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Some of the best pictures of Sunday night's Cal Ripken end-of-streak festival came courtesy of a tip, a hunch and a gamble, and once again, Channel 11 was the beneficiary of all of the above.Gerry Sandusky, the station's sports director and main sports anchor, said he got a call at the station around 6: 45 p.m. Sunday -- more than an hour before game time -- that Ripken was going to call a halt to his consecutive-games streak, and Sandusky got moving.Sandusky, who also does duty as the main sports talker on WBAL (1090 AM)

In Sandusky, Ohio, a blue-collar town of 35,000 halfway between Cleveland and Toledo and smack up against Lake Erie, Orlando Pace already is larger than life.Who among those 35,000 doesn't know of the storybook high school career Pace enjoyed at Sandusky High in the early '90s as a two-sport star and all-around good guy?Or his legendary, three-year football reign at Ohio State, where he did not give up a single sack his last two seasons as the Buckeyes' left tackle, and only one overall?Or the fact that come Saturday's NFL draft, Pace will be minted as one of the league's newest millionaires, fitted instantly for a starting job and measured against the greatest tackles ever to play the game?

El Nino is threatening to devastate the planet, the Dow Jones Industrial Average did a bungee-jump that snapped your neck just to watch, and the way they're talking about the flu going around, it might as well be the Ebola virus.But if you're an Orioles fan, that's not what you're discussing around the water cooler today. If you're an O's fan, there are only two topics rattling around in your feverish little brain:1) Will Peter Angelos bring back Davey Johnson?2) Will the O's re-sign Brady Anderson?

Starting Friday, Channel 11 sports anchor Gerry Sandusky will add the Orioles' pre-game radio talk show on WBAL (1090 AM) to his duties.Sandusky, 35, will not only be host of "Sports Line" before Orioles games, but also will continue to deliver sports reports on Channel 11 during the same time.Greg Sher, who took over as "Sports Line" host in January, will now anchor just the post-game talk show and contribute taped reports to the pre-game show. Sandusky and Sher will split the duties on nights the Orioles aren't playing.

Most parents have faced that moment of recognition that their kids have grown so quickly that time, as former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald once sang, has become "a riddle, where days turn into years, and years into the blink of an eye."That blink of an eye came at Channel 11 sports director Gerry Sandusky perhaps sooner than he imagined, and because of it, Sandusky is putting a very promising career as a radio football analyst on Maryland games on hold, to spend more time with his wife and two children.

A former Colt and former Oriole are among the five honorees for the sixth induction class of the Anne Arundel County Sports Hall of Fame. This year's inductees, who will be honored at a banquet at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie on Oct. 24, bring the total of those enshrined to 30.Alex Sandusky, one of the greatest offensive linemen in Baltimore Colts history, ex-Orioles outfielder Barry Shetrone, premier horse trainer King Leatherbury, two-time Navy...

Five years ago, Jerry Sandusky wasn't ready to leave Penn State for Maryland.He would be now.Sandusky, in his 29th year as an assistant coach at Penn State, verified his interest in the vacant football coaching position at Maryland, which fired Mark Duffner on Monday. Before they hired Duffner in December 1991, the Terps requested an interview with Sandusky, but he decided not to take that step."I put forward a plan a few years ago for Maryland," Sandusky said. "Andy Geiger [then the athletic director]

RED DEER, Alberta -- The Baltimore Stallions' defensive players talk about getting better each week. Yet, after another spectacular show in Edmonton on Wednesday, particularly during the last six minutes of Baltimore's 19-12 victory over the Eskimos, the question is: How long can they keep this up?How long before injuries begin to take their toll?During a potentially disastrous second half at Commonwealth Stadium, the Stallions lost free safety Lester Smith to a broken left ankle, suffered when he took a bad step while returning a kickoff early in the fourth quarter.

There was probably no single person in Baltimore happier to hear Gov. Parris Glendening welcome the Cleveland Browns to town last week than Channel 11's Mark Viviano, who staked a great deal of his journalistic reputation on reporting that the team was, in fact, relocating to Charm City."

Carol Yingling, director of the National Youth Duckpin Association, confirmed Steve Sandusky's suspicions.His Riviera Bowl center in Pasadena has the largest number of sanctioned youth duckpin bowlers in the nation."

He didn't have a crew cut, wear high-tops or walk with a funny, stoop-shouldered gait. Had Marty Domres looked the part, would it have mattered? Whoever replaced John Unitas as quarterback of the Baltimore Colts was sure to get booed. The job fell to Domres, and when he took Unitas' place in 1972, the fans let him have it. No matter that Domres was a bright, articulate Ivy League graduate who had been a first-round draft pick. Unitas was their blue-collar hero. Truth is, the two men hit it off. And while Domres played only three full seasons in Baltimore, he eventually settled here, stayed friends with Unitas and often played golf with him in retirement at Hillendale Country Club.

Tapping away at some sports media notes while listening to Brett Favre sing, "I don't know why you say goodbye/I say hello": *If you were in the habit of turning off the television sound to listen to the radio broadcast during Ravens games, you won't have to do that in the preseason. That's because the radio broadcast will be the TV sound. No more Dick, Moose and Goose calling the exhibition schedule. The Ravens have replaced Dick Stockton, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa with a simulcast of the WBAL/98 Rock team of Gerry Sandusky, Stan White and Rob Burnett.

James E. Lantz, a retired Towson barber and hairstylist, died of a heart attack Feb. 7 at his home in Sandusky, Ohio, where he had lived since 1998 and where his funeral was held Monday. He was 62. Mr. Lantz was born in Spangler, Pa., and raised in Dundalk, where he graduated from Dundalk High School in 1963. After graduating from barber school, Mr. Lantz opened Tollgate Barber Shop in Towson. He operated the business until 1997, when he retired because of failing health. He collected model automobiles and liked playing the organ.

Almost from the moment that the news arrived about the Ravens' new radio home with WBAL (1090 AM), the speculative fingers started pointing at Gerry Sandusky as the team's new play-by-play voice. It may not be polite, but those fingers point at him still. Though nothing is official, word is filtering out of TV Hill that Sandusky, WBAL/Channel 11's sports anchor, will indeed get the job. "I'm hearing that, too," Sandusky said this week, "but I don't have a contract yet." Jeff Beauchamp, WBAL Radio's station manager and vice president, said he expects to have an announcing team named within four to five weeks.

Gerry Sandusky, the son of a former coach for the NFL's Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins, possesses a genial air and projects comfort in the public eye. He would seem a natural for the job he has held since 1988: sports anchor for WBAL-TV's news team. It's his other job that doesn't seem so clean a fit. Away from the camera, Sandusky serves corporate executives and professionals who pay him to coach them on how best to communicate - how to speak to employees, how to make a sales pitch, and even how to manage the media.

On January 9, 2004 ANNE B. of Baltimore, beloved wife of the late Paul F. Lane; loving mother of Nancy M. Lane, Barbara A. Sandusky, Patricia L. Shelby, Michael P., J. Kelly, Dennis J. and Maura K. Lane; cherished grandmother of Rick M. Shelby, Tim P. Lane, Samantha Sandusky, Sean W.L. Alford, Matthew Sandusky, Jessie M. and Kevin C. Lane and Morgan L. Arnold; devoted great grandmother of Patrick and Alex Shelby. The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC, 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road)

The Baltimore Museum of Industry was transformed into a sports mecca at the "Mid-Summer Sports Fest" to raise more than $35,000 for two scholarship organizations, CollegeBound Foundation and Joe Sandusky Fund. More than 600 guests were greeted by party co-hosts WBAL-TV sports director Gerry Sandusky and Baltimore Raven Jamie Sharper. An array of games awaited: a batting cage, basketball hoops, putting greens, a makeshift climbing "mountain," pool table, pingpong, tennis, even fencing. If that wasn't enough, you could listen in on the sports radio show being broadcast live from the site.

There are lots of benefits to being host of a nightly radio talk show on one of the most popular stations in your hometown, but one of the chief ones for Steve Melewski is this: People he knows may now actually believe he does it for a living. Melewski, who takes over the reins of WBAL's "SportsLine" starting Monday night, says his career path, through places like Frederick and Richmond, Va., has been a successful one, though it had taken him out of hearing range of friends and family.

WBAL sells out on Sandusky The Jan. 13 article, "Sandusky signing off from SportsLine," detailed how WBAL Radio host Gerry Sandusky will involuntarily be leaving his show at the end of February. Regardless of how carefully worded the article was, it is apparent that the powerful Orioles saw to it that Sandusky be removed from his duties because he didn't toe the Orioles' line. He wasn't enough of a "homer," which was Jon Miller's cardinal sin, according to owner Peter Angelos. Sandusky actually dared to speak his mind and offer criticism if he saw fit. Yet, the article states that Sandusky's removal was not related to his comments.

WASHINGTON -- The forces instrumental in the creation of the Martin Luther King Day holiday intended for it to be a day of reflection and contemplation, more than of holiday sales. In that vein, they will be pleased with an illuminating round-table discussion convened yesterday at Georgetown University by Turner Sports among four men who lived during the period in which the late civil rights leader fought for social change. The freewheeling, often humorous exchange between moderator John Thompson, who formerly coached here and is now an NBA analyst for Turner, and former NBA greats Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson and Wayne Embry, yielded thoughtful recollections about the civil rights movement and its impact on the athletes who played in the context of the massive upheaval of the times.