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This year's Extreme Rules pay-per-view event left us with some unanswered questions but also some new beginnings. In the main event (a rare moment in WWE history where all wrestlers in a final match on PPV weren't on a full-time WWE schedule), Brock Lesnar defeated Triple H in a cage match. Lesnar went up 2-1 on "The Game" and is likely poised for another future match in WWE (not against Triple H), perhaps at Summerslam or Wrestlemania 30. Questions coming out of this match are: will Triple H wrestle again?

It still felt like winter at Oriole Park on Saturday morning, but spring was in the air and baseball was already on the minds of the fans who showed up to shop for season tickets at the Orioles' first "Tag Day" since 2009. No, it wasn't a special promotion that allowed fans to take the field and play a rousing game of touched-you-last. It was an opportunity to walk around the ballpark and sit in the seats that are still available for purchase on a full- or partial-season basis.

Two major developments unfolded on Monday's episode of WWE RAW. The first was a big one in many ways - Paul Heyman revealed a new client, Michael McGillicutty, now known as Curtis Axel (Curtis after his father "Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig, Axel after his grandfather Larry "The Axe" Hennig). Though many fans complained about it not being a bigger name (RVD was speculated throughout the day), this is a great move and an even greater opportunity for a superstar to not only have instant credibility being aligned with Paul Heyman (arguably the greatest mouthpiece in pro wrestling history)

The Federal Transit Administration has given its blessing to the environmental impact assessment for Baltimore's proposed Red Line, clearing the way for final design but adding new urgency to finding the means to pay for the $2.5 billion light rail project. In a decision released Tuesday afternoon, the FTA said the Maryland Transit Administration had satisfied all environmental requirements laid out in the federal law. "This is a milestone," said Henry Kay, the MTA's executive director for transit development and delivery.

Want to express yourself on a license plate? Go ahead. The state will gladly take your $50 per year. You can't say any old thing, though. The Motor Vehicle Administration has cataloged more than 4,000 words, phrases and letter-number combinations it won't put on a tag. The agency's Objectionable Plate List, as it's called, is a compendium of vulgarities, obscenities and other no-no's aimed at keeping tags out of the gutter. The Baltimore Sun requested the information last week, hoping to share what the MVA doesn't want you to see on the road.

theScore's Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) had a chance to speak with Booker T, the former world heavyweight champion and current Smackdown general manager, about WWE's tag-team division, his time spent in prison, and much more.

The Ravens are not expected to use the franchise tag on All-Pro linebacker Adalius Thomas, although the team will wait until today before making a final decision. The sides are talking about a long-term contract for Thomas, and the Ravens could be using the threat of the tag to get a deal done. The deadline to use the tag is today. By using the tag for 2007, the Ravens can keep Thomas from becoming a free agent by paying him $7.2 million, which is the average of the five highest-paid linebackers in the league.

Inside linebacker Ray Lewis has always been the face of this franchise, so the Ravens might as well make it official and designate him the franchise player. There might not be another way of keeping Lewis after the season except to put that designation on him. If not, then Baltimore fans might have seen Lewis do his last pre-game dance Sunday when the Ravens clinched a playoff spot with a 27-7 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Lewis, 33, is close to the end of a seven-year contract that paid him $6.5 million this season.

I found out about laser tag from a guy I know named Woody. Woody is in public relations, despite the fact that he looks like -- and I say this as a friend -- a street person who has failed to take his medication since 1972. I believe this is the secret of his success: When Woody approaches business people, they expect him to ask them for spare change, and possibly throw up on their shoes, and when he doesn't, they're so relieved that they agree to let him handle their public relations.Anyway, Woody represents this outfit that operates a laser-tag game, and he'd been bugging me to try it."

David H. Tag, a former Baltimore County horticulturist who more recently was an exporter and collector of exotic plants, died April 2 of injuries sustained in an attack after an intruder broke into his home in Jardinas, Honduras. He was 58.At his death, he was a commercial grower of tropical plants and flowers for the wholesale floral industry. He established his firm, Honduran Exotics, after moving to Honduras from Baltimore in 1986.Since 1981, he had conducted research related to tropical cut flower production, handling, packaging and shipping and had traveled throughout the world promoting tropical flowers and foliage.

Now that quarterback Joe Flacco is poised to become the highest paid player in the NFL by virtue of a $120.6 million contract, the Ravens aren't expected to use the franchise tag on any of their other unrestricted free agents. Although Monday afternoon marks the league deadline to use the designation, general manager Ozzie Newsome has already stated that Flacco was the Ravens' lone candidate to be named a franchise player. The Flacco contract, which includes a record $62 million payout during the first three years, won't become official until the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player takes and passes a physical and signs his contract Monday.

Legg Mason Inc. said it agreed to pay $80 million for European fund manager Fauchier Partners, plus as much as an additional $56 million in the next four years if certain financial targets are achieved. Though Legg announced in December its plan to acquire Fauchier from BNP Paribas Investment Partners, the Baltimore-based money manager only disclosed the terms of the deal in a regulatory filing Wednesday. Once the acquisition is completed in the current quarter, Fauchier will be merged into Legg's Permal Group affiliate in New York.

An interesting detail emerged after a gray Chevy Cobalt hit two Baltimore police officers Wednesday and led dozens of patrol cars and a police helicopter on a chase: the state license plates affixed to the car started with "FPD" and carried a law-enforcement style, star-shaped insignia. Baltimore police said the car was driven by Alycia Marie Hoffman, 25, a Bel Air woman with a lengthy arrest record, according to court records. She has no known law enforcement background and did not own the car. Released through the Fraternal Order of Police Maryland State Lodge, the plates were issued to a retired Harford County deputy sheriff who owns the car, Maryland FOP president Rodney Bartlett said.

Three police officers suffered minor injuries in a police chase that started in Northeast Baltimore and ended with a collision in the Carney area of Baltimore County. A police spokesman said the pursuit began after two officers moved to interrupt a "possible drug transaction" in the 5200 block of Belair Road. Two officers suffered "scratches and abrasions" in a collision with the suspect vehicle, and were taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center as a precaution. The gray Chevrolet Cobalt fled, leading officers through Northeast and Northern Baltimore, with the passenger-side door of the vehicle bent backward at one point.

Baltimore Sun staff writers Scott Calvert and Luke Broadwater spent more than six months investigating the proliferation of speed cameras in the Baltimore region over the past three years. They obtained detailed citation data from Baltimore City, Baltimore County and the State Highway Administration, which oversees the state's highway work zones. The public records requests yielded data on more than 2 million government-issued citations, including the date, location, tag number and recorded speed for each.

CM Punk has been on a campaign for respect. The on-screen character has lambasted WWE at every turn for giving priority treatment to other superstars instead of the reigning WWE champion. This week, though, it's hard to argue that Punk had the spotlight that a champion deserves. He was featured in the main event of Raw in a tag team match, was part of the centerpiece attraction of the debut episode of Main Event on Wednesday and main evented tonight's Smackdown in a match against Dolph Ziggler.

I see where yet another elementary school in this great country has banned tag on the playground, this time on the theory it causes "conflict" among the kids. Too many of the little monsters complained about being chased when they didn't want to be chased, said an official at a Colorado Springs, Colo., school. And this apparently constituted a form of kiddie harassment, which should surprise no one in this day and age. In fact, I'm surprised there weren't lawyers handing out business cards on the playground the next day. Anyway, the end result was: goodbye tag at recess, although the school official said other running games would be allowed.

Bargains fill the racks at the 45th annual Best Dressed Sale & Boutique this weekend in Baltimore. Every stitch has been donated to this high-end rummage sale that takes place in a cavernous carriage house, and all proceeds benefit Johns Hopkins Hospital. Shoppers could come across a Chanel suit, a Halston tuxedo or a pair of Prada shoes. They could walk away with a full-length mink, a glamorous gown or even a tiara without significantly lightening their wallets. "You will buy so much that you won't want to shop for a month after," said Cressy Spence, one of four co-chairwomen, adding that she speaks from experience.