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Muggsy Bogues was in Phoenix, but he knew the score:Dunbar 59, Southern 55."They squeaked one out, huh?" Muggsy asked.This was yesterday, less than 24 hours after Dunbar's victory in the Baltimore City Public Schools championship game. Muggsy, now with the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, said he learned all the details "from my people at home."News travels fast among Dunbar alumni these days, and for good reason. The basketball team continues to evoke comparisons to the 1983 mythical national champions who finished 31-0, produced three NBA players and became known as one of the greatest high school teams ever.

This getaway provides guests with gaming, hotel accommodations, live entertainment and greyhound racing. Hours: 24 hours a day. Games to play: Guests can choose to play craps, roulette, blackjack or poker. Wheeling Island provides over 1,800 slot machines. Racing: Guests over 18 can wager on the greyhound races, and simulcasting of races around the country are available. Wheeling Island provides 120 individual carrels with televisions to simulcast not only horse racing, but also dog racing and harness racing.

The Freixenet Tastings & Tapas Truck rolls into town tonight and will stay here until Sunday. The truck will be showing up at partering clubs and restaurants. There wil be fun and games, samples of Spanish tapas, and tastes of Freixenet sparking wine. The truck will be "popping up" around town by day and making scheduled stops in the evening at partnering clubs and restaurants. Those stops include the Get Down in Fells Point tonight, 8-11 p.m., the Charles Street Friday Market tomorrow, 4-7 p.m., and Power Plant Live tomorrow (11 p.m.-2 a.m.)

Lose The Training Wheels, a program that teaches individuals ages 8 and older with disabilities to ride a conventional two-wheel bicycle, is accepting applications for its second annual summer camp held at and sponsored by Mountain Christian Church in Joppa July 30 to Aug. 3. "Last year's campers were amazing," volunteer camp director and Harford County resident Lori Ginley said in a press release announcing the camps. "To see the determination and sense of accomplishment in their eyes as they progressed each day until they became independent two-wheel bicycle riders was truly inspirational.

When she spotted Boomer, the eager yellow Labrador with the blue Pets on Wheels bandana around his neck in the lobby of the Heartlands retirement community center, 83-year-old resident Pat Conway couldn't resist. She held the 3-year-old dog's head in both hands, pulled her face close to his and began talking softly to him. "You're a good one," she said, rubbing behind Boomer's ears as he began looking to his owner, retired lawyer Chris Vissers, 64, for one of those tasty bacon-flavored treats Vissers had in his vest pocket.

"Pets on Wheels" may not be the best name for the charitable organization my husband and our dog are volunteers with. It conjures up an image of a roller derby league for pets in one's mind. At least, in this particular one's mind. But Pets on Wheels is a collection of volunteers with docile, friendly and somewhat obedient, prescreened pets who commit to visiting area nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in our county. Its mission is to bring the joys of simply petting a dog or cat to the residents, who often have to give up their pets to enter these facilities.

Shakespeare on Wheels is going up on blocks for the summer while the 10-year-old troupe tries to tune its financial engine.The University of Maryland Baltimore County has announced its roving players will not be taking the Bard to dozens of outdoor sites across Maryland this year. Instead, the troupe will be on hiatus to pursue funding for operation next year and into the future."It was an extremely difficult decision . . . but I try to look at it in an optimistic way," said William T. Brown, former chair of the UMBC Theatre Department and founder and producer of Shakespeare on Wheels.

WHEN SEAN Sweeney dipped his front wheel in the coastal waters of Bar Harbor, Maine, on Aug. 27, the odometer on his bicycle read 4,920 miles. The Annapolis resident and 12 others celebrated the completion of a three-month bicycle trip across the United States with the wheel-in-the-water ceremony. The ride began May 27 in Anacortes, Wash., with 15 riders wetting their rear wheels in the waters of the Pacific coast in anticipation of an adventure. The trip would take 93 days and cross the northern tier of the United States.

The University of Maryland Baltimore County has eliminated Shakespeare on Wheels, its popular, free summer theater touring program that performed for a quarter-million people throughout the mid-Atlantic over its 10-year history.Closing the program was strictly a budgetary decision, said Sheldon Caplis, UMBC's vice president for institutional advancement. In recent seasons, the university had often contributed more than a third of Shakespeare on Wheels' $150,000 annual budget, Caplis said.

Ellicott City barber Rick Goggin has decided to take his work on the road, offering Haircuts on Wheels to people who have difficulty getting to a hair salon because of an injury or illness.Haircuts On Wheels is an unconventional idea, and Mr. Goggin isn't exactly conventional. When people meet the slim barber for the first time, they look at his waist-length ponytail and his casual attire and immediately assume he is a rock musician or an aging hippie unwilling to let go of the past.And they aren't completely wrong on either count.

There's a great scene in the movie "The Right Stuff" where the original Mercury astronauts are checking out the capsule for their first trips to space. They're horrified to discover that the German scientists in charge of the program see the astronauts as nothing more than living props. There is no window, the scientists explain. There's no emergency hatch or even controls for the astronauts to use. It's all automated. "We want a window," the astronauts demand. The white-frocked experts reluctantly agree to give the astronauts a window and piloting controls because they know the American people would hate to see the nation's greatest pilots treated like lab monkeys with no say in their fate.

Alice J. Gordon, a film abd television extra who was also a volunteer, died Friday of renal failure at her home in Morgantown, W. Va. The longtime Rodgers Forge resident was 80. The daughter of a movie theater owner and a homemaker, Alice Jean Kamber was born in Winthrop, Mass., and raised in Manchester Depot, Vt., where she attended public schools. In 1956, she married Raymond Jay Gordon, a salesman, and settled in a rowhouse on Old Trail Road in Rodgers Forge. Since 2009, she had lived in Morgantown.

Game-show host Pat Sajak, who sent the Internet all aflutter this week when he acknowledged taping an occasional "Wheel of Fortune" episode while drunk back in his younger days, isn't fazed by his newfound online notoriety. "It's the nature of the Internet," Sajak said Friday, predicting that the furor over his remarks wouldn't outlast the weekend. "I think something else will be out there Monday. " Sajak, who splits his time between homes in the Los Angeles area and Severna Park, became a top trending topic on Google earlier this week after saying in an interview on ESPN2 that he and letter turner Vanna White would sometimes down a few margaritas between tapings.

A truck driver who killed a Stevenson University professor and seriously injured her two sons in a 2010 crash on the Ohio Turnpike was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Douglas Bouch, 49, of Greenville, Pa., pleaded guilty in county court to aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of Susan Slattery, 47, who was returning to Cockeysville with her sons after visiting relatives. Police say Bouch fell asleep and his triple-tractor trailer smashed into Slattery's car and careened into five other vehicles just outside Cleveland.

Agnes E. May, a homemaker and volunteer, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 88. A daughter of a Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. grocery store manager and a homemaker, Agnes Edith Ripple was born in Baltimore and raised on 36th Street in Govans. She was a 1940 graduate of Seton High School. In her youth, she enjoyed ice skating and was a semiprofessional bowler at the old North Avenue Sports Center, where she won a Triangle Sports Trophy in 1944.

Foo Fighters performed at the Verizon Center Friday November 11 in support of "Wasting Light. " Contributor Jay Trucker reviews the show. From the opening riffs of “Bridge Burning,” Foo Fighters were locked in, often transitioning from song to song without pause for up to six songs in a row. Grohl, a veteran of the arena setting, and to a lesser extent, drummer Taylor Hawkins, are the showmen of the group. But rest of the band, including eleventh-hour Nirvana guitarist and smile-machine Pat Smear, are clearly comfortable playing with one another and in front of a large crowd, keeping the pace of each song a half step faster than the album versions without pushing the songs to an unrecognizable tempo.

Isn't that your suitcase on the luggage carousel?The one with the yards of duct tape holding it together and the handle that's half torn off?Looks as though it's time for a new one.Though packing a suitcase is a grim but unavoidable part of traveling, shopping for that suitcase can be fun.You've no doubt noticed those confident travelers who breeze through airports wheeling neat black bags that glide smoothly over tile floors, asphalt parking lots, even...

Thirteen years after major open-wheel formula-style racing failed miserably at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the IZOD IndyCar Series returns to the track today for the running of the MoveThatBlock.com 225. "We need to be here," series veteran driver Ryan Hunter-Reay said. "Hopefully, we'll have a good attendance here on Sunday that makes it worthwhile coming back. Hopefully, this can be a future event for us that we come back to year after year. We'd all certainly like that. I think the short ovals are good for racing.

Jay Davidson is, admittedly, no gear-head. But as the president of the Baltimore Grand Prix, Davidson has been living and breathing all things IndyCar the past several months. The inaugural race will bring dozens of high-speed open-wheel cars to Baltimore on Labor Day weekend, competing on a roughly two-mile course through downtown. To prepare, city workers have had to shut down sections of major roads for repairs, angering many commuters. But the race and the festival that surrounds it will be worth all the aggravation, Davidson promises.