Eleanor Roosevelt

The question posed to Eleanor Roosevelt senior guard Chaun Miller elicited a pause, then a laugh, yet the answer was anything but a joke. What has it been like filling in at point guard, a position he had never played, while senior Akil Charles recovers from a broken elbow? "Behind the SATs, that's probably the hardest thing I ever did," Miller said. "You don't really know how hard the point guard position is until you have to play it. " Against No. 13 Wise on Friday night in Upper Marlboro, the No. 10 Raiders showed...

Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family," died May 31 at her home in New York City. She was 90. Her son, John Putch, confirmed her death but did not disclose a specific cause. Little known to the public before "All in the Family," she co-starred with Carroll O'Connor in the CBS sitcom about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he churlishly but fondly called "Dingbat," their...

CATONSVILLE, Md., March 14 -- In her hand, Olivia Applewhite clutched an orange sports drink. In her arms, she held Lacie Hall. Together, the Eleanor Roosevelt seniors spun around in circles, over and over again, a spontaneous act that released a season's worth of pressure and celebrated a historic achievement. By rolling to a 67-39 victory over No. 18 Blake yesterday at UMBC's RAC Arena, second-ranked Eleanor Roosevelt won its fifth straight Maryland 4A championship. Only Brooklyn Park has accomplished that feat, when it won...

Overwhelmed by the moment, Glen Burnie freshman Alyssa Allender collected herself for a minute before talking about the swing that lifted her team to a 4-1 win over Chesapeake in Friday's Maryland 4A East region final. The Gophers (15-6) trailed 1-0 in the fourth with two outs and two runners on base when Allender unleashed a left-handed golf swing on a low, inside pitch for a three-run home run that soared more than 200 feet over the right field fence in Pasadena. "I just knew I had...

Bowie boys' basketball coach Cedric Holbrook has worried all season about putting too much expectation on a team that features just two seniors in its regular rotation. Before sending the Bulldogs out to play third-ranked Eleanor Roosevelt , he told his players he'd be proud regardless of the result as long as they played hard. Bowie not only battled the previously unbeaten Raiders for 40 minutes on Friday night in Greenbelt, but Holbrook's youthful squad thrived in the the contest's most pressure-packed moments on...

The opponents have changed, but the early-season story has remained the same for the Wise girls' basketball team. Riding defensive tenacity, a sound transition game and senior point guard Janay Borum's playmaking, Wise improved to 3-0 Friday with a 78-46 win against five-time defending 4A state champion Eleanor Roosevelt. Borum finished with 13 points and 10 assists while backcourt mate Leslie Slayton led all scorers with 18 points. Following up a 30-point effort against High Point on Tuesday, Roosevelt senior...

The first two times Wise played Eleanor Roosevelt in football, the outcomes were what anyone would have expected given that the former was a brand-new school and the latter was an established regional power. Wise, which opened its doors in 2006, dropped its first two contests to Roosevelt by a combined 74 points. But then, in 2008, one of the most intense and fastest-growing rivalries in Prince George's County 4A football was born. Not when Wise defeated Roosevelt, 14-6, in double overtime in the first...

Eleanor Roosevelt senior Emmanuel Matey clapped his hands and playfully threw an arm around teammate Jesse Ason during the third quarter of Monday night's boys' basketball game at No. 12 DuVal . On the previous play, Matey had drawn a gasp from the crowd when he whipped a no-look pass to the wide-open Ason. Instead of resulting in an easy basket, the layup rimmed out and the senior forward drew a foul when he went back up with the resulting rebound. Whenever Matey attacked the...

Down by seven points midway through the third quarter and without its top scorer on Tuesday against C.H. Flowers , the Eleanor Roosevelt boys' basketball team once again found a way to keep its perfect record in tact. The third-ranked Raiders held the Jaguars scoreless for more than nine minutes and senior forward Malachi Alexander scored a season-high 18 points in a 49-40 victory . After falling by three points to Magruder in the Maryland 4A final last March , Eleanor...

Mollie D. Somerville, who got her start as a writer and researcher working for Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House, died July 7 of congestive heart failure at Arleigh Burke Pavilion in McLean. She was 102. "Perhaps I am the only one still alive who, as an adult, worked closely with Eleanor Roosevelt," she wrote in her 1996 memoir, "Eleanor Roosevelt As I Knew Her" (1996). "Many people have written about Eleanor Roosevelt, yet few knew her personally or were part of the times in which she lived.

After a breakout junior season in which he connected on a number of clutch home runs, Eleanor Roosevelt senior center fielder Trevor Allen was mired in a long-ball slump this spring. He was convinced that word passed around to pitchers in Maryland that he couldn't hit a curveball, telling himself that the chatter was part of the reason that he hit just one home run all year, which came a month ago against Laurel . Allen was determined to change that perception Friday afternoon against Bowie ,...

Throughout his eighth season, Eleanor Roosevelt boys' basketball Coach Brendan O'Connell has said the pieces just seemed to fit for a senior-laden group with plenty of experience on the state's largest stage. Eleanor Roosevelt returned to the state tournament at Comcast Center for the fourth straight year, and on Saturday night, O'Connell's squad closed a special season in style, celebrating the Maryland 4A crown that has always been just out of reach with a 61-56 victory over No. 9 ...

Eleanor Roosevelt senior Emmanuel Matey squirted through the lane, met a North Point defender and powered up through contact to score early in the fourth quarter of Thursday's Maryland 4A boys' basketball state semifinal. By the time Matey had peeled himself off the floor to shoot his free throw, the blue-clad fans who made the short trip to the University of Maryland's Comcast Center had reached full throat. That three-point play capped a 19-3 run that catapulted the...

With 41 seconds left in last year's Maryland 4A boys' basketball semifinal against Eleanor Roosevelt , North Point Coach Jimmy Ball gathered his players near the home bench at Comcast Center. Playing for one shot in a tie game, the coach drew up a pick-and-roll for point guard Marquis Wright and forward Naim Muhammad with overtime a worst-case scenario. Though the set worked to perfection with Wright getting free on the right baseline for a...

Wise senior D.J. Nedab knocked down a three-pointer with about two seconds left in Friday's Maryland 4A South boys' basketball final , but the Pumas had no timeouts left and could only watch as the clock expired on Eleanor Roosevelt 's 56-55 victory. In the next instant, the Raiders and their fans had swarmed the court in Greenbelt, bouncing wildly as the YouTube hit "Harlem Shake" blared through the gym. Fifth-ranked Eleanor Roosevelt has become accustomed to such...

One of the most effective plays for No. 4 North Point in its Friday night matchup against Arundel could not have been designed. In the final minute of the Maryland 4A East region final, an 89-64 North Point victory, senior point guard Marquis Wright slashed into the lane and missed a layup, but forward Matt Bonds swooped in to clean it up at the rim for an easy two points that pushed the lead to 20 points and brought a timeout to...

Eleanor Roosevelt senior Shawn Petty isn't a typical quarterback. The lefty has averaged only 12 pass attempts per game over his three-year career in the run-heavy Prince George's County 4A league. He's built more like a linebacker, which is the position he truly excels at and will play next season at Maryland. But when he's under center, Petty is a leader, a playmaker and a winner. He's a 6-foot-3, 220-pound tank who is dangerous on his feet and capable of plowing through defenders — as he did on Saturday in a 20-12 win...

CATONSVILLE — North Point junior Khaila Prather took a pounding in the lane throughout Thursday's Maryland 4A girls' basketball state semifinal, battling inside with Eleanor Roosevelt forwards Sandra Okafor and Tolu Omokore . With the shot clocking winding down late in overtime, Prather had no choice but to attack the basket one more time. The 6-foot-2 forward drew the foul and made the go-ahead free throw with 12 seconds left as third-ranked North Point held off No....