Bohs in the Bleachers

Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 2:22 pm

For the majority of us Charm City sports fans, our list of fanatical priorities looks something like this:

1. Ravens
2. Orioles
3. Terps Basketball

Those teams, in some order, are consistently the top three listed when the sports lover in Baltimore is polled.

There is good news and excitement on all three of those fronts this week.

On Monday, the Ravens held a press conference to officially introduce newly acquired wide receiver Anquan Boldin (read more about that here).

(Baltimore Sun photo by Gene Sweeney Jr. / March 8, 2010)

Around lunch time on Tuesday, it was announced that Greivis Vasquez was named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Player of the Year. Vasquez beat Duke’s John Scheyer, who was second in the voting, by a margin of 39-12.

AP Photo

You Terps fans who were ready to riot all over again should Scheyer win (or even share the award with Greivis): you can put down the couch now.

Just a few minutes later, word came down that Gary Williams had won ACC Coach of the Year. Gary beat down the competition even more convincingly than did his senior guard, besting Coach K 42-8.

AP Photo

Once again, the Terps handed the Dookies a beatin’.

On the orange and black front, the O’s will have their first Sports Illustrated cover in 13 years this week. Second year catcher Matt Wieters graces the March 15, 2010 issue with his “tower of power, next Joe Mauer” presence.

Some of you may worry about the “SI Cover Jinx,” but hey…NOT having any players on the cover for the last 13 years sure hasn’t helped any, so let’s go the other route for a bit.

Next week, Brian Matusz!*

Soak it up, fellow Marylanders. The weather seems to finally be turning to spring, the last bits of that awful snow are melting, and our teams are all representing themselves quite well at the moment.

*Unconfirmed

Filed in: College BBall, Orioles, Ravens, Terps.

Tags: Anquan Boldin, Baltimore, Gary Williams, Greivis Vasquez, Matt Wieters, Sports Illustrated