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Former Maryland star blasts Mike Locksley, New York Jets for interview
Former Maryland star quarterback Boomer Esiason hasn’t been shy to voice his opinions if he believes he’s right — especially about his alma mater. He starred at Maryland from 1979-83 and set 17 school records. He knows a thing or two about having success in college and Esiason isn’t having it that Mike Locksley interviewed for the New York Jets’ head coaching job.
On his morning show, he slammed the Maryland head coach. Esiason believes the Jets interviewed Locksley as a favor to his agent and the Jets likely don’t have any interest in Locksley as their head coach.
“I think one of the reasons Mike Locksley, the head coach at the University of Maryland, got an interview was because that was a favor for the agent. And probably a little bit of a favor for Mike to show the University of Maryland that Mike, you know, could leave at any time. And I’m sure Mike’s feeling a lot of pressure because it hasn’t gone well for the University of Maryland football team over the last three to four years now,” Esiason said on Boomer and Gio, his show on New York sports radio station WFAN.
Locksley has gone 33-41 as the head man at Maryland and the Terrapins are coming off of a 4-8 season. While Locksley hasn’t done a bad job with Maryland, it’s never going to be easy to compete in the Big Ten against Michigan, Ohio State, or Oregon. The NIL era is upon us and those colleges are going to do a better job recruiting year-in and year-out.
“I don’t suspect that it’s going to get any better. He can recruit as much as he wants, but his team becomes a development ground for Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, teams that have a lot more money, although supposedly they’ll have the same amount of money and be able to share it with their athletes moving forward because of that lawsuit that finally came to an end.”
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Police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
The driver of a car involved in a crash with a Prince George’s County school bus in Accokeek, Maryland, on Friday has been identified.
Prince George’s County police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Bryans Road in Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive around 7:20 a.m. when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
Investigators said the crash happened in the intersection, causing the school bus to flip onto its side. Gravely died at the scene.
The school bus driver was transported to a hospital and treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police said no students were on the bus at the time of the crash.
Investigators said they believe debris from the collision damaged a third vehicle. The driver of that vehicle “declined medical attention,” police said.
The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 301-731-4422.
WTOP’s Acacia James contributed to this report.
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A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Talk about a birthday surprise! A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Maurice Williams, a school bus driver in D.C., claimed the first top prize on a $5,000,000 LUXE scratch-off. He had used his $50 winnings from a previous LUXE scratch-off ticket to buy a new one the next day.
In a release from the Maryland Lottery, Williams said he didn’t know he had won until he scanned the ticket: “It’s crazy because the matching number was 59 and I just turned 59 the other day.”
Williams said he sat in shock for a while before calling his mother.
He said he plans to buy his mother a house with the winnings and then save up.
Two more top prizes from the scratch-off have yet to be claimed, the Maryland Lottery said, as well as nine $200,000 prizes, 10 $50,000 prizes and thousands of prizes ranging from $50 to $10,000.
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