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Maryland basketball players do ‘running man’ on ‘Ellen’

By Noah Frank

WASHINGTON — If you haven’t heard, the hottest dance making the rounds of Instagram these days is the #RunningManChallenge. Started by a couple high school kids from New Jersey, it was popularized by Maryland basketball players Jaylen Brantley and Jared Nickens. And now, it landed all four of them on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” The video posted by Nickens and Brantley has over 12,000 likes on Instagram, but has inspired more than 30,000 posts with the #RunningManChallenge hashtag. This is their video that sparked the craze.

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The episode aired Tuesday afternoon. Watch a clip from their appearance:

Basketball out, football in at the newly renovated University of Maryland Cole Field House (Photos)

By Max Smith
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The storied Cole Field House at the University of Maryland has been completely transformed from an iconic basketball arena into a cavernous new football practice facility. University and state leaders celebrated the opening of the full-sized turf football field Wednesday as work begins on other pieces of the project, such as the football team’s new locker room and new medical research and athletic treatment facilities that are set to include a significant focus on concussions and other brain injuries often associated with football.
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