Regrets

FOR DAYS, I watched the "60 Minutes" promos of the show's interview with Muhammad Ali. Even now, Ali can dependably draw an audience. But when it came time, well, I just couldn't bring myself to tune in.Sundays can be sad enough without watching one of your few remaining heroes losing his struggle with Parkinson's syndrome.What's sadder still is that his condition is apparently the result, in his post-float-like-a-butterfly years, of taking too many punches to the head.As he used to remind us, he was the greatest.

The university's decision to suspend 27 Tufts players for using sexist and racist comments during a women's volleyball game may have cost the Jumbos a pair of losses to New England Small College Athletic Conference opponents. But coach Mike Daly said he stood behind the penalty. “No regrets whatsoever,” he said Monday morning prior to Tufts practicing at Stevenson's Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills in preparation for Tuesday night's game against the No. 2 Mustangs. “We've got great kids, we've got a great university, and we've got a great lacrosse program.

PHILADELPHIA -- A teen-ager from northwestern Pennsylvania who killed a deer with his bare hands now says he has regrets.Not about beating the nine-point buck to a pulp in a fit of road rage. That, he says, was a "mercy killing."What he regrets is admitting to his small-town newspaper that he "wanted to beat the crap out of it" after his car rammed the animal.Five days after wrestling the deer to its death, 11th-grader Brian Krepp, 18, has become a celebrity of sorts in rural Venango County, Pa. -- the kind of place where it's far more common to find a deer head over the fireplace mantel than attached to a buck that has been strangled on the side of the road.

A new baseball season dawns, and it all feels so different for the Orioles and their fans this time around. Pitchers and catchers report to Sarasota, Fla., today, but this time the O's are coming off a 93-win season in which they made it to the American League Division Series. They probably won't duplicate the astounding 2012 numbers they put up in extra-inning games (16-2) and one-run games (29-9). But this is a club with a solid everyday lineup and a terrific bullpen. And if the starting pitching holds up - I know, you can say that about every team - the Orioles should contend again for the AL East title.

TC Regrets," by Caroline Seebohm. Simon & Shuster. 512 pages. $27.50.If you are looking for a horror story to curl up with next Friday night, you might try "No Regrets."

In Sunday's editions, Matt Hahn of the University of Maryland lacrosse team was identified incorrectly in a photo caption.The Sun regrets the errors.

In Sunday's Sun Magazine crossword puzzle, the clue for 66 Across should read Packer Bart.The Sun regrets the errors.

The The Beth Tfiloh Congregation deeply regrets the passing of Jack Amster

The Beth Tfiloh Congregation deeply regrets the passing of Bronia Rotholz,

The Beth Tfiloh Congregation deeply regrets the passing of our Member Sylvia Carmel

Colts coach Chuck Pagano was understandably disappointed in the outcome of Sunday's playoff game against the Ravens, but he said after the game that he was not disappointed in his team. Quite the contrary. “They went out and did what everybody said they couldn't do," Pagano said. “They refused to live in circumstance. They chose to live in vision. Just watching them doing battle today - we didn't do enough out there today, we didn't make enough plays. We had opportunities, but just watching this team fight, fight, week in and week out to accomplish what they have accomplished, I told them 'When you walk of here, hold your head high and be very, very proud of the way you played this game, the way you represented this organization.'” Pagano's story is well known.

Of Love and Regret , the Canton bar and restaurant from Stillwater Ales' Brian Strumke, will open its upstairs bar on Friday. It's called the Jaded Lounge, and it will feature 11 drinks on tap (four Stillwater beers and seven specialty liqueurs/cocktails -- more on that in a bit). Following through on Strumke's vision from the beginning, the Jaded Lounge will also double as a boutique bottle shop, selling an assortment of beer, wine and spirits. Customers will be able to enjoy them in-house or for takeaway.

Chris Johnson wasn't happy about surrendering the 11-yard touchdown pass from rookie quarterback Kirk Cousins to wide receiver Pierre Garcon that helped the Washington Redskins tie the Ravens and then win, 31-28, in overtime last Sunday. At the same time, however, the cornerback said he had no regrets about trying to jump what he thought was an in route by Garcon. “As a vet, I gave up a play that I didn't want to give up. It stuck with me for a couple days,” Johnson said Wednesday.

Ray Rice's amazing 29-yard catch-and-run on fourth down-and-29 and the Ravens' eventual 16-13 overtime win against the San Diego Chargers Sunday overshadowed a few miscues such as the offense's ineptness in the first half, the unit's inability to create a consistent pocket for quarterback Joe Flacco and some inopportune penalties. Another gaffe that didn't end up hurting the Ravens was the ill-fated decision to go for it on fourth down-and-1 on the Chargers' 14-yard line with 34 seconds remaining in the third quarter.

Katie Moody, the Baltimore-based Patriots fan, who is known on Twitter as @katiebrady12 and who has caught major heat after firing off an insensitive tweet to Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith, has issued a formal apology. "I profoundly regret my thoughtless, tasteless, and completely inappropriate comment, and I deeply lament the pain that it has caused. I would like to apologize to Torrey Smith, his family, friends, and everyone who was distressed by what I said. I should have been offering sympathy and compassion for such a terrible and heart-breaking loss.

Ted Stelzenmuller has parted ways with Of Love & Regret, the Canton restaurant he opened this spring with Stillwater Ales founder Brian Strumke. The chef is now back at Jack's Bistro full time. Both Stelzenmuller and Strumke have acknowledged "creative differences" about the direction of the menu at Of Love & Regret. For the short term, chef de cuisine Keith Curley, formerly of Red Maple and Aida Bistro, will be running Of Love & Regret's kitchen, according to Strumke. He will be joined by Joshua Evans, who has worked in Chicago and, moreso, Philadelphia at places like Le Bec-Fin and James on 8th. But Strumke hesitated to assign titles or positions, or to commit to any particular direction for the menu, except that it will be changing.

The Beth Tfiloh Congregation deeply regrets the passing of our Member David Skurnik

The Beth Tfiloh Congregation deeply regrets the passing of Jerome Gross,

Open only since the end of May, Of Love & Regret is operating with admirable maturity, confidence and grace. It's a wonderful gathering space for Baltimore, and it's putting out some of the best burgers and good cheer in town. Plain but not spartan, the interior space suggests the lunchroom of a benevolently run factory, where everyone respects the work they do and each other. There are a half-dozen tables on either side of the long, bar. A community table with high stools sits in the room's center.

On Saturday, Michael Phelps will turn 27. No surprise, he'll spend the birthday where he's spent much of his previous 26 years: in a pool, chasing gold. This time, it will be in Omaha, Neb., where the Olympic qualifying trials begin Monday and where Phelps will begin to answer a question that has trailed him for the past four years: How will he possibly top his golden, eight-for-eight performance of Beijing? "What Michael has done is insane. I think people now take gold medals for granted," said fellow swimmer Natalie Coughlin, herself among the most decorated Olympians ever.