Sports Boosters are excited to announce our first golf tournament! The event will feature guest golfer and Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb, breakfast, lunch, a silent auction and other great golf contests.
Tuesday, July 10
7:30 a.m. breakfast / 9 a.m. shotgun start / 1:30 p.m. lunch and awards
Greystone Golf Course
2115 White Hall Road
White Hall, Md. 21161
More details and a registration form are available in the Golf Tournament Brochure or you can register below.
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The Ravens got who they wanted with their first pick, and from what Eric DeCosta, Ravens director of player personnel at the time, told the Sports Boosters of Maryland on May 16, it seems they filled their draft class with viable additions.
DeCosta joined the Sports Boosters and guests at Linwood’s Restaurant in Pikesville, Md., for the annual draft discussion concerning who the Ravens picked in that year’s NFL draft and why. DeCosta did not disappoint the sold-out room this year, filling in guests with what potential he feels this year’s draft class has and in general how we feels the team will do this season. He was complementary of the players but said the most important indicator of performance is effort.
May 16, 2012
For immediate release
Contact: Krystina Lucido
Krystina@sportsboosters.com
Sports Boosters Announces Grant to Upstart Youth Football League
Baltimore Terps, new football league for Northwest Baltimore kids, set to start inaugural season in fall 2012
BALTIMORE, Md. — Sports Boosters is proud to announce a $5,000 grant to Baltimore Terrapins Unlimited Youth Football, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The program, based in the Park Heights area of Northwest Baltimore, formed for children to play football “regardless of weight, experience or ability.”
This grant is one of many Sports Boosters has initiated in its 50-year history, and one the organization felt truly encompassed our mission of funding youth sports programs. The funds will go toward initial start-up costs for the organization including uniforms, equipment and game fees.
The Ravens are doing ‘everything they can’ to ensure Eric DeCosta succeeds Ozzie Newsome.
Posted by Garrett Downing on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 7:56 am
An unspoken, but understood progression within the Ravens organization has been that when General Manager Ozzie Newsome decides to call it quits, Eric DeCosta will step into the role.
It’s no longer just an implicit understanding.
Owner Steve Bisciotti could not have been more clear when he addressed the topic at the NFL owners meetings this week.
“I think everybody in the organization views Eric as Ozzie’s successor and we’re doing everything we can to make that transition work,” Bisciotti said.
DeCosta, the Ravens Director of Player Personnel, has been a popular name around the NFL the last few years and is often brought up as a potential candidate whenever a new general manager position opens.
Earlier this year, the Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams were all reportedly interested in talking with DeCosta about their G.M. openings, but he chose to remain with the Ravens and the team worked out a new contract to ideally keep him Baltimore for at least the next few years.
“We did again restructure Eric’s contract in a way where I think he’s off the market for a few years,” Bisciotti told The Baltimore Sun.
Newsome, 55, has been the team’s general manager since 2002, but he has not expressed interest in retiring anytime soon.
“I don’t know how much longer,” Newsome said last month. “I want Super Bowls. Steve and I talk about two Super Bowls and three Super Bowls. Once I get to that point, I’ll start deciding.”
Decosta has been with the organization since its inception in 1996, working his way up from an entry-level scout to his current position, which he took on in 2009. During his tenure as scouting director, the Ravens have taken players such as Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Ray Rice and Joe Flacco.
DeCosta works extremely close with Newsome, and Bisciotti joked that he doesn’t want to even think about both of them being gone.
“I certainly don’t want to entertain the thought of being without any one of them,” Bisciotti said. “So if Eric leaves before Ozzie is ready, then Ozzie is staying on until he’s 80.”
Source: BaltimoreRavens.com
Nine student basketball and football players from northwest Baltimore County will be honored next month by McCormick as Unsung Heroes, for “contributing substantially to the success of their teams without receiving acclaim.”
Janet Metzner, PikesvillePatch.com
Powered by Me!, a St. Joseph initiative to educate high school and college students on the dangers associated with being a young athlete, held its sixth annual conference May 1 at the Crowne Plaza in Timonium.
Nick DiMarco, TimoniumPatch.com
Video of one speaker, former DC United forward Santino Quaranta
Oriole Chris Davis stopped by Christian Youth Athletics’ opening day on April 28
Tyler Waldman, TowsonPatch.com
On April 20, the varsity and junior varsity girls lacrosse teams honor Breanna Sudano, who went into cardiac arrest during a jayvee field hockey game on Sept. 27, 2011, with a special “Red Out” game against Joppatowne.
Sudano survived thanks to two coaches and three parents who gave the 13-year-old freshman CPR until the medics arrived.
The girls plan to wear all red, including T-shirts that read “Bre-Strong” to the game on April 20. A teammate who was present during Breanna’s collapse is expected to make a speech, and Perry Hall varsity coach Chastin Faith, one of the coaches who ran to Sudano’s aid, will present Sudano with flowers and name her an honorary captain of the lacrosse team.
Sales of T-shirts and wristbands, as well as donations, will benefit the American Heart Association.
