Childs Walker
Sports Enterprise Reporter at Baltimore Sun
Sun sportswriter, Baltimorean by birth and choice, striving to remain entertained until death.
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3 weeks ago |
baltimoresun.com | Childs Walker
COLLEGE PARK - Buzz Williams was the first person to utter the name "Willard," and that was 29 minutes into the news conference/pep rally celebrating Williams' arrival as the fresh steward of Maryland men's basketball. The university did its darnedest Wednesday to whip up a spectacle that would purge the toxicity around its previous coach's departure and project enthusiasm for a new day. Maryland's pep band blasted upbeat tunes. Cheerleaders danced.
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3 weeks ago |
baltimoresun.com | Childs Walker
Speed was of the essence. University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines said so Sunday in his first comments after men's basketball coach Kevin Willard dumped the Terps in favor of Villanova. Pines understood how important it was to assert the "urgency and thoroughness" of the university's national coaching search after Willard had held Maryland hostage in a will-he-won't-he-drama throughout the NCAA Tournament.
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baltimoresun.com | Childs Walker
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capitalgazette.com | Childs Walker
Orioles’ strengths and weaknesses are clear — and will define their 2025 | ANALYSIS Can Baltimore's mighty bats compensate for its spotty pitching? Time will tell.
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3 weeks ago |
baltimoresun.com | Childs Walker
Ding dong, Kevin Willard is gone. Good riddance, Maryland fans cried Sunday after 10 days of feeling captive to their (former) basketball coach's leverage play. What Willard initially pitched as his public crusade to elevate Maryland's men's program quickly morphed into a more cynical episode as it became clear he probably would decamp to Villanova. What was the use of publicly cataloging Maryland's failings if he knew he was out the door?
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Today is my last at the Baltimore Sun after 24 years. Thanks to every colleague, editor, source and reader who made it fun and hard and helped me get better. It hurt to watch a great civic institution crumble, but I got to do the work I wanted for the paper I grew up reading.
Maryland puts on a show to celebrate Buzz Williams and forget Kevin Willard | ANALYSIS https://t.co/9sPMwClC7n
In Buzz Williams, Maryland basketball makes safe, and smart, hire | ANALYSIS https://t.co/zlSzZQ1N9S