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September 6th, 2011 02:12 am by Richard Abdill
The Internet hated the new Terps uniforms
Not pictured: Francis Scott Key
In case you missed the football game last night (or the fashion show three weeks ago), the Maryland football team now has more uniform combinations than they do starting players.
They changed into top-secret uniforms after warmups and came out for the game against Miami dressed up like Francis Scott Key if he were competing on “American Gladiators.” Some thought it was as awesome as Apollo Creed’s American flag shorts, some thought it was just gross.
September 6th, 2011 01:54 am by Richard Abdill
Don’t worry, a Maryland fan did do something offensive on national television
The Maryland-Miami football game got the Labor Day prime-time treatment Monday night, and ESPN sent images of our immaculately behaved students all over the Earth with the help of that special TV magic.
We made it almost the entire broadcast without incident, but then, just before the game cut to SportsCenter, the camera caught this kid:
Credit for the spot goes to Twitter user Ian Oland, who tweeted the pic after the game. If anybody knows who this is, please let us know — we’d like to ask him where he got the shirt, if it actually helps him pick up “fat bitches,” and if his mother knows he’s wearing that shirt in public.
September 1st, 2011 06:52 pm by Richard Abdill
Five College Park people who have (allegedly) gone positively bonkers
''YAY COLLEGE PARK! YAY EARRINGS!'' (Photo by Orin Zebest)
This city attracts curious people of all stripes — they write books; they raise families; they drink beer. And, occasionally, they go out of their minds and generate police reports that are far, far outside the bounds of run-of-the-mill misdemeanors.
One such incident occurred last weekend: A very strange potential road-rage incident involving a 32-year-old College Park man, a car antenna and a few thousand volts of electricity. His alleged assault has inspired the blogger-brains at Campus Drive to look into College Park’s history of housing (and teaching) people who went on to be accused of off-the-wall crimes. Here are five of the weirdest.
September 1st, 2011 08:05 am by Richard Abdill
College Park natural disaster roundup: The Earth is going nuts
(Photo courtesy UMD Libraries)
Welcome back to the campus! While you were gone, nature made several half-hearted attempts to remind us that we could be obliterated at any moment, for no reason, by forces that we cannot stop and will only occasionally see coming.
August 29th, 2011 05:12 pm by Richard Abdill
It will cost you $40 to promote UMD white pride
Our wonderful university is promoting a four-color “fan color scheme” for the Terps football Labor Day home opener against the Miami Hurricanes, and the team store is selling shirts (with slightly different slogans) in black, red, gold and, most problematically, white. Check out the back of the shirt, which is on sale for $29.98, plus $6.95 shipping and handling and another $3.69 in sales tax:
Maryland (red and) white pride, manufactured by Under Armour. Go Terps!
August 28th, 2011 03:32 am by Richard Abdill
A portrait of the University of Maryland campus during Hurricane Irene, or: That time two guys walked around in the rain for a while
My baseball cap blew off 10 seconds after we walked out the front door. Diamondback editor Jon Wolper and I wandered into the storm just after midnight Saturday night, when we had decided it looked awful enough to find something interesting.
The wind was blowing the rain hard, the tiny droplets stinging the faces and arms of the half-dozen people huddled in front of Commons 7. Water rushed down the road past the Mowatt Lane parking garage. Trees swayed dramatically. A Jimmy John’s delivery man dropped a sandwich off at Commons 5. Those guys are better than the Post Office.
August 27th, 2011 05:40 pm by Richard Abdill
Hurricane Irene liveblog: Campus power taking hits
This is what rain looks like.
Sunday, 2 a.m.: Sorry for the delay — just got back into Commons 7 after a walking tour of campus. It appears all South Campus Commons buildings have lost power, and a fire truck is currently parked in front of Commons 5 — we spotted firefighters going up a stairwell; a student is reportedly stuck in the elevator. Power has gone out on College Avenue, according to a Twitter follower, and the University Club apartments lost power at about 1:15 a.m. As of about 1:30 a.m., the north campus dorms had power.
Even so, reports of glitchy electricity seem to be the only problems. Full report on what we saw around the campus soon, assuming battery power lasts until the power comes back on, but it seems that, for now, the worst is some uprooted trees and a relatively routine power outage.
August 27th, 2011 12:23 am by Richard Abdill
Hurricane Irene might not totally wreck College Park
via Flickr user Jim Linwood
The university community was told to expect a massive, horrifying debacle, but according to a warning put out Friday night by the National Weather Service, Prince George’s County shouldn’t be expecting hurricane-force winds and has only a 55-percent chance of seeing tropical-storm level trouble at all.
The county, which was omitted from the hurricane warning issued for parts of Virginia and Maryland, should expect “gusty northwest winds” and potential flash flooding through Sunday, but will likely be spared from the brunt of the ugliness.
August 26th, 2011 11:47 pm by Richard Abdill
O’Malley: Those who don’t evacuate Ocean City are stupid
''Hey you. On the beach. You're a moron.'' -Everyone
It’s been widely reported that the Eastern Shore is going to get whacked the hardest by all this Irene business, and Ocean City was hit with a mandatory evacuation order late Thursday. And Gov. Martin O’Malley is having none of this crap about you not leaving because you’re on vacation.