University Of Florida

Passed away on June 12, 2006, four days before his 90th birthday. The youngest of six children, he was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Following service in the Australian Air Force during World War II, David came to the United States to attend graduate school. He received his Ph D in statistics from Iowa State University in 1947. After several years at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina, he joined the Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics in 1960, working as a professor until his retirement in 1984.

NOTEworthy Day:Some pro football scouts, at this preliminary stage, say quarterback prospects Chris Redman of Louisville and Chad Pennington of Marshall are difficult to separate in talent evaluations, but that song has been heard before, such as with Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning, Rick Mirer and Drew Bledsoe.Queen Anne's and Perry Hall high schools shared the athletic and academic talents of Kristine Jost, who set distance-running records at Villanova University, graduating with an imposing, 3.52 grade-point average, and is now pursuing another degree, this in sports journalism, at the University of Florida.

INDIANAPOLIS -- James Carter has been to two Olympics, two world championships and one World Cup. He has been ranked in the top 10 of the world's 400-meter hurdlers six of the past eight years. He has run on every continent but Antarctica. But you'll never catch this 29-year-old Baltimore native, out of Mervo and Hampton University, taking a "been there, done that" attitude. For Carter, there was new excitement in his triumph yesterday at the USA Outdoor Championships. He won it in 47.72 seconds, the best time in the world this year.

The countdown to the U.S. Olympic trials continues for Anita Nall and the rest of the Baltimore area's swimming elite.Nall, a Towson Catholic High sophomore and the American record holder in the 200-meter breast stroke, is Baltimore's best bet in the trials on March 1-7 in Indianapolis.The first two finishers in each event, plus four men and four women to round out freestyle relays, will make the team that will go to the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.Nall, 15, qualified for the trials in the 100 breast stroke as well as the 200. She will make her bid in the 200 on March 2 and in the on March 4.Aside from Nall, who swims for the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, the locals most likely to make the U.S. team are NBAC teammate Julie Gorman, Fallston's Julie Kole, now at Stanford, and Jill Johnson, a Dulaney High and Stanford grad who's training at Harvard.

Dr. Rodney Lee Brimhall, an internist and director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at Anne Arundel Medical Center, died there Saturday of cancer. The Annapolis resident was 69. Dr. Brimhall was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a 1964 graduate of the University of Florida College of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore in 1966. He also completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Florida.

George Steinbrenner, who earlier this week blasted the Yankees front-office staff for failing to sign No. 1 draft pick Brien Taylor, saying, "If they let him go, they ought to be shot," now is unhappy that New York gave the 19-year-old pitcher a contract worth $1.55 million."

MIAMI - Larry Coker and Ron Zook walked into identical situations. Well ... not exactly. Coker and Zook each took over highly successful programs after coaches left for the NFL. Coker took over a Miami program brimming with talent. Many believe Zook took over a Florida program whose cupboard was left "somewhat bare" by former coach Steve Spurrier. And that "somewhat bare" quote came from Spurrier himself. We'll find out just how much of a talent gap there is between these two programs when No. 3 Miami plays host to No. 21 Florida tonight at 8 in the Orange Bowl.

More than 2.8 million freshmen are expected to enter college this fall. That's the easy part. Until then, however, parents are experiencing: Stress. Worry. Worry, followed by stress. Stress, followed by worry, then stress, followed by this truth: If we had to apply to college today, not only would many of us be rejected on a litany of academic counts, we would probably be fined for even applying. In 1981, I graduated from the University of Florida, an esteemed state university (not too shabby in sports, either)

Nice guys don't always finish last. Just ask Dick Estes about his former pupil Torrance Zellner, considered one of the best hurdlers in the nation.Zellner, whose fastest time ranks 12th in the world this year, was the champion in the 400-meter hurdles of the Olympic Festival on Aug. 1, but Estes says Zellner won't develop an inflated ego.That's because Estes will always remember the 23-year-old Woodlawn graduate for an act of altruism in a 1988 4A state...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bernard Williams has never managed to break through the 20-second barrier in the 200-meter dash. His lifetime best of 20.01 is 2 years old. But that's subject to change. Baltimore's Williams - fresh from his startling defeat of world-record holder Tim Montgomery in the 100-meter final Friday night in the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships - is poised to do something equally startling in the 200. "Sub-20? That would be nice and is definitely possible," Williams said after cruising through his first-round heat of the 200 yesterday at Stanford University.