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COLLEGE BASEBALL: Huskies open tourney with win

HARWICH, Mass. — Junior lefty Logan Carmen pitched a three-hit shutout and Tucker White homered to lead the top-seeded University of Southern Maine baseball team to a 5-0 win over Daniel Webster College in the first round of the New England regional tournament Wednesday.

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COMMENTARY ON FOOTBALL: Notre Dame greedy, not chicken

Brady Hoke was talking the way football coaches do, the way university presidents can’t. Imagine, if you will, the snickering in academia if Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, a biochemist by trade, accused her counterparts at Notre Dame of chickening out on a science fair.

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OUTDOORS: Osprey numbers taking off again

This column continues the discussion of osprey biology from my last column. I wrote about the dependence of osprey on live fish for food. Ospreys are not picky about the fish they prey upon in either salt- or freshwater environments. As long as the fish are in shallow water or within 3 feet of the surface of deeper water, they are at risk from an attack from above by a feathered menace.

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PREAKNESS: Orb draws rail at Preakness

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Preakness draw was over, and trainer Shug McGaughey listed a variety of reasons why he was OK with having Kentucky Derby winner Orb starting Saturday’s race from the rail.