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A Room to Cheer About

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A decade ago, Dennis Cyr drove the youngest of his five daughters to a last soccer game, and his wife asked what he’d do with his suddenly free weekends. What he told her was: Get season tickets to Maryland football games. What Cyr didn’t say, or perhaps know then, was that he would also become a Terp superfan. Cyr, who attended UMD in 1990–91 and owns a business called Grout Medic, has created a shrine to Maryland in his Beltsville, Md., den.

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