the first game with alex len in the lineup.e sat out until last night and made an immediate impact. the slam dunk on a pass from john mosley. maryland in control. here's the lob to nick faust and the terps in control. drive. suero wtih thith the alex len, 14 points. maryland wins. loyola beat bucknell. the ravens are 11-4. if they get win number 12, they get a first-round bye. they have not locked up the division championship. the ravens and cincinnati on sunday. the ravens beat the browns last sunday. there were some sloppy play in the second half which helped keep the game close. joe flacco lofted the media for some help in not turning his offense conservative. >> we did not come out and play the way we wanted in the second half. there have been games where we of been throwing the ball because we have been down a lot in the guise of been complaining about. we came out and we played conservative and when we did, we missed a couple of plays. so i wish you guys were helping me out to start complaining that we played too conserva

a preview of tomorrow's terps game against albany marking the debut of alex len. and look at 2011 local food trends from food trucks to farewell to our favorite restaurants. for all of these stories and more read tomorrow's baltimore sun. >>> retailers accounting sales from the day after christmas, a hugely important day for them. it appears to be one of the most profitable days of the holiday season. michelle miller reports for wjz, it gives more businesses hope for a brighter 2012. >> reporter: kathy brown's 8- year-old triplets can't wait to spend the holiday gift cards left under the tree. their mom was much more generous this year. because this year she has a job. >> you spent how much more? >> oh, um, i would say maybe $1,000 more. >> so a good christmas for the triplets? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: and the day after was pretty good too. take a look at the foot traffic at the short hills mall in northern new jersey. good weather and a three-day weekend helped draw in shoppers. >> i think it is the returns and the good deals. >> i'm sure the parking lot is fille

lens to understand. >> i actually do understand it. but i'm just that much smarter than everybody else. >> other than alex, nobody else knows what theseo do. there's no leader in any environment that has been able to lead anywhere. i can't lead you up a, you know, a to the grocery store if i don't tell you that we're going to the grocery store and why we're going. >> i got to -- let's talk specifically about the president here because i think he came into office with some sort of prismany through which he wanted to govern. fund especially mentally, he wanted to rule in a bipartisan fashion. he wanted to overhaul the nation's health care system. he wants a more fair tax code. >> those are methods and ideas and those are things that lot of things we can talk about. that's not a prism. a prism says i'm going to take this country through prosperity, to hire people to solve its problems. i don't know how to do that because i'm going to ask people that. that's what any leader would do and say maybe it's tax code. maybe it's trade reform. maybe it's bank reform. there's no -- not a destination. it's a list of things to do. >> under your syst