Spirit

The Tewaaraton Foundation has named former Johns Hopkins lacrosse player, coach and athletic director Bob Scott as the recipient of the 2013 Spirit of Tewaaraton Award. Scott will be honored May 30 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The Spirit of Tewaaraton is presented to an individual who has contributed to the sport of lacrosse in a way that reflects the values and mission of the Tewaaraton Award. Past recipients include former Maryland men's coach Dick Edell, former Loyola College women's coach Diane Geppi-Aikens, Baltimore native A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard and former Maryland player and longtime Cornell coach Richie Moran.

Bridget Collins waited a long time to go back to McDonogh School. A 1990 graduate, she hoped to teach there after she graduated from Bucknell University, but there were no openings. She got a master's degree in teaching, but McDonogh still wasn't hiring. Finally, Collins returned in 2000 to her alma mater, where she's now an upper school history teacher and soccer and softball coach. "McDonogh made me want to be a teacher," Collins said. "The experience I had as a student here made me want to teach.

Bob Nobles III plans to be a Santa's helper this year. He will distribute toys and other gifts to young people who come to the Kennedy Krieger Institute's upcoming Festival of Trees. But it won't be the first time that the New Windsor teenager has put a smile on someone else's face. Nobles, a junior at Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger High School, was chosen as the 2012 ambassador for the holiday gala known as Festival of Trees. Nobles, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is used to public appearances.

Tony DellaRose and Ray Lewis are very different people. The former owns a White Marsh bar and restaurant with his brother, while Lewis gets paid to aggressively stop opposing offenses. But on the day of a Ravens game, both become motivational speakers, giving booming talks in front of excited crowds, all united by the desire to see a Ravens victory. While every football fan knows Lewis' reputation as an orator, DellaRose is much lesser known but almost as entertaining. Search YouTube for "DellaRose's Ravens" and you'll find a clip from 2009 of the restaurant's co-owner standing on the bar with a microphone in one hand and a beer in the other.

A 69-year-old Edgewood man, who told investigators he was trying to rid his home of "evil spirits," has been charged with arson in connection with a fire at the dwelling last month. William E. Lowry was served with warrants at the Harford County Detention Center on Thursday charging him with first-degree and second-degree arson in connection with the Oct. 11 fire, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office. "The investigation by deputy state fire marshals revealed the owner of the property, William E. Lowry, 69, was responsible for intentionally setting the fire on an enclosed deck connected to the home," the Fire Marshal's Office said in a news release announcing the charges.

There was a time when the real reasons weren't known for why the autumn leaves of leaf-losing trees and shrubs look so colorful prior to falling. But it was an important question just the same, since autumn's leaf-color changes clearly signaled the end of the growing season. In lieu of a scientific explanation, then, other explanations were concocted - and some were as colorful as autumn-colored leaves themselves. For instance, according to pre-Colombian Algonquins - Native Americans that once resided in our area - a fierce fight was fought long ago and high in the sky by spirit warriors against a great-bear spirit.

"The Orioles will finish fifth in the American League East. Only because they can't finish sixth. " - Grant Brisbee, baseball blogger, writing in SB Nation on April 5, 2012 Midafternoon on Thursday, Sept. 6, I got off the No. 11 bus near Light and Pratt streets, adjusted my orange and white cap, and followed a small but growing crowd to Oriole Park at Camden Yards . When I got there, the place was buzzing. Long lines of the faithful waited to get inside for the unveiling of a statue honoring one of their heroes, Cal Ripken Jr. , 17 years to the day since he broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played.

Russ Noratel is the first to say that his paranormal investigators aren't anything like the Ghostbusters of movie fame. The Elkridge resident and author of "Ghosts of Ellicott City" wants to make clear that there are no such things as proton packs or ghost-containment units as dreamed up in the popular 1984 film with the musical tagline, "Who you gonna call?" But he also readily acknowledges that there are a lot of skeptics who enjoy poking fun at his Baltimore Society for Paranormal Research, especially around Halloween, when college kids are prone to playing pranks by phoning in false reports of sightings.

At Hersh's Pizza and Drinks down in South Baltimore, Josh Hershkovitz has started factoring in some new fall dishes, like a wood-fired hanger steak with porcini rub and oven-roasted rutabaga; prosciutto-wrapped treviso (think radicchio) with balsamic vinegar and Grana Padano. He'll be adding in more fall appetizers and entrees, too. Of course, a lot of the things on Hersh's pre-set pizza list sound like they're made for fall, like the kale and pistachio, with fontina, pecorino Romano and garlic, and the clam pie, a beauty with shredded mozzarella, garlic, lemon, parsley and pecorino Romano.

Sid Busch will run the Baltimore Marathon with a fallen Marine on his back. It's a weight he is proud to carry. On Saturday, Busch, 66, will pin a photo of Jimmy Malachowski to his shirt, look skyward and murmur something to the leatherneck from Westminster, who was killed in Afghanistan last year. Then, as he has done 40 times before, Busch will race the 26.2 miles through city streets in memory of a serviceman he never met. Some six hours later, when he's done, Busch will hand his finishing medal to Malachowski's parents.