ENTERTAINMENT
By Kevin Cowherd and By Kevin Cowherd,Sun Staff | January 6, 2002
Tepper Isn't Going Out, by Calvin Trillin. Random House. 215 pages. $22.95. If you live in Manhattan and park your car on the streets -- as opposed to paying usurious fees to a garage -- this curious comic novel by Calvin Trillin may be right up your alley. If you're not (and this effectively eliminates some 260 million Americans), it may be considerably less appealing. Murray Tepper is a mild-mannered senior citizen with a strange fixation for parking. He knows all the parking regulations -- Lower East Side, one-hour parking, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. including Sunday; East 78th Street, no parking 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, etc. Once he finds a prime spot, he sits there for hours in his car, reading the newspaper and making annoying little hand gestures that signify "I'm not going out" to motorists who covet his parking space.
SPORTS
By Paul McMullen and Paul McMullen,SUN STAFF | January 21, 1997
Lou Tepper needed nearly three weeks to accept an offer to become Maryland's assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in football, and one day to realize that he made a mistake."
SPORTS
By Paul McMullen and Paul McMullen,SUN STAFF | January 15, 1997
Maryland's new football coaching staff lost its most experienced member yesterday when assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Lou Tepper resigned, less than a month after he had joined the Terps.Tepper was not available for comment, but head coach Ron Vanderlinden said that several factors led to his departure, which was agreed to Monday. Tepper, 51, spent the previous five seasons as the head coach at Illinois, and he had second thoughts about being an assistant."Lou told me, 'Right now, at this point in my life, I don't want to be an assistant coach,' " Vanderlinden said.
SPORTS
By Jason LaCanfora and Jason LaCanfora,SUN STAFF | December 19, 1996
Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden knew two weeks ago that former Illinois coach Lou Tepper was the right man to run the Terrapins' defense, and yesterday Tepper agreed with him.Tepper signed on as Maryland defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, and was joined by two new assistants. Vanderlinden also named Rubin Carter interior defensive line coach and Sean Payton as either the receivers or running backs coach. The Terps still have five coaching vacancies, including an offensive coordinator.
SPORTS
By Paul McMullen and Paul McMullen,SUN STAFF | December 13, 1996
Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden had hoped to have several assistant coaches on board by now, but he has made only one hire, and his staff probably won't be completed until after the bowl games are played."
NEWS
By MICHAEL OLESKER | March 12, 1996
John-John was 11 years old and still speaking of hope when he died the other day. He knew death was coming. He told his grandmother, Ethel Jackson, "I just talked to the angels. They said I'm gonna be all right." He meant they'd look out for him. He meant they were waiting for his arrival. They'd been waiting since John-John was born.His mother, Zena Cummings, strung out on drugs the last 13 years of her life, had passed on to John-John the virus that leads to AIDS. She was HIV-positive when pregnant.