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Athletic department officials from the nine existing Atlantic Coast Conference schools as well as the two schools that will join the league next year, Miami and Virginia Tech, will meet today and tomorrow in Charlottesville, Va. The issue of scheduling, particularly for football and basketball, will be the primary agenda at the league's annual fall meetings. The meetings will take place on the University of Virginia campus. Currently, the league plays a round-robin schedule for football as well as in men's and women's basketball.

In the middle of the infield at Preakness 2012, there are six long horizontal blackboards filled with scribbles of neon chalk. The randomness of the grafitti is appropriately light-hearted and innocuous. There's school pride (West Virginia, Virginia Tech and Ball So Hard) and shout-outs to friends who likely won't see them. And in 2012, it's just not a party without a scrawling of YOLO on the wall.

Injury report It appears that senior quarterback Chris Turner (knee) might be able to play against Boston College in Maryland's final game of the season - but he is unlikely to play Saturday at Florida State. Punter Travis Baltz (finger) is done for the year, and safety Kenny Tate (ankle) is probably done, too. Replay Backup quarterback Jamarr Robinson proved elusive, running for 129 yards, including a 28-yarder. But the Terps could not make a first down until Robinson ran 14 yards to the Virginia Tech 45 with just under four minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Alex Aust tied an Atlantic Coast Conference women's tournament record with five assists as third-seeded and No.5 Maryland topped sixth-seeded Virginia Tech, 15-7, in the quarterfinals on Friday in Durham, N.C. The Terps , in a quest for an unprecedented fourth straight tournament title, next will face No. 8 Duke today at 3 p.m. No. 11 Virginia 13, No. 20 Boston College 8: Julie Gardner (Severna Park) set a career high with six goals and junior Kim Kolarik (South River)

There are almost always moments that define a basketball game. When I think of three  memorable snapshots from Saturday's game, two of them involve Sean Mosley. That's not unusual this season. Mosley may not score as much as fans like, but he's clearly the team leader. Here are those moments: * With Maryland leading 64-58, Mosley is fouled by Robert Brown, a freshman, on a desperation shot with the shot clock about to expire. A truly "freshman" foul, right? But Mosley made him pay by converting two free throws to push the lead back to 66-58.

Colleges Chaney's career at Virginia Tech is over Virginia Tech forward Allan Chaney has been denied medical clearance to return to practice and competition by the Virginia Tech sports medicine department because of continued complications from a cardiac condition. Chaney, a junior from Baltimore who attended high school in Connecticut and transferred to Virginia Tech from Florida in 2009, sat out the 2009-10 season because of NCAA transfer rules, then passed out during exercise in April 2010 and was diagnosed with myocarditis.

Kara Cannizzaro scored four first-half goals as the host North Carolina women's lacrosse team jumped out to a 12-0 halftime lead and cruised to a 15-4 victory over Virginia Tech. Nine different players scored for the Tar Heels (12-1, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), including Laura Zimmerman, Becky Lynch and Abbey Friend, who had two goals apiece. With the victory, the Tar Heels clinched a bye in next month's ACC tournament in Durham, N.C. North Carolina will host Maryland on Saturday with the tournament's top seed and ACC regular-season championship on the line.

Ellie Kavanagh had never been so happy to sleep through her alarm. The Virginia Tech junior had planned to go for a morning workout at the campus gym on Thursday. But instead, she was in her apartment a few miles away when her computer screen went black and the public safety message popped up. Shots had been fired on campus. A gunman was on the loose. Kavanagh, a Stoneleigh resident, was still in high school on April 16, 2007, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself in the deadliest campus shooting spree in American history.

There is a certain anxiety that comes with being a Maryland fan this season and watching a team that is clearly maturing but still prone to missed free throws and other lapses that turn potential blowout victories into tense affairs at the end. Maryland coach Mark Turgeon has used the word "young" so many times to describe his team that he has begun to apologize for repeating himself. On Saturday, Maryland showed its growth -- but also its inexperience -- in a 73-69 victory over Virginia Tech in which the Terps built a 15-point lead but had to hold on at the finish.

College football Terps to play West Virginia, Virginia Tech in Baltimore Maryland has agreed to play two more football contests at M&T Bank Stadium, the school announced Wednesday. The Terrapins will face West Virginia on Sept. 21, 2013, and Atlantic Coast Conference foe Virginia Tech in 2014 at the 71,008-seat stadium. The date for the Virginia Tech game will be determined when the ACC releases its schedule in early 2014. Maryland played Navy in Baltimore in 2005 as well as in the 2010 season opener.

Kara Cannizzaro scored four first-half goals as the host North Carolina women's lacrosse team jumped out to a 12-0 halftime lead and cruised to a 15-4 victory over Virginia Tech. Nine different players scored for the Tar Heels (12-1, 4-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), including Laura Zimmerman, Becky Lynch and Abbey Friend, who had two goals apiece. With the victory, the Tar Heels clinched a bye in next month's ACC tournament in Durham, N.C. North Carolina will host Maryland on Saturday with the tournament's top seed and ACC regular-season championship on the line.

Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg made an interesting comment about Maryland guard Terrell Stoglin after his team's 73-69 loss to the Terps on Saturday at Comcast Center. "Stoglin, he plays for both teams," Greenberg said after Stoglin scored 28 points on 9 of 21 shooting. "The guy made tough, tough shots, but he also [took] some shots that gave us a chance to get back in the game. But when he's making those tough shots, especially the guarded ones, you hope that's your chance to win the game.” I'm sure Maryland coach Mark Turgeon might have been taken back by Greenberg's bluntness, but it's something that Turgeon likely appreciated as well, given that he has probably said it a few times himself to Stoglin during the course of the season.

There are almost always moments that define a basketball game. When I think of three  memorable snapshots from Saturday's game, two of them involve Sean Mosley. That's not unusual this season. Mosley may not score as much as fans like, but he's clearly the team leader. Here are those moments: * With Maryland leading 64-58, Mosley is fouled by Robert Brown, a freshman, on a desperation shot with the shot clock about to expire. A truly "freshman" foul, right? But Mosley made him pay by converting two free throws to push the lead back to 66-58.

There is a certain anxiety that comes with being a Maryland fan this season and watching a team that is clearly maturing but still prone to missed free throws and other lapses that turn potential blowout victories into tense affairs at the end. Maryland coach Mark Turgeon has used the word "young" so many times to describe his team that he has begun to apologize for repeating himself. On Saturday, Maryland showed its growth -- but also its inexperience -- in a 73-69 victory over Virginia Tech in which the Terps built a 15-point lead but had to hold on at the finish.

With its most indispensable player on the bench wearing a cast covering her left wrist and forearm, the eighth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team absorbed a stunning 75-69 loss to Virginia Tech on Thursday night before an announced 3,537 at Comcast Center. Sophomore forward Alyssa Thomas could only watch the Terrapins lose their second straight, their first at home this season and for the first time to an unranked team in a listless performance. Thomas strained the thumb on her shooting hand during practice Tuesday, and although the injury is not considered serious, last season's Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year had the cast fitted for precautionary reasons.

COLLEGE PARK - Maryland fans no longer get to shout out Rob Ehsan's name in pregame introductions as they once did, extending the first syllable so it came out "EEEEE-SAHN. " The 29-year-old was a popular assistant coach and important recruiter for three seasons under Gary Williams, and a graduate assistant and recruiting aide here before that. Now a Virginia Tech assistant, the boyish-looking Ehsan returns to Comcast Center Saturday for his first Hokies- Terps game since Williams retired in May. "I hope Comcast lets him have it," joked Maryland point guard Pe'Shon Howard, who said he planned to engage Ehsan in "talking trash.

Coach: Seth Greenberg, third season at school (31-28), 16th overall (244-198) 2004-05 record: 16-14, 8-8 (tied for fourth in ACC; NIT second round) Returning starters: Junior F Coleman Collins, junior G Zabian Dowdell, junior G Jamon Gordon, sophomore G-F Deron Washington Sun prediction: Losing record Why it will happen: Although the Hokies' depth in the frontcourt might have improved, several of the players there are untested. Two freshmen, a sophomore and a walk-on will be looked to for contributions.

"A danger to self or others." I first heard the phrase 28 years ago, after a disturbed young man was shot and killed by police at Baltimore's old Trailways station. He had gotten off a bus with his belongings, including a long package containing a bow and arrow. After he was not allowed to cash a check, he began shooting arrows at the building and frightening people. Perhaps he was only pretending to endanger others, crying out for attention. Perhaps he was instigating what some call an indirect "suicide by police."

Despite facing what will likely be a limited scholarship situation for the 2013 recruiting class, the Maryland basketball staff continues to evaluate a wide range of junior prospects. The latest name to add to the list: Stanford Robinson of Paul VI (Va.). Robinson, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard, received a visit this week from Terps coach Mark Turgeon, who watched him practice on Monday. Last week assistant Dalonte Hill had attended one of Robinson's games. “They haven't offered yet but the head coach was out here," Robinson said.

Ellie Kavanagh had never been so happy to sleep through her alarm. The Virginia Tech junior had planned to go for a morning workout at the campus gym on Thursday. But instead, she was in her apartment a few miles away when her computer screen went black and the public safety message popped up. Shots had been fired on campus. A gunman was on the loose. Kavanagh, a Stoneleigh resident, was still in high school on April 16, 2007, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself in the deadliest campus shooting spree in American history.