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Watching NFL players dance can be awe-inspiring. Or it can be like watching hippos on rollerblades. Donald Driver, Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith were terrific on "Dancing with the Stars. " So was Warren Sapp, who turned out to be a 300-pound Michael Jackson without the emotional baggage. But Lawrence Taylor looked like he was trying to start a balky lawnmower engine when he danced the jive. And Michael Irvin showed all the hip action of a geriatric patient doing the cha-cha. Now the latest football player to join the show is Jacoby Jones, who wants to see if his famous swivel-hipped end zone celebrations can help him on dancing's biggest stage.

Melody A. Cronin, a Baltimore attorney who was known for her pro bono work with the Wills for Heroes Foundation, died Sunday of acute myelocytic leukemia at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Fells Point resident was 35. "Mel was a quick-witted, intelligent attorney and she always worked long, long hours, even after she became a mother," said Kari M. Kelly, a colleague and real estate attorney at the Baltimore law firm of Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, where Mrs. Cronin worked as an associate in the firm's litigation and creditors' rights groups.

Coleen Deems sat down after every Ravens season and wrote a letter to the team, asking it to ban smoking at the stadium. This year, when her 10-year-old grandson looked up and said, “I have to hold my breath,” while walking past a designated smoking area at M&T Bank Stadium, the 11-year season-ticket holder became more determined and considered tracking down the personal email address of team owner Steve Bisciotti. She didn't have to, and the Ravens won't need to decide how to deal with the divisive issue.

LAUREL - Good luck reducing Aquille Carr's story to a tweet or a television sound bite. Has the Baltimore prep basketball sensation grown into a man? Well, the calendar says so, as do his daughter, about to celebrate her first birthday, and his talk of the sport as a job. He hinted strongly in a recent interview that he's ready to bypass college in favor of seeking an overseas professional offer for next year. “Seton Hall is still my choice right now,” he said of the school to which he committed orally last year.

Cuban plays hard Ben Bolch Los Angeles Times The NBA still has the best owner in pro sports even after the passing of Jerry Buss. His name is Mark Cuban. Not only do his teams win (with the notable exception of this season), but he pampers his players, speaks his mind and always is looking for ways to improve and innovate. Besides, what other owner has appeared on "Entourage" and "The Colbert Report" and starred in his own reality show, "Shark Tank"? Cuban is a man of the people despite his extreme wealth.

Major League Soccer's D.C. United is no longer exploring the possibility of moving to Baltimore, according to The Washington Post. The franchise had flirted with the city as it attempted to convince some government entity to give it a favorable deal on a new stadium. But the team's managing partner, Jason Levien, told The Post that "the stars are aligning in a good way for us" in D.C. and that the team would focus on financing a project there with city assistance on infrastructure costs.

I really enjoyed David Zurawik 's column about the Super Bowl game ("For biggest game of the year, CBS again drops the ball," Feb. 4). I'm not a football fan, but did want to support and cheer on the Ravens. I was appalled at the biased coverage of the game. It seemed to me that the announcers were watching another game, one in which the 49ers were Gods and the Ravens weren't even playing. I asked the people around me - are sports commentators always like this? Aren't they supposed to appear to be neutral?

Golf Wronowski to enter PGA Golf Pro Hall     PGA honorary president Allen Wronowski of Bel Air, the third member of the Middle Atlantic PGA Section to lead the world's largest sports organization, is one of eight inductees to be enshrined in the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame. Wronowski, 58, the PGA director of member and player development at Hillendale Country Club in Phoenix in Baltimore County, will be honored March 12 at the PGA Education Center at PGA Village in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The inductees' names will be inscribed in granite on the back portico of the adjoining PGA Museum of Golf.

NEW ORLEANS -  Jonathan Ogden, the first draft pick in Ravens history and the quintessential left tackle of his generation, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday in his first year of eligibility. Late Ravens owner Art Modell, who brought pro football back to Baltimore and was also one of 15 modern-era finalists, fell short of election. Modell has been a divisive candidate in part because he moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore after the 1995 season. Ogden's selection came the day before his former team will play for its second Super Bowl title against the San Francisco 49ers here in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

I read your article in The Sun entitled "Keep abortion safe and legal" (Jan. 27) by Jenny Black, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Maryland. I know that it was printed to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision. In the name of fairness, I am now respectfully requesting that you print a commentary from someone on the pro-life side of this issue. I would think more highly of your paper if you kept it fair and balanced, and if you presented both sides of a controversial issue such as abortion.