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By Matt Bracken and The Baltimore Sun | June 3, 2013
Daxter Miles wasn't planning on making his college commitment Friday night. But the Dunbar senior had a sudden change of heart during his high school graduation three days ago. “I decided [to end my recruitment] because it was a big event in my life, with me and my family, so why not keep it going and commit on my graduation?” said Miles, who pledged to West Virginia. “I wasn't planning to at first. Everything hit me though, and I thought about it real heavy.” Miles, who also considered offers from Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Villanova and Xavier, said the Mountaineers have been recruiting him since the beginning of his senior year, shortly after he transferred to Dunbar from IMG Academy in Florida.
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By John W. Stewart and John W. Stewart,Staff writer | November 29, 1992
Brad Fordyce believes a player's senior year should be his best one.A two-way starter in football, he backed this thinking with action in helping C. Milton Wright to its third straight unbeaten regular season.In the process, his work earned him the honor of The Baltimore Sun's Harford County Football Player of the Year.That work included leading the county in tackles and finishing among the leaders in pass receiving. For 10 games, the 6-foot, 185-pound player had 203 defensive hits, including 103 solo tackles, and caught 16 passes for a county-high 393 yards and four touchdowns.
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By Kent Baker and Kent Baker,SUN STAFF | September 26, 2002
One way or another, Ben Whitacre was determined to get his kicks in college. In either style of football, the European kind Americans call soccer or on the gridiron, Whitacre was passionately devoted to the goal of playing a Division I sport. Early on in his high school career, soccer appeared the favorite. Slightly built physically, he had the aim to join the midfield at the University of Virginia - and that did not mean the 50-yard line. But times changed when he began performing for the more publicized Sherando (Va.)
EXPLORE
June 11, 2013
Fallston senior Madison Brown, center, recently signed a letter of intent to swim at Manhattan College. Brown has been swimming for 15 years, first for Loyola Blakefield Aquatics and Coach Keith Schertle and then for the Fallston High School varsity team for the past four years. In her freshman year, she won a state championship and followed it with two championships her sophomore year and one her senior year. She plans on majoring in marketing and global business at Manhattan.
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By Glenn P. Graham and Glenn P. Graham,Staff Writer | January 14, 1993
Westminster wrestling coach Solomon Carr still remembers returning home after competing in his first official wrestling tournament.He was in the second grade at the time and ended up going against a cousin who was in the fourth grade.He said he got "crushed," and when he got home, all of his brothers and sisters made him do extra chores for losing."I wanted to get out of wrestling then and there. They gave me no slack at all," Carr said.He did, but only until the fifth grade. When you're a Carr brother in Erie, Pa., it's almost a given you are going to wrestle and wrestle well.
FEATURES
By ROB KASPER | September 2, 2000
I SENT A KID off to college this week. As the car carrying him and his mother rolled down the alley, I had conflicting emotions. Part of me said "It's about time." Another part of me wondered "Where did the time go?" My mind flashed back to a morning 13 years ago when I had walked the kid down the same alley to begin his educational career in the kindergarten of MountRoyal Elementary. As a kindergartner he had carried an empty Roi-Tan cigar box to hold his pencils, a gift from his dad. Now as a freshman at Boston University he was heading north with a car full of clothes and an empty Upmann cigar box, another gift, that the kid would probably use to hold headphones.