SPORTS
By Adam Testa | May 21, 2012
Sometimes the small things make all the difference in professional wrestling. Too often, critics -- especially those on the Internet -- nitpick every decision WWE makes and find the logical or creative flaws. Many times, this creates an unnecessary sense or allegation of failure. But on tonight's Raw, WWE (or, more specifically, general manager John Laurinaitis) made a mistake that is almost unforgivable. While I personally wasn't offended by Sunday's match between John Cena and Laurinaitis at Over the Limit , many people have lashed out against the match.
SPORTS
By Sandra McKee, The Baltimore Sun | May 18, 2012
Deputed Testamony is 32-years-old. His dark brown coat is shaggy, and his biggest excitement is going into his paddock at Bonita Farm for three or four hours of grazing each day. He is a pensioner, an icon. The oldest living winner of a Triple Crown race. But when Billy Boniface looks at the horse in his paddock, he sees the striking colt that was born and trained at the family farm and raced to victory in the 1983 Preakness - the last horse bred or trained in Maryland to do so. "Oh my gosh, I still get goose bumps when I look at him and remember that day," said Boniface, who was 18 then and had just taken over the breeding operation at the farm.
FEATURES
By Rita St. Clair | September 27, 1992
Q: I have lived for several years in a stately old home with a wood-paneled dining room. As much as I have enjoyed this sedate setting, it's time to give the space a new look. Pulling out the panels, which extend about two-thirds of the way up the walls, is unthinkable to me, but I'm prepared to replace theheavy oak furniture. How can this room be made more appropriate for contemporary furnishings?A: Lots of people would love to have your problem. Wood paneling is usually considered a great asset in a room, giving it a certain masculine air because of the color, weight, detailing and texture of old carved oak. Still, I can readily sympathize with your desire to achieve a lighter, less somber look.
BUSINESS
By Marie Gullard | Special to the Baltimore Sun | January 10, 2010
I n Jim Slayton's and Rob Hradsky's living room, a verse has been painted in flowing script over the camel-back sofa. It reads: "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." For the two men, that simple saying is indicative of their life's work, joy and sacred pledge to the care of their four adopted children and the reason for their move into a 6,500-square-foot Colonial-style home in Woodstock, Md. "We have a commitment to adopting," said Slayton, a nurse in the Howard County Public School System.
BUSINESS
By Marie Marciano Gullard, Special to The Baltimore Sun | July 11, 2010
From a table on their deck, Greg Grenier and his partner John Heizer can sit and admire the beautifully landscaped garden below them. Amid tall oak and maple trees that shield like an umbrella, the outdoor room is enveloped and protected from the summer sun. "It's almost like living in the country," said Grenier, 65, who works for the Foreign Service. While the feel is delightfully bucolic, the location is the Reservoir Hill neighborhood in Baltimore. Grenier and Heizer, the 61-year-old director of music at Zion Lutheran, purchased the townhome for $240,000, an excellent deal given the fact that it was previously and impeccably restored by the prior owner, who worked in the Smithsonian Institution's American Furniture Restoration Department.
NEWS
By Dave Barry and Dave Barry,Knight Ridder / Tribune | August 29, 2004
MY WIFE IS a sportswriter. This is good and bad. The good part is this: Say I'm lying on the sofa watching pro football, and my team, the Miami Dolphins, has the ball, and it's third and four, a situation in which the Dolphins, after considering all 3,487 of their offensive plays, always decide to send the running back into the middle of the line for a gain of two yards. Always. The other team expects it, as does everybody else watching the game, including stadium-dwelling cockroaches, who wave their feelers to indicate: "Here goes the running back up the middle for two."