Webster

On Friday, December 24, 2004, SARA WEBSTER (nee Gerber) beloved wife of the late James Wesley Webster, devoted sister of the late Albert Gerber, Marion Davis and Esther Cohen. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS HOME, 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Monday, December 27, at 10 A.M. Interment Baltimore Hebrew, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. 26

The New York Giants' secondary has been plagued by injuries that have sapped the unit of strong safety Kenny Phillips and cornerback Prince Amukamara for extended periods. But the secondary has been anchored by cornerback Corey Webster (the team leader in pass breakups with nine) and strong safety Stevie Brown (the team leader in interceptions with seven). However, the Ravens appeared to attack the Giants' defensive backfield by exposing Webster on Sunday. When New York went into single coverage, quarterback Joe Flacco usually went after Webster, completing five passes for 88 yards and a 6-yard touchdown to Torrey Smith, two for 45 yards to Anquan Boldin, one for 36 yards to Dennis Pitta, and one for 7 yards to Jacoby Jones.

On June 30, 2007, JOHN E. "Jack" WEBSTER of Finksburg, MD. Beloved husband of Muriel Evelyn Wilhelm Webster, devoted father of Richard B. Webster, Scott B. Webster, Mark A. Webster, Debra L. Davis and the late John E. Webster Jr., and step-father of David Brent Wilhelm, Keith Wilhelm, Tina A. Cook and Vanessa A. Wilhelm, loving brother of Stephen F. Webster and Carole A. Neeper. Also survived by six grandsons and five step-grandchildren. Services will be held at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 6 P.M. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. Friends may call at the funeral home in Abingdon from 4 to 6 P.M., prior to the service.

Women's college volleyball Webster MVP as Texas wins national crown Junior two-time All-America outside hitter Bailey Webster (St. Paul's School for Girls) was named Most Valuable Player as third-seeded Texas (29-4) won the NCAA championship with a 25-11, 26-24, 25-19 victory over Oregon (30-5) on Saturday night in Louisville, Ky. Playing before the second-largest NCAA-final crowd, 16,448, the Longhorns won their second national title in eight Final Four trips. Webster led Texas in kills (14)

On March 20, 2005, JAMES WILSON WEBSTER, SR.; beloved husband of Katherine "Betty" Webster; devoted father of the late James Wilson Webster, Jr.; dear father-in-law of Mary De Manss and her husband Stephen; loving grandfather of Jason W. Webster, Jordan and April De Manss. Relatives and friends may gather at Miller-Dippel Funeral Home, Inc., 6415 Belair Road, Baltimore, MD 21206, on Monday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9, where funeral services will be held Tuesday 11 A.M. Interment Moreland Memorial Park Cemetery.

With each passing year, the connection between Lardarius Webb and the Webster Kendrick Boys & Girls Club strengthens. For the fourth consecutive year, the Ravens cornerback and the Lardarius Webb Foundation sponsored a Thanksgiving event for the club Tuesday evening, and the event gets larger each November. After distributing more than 300 turkeys and side dishes in 2011, the drive delivered more than 500 turkeys to families who stood in a line that snaked from just outside of the gymnasium at Callaway Elementary School - which shares the same building as the Boys & Girls Club - to a paved section outside of an entrance.

Fifty years ago, people in the United States had very real fears of the possibility of nuclear annihilation in an exchange of nuclear missiles with the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought that fear very close. But the year before, Americans had endured a potentially graver threat, not to their physical security, but to their culture. That threat, to the demise of American culture and perhaps to language itself, came from a book. And the book was a dictionary. David Skinner, writing in The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published  (Harper, 349 pages, $26.99)

James McCormick "Mickey" Webster Jr., an outstanding lacrosse attackman who was co-captain of the 1959 Johns Hopkins University national championship team and later became an insurance and financial planning executive, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 75. "Mickey was an exalted figure in the game. There are All-Americans every year who deserve it, but he was more than just an All-American, he was one of lacrosse's greats," said Bill Tanton, former longtime sports editor of The Evening Sun. "When it comes to feeding, his name is synonymous with the great Hopkins teams of the late 1950s.

Buck Showalter means business. As manager of the Orioles, Showalter has brought a shot of mojo to a moribund baseball team, thanks in no small part to his grim determination to win. In photos, his facial expressions usually range from "quasi-stern" to "full-on scowl. " But Showalter, 56, does have a soft side for Sader, Webster, Jasper and Opie - four floppy-eared basset hounds he and his wife, Angela, shuttle between their countryside home in northern Baltimore County and their off-season house in Texas.

Colleges Australian lax player commits to Stevenson Callum Robinson , a 6-foot-4, 215-pound player from Western Australia, will join Stevenson for the 2013 season, according to the Lacrosse All Stars website. Robinson, 21, has primarily been playing at long-stick midfielder and is a member of the Australian squad preparing for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Commerce City, Colo. He also plays for the Wembley Lacrosse Club in the Western Australia State League.

A few days ago I quoted a Lingua Franca  post by Allan Metcalf about the apparently moribund Webster's New World College Dictionary . Mr. Metcalf had been unable to get a response from its publisher, John Wiley & Sons, about its status, and Wiley had announced that it was putting the dictionary up for sale, along with other assets.  Now it appears that Webster's New World  has awakened and asked for breakfast. A note from Gypsy Lovett, an associate director of publicity at Wiley, assures me that the dictionary still registers a pulse.

After three years as a volunteer assistant, former Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Larry Webster Jr. has been named Poly's new head football coach. Webster, 43, succeeds Roger Wrenn, who retired in December after leading the Engineers to the Class 4A North regional championship. An Elkton native, Webster played at Maryland had stints in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and the Cleveland Browns before the Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens. He played on the Ravens' 2000 Super Bowl champion team, spent one more season with the Ravens and finished his career with the New York Jets in 2002.

Ray Lewis will not be called to testify in defense of Nate Webster, the former NFL linebacker charged with sex and intimidation crimes in Ohio. The Cincinnati Enquirer posted an update today saying the Ravens' Pro Bowl linebacker would not be asked to take the stand. It was never clear why Lewis had be subpoenaed. He and Webster both played at Miami, but not at the same time. A Ravens spokesman said he knew nothing about Lewis' involvement. Webster, who is charged with having sex with a 15-year-old (age of consent is 16 in Ohio)