No. 5 Loyola and No. 3 Denver to capture the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, will replace Siena. Villanova, which shared the Big East regular-season title with Syracuse before losing to the Orange in the conference tournament final, will replace Army.

Baltimore-based Remedi SeniorCare, which provides pharmaceutical services to long-term care facilities, has bought an Ohio company in a deal that expands its Midwestern customer base. With its acquisition of Cornerstone Pharmacy in northeast Ohio, Remedi now serves more than 15,000 long-term care residents from pharmacies in Cleveland and Troy, Ohio. That adds to the 31,000 residents across nine states and Washington, D.C., that Remedi already counted as clients. Cornerstone President Brad Pinkerton joins Remedi as president of the Midwestern region.

For the second time in three years, the Maryland football team will play a game at M&T Bank Stadium in 2015 - this time against Penn State in what Terps fans hope will be part of a renewed rivalry between the schools. The game - scheduled for Oct. 24, 2015 - will mark Penn State's first visit to the state for a Terps game since 1993. The game was among the highlights of the Big Ten schedule released Monday. For the second season in a row, the Terps will close the regular season with a game against Rutgers.

WASHINGTON - The presidential election is over and Sen. John Kerry has conceded defeat, but the wheels are nevertheless in motion in Ohio for a recount in the state that put President Bush over the top. The recount is being pressed even though the Kerry campaign has no hope or expectation of reversing the result. As of election night, the president carried Ohio by more than enough to avoid a mandatory retabulating of the votes. The tally gave Mr. Bush 51.1 percent to Mr. Kerry's 48.5 percent, far in excess of the one-quarter of 1 percent winning margin that under state law would require a recount.

- The community organizing group ACORN has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to give up its Ohio business license and not return under another name. ACORN was sued by the libertarian 1851 Center for Constitutional Law. The center contended that ACORN's voter registration drives amounted to organized crime because the group turned in fraudulent forms. ACORN is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It has until June 1 to surrender its Ohio license. It has ceased state operations but denies wrongdoing.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. It's unknown whether or not Mark Turgeon will add another guard to his two-man 2013 class, but as expected, the Terps are seeing what's out there. Mark Alstork , a 6-foot-4 guard from Thurgood Marshall High in Dayton, Ohio, recently heard from Terps assistant Bino Ranson. “He just said he was interested and he wanted to see some film.

The Browns were born in 1946, the year after the end of World War II. Veterans were returning home, and what did the Browns do but play for a championship 10 years in a row - four in the All-American Conference and six in the NFL. This was unprecedented and gave birth to a fervent fan base. Along came Art Modell and he fired one of the greatest coaches in NFL history. Then there was the little episode of Mr. Modell suing a group of local bar owners because they bought rotor antennas and could get blacked-out home games from Toledo.

Lucy Ewbank, wife of former Baltimore Colts coach Weeb Ewbank, died Monday in The Knolls of Oxford (Ohio). She was 105. Her husband died in 1998. He coached the Colts from 1954 to 1962, winning championships in 1958 and 1959. He also coached the New York Jets. He went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978. According to a news release from Miami University in Oxford, where her husband was an athlete and coach, Mrs. Ewbank is survived by her daughters; Luanne Spenceley, Nancy (Charles)

STILLWATER, Okla. -- Team Maryland continued to bat 1.000 in the Sun Belt Classic as it defeated Ohio, 18-12, yesterday."We're in first place and we're absolutely the surprise of the tournament," said Roger Wrenn, one of the team's coaches. "In no one's wildest dreams did people think we'd be undefeated."All-Metro player Keith Kormanik of Gilman was 3-for-5 with fiv RBI and two stolen bases. Craig Everett, of Northeast (AA) was 2-for-4 with four RBI. Todd Murphy of High Point was the winning pitcher.

When you play on Cornell but are not part of an offense headlined by two-time Tewaaraton Award finalist Rob Pannell and fellow senior attackman Steve Mock, it is easy to be overlooked. And that is just fine, according to senior defenseman Jason Noble. “With Rob Pannell and Steve Mock and [sophomore attackman] Matt Donovan, all the credit does go to them,” Noble said Monday. “They're the ones that help the defense. [Junior] Doug Tesoriero on the faceoffs really helps get the ball to our offense and limit the [opposing]

Ohio State's Greg Dutton did not get to watch the entirety of Cornell's 16-8 upset of sixth-seeded Maryland in a NCAA tournament first-round game last Sunday. But the junior goalkeeper watched the film, and fifth-year senior attackman Rob Pannell's four-goal, three-assist performance was no less impressive a day or two after the fact. “Rob Pannell is a great player, and he's been a great player there for four years,” said Dutton, a Timonium native and Calvert Hall graduate. “He's probably one of the best players to ever play Division I lacrosse.

The Cornell men's lacrosse team is on a mission. After being unseeded in the 16-team NCAA Division I tournament, the Big Red wants to prove that it was slighted and is one of the best teams in the country. After Cornell defeated No. 3 seed Ohio State, 16-6, on Saturday in the quarterfinals at Maryland's Byrd Stadium, there are few who will argue. In fact, the Big Red just might be the best. "We were excited to hear our name called on Selection Sunday," said Cornell coach Ben DeLuca, who is in his third season.

A week ago, the thought was that Ohio State -- despite knocking off 2012 national champion Loyola and Denver to capture the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament -- was overvalued as the third seed in the NCAA tournament. Despite a convincing 16-6 victory over Towson in the first round, the Buckeyes are viewed as underdogs. That has to do with Ohio State (13-3) meeting Cornell (13-3) in the first game of Saturday's quarterfinals at Byrd Stadium in College Park. The Big Red are unseeded, but after walloping sixth-seeded Maryland, 16-8, last Sunday, many pundits and fans insist that Cornell will be the first team to advance to the national semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia next weekend.

When men's lacrosse coach Joe Breschi left Ohio State after the 2008 season to fill the same post at North Carolina, he took with him his network of connections with the Baltimore metropolitan area. Since his departure, however, the Buckeyes have maintained a pipeline to Charm City, using it to help build a roster that's only three wins from a national championship. Ohio State has six Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association players hailing from Baltimore, which is the second-most among the eight teams left in the NCAA tournament.

Host Ohio State holds a slight 3-2 edge in this series, but Towson won the last meeting, 10-8, on March 20, 2007. The Tigers are the Colonial Athletic Association tournament champion, while the Buckeyes captured the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament crown. Towson (10-7) has won seven of its last nine games and avenged the two losses during that stretch by knocking off Drexel and Penn State in the CAA tournament. Senior attackman Matt Hughes has scored three goals in his last two contests after scoring five in his first 14. Ohio State (12-3)

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Convicted killer Harold Benjamin Dean, the only person ever to escape from Maryland's Supermax prison, complained at a hearing yesterday that he was treated better there than in the Franklin County Jail in Columbus, where he is being held on $1 million bail.In a brief session in the county Common Pleas Court, Judge Paul Martin granted a county prosecutor's request to hold Dean for up to 60 more days -- the deadline for authorities to secure an extradition order from Maryland's governor.

  Allison and Stephen DeVito   Andrew and Cheryl Maimona, of Hudson, Ohio, announce the marriage of their daughter, Allison Anne Maimona, to Stephen Roy DeVito, son on Richard and Judith DeVito, of Columbia, on May 14, 2011. The bride is a 1999 graduate of Hudson High School, in Hudson; a 2003 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind.; and a 2006 graduate of Fordham University Law School, in Bronx, N.Y. She is currently employed as a captain in the Air Force, serving as the deputy state judge advocate at Rome Laboratory, in New York.

Just when Towson thought it had stuck its flag in the ground as a renewed member of the country's elite college lacrosse programs, it ran into a hellbent Ohio State team on the same mission Sunday. Playing in a blustery Ohio Stadium where the 2,800 on hand offered only a hint of the home-field enthusiasm the football Buckeyes enjoy in front of 105,000 in the fall, Ohio State nevertheless prevailed 16-6 in the first-round game of the NCAA lacrosse tournament. The No. 3-seed Buckeyes dominated the second and third quarters, blowing open a game that had been tied 2-2 at one point in the first, on the way to quarterfinal match with Cornell - an upset winner over Maryland - on Saturday at Byrd Stadium in College Park.

The lasting memory Denver players and coaches have of their most recent game was an 11-10 loss to Ohio State that rewarded the Buckeyes with their first Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament and the third seed in the NCAA tournament. The setback did not hurt the Pioneers (12-4) terribly - they still earned the fourth seed and a home game against Albany (13-4) in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday - but the loss has lingered a bit. “Anytime you have a tough loss like that, I think it's going to linger for a couple days, but I think with the quick turnaround to the NCAA tournament, we can't really bemoan that loss or think about that loss,” senior attackman Eric Law said Wednesday.