No Laughing Matter. Without question, the Terps' National Championship in April left guard Shay Doron floating on Cloud 9. The thrills and joys of that experience should have been enough to last a lifetime. But they weren't; a war in another part of the world brought the star guard back to earth sooner than she could possibly have anticipated, and, undoubtedly, sooner than she would have hoped.

The deadly fighting between Shay's home country of Israel and Hezbollah has made for a very conflicted summer, as recounted in this excellent article from last week's Washington Times.