Virginia Tech

Morgan State University has gone on lockdown. Unfortunately, it was not before one of its students, Alexander Kinyua, allegedly beat a man in a campus apartment with a baseball bat, or before Mr. Kinyua admitted to killing, dismembering and eating some body parts of his off-campus roommate. Instead, the school's officials, from the president and regents chairman on down, have gone into a defensive crouch in response to increasingly difficult questions about whether someone at the university should have heeded what, in retrospect, look like warning signs that something was amiss with the former engineering student and ROTC cadet.

Five months before a Morgan State University student was charged with dismembering a family friend and eating his heart and parts of his brain, a school instructor flagged the 21-year-old's erratic behavior, describing him as "a Virginia Tech waiting to happen. " That ominous depiction is contained in a campus police report written after Alexander Kinyua allegedly punched holes in an office wall in early December. It was the first of several outbursts and violent episodes leading up to the gruesome killing last week in Joppatowne.

Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups often make about as much sense as inviting Lindsay Lohan to be your date for an event that celebrates heavyweights in the news media. It helps if one of your alumni has actually made it big and is willing to come back to campus and tell graduates that it is up to them to make the world a better place.

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.

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)

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.