paul hewitt and george mason hosting georgia state. the first half, georgia state, they are going to miss the three. upper marlboro with the rebound and throws the touchdown pass to mike morrison pais tri yachts bench loving it. final minute, the lead is only down to one. now ryan pierson is going to get it inside. he was held without a field goal, but yeah, that's going to go. george mason defeats georgia state to take over sole possession of first place. how about american hosting colegate. rally is going to get it to go. and the foul. strong play. final minute of the first half. simon is going to drive down the lane. and au out of an 18-0 run. 82-54 to improve to 6-0 at home. they fall to st. louis 78-56. that's former george mason coach, now with miami taking on virginia. final minute, cavs lead by 2. they go inside to mike scott. nice spin move. and he had a game high 23. virginia by 4. final seconds, miami down one. scott going to drive, pivot, misses the layup, grabs the rebound. great name and well, that was good enough to get

tonight, but they faced george mason. fires, the rainbow fadeaway jumper. 45-23 mason. in the second half, of pearson with an ice core, the jam. george mason wins, 89-83. virginia tech now on the road against boston college. b.c. with the second half lead. the kiss off the glass, two points. boston college wins. army-navy rivalry, without explanation. with the steel, goes all the way, for the layup and one. army cruises, 75-62. the miracle run of tim tebow and the broncos has come to an end and getting blown out by the patriots 45-10. he completed only three passes in the first half. >> how many touchdowns did pretty have in the first half? >> about 5. >> that hurts. >> more than 70 young women are headed to college thanks to oprah winfrey. she thought the school in south africa to provide an education for underprivileged girls. when free said that she decided to act after talking with former south african president nelson mandela about ways to end poverty. >> this is the beginning of the ending of poverty. these girls have now broken the cycle of poverty in their famil

george mason leads at the break 34-31. second half byron allen with the ball, drives strong to the bucket, plus one and the foul. allen finished with 14 points. just over a minute to go, george mason up by 5. bazmore tries to dunk but mike morrison says i don't think so. take a look here, it's blocked and the ball gets stuck between the rim and the back board. george mason defeats old dominion 63-54 improving to 11-4. >> tomorrowtown hockey. just two days after taking an elbow to the head, niklas backstrom was back practicing with the team. he said he will make the trip to california for the next two games. >> yevgeny in russia playing for a gold medal. pick it up with 40 seconds, no score. sweet pass but yo han gustavson makes the save. see again. the teams combine for 66 shots in regulation but no score. we go to overtime. in o.t., loose puck along the board, skates in and goes back hand for the golden goal and sweden wins it 1-0, capturing the gold medal, their first gold medal at the world junior championship in 31 yea

the easy steal and george mason led at the break. the cent half, ryan pearson doing work on the man down low and with that move. the lay-up and the foul. mason built the 24-point lead and win 89-83. >>> elsewhere, american hosting hole cross. the first half, the eagles in white taking command and brewer with the win and with that 18- point lead. getting pickpocketed and with the dunk for mike. holy cross rallies to take a 47- 46 lead into -- lead into the second half. holy cross went without a basket the final nine minutes. munoz, 14 points, 10 boards and au over holy cross, 57-54. >>> we anyway hole cross would make a run. they're a team that plays in spurts. when they went ahead, the fact that we were able to respond with our own spurt, you know, on that was very good to see? is -- that is a nice win for our club. >>> virginia tech on the road, the final seconds, the hokies down seven and eddie with the 3- pointer, coming forward nine secs ago, and trailing by five. eddie again for three. the lead is set to two and that is how the

george mason up 17 another the break. second half now, eric walden drys. cory edwards to rod wright. monster dunk, wright had a game high 22 points, george mason wins 22-60, improving to 7-1. jeff jones coaching barefoot in support of samaritan's feet. eagles drive. joe la vet with a tough shot and it goes. second half, it was the troy brewer show, gets a great look at the bucket, knocks it down, eagles up by 20. just cruising. later, and you so shouldn't leave him wide open. brewer buries the three-ball, he scored 19 of his game high points the second half. the eagles improve to 9-0 at home. >> all

george mason beats towsend 72-60. they have lost 39 straight. ouch. in foggy bottom, george washington going for their third win in four games. here's something worth cheering for. down six, tony taylor inside of john capreva. good looking play. gw trails at the break. second half, spots up, hits the jumper. part of a 15-4 run to open up the half. just over a minute to go. colonials lead by three. the sophomore from serbia, feeling it. knocks down the three. he finished a with season high 19 points. george washington beat charlotte, 60-52. the colonials win their third straight conference game. all right, let's go to bender arena. american hosting army. jeff jones coaching barefoot in such port of the samaritans feet. very good. drive, gets the tough shot to go. up 26-14 at halftime. second half, it was the troy brewer show. gets a good look at the bucket. knocks this down. eagles cruising, up by 20. later, brewer, wide open. top of your screen. and he buries it. brewer scored 19 of his game high 22 points in the second half. helping au defeat army, 6

george mason wins 89-79. the patriots have now won six straight. so george mason, 10-1 in the caa. paul hewitt, just his first year there, he's got his team on the top of the conference. >> way to go. >> my school plays mason on the 14th. >> which school is that? >> vcu. we're going to have to beat them. >> you can watch for live reports from indianapolis starting monday. >>> tommy, tommy, you rolling, you creeper? [ cheers and applause ] >> how are you doing? this is pat sullivan coming at you on

you will be putting on the george mason website? >> mse t definitely. >> we have seen some of the books that are on displplo here but you got posters throughout the libraogu here and i want to start with that one. what we look at here. >> this piece of paper. Ãoro one is a p goe from a writ pad that has brian lamb's notes about the boosit i hto te an envelope from a bil. looks like the horizoopl has not made additional notes. including some personal information. inatrick henogu in ariples, floa i understand the. i understand henry, it was the first person emplota d professionally in a professional capacity. tio it shows that brian lamb contained relationships throughout his life with his early mentors. >> let's continue. look at the full collection if we could. we have posters throughout. d o the purl sse of the pse ters to connect this part of the exhibit. which is the third gilding. or true free display cases containing the collection. in this particular case it is not just the books but we also have what we consider an artifact

george mason facing james madison. l let's get rowdy. suisham steals the pass and finishes with a two-handed dunk. morrison and up 35 at the break. back downs the defender and puts it up and in plus the foul. pearson scored 19 points. george mason in control. later in the half, sha rod whitewater to vaughn gray. george mason beat jmu 89-83, improving to 13-5. american university taking on holy cross. gumby in the house. early first half, crusaders with the ball. they turn it over. troy brewer here steps in for the steal and the dunk. eagles looking sharp. later in the first, au up by 15. check out charles hinkle. the bucket and he finished with a game high 17 points. second half now, hinkle drives, then sends a nice pass to daniel munoz. he hits a short jumper. munoz had 14 points. improving to 9-0 at home. elsewhere, boston college beats virginia tech. 61-59. and number 25 harvard defeats george washington 69-48. one late score coming in. the patriots haveneded the broncos season 45-10. they're moving on to the afc championship game. th

. >>> george mason remains one of the area's hottest teams. the patriots beat old dominion 63-54 last night in norfolk.

george mason wins it, 61-58. coach paul hewitt and the patriots remain undefeated, taking sole possession of first place. that's your sports in a minute. i'm hakim dermish. have a great day. >> you too. >> we are going to be back in 15 minutes for the morning's top stories and of course your sunday forecast. but for now, here's jim hanley. >> good morning, everyone. i'm jim hanley. welcome to reporter's notebook. in the district today, a lot of news coming out. we have two formal federal charges, felony charges against d.c. councilmember harry thomas jr., one for filing false tax returns, the other misuse of more than $300,000 in city funds. what does this mean for ward 5? what does this mean for other investigations involving city leaders? >> it looks like there's going to be jail time, which opens up a spot on district council. there will have to be a special election. someone will come in and fill his spot. it's ironic these charges first came to light by his republican opponent in the last election had questi

george mason is treated rudely the city of brotherly love. while they tried to be cavalier, va. gets the devil at duke. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. moving you forward. >> the virginia cavaliers are the surprise of the acc this season, ranked 17th in the nation. mike scott is healthy. bennett can coach. tonight, they were out to do. -- at duke. might scored 18. after intermission, the devils were nasty. big time nasty. duke wins a tough game. let's go to philadelphia. mike morrison goes inside. how about this move? 51-50 george mason. drexel rally down the street -- stretch. yes, sir. 56-51. 60-53 was the final. is a huge weekend for the nfl. baltimore, the ravens were gearing up for houston. we are not just happen to be this weekend, we want a whole lot more. >> we have been in the playoffs for the last four years. getting there is not good enough anymore. everybody knows the expectations. we expect to compete. that is the super bowl. >> the super bowl is the goal. washington capitals have green on the long- injury reserves. he cannot

a little caa action, paul huet and george mason. hitchens nails the three from the wing, humpity dumps 27 on mason. jmu down two at the break. but mason starts the second half on fire. latrell goes up and under for two of his points. six minutes to go now. mason up just three, who do the patriots go to when they need a big basket? ryan pearson, the big man knocks down the huge three and pearson had a game high 27 points, george mason wins 89-79. in the a-10, tony taylor and g.w. taking it to the bronx. under 30 seconds to play, g.w. down four. a shot blocked. fordham going for it on the other end. but tony taylor comes up with the steal. this is a crazy sequence. taylor brings it back up the floor. a huge bucket and the colonials are down just one. less than 10 seconds to go, ignore the scoreboard, it's wrong on your screen, g.w. was down just three here. here's taylor for the tie, but the tide is too strong. the colonials fall to 8 and 13 on the season. and just quick, tiger woods at the tournament today he shot a 66, he's in the l

george mason led as much as 18. a late tied come back with 72- 60 victory. indicative of how the season is, the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. age. >>> a piece of american history. dozens turned over to the guns believed to have been used by bonnie and clyde, the 45 caliber submachine gun and the gauge shotgun sold for combined $210,000. did they actually ever get away with that much money back then? with that much money back then? thhey, whadrinkin'? i'm drinkin' dunkin'. coffee -- black, straight up. extra cream, three sugars. iced coffee french vanilla. for me. iced coffee with a turbo shot. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. drinkin' dunki

. >> george mason tries to keep its perfect conference record intact. we'll have the highlights in sports. >> let's take a look at the question of the day. three out of ten married people admit to doing this and most of the offenders are women. is it a, eating food from their partner's plates. mmm. b, stealing the covers or c, using their partner's toothbrush. yuck. >> oh one of our facebook friends, she told me i threw the covers off. now i know. it is b. stealing the covers. >> log on to the facebook.com/wusa9 page and leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour. >>> temps starting in the 20s and 30s today. we'll have a couple of clouds passing from time to time. and a nice warm-up. by noon, we'll be pushing the 50 degree mark. this afternoon, look at the temperatures. mid even upper 50s to some areas south and west could touch 60 believe it or not. mike and an andrea, back to you. >> george mason takes on a tough opponent. >> one of the nfl head coaches fired at the end of the season has an interview with the redskins. kristin b

george mason wins 63-54 and improve to 3-0 in the caa. >>> still ahead lorenzo alexander in line for a big time award. >>> plus the all american game featuring some local stars tonight and one of them announced he's going to play close to home. we'll tell you after the break. whether or not s infrastructure  >>> welcome back. the redskins announced today linebacker lorenzo alexander has been selected as the team's 2011 walter payton nfl man of the year. this is alexander's second consecutive selection for the team award. it's the only league award that recognizes players off the field community service as well as playing excellent. so way to go, one man gang 97. >>> former bucs head coach raheem morris as talked to the redskins about an assistant coaching position. i worked with kyle shanahan in 2000 -- he worked with kyle shanahan in mid-2000. >>> d.c.'s eddie coleman from the d.c. academy started a tackle on the black squad, but potomac high school ronald darby came up with a nice pass break. he's going to notre dame in the fall and good second team wes brown announced he's going

lips and was a professor at george mason university. in fact in this case is another book by mason prof. which is saying she's which by the way is the only fiction to be highlighted in the book notes program. >> host: here are the rest of the 801 books. >> guest: these books are shelved in the order that they were in brian lamb's office act c-span and also they are in the order of the televised programs. >> host: except for the ones that taken out here -- >> guest: to indicate where is the exhibit is, belongs in this arrangement. >> host: these are the books in order. correct? >> guest: yes. >> host: were you a book notes -- >> guest: i was a regular book notes viewer and when brian lamb announced on the air the program was coming to an end i made a mental note that the next day i needed to look into the matter of whether or not we could obtain the collection in the associated archive film cases and organization. soon after, made contact with mr. brian lamb. we presented three separate proposals in 2005 until 2010. and then we convinced

. >>> ryan pearson and george mason hosting towson losing a recorow. patriots on the break, edwards to sherrod wright for the exclaiming dunk. george mason over towson 72-60. tigers are now 0-20 this season. >>> american hosting army. the eagles 12-0 all time at bender arena against the black knight. second half, danny munoz inside to tony roblici, the tallest player. au beats army 67-55. they are 9-0 at home. >>> hey, boos are supposed to be directed at the opposing team, not to players on the team that you root for. but if you are at a wizards game, you are hearing more boos and a lot of those boos are directed to one of those players, in particular and andray blatche. >> it became noticeable against oklahoma city. blatche has been hurt. he is fourth on the team averaging four points per game. after yesterday's loss, flip saunders had his back. >> it's not going to help somebody play better. it's showing displeasure. by booing, he is not going to go out and get 20 points and 20 rebounds because we are booing him. if that was the day, everybody would

george mason goes to 4-1. in league they went 72-60. charlotte at george washington this afternoon. season high 19. could loan analystscolonials. >>> the eagles spreading out to a 12-point lead. troy with 22. u. winning 67-55. a big nfl day tomorrow. we'll keep you updated on joe paterno. >> do you like baltimore's chances? >> i don't. i think the patriots will win and i think the giants will win the other game. >> okay. want to update for us? >> yes, we have the potential to get messy tomorrow, as the wintery mix moves on through. milder temperatures as we head into monday afternoon and into tuesday back into the low 50s. >> really liked the georgetown shot with the coach talking. >> that's the way they do it. >> they can't talk. he won't let them. thanks for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. bye. thanks for watching. >>> everything you missed from the "insider"'s golden globe coverage. >> plus, paula deen news after her diabetes admission. firing back at critics who claim she's cashing in on her disease. >> i'm brooke anderson. >> and i'm kevin frazier. >>> what pa

. >>> george mason in action tonight, hosting old doe pinion, ryan -- dominion. ryan pearson, pearson was a double double, 16 points, 14 rebounds, mike morrison with the dunk put patriot, 19-10, george mason stays perfect in conference play with a 63-54 win over old dominion. >> time the announce our winner of this week's high school game of the week you all chose blare at sherwood a girl's basketball match up in montgomery county, highlights will lead our coverage tomorrow night. >> dcs eddie goldman shined he is being recruited by over a dozen of the country's top colleges but this guy, wes brian from baltimore he will be a terp next year he is ranked 27th in country at tail back. >> some great players coming out of here, eddie goldman is being recruited by auburn, alabama, clemson i don't think he is coming to maryland. >> we will be right back >> thanks for joining us good night ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower chole

. >>> george mason remains one of the area's hottest teams. the patriots beat old dominion 63-54 last night in norfolk. this is george mason's first win at odu in eight years. they are now 11-4 on the season. they're 3-0 in conference play, and they'll take on georgia state at the patriot center saturday night. good to see the team carrying on without jim larinaga, so good job. >>> a dog who was feared dead after he was swept away in a deadly avalanche is now back home with his family. ali and his owners were cross country skiing on saturday when the avalanche occurred. david gallard was killed in the accident. his wife survived. the family thought the dog was killed as well. but the welsh corgi showed up at the alpine motel where the family was staying. rescuers say he was tired and hungry, but he will be fine. some stories to tell. >> how did he get out therefor? >> move quickly. >> there you go. this forecast -- i'm shaking my head, tom. temperatures in the teens just a couple of days ago. it's going to be 60 today? >> unbelievable. two day

george mason loses 60-53. their first conference lost since january 8th of last year. what a good streak they had going. duke picked this up in the final minute. evans misses the layup but mitchell with the follow-up dunk. virginia within two. cavs have a chance to win the game but they miss both their last second three pointers. virginia falls short 51-58. time now to reveal the winner. you chose a girl's basketball matchup between glenn park and largo. highlights will be the coverage tomorrow night. we have double coverage coming up right after the break. >>> welcome back to 9 sports. double coverage time. once again david and mitchell here with me this week. the redskins in the news this week. they hire former tampa bay head coach. david, your thoughts are bringing morrison. >> well, he's friend with kyle shanahan. he knows bruce allen from tampa. it's a good news move. i think the two negatives, jim is going to be looking over his shoulder to have this guy on his staff and, two, i heard what he did in tampa. the defense collapsed. it's worth a shot, i guess. >> unt

george mason wins it, 61-58. coach paul hewitt and the patriots remain undefeated, taking sole possession of first place. that's your sports in a minute. i'm hakim dermish. have a great day. >> the chances of seeing your film take off in hollywood, they're slim. but one local woman is going where no one has gone before, strictly to film fans to make her movie. jessica, good morning to you. glad to have you join us. >> thanks for having me. >> you're from the d.c. area but you spent many years out in los angeles and you realized the challenges of making a film. this really inspired you to do your own thing. >> absolutely. i started out work in the media conglomerate system in studios. and i learned if you wanted to make original film not based on a comic book or toy you had to do something else. that's what we started to do. >> and you turned to film fans. tell me a little bit about this concept. you're truly going to the people that enjoy film to make this movie. >> absolutely. art is eternal funded entirely by f

suzanne smith is an associate professor of history here at george mason university, and she has a new book out published by harvard, "to serve the living: funeral directors and the african-american way of death." dr. smith, what is the african-american way of death? >> guest: the african-american way of death is a way of thinking about death as not just death, but connected to freedom and connect today the struggle for civil rights. and in the book i tell a story about how the connection between death and freedom is so central to african-americans' understanding of funerals and deaths that it is, it hasn't been really considered in if quite the way i do in the book before, but it's essential to our understanding of the civil rights movement and also the history of african-american entrepreneurship. >> host: what is that story? >> guest: ing the story goes back to slavery, and in african-american culture they call a funeral a homegoing. and in the book i trace the story beginning there. and in the west african and transatlantic slave trade, african slaves often jumped ship on the middl

in march of 2006 they found one in george mason university's basketball program. >> three to go. a three. no good! by george, the dream is alive. >> the final four run gave us tremendous visibility and gave us tremendous opportunities to fund raise our applications were up for admissions. just the visibility of the -- to be able to tell a story how great a university is. >> against all odds jim led patriots' march through the ncaa tournament with reckless abandonment. known as much for just being a good guy as a winner on the court his legacy was never in question. just how long the green and gold would be able to keep one of the hottest coaches in the country was not as cut and dry. >> well you always want to keep good people whether it be the basketball coach or any coach or any administrator and you want to make them feel really well personally and professionally. but you also know that sometimes success brings other things and you have to deal with that. >> reporter: on april 22nd, 2011, he took his talents to the big leagues accepting a job at the university of miami. >> i c

george mason gets their eighth straight win over wilmington, 67-61. that will do it for your morning sports. i'm kristen berset, have a great tuesday. >>> coming up, we'll preview tonight's state of the union address plus the house committee convenes a hearing today on why the occupy d.c. protestors are still being allowed to camp out four months after their demonstration began. here's monika. >> we're going to take a live look at tysons at leesburg pike and international drive. no problems through this area on route 7. the toll road looks great out of reston. no problems on the beltway through the tysons area. coming up, more on virginia roadways at 5:29. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. >>> mike is under the weather. monika is here, feeling well. >> it is great. >> howard, a little cough there because mike's family visited him and breathed on him yesterday. >> yes, beautiful kids. hope they don't get me sick. >> we hope so, too. >> weatherwise, a couple of hiccups this morning. in the form of some dense fog in spots. a little bit of a

i should point out that the late professor was a professor here at george mason university. in fact, this contains another book by an mason professor, which is. [inaudible] which, by the way, is the only fiction book to be highlighted and the "booknotes" program. >> host: here are the rest of the 801 books, correct? >> guest: exactly. these are shelved in the order that they were in the office of brian lamb at c-span. also, they are in the order of the televised programs. >> host: so, beginning here, except for the ones that were taken out. >> guest: placeholders to indicate where they belong in this arrangement. >> host: and so these are the books in order to correct? >> guest: exactly. >> host: did you watch? >> guest: most definitely. i was a regular "booknotes" viewer. and win brian lamb announced on air that the program was coming to an end i made a mental note, and the next day i needed to look into the matter of whether we could obtain the collection and the associated archive from the c-span organization. soon thereafter we made contact with mr. brian lamb. we visite

c-span2 needed 801 ducks covered on booknotes to george mason university located just outside of washington, d.c.. the university is currently cataloguing the collection at the fenwick library. booknotes an hour-long interview program interviewed host yy brian lamb to the lesson for. the gm university library in shows us the collection entitled beyond the book. >> in the mind of brian, this book is the genesis of all of the booknotes program c-span. bye writing this book he decided he'd wanted us to interview the author and the idea of booknotes it would be worthwhile for him to read a lot of books and talk to the offers mac. >> 801 total episodes of booknotes and this was the first official booknotes; correct? >> exactly. brzezinski of course was the chair of the security council for the carter administration. >> john zenelis when you pick the books to go into the case is who picks them? >> several of my colleagues in the special collection center area. they made this election of several books to be highlighted and they made the annotations accompanying each of the display items, and they

george mason beat them 53-54. it's being reported new england patriots' offensive coordinator bill o'brien has agreed to be the next head coach at penn state. he is 42 years old and was an assistant in maryland in 2004. he's the new debt as football coach at penn state. deborah great day,. >>> 36 degrees in d.c., 37 in fredericksburg. the news continues at 5:30. >> still ahead in the next half- hour, some local middle school students are reduced of drinking vanilla rum. police busted them before school. >> former councilman harry thomas will be in federal court today after resigning. i will have a live report stated it. >> adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center. gary warm air moving into place today and here's your sausage and paakes, sweetie. thanks, mom. who are you calling "mom"? dunkin' sausage pancake bites, delicious like mom's only easier to carry -- get three for $1.59. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks.

the late professor was a professor here at george mason university. in fact, this case contains another book by a mason professor, which is the only fiction book to be highlighted in book -- in the "booknotes" program. >> so here are the rest of the 801 books; correct? >> absolutely. and these books are shelved in the order they were at brian lamb's office in c-span. and also they're in the order of the televised programs. >> so beginning here -- i mean, except for the ones that are taken out and you have little notes here -- >> they are to indicated where the exhibited volumes belong in this arrangement. >> and so these are the books in order; correct? >> exactly, yes. >> well, did you watch -- were you a "booknotes" watcher? >> oh, most definitely, i was a regular "booknotes" viewer. and when brian lamb announced on air that the program was coming to an end, i made a mental note that next day i needed to look into the matter of whether we could obtain the collection and the associated archive from the c-span organization. soon thereafter, we made co

mason university would be a good home for the collection. but more importantly, he was impressed with what we were planning to do with the collection. this collection is going to be integrated with the teaching and learning activities of the university. we will be working with several academic departments to make sure that this material is integrated into the appropriate courses at the undergraduate and graduate level so that our students will have access to primary materials such as they start to explore the various subject areas that they are engaged in. >> for more information on the booknotes collection, visit the george mason university library website at library.gmu.du. >>> of next on booktv, henry louis gates jr. presents a history of african-americans in the united states from the 16th century to the present day. this is about 40 minutes. midevening. is it on? it is. good. i couldn't tell. welcome to the atlanta history center. we are delighted you are here this evening. please join us on december 15th a couple of nights from now and

george mason beat old dominion tonight. they held the monarchs to 29% shooting from the floor. let me take you down to virginia. this was a battle. couple ofon hit a threes and led all scorers with 17 points. some allen came up with key buckets. 54.son beat odu 63- ] the san jose sharks oppose a big-time problem. the winless streak goes back to the better part of two decades. the capital struggle there. was evaluated for a says he is ok.he >> you have to push yourself. of my greentory before, too. what ever it tell is. >> i told yesterday that former tampa bay had coach met with the a defense ofout coaching job at. sources close to the situation willt is unlikely morris come to washington because he more a job with responsibility. it does not like -- look like it will get him. one of the best running backs in country committed to play in maryland next year. is 6 ft. 200 pounds and ran 1,300 yards and 22 touchdowns. way to college park. are play of the night comes man who is committed for the florida gators. to gainesville to play at the university of florida. how about this? is

george mason holds on to devet georgia state. the patriots improve to 12-4 overall. how about playoff football? back in houston, facing the bengals, that is the old houston oilers. i loved them back in the day. second quarter, games tied at 10. anny dalton is batted and picked off by james jay watt and the lineman is rumbling. 29-yards for the score. and the texasans, up top to andre johnson. he is pretty good. 40 yards to the house and texas gets their first ever playoff win by beating the bengals 31- 10. they get to play baltimore next sunday up here in charm city. coming up later, we are going off the wall with wisdom martin. get the boxing gloves out. we are going to talk about andrew robert griffin iii. i know who i like. >> who do you like? >> i can't tell you yet. it's a tease. you have to stick around for later. >> all right, always a pleasure. >> thanks. >> see you later. still ahead on fox 5. what he said to make mitt romney rush to correct him.  it's my coffee when i want it. you press a button, you have great dunkin' coffee. i got my coffe

. >>> hewitt and george mason on the road against james madison. the patriots rebounding after thursday's loss. the patriots, mike morrison on the steal and throws it down two of the 12 points and george mason 35-30 in the half. the second half, working on the man down low and takes the time to set himself up and gets the layup to go and the foul. had a team high 19, mason with a 24-point lead, they win 89- 83. >>> and american and white hosting holy cross. the eagles took command early on. down the lane and this is the move, two of the game high 17 points. au built an 18-point first half lead to fall behind by one in the second half. and holy cross went without a hoop for nine minutes. munoz with the baseline runner, hit 14 points, 10 boards, and au overcrossing 67-64, 9-0 at home. >>> and tomorrow, the maryland terrapins can be seen on my 20. they face georgia tech in the ac battle at 4 p.m. >>> and nfc divisional play- offs. the 49ers head coach jim harbah and quarterback smith. two-plus minutes left, the niners down 1, 3rd and 7, on the keeper

george mason ended up defeating towson 72-60. they're losing streak has been extended now to 39 straight games. john is back with the seven-day after this. "and what's your name?" "oh, it's flo." "and what do you do?" "oh, i sell insurance like no one else." "oh, that's nice." "thank you." now, that's progressive. call or click today. >> coming up on 11 news tonight, it is the big day before the game. we will hear from pete gilbert live in providence. and we will get a tour of providence from jennifer franciotti. she will that -- she will show us the treasures she discovered. us the treasures she discovered. >> still a little chilly tomorrow, but then we get a warmup. >> but then we get something to get the warmer temperatures, and that is cold rain. tomorrow toward the end of the day, a little bit of rain or freezing rain. rain chances much higher on monday. but at least the temperatures will be around 157030's. >> that is it for the news at 6:00 p.m. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- [captioning

george mason trying to hold on to their top stopped, the patriots turning defense and offense. the fast break corey edwards jams at home. mason got a head early, kept the lead 72-60 over towson. george washington welcoming charlotte, big night. 19 points, three boards. the colonials win. there now and a four way tie for the a-10. the high school game of the night, maybe the season, better arena, a-you campus, dematha against gonzaga. jenkins had 27 points. the eagles with a big lead but dematha made it disappear. the pass is tipped, ball game. and sat out over dematha 76-74. but-- gonzaga over dematha. tomorrow, the team up interstate 95 is playing the ravens arriving in new england. the winner tomorrow will go to the super bowl. baltimore has consistently won this season, but their plight has been up and down. the go to massachusetts very confident that could handle the patriots. finally, a big shake-up at top of the college basketball polls. no. 4 duke fell. florida state, last second shot. baylor loss to missouri. we will see what happens with the polls on monday. >> people

. >> reporter: student government association president says he was inspired by george mason law school's successful move to help students destress with puppies and decided to do the same. >> any school is stressful, no matter what your major is, it's crunch time. this is the first days of finals. >> i was exhausted and mentally out of it. i was tired. i had to take my 8:00 a.m. now, i'm excited and dying to see all these puppies. >> they are so sweet. i have an exam in two hours but i don't mind being here. >> reporter: even i had a case of puppy love. but, how does puppy pandemonium sneak up? just ask michael. you found this through facebook? >> yes. my friend put it on my wall. >> reporter: all things social, they used facebook and twitter to get the word out. thousands confirmed their attendance. >> i don't know about you, but i'm getting an a on my finals. >> reporter: a forever home. a local agency came to the rescue. they brought 20 puppies to campus for students to destress. they have a chance to find them a permanent home. >> if they are an adult, in their 20s and independent. we

george mason gets their eighth straight win over unc wilmington 67-61. that's going to do it for your morning sports, i'm kristin berset, have a great tuesday. >>> also in sports this morning, the naval academy is moving to the big east. cbs sports.com reports the move will come in 2015. the midshipmen are an independent team right now. they'll take the place of west virginia which is soon to leave the big east in time for this upcoming fall. our time is 6:25. still ahead, the final good-bye begins today at penn state for the late football coach joe paterno. we're watching your money! some help for you the next time you buy an airplane ticket. right now, monika has a quick check on traffic. >> here is a live look at route 4 pennsylvania avenue headed south toward oxon hill. you're fine. good news in accokeek. accokeek road at belleville road has been reopened. it was closed overnight. we'll watch the roads again coming up in my next report at 6:30. you're watching 9news now. stay with us. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days.

. >> george mason did recent study looking at what the potential impact could be on this region. from the contractors on down to the retailers to support those contractors and businesses. real-estate is a big part of that. ey were looking at a wororse case scenario. this is not going to be this year or next year, but a few yeyears outnd is a good reality chececk of how dependent we are that couldld really impact real- estate. >> it will not impact me but you are making the casase that unss wasngton n prospers as others have suffered, we are goining to take some hits because of having the defee in our own backyard. >> if yodo not, your neighbor does or all of those around you. if the worst-case scerio happens, we would be lookingng at very f flat, tepid growth with several tens of thousands hundreds of jobs. >> you have covovered this forr some time, the continuingg stalemate that led to the failure of the super commiee. theighting keepeps going the presidident makining a surprisise numberf recess appointments whenen the senate swearsrs they y are still in session. consnstitutiona

. >> college basketball, george mason off to a three-game homestand. pearson led the way with 24 points, 10 rebounds his seventh double-double of the year. mason is now 6-1. smith center, the colonials g.w. against richmond. g.w. beats richmond big. american university beat navy in annapolis, 67-70. in baseball, the rangers signed darvish, $60 million. they say they are out of the prince fielder mess, which puts the nationals on the clock. they say there is an offer on the table. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] combine a pnc cashbuilder visa credit card with a pnc performance select checking account and get up to 1.75% cash back for just about every purchase. learn more and apply today at pncomom/cashbuilder. pnc bank. for the achiever in you. >> taking a look at the top stories, today's internet blackout and the calorie counts in paula dean's recipes, and " ♪ i'm feelin' subway ♪ ♪ let's go ♪ [ male announcer ] hey, capital area! are you feelin' subway®? then heat up your day with the big hot pastrami melt! it's fresh toasted and piled-hig

and i should point out that the late professor was a professor here at george mason university. in fact, in this case contains another book by a mason professor, which is say cheese, which by the way is the only fiction book to be highlighted in the "book notes" program. >> host: so here's the last of the 801 books? >> guest: exactly. these hooks are shelved in the order that they were in brian mann's office as c-span. and also they are in the order of the televised programs. >> host: said beginning here, besides the ones that are taken out -- >> guest: to indicate where the exhibit volumes along in this arrangement. >> host: and so these are the books in order, correct class >> guest: exactly, yes. >> host: word you -- did you watch someone? >> guest: yes, i was a regular "book notes" viewer. when brian lamb and i are on their come in the program is coming to an end. i made a mental note that the next day i needed to look into the matter of whether we could obtain the collection and the associated archive from the c-span organization. soon thereafter we made contact with mr. br

george mason and philly taking on drexel. mason up one when lee hits a beautiful three for the lead. next possession, he hits a dagger from beyond the arc. george mason loses 60-53. it's their first conference loss since january 8th of last year. good streak going there. >>> all right, 17th ranked virginia visiting 6th ranked duke. evans misses the layup but mitchell with the follow-up. virginia within two. cavs miss both of the last second three pointers. virginia falls short of a comeback with a 61-58 loss to duke. >>> that's going to do it for your morning sports, i'm kristen berset. have a great friday. >>> could a letter from d. c.'s major lead to the eviction of the occupy protestors? that story is coming up. >>> plus, looks like there's going to be more fallout from the harry thomas political corruption scandal later today. quick check of the commute now, monika? >>> well, if you're planning to head over into springfield on the northbound side of 95 an accident on the ramp to the inner loop of the beltway. only the lef

george mason. went very bad with people who spoke very softly, james madison. but by gosh robison for all of the problems that he faced produced 600 pages of the virginia ratifying debates, and that marvelous event would be lost to history without his efforts. so i must say my heart goes out to them but i'm grateful to them and hit okay, back to hudson. this is the problem with the stenographer's. maybe disco wasn't up to this job. second, often they showed speeches before, you know, they within transcribed them and printed in either newspapers or sometimes directly into book form, or the newspaper accounts and debates would be collected and published in book form. but certainly in book form, the stenographer sometimes show them to the speaker who corrected him. and hudson said that corrupts the record. but the last reason, and i think the reason which is probably the most damning is they were politically biased. and that is with one side in these debates, the federalists who wanted a constitution ratified who often paid the shorthand and to do their work or ow

george mason in the first half. how about this pass? a good hustle, fight for the ball. and the transition. gets a back -- mason won with hustle. he's at the end of this play. an exclamtion point on the win. suspended three games without pay. during yesterday's overtime loss he left the ice and that is illegal. with that hit, he was suspended three games and it will cost $155,000. he will not return until february 4 against montreal. he has been playing really well and now he is suspended. let's go to owings mills in baltimore. cleaning of their lockers after yesterday's heartbreaking loss to the patriots. after being within a heartbeat of the super bowl, the process starts all over again which is now that appealing to terrell suggs. >> back to the training and training camp going open. we have done so much just to fall short. >> the championship boston brewers were honored at the white house. the president decided to have some fun. >> he went into the season playing on the fourth line but the little ball of hate shrugged off the rookie jitters. what is up with that nick

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james madison at george mason. has a guy named humtee on their team. he's your chance to do the hump! he and 27. ryan pearson his ninth double- double of season. 29 points, 15 boards. patriots old hohn 89-79 to win that game today. as bad as the wizards have been in the last few years they're even worse away from verizon center. you count last year, washington is 3-46 on the road, including 0-248 year. last night was a chance for a breakthrough. houston isn't that good. and the whiz were in it for two plus quarters, then went cold, and the defense disappeared. and a close game turned into a 27-point blowout. >> i this he broke it off. >> mike shanahan and his staff coaching at the senior bowl in mobile, alabama. wisconsin quarterback a guy who might be worth a look in the later rounds if you're looking for a quarterback. redskins fans, he threw for 3,000 yards, 33 touchdowns. north leading the south right now -- i should say 20-6. all right. tiger woods won his last event at chevron world change in december. woods lovers hailed it as a signal he was ba

james madison and george mason also made the list, but at number one, was the university of north carolina chapel hill for the 11th consecutive time. wow. most students still look forward to going back to school after the big break, but after the christmas break, kids at three montgomery county schools a new year means new facilities to learn and play. in canyon run elementary school, they are modernized. melissa melee found quite a bit of excitement around one campus. >> take a look around. everything you see construction-wise is new or updated. they added this entire second floor where i'm standing and look behind me. every gray bubble now has their own hall. on a brutally cold morning at garrett park elementary school, they shuffle into the new school and see almost nothing looks the same. >> it's awesome. >> they are excited about a new building and a new year. the modernization projects here at garrett park, cannon road, sench spring and seven locks cost a total of $50 million and took 18 months to complete. >> it's awesome because it's all new and awe new supplies and everything. >>