A 2000 story in the City Paper has some Baltimore ghost stories you may not have heard before.

Ghosts of the Prairie has a page on Haunted Ellicott City while the Shadowlands index has a page of Haunted Places in Maryland.

The Maryland Terps, fresh off a heartbreaking homecoming loss to Virginia Saturday night, host the Clemson Tigers this Saturday at 3:30 in College Park.

CUTigers.com, the Clemson fan site that’s part of the Scout network, had the following article today:

Sitting in front of a group of reporters Monday morning, Davis was asked if he thought all the criticism from fans and media would resurface should Clemson lose Saturday at Maryland.

His answer showed the supreme confidence and leadership every team needs.

“Probably so, depending on how we lose,” he said of taking more heat. “But I don’t see us losing this game. We’re going to win this game. We’re going to win. Guaranteed. …

“If we want to go to the ACC championship game, we can’t lose. I think our team is going to be there in that game. And in order for us to be in that game, we’ve got to win the rest of these games on out. No hesitation. We’re going to win this game.”

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“A lot of guys take a lot of heat,” Davis said. “Somebody’s got to take the pressure. I’m just trying to put the team on my back and show them what kind of attitude I have for this game and for the rest of the games on out. We’ve got to win games.”

For the record, I’m a native of South Carolina and I grew up a Clemson fan and I’ll be at the game pulling for the Tigers. I am personally uncomfortable about guarantees and giving your opponent bulletin board material of any kind usually especially since the Clemson-Maryland series in the Bowden vs. Friedgen Era has returned to the dogfight every year that it was in the Ross vs. Ford era.

I’ll blog more about the game later in the week.

UPDATE: Heather Dinich mentioned this earlier after I tipped her to the original Scout article.

United Industrial Corporation of Hunt Valley has been sold to Textron, Inc. of Rhode Island (more here and here.) United’s subsidiary AAI is responsible for the manufacture of the Shadow UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle pictured in a Defense Dept. photo at left) that has been used extensively in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Textron has a variety of defense contracts it would appear. They also make Bell helicopters, Cessna airplanes and E-Z-Go golf carts. The deal is reportedly worth $1.1 billion with United shareholders getting $81 a share. United’s revenue has increased since 2001 to near the $700 million mark. United’s stock rose 6 percent yesterday while Textron’s fell 2 percent after the deal was announced. AAI recently purchased Aerosonde which flies commercial UAVs like ones that NOAA has used to fly through tropical storms.

All 1,400 employees in Hunt Valley are expected to keep their jobs as United is integrated into Textron.

Madison Park had a report in The Sun yesterday on a new surveillance camera law passed by Aberdeen City Council.

Monoblogue was the host this time.