Maryland
Michigan State heads to Maryland looking for first road win of season
EAST LANSING – Does Michigan State have issues on the road?
It’s January 21 and the Spartans have yet to win a game outside of the state of Michigan: they’re 0-3 in true road games and 1-2 in neutral-site games, with their lone win coming against Baylor at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
Yet Tom Izzo doesn’t think the road has been the problem in those losses.
“We’ve got this ‘You haven’t won on the road.’ We haven’t won on the road because we’re not good enough to win on the road,” Izzo said after his team’s last road loss, to Illinois on Jan. 11. “It’s not because of the road.”
Michigan State will likely find out whether that’s true or not during a pair of road games this week, at Maryland on Sunday (noon, CBS) and at No. 11 Wisconsin on Friday.
Michigan State is far from alone in the Big Ten in having a lackluster road record. Through Friday’s games, Big Ten home teams had own 73 percent of conference games, on pace to be the highest figure in decades. That percentage includes the conference’s top teams: Purdue is just 2-2 in road games, and Wisconsin dropped a game at Penn State last week.
The Spartans’ last road loss was by three to a then-top-10 Illinois team. It’s also lost away from home to Duke and Arizona, who are also both ranked. Izzo defended most of those performances as strong, just not strong enough.
“We’re not losing games because we can’t win on the road,” Izzo said. “We’re losing games because we didn’t play well enough on the road. There’s a big difference.”
But if the Spartans are going to rally in the last 13 games of the regular season and make the NCAA Tournament after an 11-7 start, road wins will be necessary.
Maryland started the season 1-4 with losses to Davidson and UAB, but a week ago recorded its best win of the season, on the road at Illinois.
Fifth-year Terrapins guard Jahir Young has averaged 26.5 points per game in his team’s last six games and is coming off of a 36-point performance on Wednesday at Northwestern in a loss.
But Maryland (11-7, 3-4) is also the worst 3-point shooting team in the Big Ten at just 27.9 percent.
Michigan State has won two straight entering the game, over Rutgers and Minnesota – although Izzo lamented after the team’s Minnesota win on Thursday that his team didn’t “progress” in a game that was tied with four minutes left before the Spartans won by 10.
“We didn’t do some things early and that’s disappointing and I will stay disappointed in it and be happy about the win,” Izzo said.
The effort, which included allowing Minnesota to shoot better than 50 percent from the field for much of the game, likely won’t be sufficient when the Spartans head on the road and look to break through.
“I’m going right to work on Maryland which is a big road game that we have next,” Izzo said.
Maryland
Maryland Sen. Dalya Attar barred from using criminal case evidence in campaign
BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) — Maryland Sen. Dalya Attar, a Baltimore Democrat facing federal conspiracy and extortion charges, sought permission to use confidential evidence from her case as part of her reelection campaign, according to a court order filed this week.
A federal judge rejected the request.
In an order filed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher ruled that Attar could not publicly reference evidence the government had designated as confidential and provided to her defense team under a protective order.
Gallegher wrote that publicly acknowledging the government’s evidence, even if not providing the actual evidence, goes against a court directive that evidence provided by the government may only be used to defend the case.
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Road Closures Sunday For Bel Air Town Run
BEL AIR, MD — Road closures will be in place Sunday for the Bel Air Town Run starting at 8 a.m.
Drivers should expect temporary road closures and traffic delays along the race route, which includes:
- Main Street
- Broadway
- Hickory Avenue
- North Shamrock Road
- Troutdale Terrace
- Majors Choice Drive
- Benjamin Road
- Lee Way
- Connecting roadways in and around the course
The race will finish near the Shamrock Park Complex. The event is expected to last approximately 1.5 hours, and roads will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so, officials noted.
Maryland
Family fights off attempted carjacking in Oxon Hill
Home security cameras caught a frightening scene in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Thursday when police say an armed teenager tried to carjack a man outside his home.
It would have been the second carjacking to happen in front of Jheyco Borda’s home. But he and other family members decided to fight back.
Borda said he was installing a dashcam in his truck when he noticed a group of people, who appeared to be teens, walk onto his block.
“And I saw six kids come by playing around … And out of my corner of my eye, they stepped in front of my car … in front of the neighbor’s house,” Borda said in an interview with News4’s sister station Telemundo44.
Borda said he quickly called his brother, who was in the house, and then got out and began securing things in the back of his truck.
“I saw them put on a face mask. As soon as I figured that one out, I was like, something’s about to go down,” he said.
One of the teens then went up to Borda and pointed a gun in his face.
“And I told him, ‘The car is on. The keys are inside.’ And he saw my phone and was, like, ‘Give me your phone, too.’ So I gave it to him. When he got distracted looking at my phone, that was the split second when I grabbed the gun out of his hand,” Borda said.
Borda, a former member of the U.S. military, was joined by his brother, who’s about to enlist in the Air Force.
“Then my pops came out, and he got control of one guy,” Borda said.
During the struggle to get control of the gun the teen pulled the trigger, Borda said.
The family eventually subdued two of the teenagers and waited until police arrived.
There’s a large bullet hole in Borda’s truck. He said he’s grateful no one was hurt.
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