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The Ravens have agreed to a deal with a receiver and it isn’t Dez Bryant. Continuing their makeover at the position, the Ravens have signed New Orleans Saints restricted free agent Willie Snead to an offer sheet, sources confirmed. The Saints now have...

Not only did Johns Hopkins get an 11-3 home win over Catholic on Monday but a play by outfielder Tim Kutcher made the ESPN SportsCenter Top 10 at No. 4 that night. Kutcher, a junior for the Blue Jays and a 2015 graduate of John Carroll, used all of his...

Shortly after his introductory press conference in the spring of 1969 at Maryland ended, Lefty Driesell was driving to visit a recruit when one of his assistant coaches asked him about a catchy line Driesell had delivered to the media assembled in College...

There are quite a few things up for debate at the midway point of the college lacrosse season, except for the two teams that have distanced themselves from the rest of the field. It’s No. 1 Albany (9-0) and No. 2 Maryland (7-1). And Albany deserves to...

A week after its historic victory in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, UMBC is in a bit of a holding pattern. Second-year coach Ryan Odom contemplates a future that seems likely to result in a more lucrative offer from a larger program, perhaps...

Michael Phelps won 28 Olympic medals, the most ever. He won 23 gold medals, the most ever. He competed in his first Summer Games at age 15, one of America’s youngest Olympians ever. He won six golds at 19, a record eight at 23 and went out with five...

Ahead of UMBC’s next matchup in the men’s basketball NCAA tournament Sunday night, the program and school continued to enjoy high-profile attention unlike any it’s received before. The No. 16 seed became the first to ever beat a No. 1 seed in the men’s...

Zach Seidel is feeling a little taken aback by all the attention he’s getting. As the person behind the Twitter account of UMBC Athletics, Seidel’s quick-witted sass garnered scores of social-media admirers Friday night, when he shot back at those who...

It’s called March Madness in part because no one crazy enough to pick the No. 16 UMBC men to upset No. 1 Virginia in their NCAA tournament bracket would also have the savvy to pick all 31 other first-round games correctly. According to NCAA.com, there...

If you were among the blissfully ignorant Friday night wondering, “What’s a UMBC?” we at The Baltimore Sun are here to help. With its historic 74-54 win over top-seeded Virginia, the No. 16 seed

When Ryan Odom was hired as the UMBC men’s basketball coach two years ago, he was ignorant of how the team played. He considered that a virtue. The Retrievers had won seven of the 32 games in their final season under Aki Thomas. There was a lot of tape on...

Other than that person in your office who says they had to because they just love their three Retrievers, we now know of two other people in the world who picked the UMBC men’s basketball team to win the NCAA tournament. Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican,...

The conclusion of the NFL scouting combine brought a new wave of mock drafts. Below are a few of the more recent projections for what the Ravens will do with the 16th overall pick and my reaction to the potential selection: ESPN’s Todd McShay:...

Here's what you need to know about the Maryland men's basketball team's game against No. 17 Michigan on Saturday. Time: Noon Location: Xfinity Center TV/Video: ESPN, WatchESPN (Jason Benetti, Dan Dakich) Radio: 105.7 FM, 980 AM (Johnny Holliday, Chris...

Under Armour and ESPN plan to help turn vacant lots in Baltimore and two other cities into recreation space. The Baltimore-based sports brand and the sports channel have teamed up with Local Initiatives Support Corp., a community development finance...

Russia and Rockville, together at last. OK, it’s not exactly an obvious pairing, but thanks to the Winter Games, an odd connection has formed. That’s because, due to Olympic sanctions for a nationwide doping operation, Russian competitors are competing...

Maryland center Bruno Fernando, who made ESPN’s SportsCenter Top 10 for the third time Saturday after a monstrous dunk, was named the Big Ten’s freshman of the week for the second time Monday. The 6-foot-10 Angolan followed up a 21-point, nine-rebound,...

Each week brings a new round of mock drafts. Here’s our latest look at some of the recent projections for what the Ravens will do with the 16th overall pick in April and my reaction to the potential selection: ESPN’s Todd McShay: Washington’s Vita...

The further Maryland falls below the .500 mark in Big Ten play, the longer its chances become that anything less than winning the league’s postseason tournament at Madison Square Garden will get them into a fourth straight NCAA tournament. More...

ESPN’s coverage of the 2018 men’s college lacrosse season began Saturday with former Johns Hopkins and UMBC coach Don Zimmerman and former Blue Jays goalkeeper Quint Kessenich calling No. 8 Johns Hopkins’ 14-6 victory over No. 19 Towson. Zimmerman, who...