GREYHOUNDS DEFEAT FAIRFIELD STAGS, CLINCH  BERTH  TOWARD  ‘FINAL FOUR’ Last men’s basketball title was in 1994 Loyola University Maryland clinched its first men’s basketball title in 18 years Monday, defeating Connecticut’s Fairfield University Stags by a score of 48-44. The victory, in Springfield Mass., was not assured until game’s end, as the second-seeded Greyhounds […]

  CREATIVE PRODUCTION WILL RUN IN HAMPDEN THROUGH MARCH 17th   By Tim Young   “Unscripted,” the Balti- more Improv Group (BIG)’s initial attempt at a full-length play, began its run this weekend and did not disappoint. The concept seems simple: take nine improvisational actors, put them on a stage with props, and let them […]

  HOME STATES OF ROMNEY & GINGRICH VOTE THIS WEEK 1,144 delegates needed to win Republican  Party  nomination   With only 13 percent of the delegates to the Republican National Convention chosen thus far, the four GOP presidential candidates are gearing up for the biggest primary election day to date — so-called Super Tuesday, which […]

  TV HOST, CHEF GORDON RAMSAY, ON 3-DAY VISIT  TO BALTIMORE, REDESIGNS  HAMPDEN EATERY Restaurant  owner Denise Whiting trademarked Balto. word ‘Hon,’ incurring wrath of entire city BY SHOW’S END, ALL IS LOVEY-DOVEY   By Alan Z. Forman   Anyone who watched the first 45 minutes Friday night of the hour-long reality-TV show “Kitchen Nightmares” […]

  USAID CONTRACTOR’S SPOUSE ADDRESSES SMALL AUDIENCE AT STEVENSON SYNAGOGUE Pope Benedict is asked to intercede; innocence of Alan Gross in question ACCUSED GREW UP IN BALTIMORE   By Alan Z. Forman   The wife of a Baltimore native incarcerated for more than two years in Cuba on charges of attempting to overthrow the Castro […]