Bays are No. 1 in statistics, but when it comes to stars, Bayhawks outrank them - tribunedigital-baltimoresun
The Maryland Bays coach doesn't know how his team is going to react to all the pomp and circumstance surrounding tonight's 8:05 game with the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks for the American Professional Soccer League championship at Boston University's Nickerson Field.
"We're not used to getting into a town two days ahead of the game and then having a press conference before a packed room," said Caringi yesterday. "We usually fly into a city the day of the game and leave right afterwards. We were ready to play Thursday, but we still had two days to wait. The wait and all the hype is what concerns me more than the four weeks' layoff we've had."
It has been four weeks since the Bays captured their first American Soccer League championship with a 2-0 victory over the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Caringi and the Bays believe that earned them much respect in the professional outdoor soccer world.
The Bays have more impressive credentials than San Francisco Bay, the Western Soccer League champion.
Maryland had a 19-5 overall record compared with the Blackhawks' 16-8 mark, the Bays outscored San Francisco in 20 regular-season games (42-39), the Bays allowed fewer goals in 20 games (29-30), and Maryland's top three scorers (Phillip Gyau, Jean Harbor and Rob Ryerson) had a total of 27 goals and 16 assists compared with 17 goals and 12 assists for San Francisco's top three of Steve Corpening, Townsend Qin and Marcelo Balboa.
However, it was San Francisco's two World Cup players, forward Eric Wynalda and defender Balboa, who stole the show.
"All the hype in the pre-game press conference was about the two San Francisco national team players," said Caringi. "That's all anybody wanted to talk about. But that's fine with us. Our league is considered stronger [Fort Lauderdale won the APSL title last season], and that says a lot."
Caringi said he would put defender Joey Barger on Wynalda and that Balboa would have to worry about stopping Gyau and Harbor.
"I'm confident that Joey can handle Wynalda," said Caringi. "Joey did a good job on David Byrne [Tampa Bay Rowdies forward and former Baltimore Blast standout] and has proven himself against the best players in our league."
Gyau (11 goals, six assists) and Harbor (nine goals, eight assists) are speedy forwards with explosive scoring ability.
"Jean Harbor's the best forward in the country," said Caringi. "He's big [6 feet 2, 185 pounds], strong, fast and has a rocket shot. He's also very good in the air. Very few teams have been able to stop him and Phillip. We're going to turn them loose against San Francisco."
NOTES: If the Bays win, they would face the Vancouver 86ers for the North American pro soccer championship Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, British Columbia. . . . The 23 APSL owners are meeting in Boston this weekend to chart the future of the league. ASL commissioner David Prouty said yesterday that he will resign next month because he doubts there will be sufficient funds to maintain his salary next season if the league loses three of its 11 teams. He predicts the ASL will have eight teams that will play 14 games each and that the league office, based in Jessup, will have its budget cut from $430,000 to $300,000.
Outlook: Key matchups in the American Professional Soccer League title game are: forward Jean Harbor against San Francisco defender Marcelo Balboa, forward Phillip Gyau against San Francisco defender Troy Dayak, San Francisco forward Eric Wynalda against defender Joey Barger and San Francisco forward Steve Corpening against defender Chris Reif.
NEW YORK -- The Clinton administration held its first high-level meeting with Vietnam yesterday in what Vietnamese officials hope may be a prelude to a quick lifting of the U.S. trade embargo against Hanoi.
In a session that was not announced, Assistant Secretary of State William Clark and other U.S. officials met in Washington for talks with Vietnam's outgoing ambassador to the United Nations, Trinh Xuan Lang.
A Vietnamese official said that Winston Lord, who is awaiting confirmation as President Clinton's assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, also participated in the talks with the Vietnamese ambassador, but the State Department would not confirm this.
Clinton administration officials are believed to be trying to work out their policy toward Vietnam and a possible lifting of the long-standing U.S. trade embargo within the next six weeks.
They are facing a deadline of late April, when the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to decide whether to take steps toward resuming a long-frozen lending program to Vietnam.
Last fall, the Bush administration took several steps toward normalization of relations with Vietnam, after getting what U.S. officials considered to be unprecedented help from Hanoi in identifying Americans who had been listed as missing in action since the Vietnam War.
JUDY NEIGHOFF OF Churchton wants Anne Arundel County to dredge Broadwater Creek, which she says has silted up since she bought her waterfront home 30 years ago.
Neighoff said the creek has gone from about 15 feet deep to 2 feet deep. "We have to watch for the tides," to get a boat into the creek, she said.
Neighoff contacted the county, but officials need to hear from more than one person before they consider a dredging project.
Now Neighoff is seeking input from her neighbors. She has heard from about 40 people who own property on the water, and she wants to hear from Churchton folks who do not own waterfront property but use one of the three community piers.
With those words, 5-year-old Karenna Peacock chose her family's Christmas tree last week at Friendship Trees in Friendship. Karenna and her parents, Leslie and Kenneth Peacock of Annapolis, took home a 5 1/2 -foot-tall Douglas fir.
Douglas firs are a common choice at Friendship Trees, but the most popular choice is the Fraser fir, said owner Floyd Thiel.
He plans to close for the season on Wednesday or Thursday after selling about 400 trees during the weekend.
Deck the Halls is doing a brisk business in artworks and crafts made by local artisans -- more than $1,000 worth so far.
By the middle of last week, 23 pieces had sold at the annual holiday show at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
"We sold things that were $6 and we sold some things that were several hundred dollars," said Don Elliott, director of programs for the Maryland Hall.
Among the items sold were pieces by Deborah Harris, John Jensen and Marion LaMoal of Annapolis; Frank Amigo of Crownsville; and Ray Lopes of Millersville.
The show runs through Saturday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, until 8: 30 p.m. Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Tracys Landing sculptor Kelly Richard has collaborated with the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society to produce the fourth in a series of tree ornaments in honor of Shady Side's past.
Richard, who used to make similar ornaments for several organizations, said her Annapolis shop -- the League of Maryland Craftsmen on Maryland Avenue -- and another shop in Frederick keep her "so busy I'm sort of out of the ornament business except for Shady Side."
It happens from time to time. A kernel of hope will live in vials and petri dishes for years. There it will be nurtured, doubted, prodded, studied. Mice will be sacrificed. Scientists will spend their days and nights working on it.
Then, suddenly, a door is set ajar, and hope makes a run for it. It escapes into the public air and expands in that heady atmosphere until it seems ready to burst.
This time, the latch was popped by a front-page New York Times article that used the words "cure" and "cancer" in the same heady breath.
This time, hope came from evidence that a new therapy has cured cancer in mice. It came from the testimonial of the irrepressible James Watson of DNA fame who said, "Judah is going to cure cancer in two years."
"Judah" is Judah Folkman, known here in his hometown as much for being a mensch -- the Yiddish word for a good human being -- as for being a scientist. For 30 years, against skepticism and even self-doubt, he worked on a simple theory: Instead of killing a tumor, can you starve it to death? Can you stop the blood flow that feeds cancer?
His laboratory's striking success with angiogenesis inhibitors -- drugs that stop the blood flow to tumors -- had been reported for months. It was written about in Nature and in newspapers such as my own Boston Globe. It was talked about wherever oncologists meet to discuss and dissect progress.
But this time hope ran hand in hand with hype. The words "cure" and "cancer" spread in the fertile petri dish of the media culture. People heard the cure but not the caveats.
On Wall Street, investors who speculate on medical breakthroughs the way the Dutch once speculated on tulips turned from last week's hot stock, Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, to this week's hot stock, EntreMed. The price of the biotech company licensed to develop these drugs went from $12 a share to a high of $83.
And among those who have much more than their 401(k) at stake, the market in hope ran to even more dizzying heights. At the National Cancer Institute, in oncologists' offices and on the Internet, those who have heard "there's nothing we can do" began looking for a second opinion. Cancer patients calculated how long they could hold on till "the cure." A year, two.
As predictably as bear market follows bull, the brakes were applied to this rush. James Watson complained that he didn't say there'd be a cure in two years -- or perhaps didn't mean to. Oncologists reminded us that it would be years until the tests were done and the results were in. Judah Folkman warned against the belief that the new therapy "will emerge as stand-alone drugs of unprecedented power."
But the story of this escapee says much about what happens when hope breaks out as it does these days with the frequency and suddenness of a news report.
We live now on the cusp of cures. Cures for AIDS, for diabetes, for cancer. We don't know at any given moment when the latest promise will be the next success -- another Salk vaccine -- or the next disappointment -- another Interferon 2. One week, tamoxifen is touted as preventing breast cancer; the next week, angiostatin and endostatin are seen as cures.
Science is practiced in public. The understandable urgency of a patient conflicts with the necessary patience of a researcher. So the story of this "cure for cancer" is the clearest example yet of our two cultures: hope and science.
Today, hope springs and science treads deliberately, checking its footsteps. Hope goes for the light and science, as Mr. Folkman said, goes down "countless blind alleys to find one that goes through."
Hope talks of breakthroughs and science is as deliberate as the researcher in Mr. Folkman's lab who had to collect 50 gallons of mouse urine drop by drop.
What do we know from this latest report? Two things: that it's a long, long way from mouse to man and that we may be on the right path.
Today, somewhere, a man dying of cancer has read that there is a book in the works about Mr. Folkman's therapy. The book is titled: "Conquering Cancer."
Tennis: Leslie Harvey practically grew up on the Druid Hill Park courts. Today, she plays in the USTA Women's Satellite tourney there.
Leslie Harvey is a vivacious 18-year-old with a blistering forehand. It's the forehand that helped earn her a wild-card selection into the main draw of this week's USTA Women's Satellite tournament at Druid Hill Park.
It is her experience and knowledge of the local courts that may help her survive past the first round that begins today.
"She has known these courts since before she was born," said Leslie's mother, Marie, an administrative assistant at Old Court Middle School. "Her dad was out here playing in a tournament the week before she was born, and I was sitting in the stands cheering for him."
Marie Harvey laughs. She has been watching tennis from the stands for 20 years, as she first supported her husband, Ponell, assistant principal at Woodbourne School, and then took her daughter to tournaments all over the country.
"I'll be out here this week supporting my baby," she said, knowing when Leslie leaves for college this fall, she'll be continuing her supporting role for daughters Ashley, 11, and Elizabeth, 16, who also play the game.
The Satellite Tour of Baltimore was to begin play in the main draw at 10 a.m. today at Druid Hill Park and Greenspring Racquet Club. The finals are Sunday.
A total of 32 women, including four from qualifying rounds held yesterday and Sunday, will play in the main singles draw, and 16 players will compete in doubles.
Leslie Harvey was selected as a wild-card entry by tournament director David Owens, who also is executive director of the Head Urban All-Star Tennis Academy, a nonprofit tennis program for urban children.
Owens is trying to help develop the next Pam Shriver. He looks at the rise of the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, Chanda Rubin and, most recently, Alexandra Stevenson's reaching the Wimbledon semifinals, and knows their success is having an impact on his program.
"I guarantee you, they're the reason we have a women's satellite tournament here," Owens said. "Our kids can see people just like them. They can say, `I have braids in my hair and I have beads in my hair, just like them.' And they're educated. Tennis has become viable. It's something our young people can strive for."
When Leslie Harvey was 5, she rushed onto the tennis court to hit the ball with her dad. Today, she remembers how much fun that was and how thrilled she was to be able to hit the ball over the net.
"It wasn't until I was about 14, when I was ranked fifth and played in a Mid-Atlantic [regional] tournament and then went to Atlanta for the hard-court nationals that I thought about really being serious about playing," said Leslie, who is coached by her dad.
Last year, she won the American Tennis Association's national 18-and-under championship and the 1998 Maryland State High School championship. She didn't try for the state title this year, choosing instead to attend her senior prom.
She graduated from Randallstown High this spring and will attend Long Island University on a full tennis scholarship and study for a degree in physical therapy.
This summer she is working as a camp assistant for Liberty Road Recreation and Parks at Deer Park Middle School, helping teach math, reading, science and language arts to children between the ages of 5 and 12.
After work, she comes to Druid Hill to practice her tennis game for about three hours every day. She also lifts weights and tries to run sprints five times a week.
"I accepted resumes and chose Leslie because she was born and raised on these courts and because this experience can help her as she moves up the ladder," Owens said. "She's gold. She's got a great attitude. She's God-fearing and unassuming. Now, on the court, all bets are off. She has a forehand to die for, and she has excellent court savvy and a very aggressive game."
Leslie, 5 feet 4 -- a height she defends as being taller than professional player Amanda Coetzer -- is eager to reward Owens' faith.
"I was very surprised to be picked, but I really wanted to play," she said. "I've been working really hard, and my goal is to get past the first round. You know, seeing Wimbledon earlier this month and seeing how well Alexandra Stevenson did has given me a lot of courage.
"No one had ever heard of her and no one had ever done what she did and she was 17 -- just like me," said Leslie, who turned 18 last weekend.
MARGARET M. KENNEDY, of Coal Valley, IL, formerly of Baltimore, died Sunday, April 3. She was the daughter of John N. Paulus and Margaret Ellen Brooks Paulus. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin J. Kennedy. She is survived by her five children and their spouses: Ed and Kendra Kennedy of Moline, IL, Peggy and Frank Mason of Memphis, TN, Patty and Rick Hudson of Columbus, GA, Eileen and Larry Hudson of Matamoras, PA and Michael and Cyndi Kennedy of Davenport, IA, 15 grandchildren and her sister, Virginia E. Phelan of Baltimore. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family atwww. Trimble Funeral Homes.com
In two applications sent earlier this week, Newport Beach asked the California Coastal Commission for permission to install digital parking pay stations in the lots at Corona del Mar State Beach and the Balboa Pier.
The City Council in February put aside $440,000 to transition those lots to automated payment systems. Previously, they had been staffed by parking attendants.
A staff report from that time said the city planned to install about a dozen pay stations at each parking lot by Memorial Day. The city operates 614 parking spaces in the Balboa lot and 517 spots at the Big Corona lot.
The new kiosks will allow beach visitors to make their payments in a variety of ways, including by cell phone, staff reports have said.
The Coastal Commission is tasked with determining whether development projects will infringe on public access to coastal areas.
According to both applications, "The city of Newport Beach believes that [the pay station installation] constitutes de minimis development."
In other words, because the 23 total kiosks will make up a "combined footprint" of less than 29 square feet, and because they will be placed "in the existing landscaped planters and hardscaped areas" bordering the lots, their installation won't make much of a difference in terms of access.
"These pay stations will be no more intrusive than the waste containers also placed there for the beach-user's convenience," the applications say.
The California Coastal Commission next meets from Aug. 14 to 16 in Santa Cruz. The agenda for that meeting has not yet been released, however, so it is unclear whether consideration of the applications will be on it.
Gretchen Hoffman NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police are looking for two men who robbed a taxi driver, then made him drive them back to Hollywood. The taxi driver picked up two men in Hollywood. They gave him directions to Scholl Canyon Park at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the police report. When they arrived at the unlit park, the man sitting in the front seat told the driver he had a gun in his pocket and demanded all of his money, according to the report.
Gretchen Hoffman SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police are looking for a man who assaulted and threatened to kill a woman riding in his taxi cab. The woman told police she called for a taxi using a phone number written on the back of a business card at about noon on Saturday, police said. She told police she had called cabs with that number several times before, police said. As the man started to drive, he told her she wasn't going to make it to her appointment in Los Angeles in time and insulted her, police said.
A man and woman were arrested in Glendale Sunday after one of them allegedly threatened to stab a taxi driver when he insisted the pair pay the $366-fare from San Diego. The taxi driver picked up the pair - Glendale residents Veronica Madrid, 23, and Raymond Karapetian, 26 - earlier that day in San Diego and drove them to Glendale, racking up the steep fare. Karapetian 's credit card was allegedly declined and Madrid also failed to come up with payment, according to police.
Amber Willard GLENDALE -- Police are investigating the robbery of a taxi driver who dropped off his rider in Glendale. The driver told police he picked up the male passenger in Hollywood and when he stopped to let him out at Cypress Street and Brand Boulevard, the man in the backseat pulled out a handgun and demanded the driver's money. The man reached over the seat and took the driver's cellular phone as well, the driver told police. The passenger then demanded the car, but the driver refused, and drove to Brand Boulevard and Los Feliz Road, where the man finally got out of the car. The man was last seen running west on Los Feliz Road, police said.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly fired shots during a domestic dispute in East Glendale, according to police reports. No one was hurt in the shooting at the home in the 3100 block of Chadney Drive, but police are looking for the man who was last seen in a black, four-door Mercedes-Benz,. The man was allegedly upset over family issues and arrived with a gun at the home, where he allegedly fired the shots and fled. ALSO: Man allegedly tries to steal car, takes driver's cell phone instead Accused tagger allegedly told police it's 'no big deal' Taxi driver threatened after driving pair from San Diego to Glendale -- Veronica Rocha, Times Community News Twitter: VeronicaRochaLA
Here is a case where the Court clearly did the right thing. In December 1998, Mary Ingham, a brittle-boned, cane-carrying diabetic who is physically disabled, called the Luxor Cab Company for a ride. Traffic was heavy that morning, and the cab driver grew frustrated and eventually ordered Ms. Ingham to pay for that part of the ride that had been completed; however, he told her to exit his cab so he could get to his coffee shop and meet his friends. This was a full two blocks from the dentist's office she was attempting to visit.
11th Street at Pacific Coast Highway: A man told police his van was broken into and credit cards, clothes and a digital camera were stolen at 11:12 a.m. Sunday. Albacore Drive: A woman told police her neighbor's child was shooting a BB gun at her windows in the 9500 block at 2:41 p.m. Sunday. Algonquin Street: Two security cameras were reportedly stolen in the 16900 block at 9:42 a.m. Sunday. Atlanta Avenue: A man told police that someone broke into his trailer and stole a generator in the 8300 block at 4:03 p.m. Sunday.
GLENDALE — A man who allegedly tried to rob a downtown Citibank on Tuesday after arriving by taxi was able to evade police, officials said. The man was dropped off about 4:12 p.m. outside the Citibank on the 700 block of North Brand Boulevard and asked the taxi driver to wait while he went inside the bank, Glendale police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The man approached a bank teller and passed a demand note, but his attempt was unsuccessful, Lorenz said. Instead of returning to the taxi, the man left through the back exit and fled on foot, Lorenz said.
I clearly remember my first April 24 experience. I could not have been any older than 7 or 8 when my mom took me to a protest that was organized at the grounds of our neighborhood Armenian church. I even remember the taxi driver. He was a middle-aged Iranian man with a heavy 5 o’clock shadow. As he pulled up to the gates of the St. Sarkis Church in Tehran, he was puzzled by the dense and vociferous group of protesters. He asked (in Persian): “What are you Armenians protesting against?
One evening last week, I found myself completely exhausted. This is not always true at 5 p.m. But as I glanced at the clock, I felt a tinge of envy as I thought of my friends who are either single or have older children. I often hear of them going to bed early when they are tired. But alas, I myself had dinner to cook, dishes to wash, three baths to oversee, homework to help with, lunches to pack and clothes to set out for the next day. I was worn out and reflected upon how Mother's Day is approaching.
I absolutely agree with your view regarding taxi service at our airport (“Council should countermand taxi decision,” Sept. 18). The drivers are disrespectful and angry all the time! My husband and I also played the same guessing game upon getting into a taxi at the airport. After having our luggage literally thrown on the sidewalk, I called officials. I explained that I understood the driver's concern (“Airport taxi minimum fare is raised,” Sept. 18) and recommended having two taxi lines.
Gary Moskowitz A man suspected of stabbing a Glendale cab driver, stealing the cab and fleeing to Hollywood earlier this week is still at large in Los Angeles, police said. Glendale Police have turned the investigation over to the Los Angeles Police Department, Glendale Police Agent Leticia Chang said Tuesday. About 3 p.m. Monday, a man got into a Los Angeles Checkered Cab taxi at Glendale Avenue and Raleigh Street in Glendale. After getting into the cab, the suspect immediately stabbed the driver in his right hand and demanded all of his money.