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The Triple Crown award goes to the league bowler who posts the highest figures in three categories: high game, set and average.Of the thousands of female bowlers in this area, only a few will achieve this accomplishment. Two of them competed at Brunswick Normandy in Ellicott City: Debbie Bell and Chris Hollinde.Bell of Dayton carries a 165 average. Tuesday she bowls in the Mixed Fivesome league and on Wednesday in the Queen Bee. It was in the Mixed Fivesome last season that she posted her career high figures.

The Riviera Beach area has changed. It's easy to say that everythinghas changed, but it's not always true. Some things even while changing remain pretty much the same.The bowling center was called AlexSandusky's Riviera Bowl 30 years ago when Sandusky bought the centerwithin a year of its construction. It's called Riviera Bowl now, buta Sandusky is still in charge.Steve Sandusky was raised in the Riviera Beach center, and he learned the business from the ground up."When I was a youngster, Dadmade me learn the business," Sandusky said.

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."

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?

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.

Local TV newscasters this week are adding a sixth "W" to the who, what, when, where and why of good journalism.This "W" stands for wigging out and trying to whip viewers into an emotional frenzy with their coverage from suburban Chicago of the NFL owners' vote on expansion.Never have I seen so much air time and breathless reporting result in so little information or perspective as we've been getting this week from the let's-go-live-to-Chicago gang.And they're proud of being out of control on top of it.Here's how Channel 11 sportscaster Gerry Sandusky opened his live report from Rosemont, Ill., Monday night:"Rod, I'll tell you, I finally understand that saying, 'I spent a month in that city one day,' because that's what it feels like we spent here in Chicago," Sandusky said to anchor Rod Daniels.

Bristol, Connecticut -- "Each truck pulling away from the 106-year-old General Motors plant carries more than cold steel. It takes part of the soul of Bristol and the generations of families who worked there.''That was the lead last Sunday of a story by Susan Houriet and Michael Kodas in the Hartford Courant on the closing of the GM plant called ''New Departures'' around here, a factory that employed as many as 11,000 people once upon a time and turned farms into an industrial town of 60,000 in the middle of one of the richest of the United States.

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...

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.

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.