Yanda

Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage told The Post's Steve Yanda that one of the main reasons the expanded conference schedule has become more appealing is the rising costs of "guarantee games," that teams from BCS conferences use to fill out their non-conference schedules in football and basketball.

ACC athletic directors consider expanded conference schedules Mark Giannotto 2010

Over at Cavaliers Journal, Yanda writes that Virginia center Assane Sene will play against Maryland on Thursday night despite a bum ankle.

Morning reading: Assane Sene hopes to play for Virginia vs. Maryland Matt Bonesteel 2011

Chris Chester should hold down the fort at right guard while Marshal Yanda recuperates from major knee surgery.

Big roadblock still in Ravens' AFC North path: The Steelers 2009

Under his guidance, the Ravens rebuilt their offensive line in 2007 when they drafted Ben Grubbs and Marshal Yanda and selected Jared Gaither in the supplemental draft.

Baltimore Ravens Team Report 2010

Yanda has more on Edsall's recruting efforts here.

Morning links: Busy Wednesday with Maryland-Duke, Signing Day Matt Bonesteel 2011

Yanda is currently the Ravens' starting right tackle, but started at guard earlier in the season and has been in the Ravens' starting lineup all season.

Roster analysis: The offensive line market J.I. Halsell 2011

Ravens 10 Patriots 16, 6:49 3rd quarter "It's like watching a soccer match," notes our CBS announcer as Takeo Spikes takes a tremendously theatrical tumble after becoming engaged in a shoving match with Marshal Yanda following a Ravens false start.

Baltimore Ravens 20 New England Patriots 23 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2012

OG Marshal Yanda: RFA; (tendered at $1. 684M with second-round pick as compensation); $1. 684M/1 yr.

Baltimore Ravens Team Report 2010

Out here, running a station has always eaten money, and Plorn's beloved Yanda was struggling.

Travel: Dickens down under Thomas Keneally 2010

And in December 1872, four months before his inheritance would be released to him, Plorn and two partners took a lease on Yanda, a relatively modest station of 120,000 hectares along the banks of the Darling on the road from Bourke to Wilcannia.

Travel: Dickens down under Thomas Keneally 2010