Tryouts

The Savage U-9 travel baseball team will hold tryouts for the fall/spring team on Saturday, Aug. 6, Sunday, Aug. 7 and Sunday, Aug. 14. All tryouts begin at 4 p.m. and will be held at Savage Park field 3. For information, contact Larry Dawes at carriedawes@comcast.net .

Art exhibits The Howard County Arts Council presents the exhibits, "Building Perspectives" by Ashley DuRoss, Lillian Hoover, Robert Tennenbaum, April Rimpo and K. Velis Turan in Gallery I, and "Kaleidoscope" by Katie Chen in Gallery II, Sept. 5-Oct. 17 at 8510 High Ridge Road in Ellicott City. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays. Information: 410-313-2787 or hocoarts.org/exhibits.php. Baseball tryouts The HCYP Raiders will hold tryouts for its 10U travel baseball teams from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, on Field 3 at Kiwanis-Wallis Park, 3300 Norbert's Way. To be eligible to play, a candidate must have a birthday between May 4, 2004, and April 30, 2005.

Savage U-13 travel baseball team will be playing several local teams and a tournament this fall along with a full schedule and six tournaments in the spring. Tryouts will be at Savage Park Field 5 on the following dates: Thursday, Aug. 11 at 6 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 14 at 6 p.m.; Thursday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 21 at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Tim Smith at timkaths@verizon.net .

The concrete oozed rather than poured out of the mixer truck, almost as if reluctant to cover the ground - partly because it won't, entirely. Laborers shoveled pebbly gobs around to form a new sidewalk at a park-and-ride lot in Waysons Corner, one of two where the State Highway Administration is laying "pervious" concrete this summer as a test of its environmental friendliness. Porous paving surfaces have been around for decades, but they're expensive and often didn't work well.

The Marissa Coleman Dream AAU basketball program will hold tryouts for fall/winter teams for girls in fourth- to eighth-grade on Sunday, Aug. 28 at Laurel High School, 8000 Cherry Lane. Experienced coaches are also needed for all age groups. Players and coaches interested in joining should contact dpowell@mc4dream.com . For more information, go to http://www.mc4dream.com .

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6605. Baseball The 10-U Columbia Sun Devils travel team has two roster spots left. This is an elite travel team that will play a full fall and spring league season, Ripken tournaments and a number of other local tournaments. We are looking for two well-rounded baseball players who cannot not have turned 11 prior to May 1, 2013.

The Chesapeake Charge, which will start its third season in the Women's Premier Soccer League in May, is conducting final tryouts on March 24-25 at Athletic Performance Inc. in Gambrills. The tryouts will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 24 and noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday March 25.  Any high school, college, post-college, former professional and international players are invited. The season runs from May through August with home games played at Archbishop Spalding in Severn.  Albert Oni, currently an assistant women's coach at Towson University, is the Charge's head coach.  For more information, call 410-276-4640.

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6605. Soccer Thunder Cruzeiro (rising U-13 girls, born on or after Aug. 1, 1999) are looking for two or three hard-working players to add to the roster. Supplemental tryouts will be held the rest of the summer. Cruzeiro will play in WAGS Division 2 this fall. The team trains and plays its home games in Columbia/Western Howard County.

There are many obstacles along the path to becoming a ninja warrior. One must dash up the steps, slanted at 50 degrees, to reach the platform above, or perhaps run along the 14-foot curved wall - all without falling into the pool of water below. "If your foot skims the water, you're done," said 30-year-old Tony Torres. Torres, will be one of hundreds trying to land a spot on the TV show "American Ninja Warrior," which holds tryouts Friday and Saturday at Rash Field in the Inner Harbor.

Veteran cornerback Aaron Ross, who won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants but has had trouble staying healthy, said on Twitter that he's heading to Baltimore to participate in the Ravens' mandatory minicamp this week. According to a source, the Ravens haven't officially signed the free agent cornerback. Ross is taking part in the minicamp on a tryout basis, per a source. Veteran cornerback  Drayton Florence told The Sun's Aaron Wilson that he will also have a tryout for the team this week as the Ravens continue to look to upgrade their cornerback depth.

SARASOTA, Fla. - Veteran free-agent hitter Jack Cust has been waiting for an opportunity to get back into the major leagues for nearly a year. He will now have that opportunity this week at the Orioles' minicamp at the Ed Smith Stadium complex. Cust, who will turn 35 on Thursday, entered the Orioles clubhouse on Tuesday holding his Tampa Bay Rays equipment bag from his last major league stop, a spring training invitation that ended with him being cut and then sitting out the 2013 season waiting for another team to call.

In the growing struggle to curb stormwater pollution fouling urban streams and the Chesapeake Bay, one of the most promising tools could turn out to be the humble radish. On a vacant lot in Northeast Baltimore, a researcher from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is testing the potential of daikon or forage radishes to turn badly compacted city dirt into a natural sponge for rainwater. Stuart S. Schwartz, a senior scientist with UMBC's Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, hopes the experiment, dubbed B'more Rad, can find out whether cities could benefit from a plant that farmers in Maryland and elsewhere are increasingly raising as a cover crop to reduce polluted runoff from their fields.

Chipotle will include all of its Baltimore-area locations in its East Coast test-market for Sofritas, the company's new vegan option. The test starts on Oct. 21. Chipotle began testing Sofritas, which it describes as "a shredded tofu braised with chipotle chilies, roasted poblano peppers and a blend of aromatic spices," back in January at seven San Francisco Bay area locations, and expanded the try-out to all its restaurants in California,  Colorado,...

After a three-day tryout that brought 94 of America's premier professional and college players travel to Goucher, 52 players have been named to the U.S. men's national team training roster. The players will train with Team USA at a series of fall and winter events, culminating with Champion Challenge, where 46 players will vie for 23 spots on the final world championships roster. The annual event will once again be hosted Jan. 24-26 at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The reigning world champion U.S. team will compete for a record 10th world title at the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships from July 10-19, 2014, in Commerce City, Colo.

Amateur Golf Joiner, Luo win titles at Turf Valley Resort; Md. golfers dot top 20 Tyler Joiner of Albany, Ga., won the JoS. A. Bank/David Leadbetter Championship in Ellicott City after a 3-under-par 210 forced a sudden-death playoff against Kevin Conners of Downington, Pa. In the girls division, Julie Luo of Centreville, Va., won with a tournament total of 6-over-par 219. Jake Leavitt of Woodstock tied for fourth with a...

Submitting sports notices Email sports copy to howardcountysports@patuxent.com by 9 a.m. on Monday. Baseball The 12U Undertaker baseball program, an expansion of the Maryland Chill softball charter, is looking to establish itself in the Howard County region. The team will continue the formation of its new team with final tryouts on Aug. 17 (9 a.m.). Tryouts will be held at the Columbia Chinese Baptist Church (5005 Waterloo Rd, Ellicott City). For more information, email one of the following: bskram-5@msn.com , mdchill@comcast.net or howell.family1@verizon.net . Tryouts for the 12U HCYP Raiders travel baseball program's A and B teams will be held throughout the month of August.

Submitting sports notices Email sports copy to howardcountysports@patuxent.com by 9 a.m. on Monday. Baseball The 12U Elkridge Hurricanes travel baseball team will be holding tryouts for the 2013-2014 season Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. at Elkridge Landing Middle School (fields 15 and 16), and Aug. 11 at 1 p.m. at Rockburn Park Field 7. Potential players must turn 12 after April 30, 2013. Call 410-598-6421 or email cjconnell@comcast.net , or call 240-413-6912 or email doug.link@hosthotels.com for more information and to register. Visit http://www.eyosports.org for more information.