MM 4.7: Jared Bernhardt and Brett Makar earn Big Ten weekly honors
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Maryland men’s lacrosse attacker Jared Bernhardt and defender Brett Makar earned Big Ten honors this week.
Bernhardt was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week after breaking the all-time program record for career goals. The five goals the Florida native scored on April in then-No. 3 Maryland’s 17-10 victory over then-No. 19 Penn State broke Matt Rambo’s previous record of 155 goals.
Bernhardt is the second player in Big Ten history to earn the weekly honor four times in a single season.
Makar earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the first time after causing a both career-high three turnovers and grabbing a career-high five ground balls in the victory over the Nittany Lions. He helped hold Penn State to just eight goals before the final two minutes of the game.
State Roundup: Legislature OKs $52.4 billion budget targeted at Covid recovery; wrangling continues over police reform
House of Delegates March 2021, MarylandReporter.com photo
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OKs $52.4B BUDGET: Danielle Gaines of Maryland Matters reports that the Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to a $52.4 billion budget that House Appropriations Chairwoman Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) said is worthy of a moniker: “I call this The Recovery Act,” she said.
Only in 2021, perhaps, could approval of a massive state budget fattened by federal aid to help struggling businesses and families go by with barely a remark in the General Assembly. “It’s been like ‘small ball’ this year to pass the budget,” Senate President Bill Ferguson said as his chamber voted Friday to put the finishing touches on the $52 billion spending plan, up from a $49 billion proposal made in January, Pamela Wood and Bryn Stole report in the Sun.
Bill would get college athletes paid for endorsements
By JACOB STEINBERG of Capital News ServiceMarch 4, 2021 GMT
College athletes could be allowed to profit off of their name, image and likeness, and would be better protected under a bill that passed the Maryland House of Delegates this week.
HB0125 and its cross-file, SB0439, with sponsors Del. Brooke E. Lierman, D-Baltimore, Sen. Justin Ready, R-Carroll and Sen. Chris West, R-Baltimore County, are part of a growing conversation nationally surrounding the economic, mental and physical well-being of college athletes.
Also titled the Jordan McNair Safe and Fair Play Act, the bill aims to protect student athletes from tragedies like McNair’s death, and cases of sexual abuse as seen with the Michigan State University gymnastics team.
Family of Maryland Football Player Who Died Gets Settlement By Catherine Scott | February 1, 2021
After a two-year-long process, a family will be awarded a $3.5 million settlement from Maryland after their son, Jordan McNair, died during a university football practice.
The Board of Public Works voted unanimously during a meeting Wednesday to approve the request from the University of Maryland, College Park for the full settlement of all claims made by Martin McNair and Tonya Wilson, the parents of McNair.
“No amount of money is ever gonna bring back Jordan to his family,” Comptroller Peter Franchot, D, said at the meeting. “The McNair family entrusted the University of Maryland with Jordan’s care and quite frankly, a number of people failed him.”
“No parent should ever have to experience the unspeakable agony that Tonya Wilson and Martin McNair have been through,” Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said.