Editorial: The Baltimore Ravens Are Not a Home Team and a Few More Thoughts on Fandom
Today is a pretty big day for football fans in our area. The Washington Football Team, who I consider our home team, is playing against the Baltimore Ravens.
Jeff Halpern, the assistant coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team, is from Potomac.
Halpern grew up in Potomac and played travel hockey in the area. He attended Winston Churchill High School before attending St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Harold “The Human Backboard” Solomon grew up in Silver Spring and attended Springbrook High School. Solomon was a singles and doubles tennis player. In the year 1980 he achieved a career high world ranking of No. 5 in singles. Him and his doubles partner, Eddie Dibbs, were also ranked No. 4 in the world in doubles in 1976.
After graduating from Springbrook, Solomon was an All-American and graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He turned pro in 1972 and has a total of 22 singles titles to his name over his career. Solomon made the finals of the French Open in 1976 and the semifinals of the US Open in 1977.
Some Outdoor Pools To Remain Open Through Oct. 4
Montgomery County Recreation announced that the summer outdoor pool season will be extended to Sunday, Oct. 4, weather permitting and some operating on an altered schedule.
“Jersey raised me, Maryland made me.”
Dwayne Haskins was born and raised in New Jersey, but he moved to Gaithersburg while attending The Bullis School in Potomac.
New Baseball and Softball Training Facility to Open in Gaithersburg.
D-Bat will be opening a new location in Gaithersburg, Md.
The Montgomery County Sports Hall of Fame (MCSHF) today named six local sports figures to be inducted as the 2020 class. The six inductees will be honored in a virtual ceremony on Sunday October 18th at 7pm.
Terrapin broadcaster Johnny Holliday (Kensington resident) will be joined by MLB player Curtis Pride (Kennedy HS), field hockey coach Amy Wood (B-CC), three-time NFL champion and ex-Washington Senator Tom Brown (Blair HS) local tennis great Jeri Ingram (Springbrook HS) and the late high school football coach Roy Lester (Richard Montgomery, Paint Branch, and Magruder).
Athletics Fields Set to Reopen Across MoCo
Montgomery County officials announced earlier this week that athletic fields at regional and recreational parks will be open to low and medium-risk sports starting September 1st.
This article was written by Daniela Perez, a junior at Northwest High School in Germantown.
The Magruder Girls Varsity volleyball team won the 3A state championship with a 25-0 record. The team consistently played at an extremely high level, winning 69 sets and losing only 5. Along the way the team set several school records for volleyball including: most wins, highest win percentage for sets won/lost, kills in a season, attack percentage and passing percentage.
MoCo’s Whitman boys soccer defeated Leonardtown 3-1 last night to win the Maryland State championship for the second year in a row.
Whitman boys soccer has now won 11 state championships in program history and 7 under Coach Dave Greene.