Stadium

Here we go again. The guests of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Gov.Martin O'Malleycan't afford their own stadium event tickets and pig-out so they are floated on the backs of taxpayers, many of whom can only dream of finding the wherewithal to attend a Ravens game with a hot dog and beer. When will the voters in Maryland wake up and throw these leech Democrats out of office? I have little hope. F. Cordell, Lutherville

Maryland football is losing one game scheduled for M&T Bank Stadium. According to multiple officials, the Virginia Tech-Maryland game - which had been planned for 2014 - is now officially off the books since the Terps are departing the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 2013 season. But look for Maryland to return to the Ravens' stadium as soon as 2015. The Terps have done well there - they drew 69,348 to the stadium for a season-opening win over Navy in 2010 - and Maryland's future schedules will obviously include some big-name, Big Ten teams that could fill an NFL stadium.

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The Naval Academy will host its first-ever bowl game this year, as organizers announced Monday the move of the 2013 Military Bowl from RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis in December. “This move puts our game into a facility that honors the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces,” said Steve Beck, DC Bowl Committee president and executive director. “The big benefit for other schools coming in, if you talk to college players, playing at a military academy is unique and special.

The Maryland Stadium Authority has said that it now appears unlikely that the new ballpark at Camden Yards will be named after baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth. Although Gov. William Donald Schaefer and Baltimore Oriole owner Eli Jacobs are involved in making the decision on the name, the two most likely choices appear to be either Camden Yards or Oriole Park.The Evening Sun wants to know which of these names you would prefer for the stadium -- or whether you think some other name ought to be chosen.

Stadiums belong in cities, where they serve as an economic and cultural investment. Moving them to the suburbs not only contributes to urban decline, but clogs highways, diminishes open space and damages neighborhoods. So we salute the decision by an Anne Arundel administrative hearing officer who denied the Washington Redskins' application for a zoning exception to build a football stadium in Laurel.Hearing officer Robert Wilcox said he believed the site next to Laurel Race Course is too small for the 78,600-seat stadium and that the Redskins had underestimated the amount of traffic the facility would generate.

Dear Stadium Doctor:I would like to know why they stopped posting the pitchers' numbers on the out-of-town scoreboard. I know they list the pitching changes in the middle portion, but I would like to know who is pitching in the other games at all times -- and the winning and losing pitchers when the games are completed.Jeff OrnerYork, Pa.Dear Jeff Orner:Thank you for calling my attention to this important matter, which, I'm sure, is troubling to many baseball fans and to parents of certain middle-relief pitchers.

SIMON SAYS:Want to bet that when it gets hot in Japan they don't close the schools early?*Never, ever tell anyone there is more of them to love.*Instead of spending thousands of dollars to put up a fence to keep homeless people away from the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Baltimore, couldn't that money be better used to help the homeless obtain the sanitary and other facilities they need? And wouldn't that honor the Holocaust victims more?*Want to feel old? John F. Kennedy would have been 74 last week.

ABERDEEN -- Groundbreaking for Aberdeen's minor-league stadium will be at 10 a.m. Monday on Gilbert Road near Interstate 95. Among those expected to attend are Orioles third-baseman Cal Ripken Jr., who is spearheading the project; his brother, Bill Ripken; Gov. Parris N. Glendening, and Harford County Executive James M. Harkins. In addition to a 5,000- to 6,000-seat stadium, the complex will include a Youth Baseball Academy, featuring six miniature versions of major-league ballparks. Minor-league baseball is expected to be played at the stadium beginning in 2001.

A group fighting a proposed NFL football stadium outside Laurel accused stadium promoters Tuesday of misleading government officials and the public about the proposed stadium's impact.In a press release, Don Burgess, president of Citizens Against the Stadium II, said that Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke's organization is conducting "an orchestrated misinformation campaign" to present the project in a favorable light.Walter Lynch, stadium project manager, called the press release "defamatory" yesterday and said that he stands by the information he has given out in 72 briefings to date.

The storyline heading into Maryland's first-round game against Cornell on Sunday dealt with who to match up against Rob Pannell . This week, there isn't as much speculation over who among Dominic Imbordino , Joe Meurer (McDonogh) and Robby Haus (Gilman) will draw the assignment - one, because fans aren't as familiar with those players as they are with the Terps ' defense; and two, because Ohio State is much more likely to employ multiple strategies to slow down Pannell, as opposed to trying to play him straight up. "We want to play with seven," Buckeyes coach Nick Myers said.

Aberdeen Matthew Ashford, 25, of the first block of Liberty Street, was charged Friday with possessing marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a drug other than marijuana. Justin Michael Goins, 22, of the 700 block of Cronin Drive, was charged Monday with failing to appear in court for a case in which he was charged with driving on a suspended license and possessing a suspended license. Izell Eugene Osborne, 23, of the 400 block of Ruby Drive, was charged Monday with failing to appear in court for a case in which he was charged with theft below $100.

Kate Joyce detests running. She has since she was in high school. But the prospect of trotting through vibrant clouds of yellow, blue, orange and pink has prompted her to make an exception this weekend. Joyce will be among 25,000 people participating in Saturday's inaugural Baltimore Color Run, a 5K race - in the loosest possible sense of the noun - that's non-competitive and all about having a blast as runners are smothered in colored cornstarch. Many won't break into anything more than a brisk saunter over the entire course, surrounding Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium.

The solitary orange banner waved over the left field wall at old Memorial Stadium for years. “HERE” is all it said in blocky black lettering. No other words were necessary. Everyone knew what it meant: here's where Frank hit it out. Wednesday marks the 47th anniversary of that historic home run, when Orioles outfielder and future Hall of Famer Frank Robinson became the only player to hit a baseball completely out of the old ballpark on 33rd Street during a game. It happened on May 8, 1966, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Cleveland Indians, when Robinson hit a mammoth two-run shot off Indians starter Luis Tiant in the first inning.

Two defending champions from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association will participate in the inaugural Under Armour Brothers In Arms Classic high school football event this fall. Gilman, which has won the past two MIAA A Conference championships, is scheduled to play Manatee (Fla.) on Sept. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium. In the first game that day, two-time defending MIAA C Conference champion St. Frances -- which is moving to the A Conference this fall -- is set to face Friendship (D.C.)

PPL Park in Chester, Pa., will host the Atlantic Coast Conference men's lacrosse tournament in 2014 and 2015, the conference announced Wednesday. It will mark the first time in eight years that the tournament has been held at a neutral site. The 18,500-seat stadium, home to Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union, will be the host venue for the ACC on April 25-27, 2014, and again in the spring of 2015. Next season will be the fourth time in the 26-year history of the tournament that the event has been held at a neutral site.

A representative of Baltimore's NFL expansion effort is scheduled today to present the city's stadium plans to a consultant hired by the league to assess the designs of the five cities seeking a team.Bruce Hoffman, executive director of the Maryland Stadium Authority, flew to Kansas City, Mo., for the session, being held at the headquarters of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, the architectural firm that has been hired or is expected to be hired by all the cities seeking a team.Baltimore is competing with St. Louis; Memphis, Tenn.

Two Laurel City Council members blasted plans for a Redskins stadium near Laurel last night and called for the project to be abandoned, saying local roads would not be able to handle stadium traffic.Council President Bruce M. Dodgson and Council member Faith C. Calhoun stated their opposition at a news conference before last night's regular council meeting. Both are candidates for re-election on the March 21 city ballot.Mr. Dodgson said that if any other developer proposed a project with such inadequate roads, "They'd be told to go pound sand."

Soccer United looking at Md. again for stadium - but not at Baltimore Although D.C. United remains optimistic about reaching an agreement to build a stadium at Buzzard Point in Washington, the Major League Soccer club has taken renewed interest in Maryland, sources close to the situation said. United executives are "going to play it out with D.C. first, but patience is thinner than it was six months ago," said one person, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

To Navy coach Cindy Timchal, it was only fitting that senior Jasmine DePompeo broke the all-time Patriot League scoring record on Saturday with an assist. "It just comes from Jas very genuinely being an unselfish player," Timchal said. DePompeo's feed to Aimee Gennaro 13:10 into the game -- one of five assists on the day for the attacker -- broke the 17-year-old record, helping stake the No. 12 Midshipmen to an early lead in a 12-6 win over visiting Colgate. It marked the seventh straight win for Navy, which improved to 14-1 (5-0 league)