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...important now than ever. The “positives” of life cannot shut down in war. For some, sports are like oxygen, especially in the United States among 18-to-24-year-olds. A great deal of our soldiers fall into this demographic. Our troops not only miss their families—they also miss entering office pools and rooting for the underdogs in the NCAA Tournament...
...Summers’ serve was wicked awesome, and I don’t use those words lightly. About half the time I would hit it back long, and about half the time I would just lunge awkwardly and miss completely. But Ben W. was just awful...
When you’re in a parade with Miss Teen Maryland primly waving in the car in front of you and Miss Maryland blowing kisses in the float behind, it’s hard to not to wonder how you got there...
Last weekend my “reign” as Maryland’s Junior Miss came to an end, a year after I entered the pageant on a whim. Billed as a “scholarship program for accomplished high school seniors,” America’s Junior Miss program looked like a good chance to get some money for Harvard. Though my mother never forced false eyelashes on my three-year-old self in an attempt to capture the Mid-Atlantic Miss Dream Girl title, my first cousin, Miss America 1979 had been pestering...
...found myself, participant seven of ten, a little out of my league. Most of the girls were old hat (crown?) to the pageant scene—former Miss Chesapeakes, Miss Teen Marylands to name a few. Junior Miss is a little different from traditional pageants—heavy emphasis on academics, talent and interview, and only high school seniors are allowed to compete...