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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 around the Beltway: Tall task ahead for a Hoyas giant

By Dave Preston
WASHINGTON -- Past met present for Georgetown University when the school introduced Hoyas great Patrick Ewing as its head men's basketball coach, with an eye toward the future.  It happened on Wednesday in front of a room packed with media, boosters, fans, students, alumni and a pep band that did not know "Vehicle" by the Ides of March. But Ewing's name alone was music enough to everyone's ears at the John Thompson Jr. Athletic Center in D.C. Ewing even replicated his famous scene from when he committed to play at the Big East school in 1981, holding a Georgetown pennant above his head.
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