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By Carol L. Bowers and Carol L. Bowers,Sun Staff Writer | October 21, 1994
Move over boys, it's prime time for girls now.Twelve Anne Arundel County high school principals struck an agreement this week to let girls' sports teams play more often, at better times, and on better-kept fields.For a change, girls' sports teams will be offered a chance to play at 7 p.m. -- prime time for school athletic programs because it's the time parents are most likely able to attend to cheer their children. Girls' games traditionally are scheduled at 5 p.m. New schedules are to be submitted next week.
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By Craig Timberg and Craig Timberg,SUN STAFF | May 18, 1997
Youth league activist Ed Kelley of Ellicott City is launching a program to get local businesses to help relieve chronic funding shortages in area sports programs.Kelley, on the board of directors of the Howard County Youth Program, has already pledged $50,000 in donations from his business, Sgt. Peppers restaurant in Columbia Town Center. "There's just not a lot of money from the county coming in," he said.A month ago, the restaurant started a program in which youth athletes get cards punched every time they eat at Sgt. Peppers.
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By Peg Adamarczyk and Peg Adamarczyk,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | January 17, 1997
ARCTIC BLASTS and a dusting of snow have failed to keep our neighbors inside. The calendar is gradually filing up with spring sports registration sessions, programs and events to tempt those hibernating bears among us to get out and about.Breakfasts resumeThe Ladies Guild of Magothy Chelsea Community Lutheran Church will resume its monthly all-you-can-eat breakfast bonanza, from 7 a.m. to 10: 30 a.m. tomorrow.The cost is $4.50 for adults and $2.50 for children age 12 and younger; children age 3 and under eat free.
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By LOWELL E. SUNDERLAND | October 13, 2002
LITTLE LEAGUE Baseball Inc., which claims more than 2.7 million players and 1 million volunteers, made a news splash last week by announcing that it will require, starting next year, screening for sex-abuse convictions for all adults in any of its affiliated programs. The idea by the world's largest youth sports organization, which has no affiliates in Howard County, is to ensure the safety of young players from pedophiles, who turn up with distressing frequency in any child-oriented program, be it sports, Scouting or church activities.
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By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun | April 3, 2013
Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to allocate $300,000 in taxpayer money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday from some legislators and key fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented and unfair to other college sports programs. Comptroller Peter Franchot said the money, recently included in the governor's 2014 budget, is a "bailout" that rewards bad financial decisions by a university. Towson President Maravene Loeschke decided last month to eliminate the university's baseball and men's soccer programs because of insufficient funding and a lack of gender equity in the university's sports.
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January 26, 1992
With the fiscal woes facing the Carroll County Board of Education, officials have had to slice about $3.5 million from this year's $107 million budget.Some people have suggested cutting certain extracurricular activities and reducing the number of sports programs insteadof slicing instructional expenses.Do you want school officials to cut some extracurricular activities and sports programs and leave money for academic programs intact? Why or why not?Mail your comments (you may use additional sheets of paper)