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Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home...
Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home to the Morgan State University Choir and the "Maginificent Marching Machine," the school's marching band. Student activities include The Spokesman newspaper, The Promethian yearbook and 20 fraternities, sororities and social clubs. Famous Morgan State alumni include author Zora Neal Hurston and former U.S. congressman Kweisi Mfume.
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Sharon Love's lawsuit raises questions about coaches' responsibilities
Although a Charlottesville, Va., jury found one man — athlete George Huguely V — criminally responsible for the beating death of Yeardley Love, his former girlfriend and fellow lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, the young woman's...Tags: Dom (music group), National Collegiate Athletic Association, Media Industry, Crimes, Facebook
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Hannah Oneda breaks 30-year-old record in the 3,200 meters at state meet
Hannah Oneda made a little history in her final 3,200-meter run in high school Thursday. The Winters Mill senior ran away from the field early and broke a 30-year old record when she won the Class 2A race in 10:52.01 during the first day of the state...
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Prep Track & Field: Washington County distance runners shine at states
andrewm@herald-mail.comWashington County distance runners stole the show during Day 1 action at the Maryland State Track & Field Championships at Morgan State University on Thursday. Boonsboro junior Sarah Zielinski (Class 1A girls), Smithsburg junior Luke Daigneault (1A boys)...Tags: Mountains, Entertainment, Landforms, Middletown, Movies
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Prep Track & Field: Warriors out to be more than 'paper' champions
andrewm@herald-mail.comBoonsboro coach Becky Walter knows what her girls team is up against as the Warriors begin their Class 1A title defense Thursday at the Maryland State Track & Field Championships at Morgan State University in Baltimore. At least on paper she has a pretty...Tags: Northwestern Wildcats, Human Interest, Track and Field, High School Sports
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What Baltimore did for us
On the front page of the June 22, 1990, issue of The Evening Sun is an article with the headline "Flight from Saigon lands and family grows by 16." The article describes the emotional reunion of a sister with her 16 family members, who had spent the...
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On Campus: HU, NSU win MEAC awards
Hampton University won its 11th consecutive Mary McLeod Bethune women's all-sports award, while Norfolk State won its eighth straight Talmadge Layman Hill's men's all-sports award, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced. Each institution...Tags: College Sports, Hampton University, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
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Sun forgets Morgan track stars in 175 athletes list
Putting together a historical list of the most outstanding athletes in Maryland history could not have been an easy task. But leaving out Morgan State University track legends George Rhoden and Art Bragg was a real stunner. Rhoden, one of the finest 400...Tags: College Sports, Colleges and Universities, Education, Track and Field, Penn Relays
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Jesse L. Thomas, Colts player
Jesse L. Thomas, a Baltimore Colts defensive back in the 1950s who then spent four decades at Morgan State University, serving for several years as its head football coach, died of dementia complications May 16 at his Columbia home. He was 83.
Born in...Tags: Baltimore Colts, Alzheimer's Disease, College Sports, Health and Safety at School, Art Donovan
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Hampton schedules 10 games for 2012 football season
Hampton will play just 10 football games in 2012, with two bye weeks in the schedule released Monday by the school. The Pirates, coming off a 7-4 record in head coach Donovan Rose's third year, have open dates on Sept. 22 and Oct. 6. HU last played a...
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Gene H. Johnson Jr., 24
Gene Howard Johnson, Jr. 24, of Hagerstown, Md., died Wednesday, May 17, 2012, at his home in Hagerstown. Born Oct. 6, 1987, in Queens, N.Y., he was the son of Gene Howard and Judy Ann (White) Johnson Sr. of Hagerstown. He was the maternal grandson of...
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Towson rallies past JMU, qualifies for CAA baseball tourney
Colleges Towson rallies past JMU, qualifies for CAA baseball tourney Sophomore second baseman Pat Fitzgerald lined a one-out single to left field with in the bottom of the 10th inning as Towson came from behind to earn a berth in the Colonial Athletic...Tags: Los Angeles Sparks, Colonial Athletic Association, Equestrian, Women's National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Liberty's Lions roar into spotlight with five county titles
Spring is often associated with a sense of rebirth and resurgence and in Carroll County, no sports program has seen that come to life like Liberty High School. Liberty's softball team, which won just one game in 2008, completed its resurgence with a...
Tags: Softball, College Sports, Values, College Baseball, High School Sports
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