New Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said Monday at the winter meetings that vice president Brady Anderson, the highest-ranking baseball operations executive he inherited who is still with the club, is among the many carryover employees he's worked well with since...
Almost exactly two hours after the Ravens’ game Sunday ended, there it was, another moral victory, wanted or not. The Ravens had fallen to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime, 27-24, at Arrowhead Stadium. But they twice came within one defensive stop of a victory against the AFC’s top team, a Super...
A pair of former Orioles — outfielder-designated hitter Harold Baines and reliever Lee Smith — were selected Sunday for the 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame class by the Today's Game Era committee. With their elections, announced Sunday night at baseball’s Winter Meetings, the pair of 1994 Orioles teammates...
As if her senior season couldn’t get any better, University of Maryland field hockey captain Linnea Gonzales was named the 2018 Longstreth/NFHCA Division I National Player of the Year by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association. The announcement came Monday morning for Gonzales, who is a 2015...
There’s no way of knowing what would have happened if the University of Maryland had hired Mike Locksley to be its head football coach the last time the job was open, but it’s fair to wonder. Locksley was the offensive coordinator under Randy Edsall and served as interim coach for the final six...
Early in the third quarter of Monday’s game against Severn, Broadneck’s Michael Cantrell stole the ball and sent it up the court to Nicky Gatton, who then tipped it to Che Colbert for a basket and a foul. That was just the start. Colbert had 14 of his game-high 25 points as the Bruins quickly turned...
PHILADELPHIA – This is going to be a busy offseason for the Navy football program, which suddenly finds itself in crisis mode. One of the most consistently successful programs in all of college football has hit the skids the last season and a half. Head coach Ken Niumatalolo must immediately begin...
Francois McGillicuddy has been named president of the Big Ten Network, succeeding Mark Silverman early next year, the Big Ten Conference and partner Fox Sports announced Monday. Silverman had retained BTN’s presidency even as he was elevated to president of Fox Sports’ national networks in January....
Jim Harbaugh insisted he is staying at Michigan. Responding to speculation he's returning to the NFL, the former San Francisco 49ers coach told ESPN he is not going anywhere . "This is a choreographed message that comes up at this time every year before signing day," Harbaugh told ESPN. "It's people...
Hours after winning the Heisman Trophy, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray apologized for anti-gay tweets he made as a teenager, saying they don't "reflect who I am or what I believe." "I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15," he tweeted Sunday morning....
It might be time for more meetings — or, more accurately, more practice. The Bulls tried to put a tumultuous 48 hours in their rearview mirror on Monday night, but their spirited first-half play devolved into a turnover fest and inability to guard De’Aaron Fox as the Kings rallied for a 108-89...
Steph Curry’s thoughts on the moon landing are sheer lunarcy. The Golden State Warriors point guard revealed in a recent podcast that, for reasons unclear, he’s fairly certain the moon landing was faked. Curry, 30, appeared on Kent Bazemore and Vince Carter’s “Winging It” podcast with teammate...
On Nov. 8, 2001, during what was then a franchise-record 53-point loss to the Timberwolves in Minnesota, Bulls coach Tim Floyd replaced starters Charles Oakley, Marcus Fizer, Brad Miller, Greg Anthony and Ron Mercer with the rarely seen five-man substitution of Fred Hoiberg, Kevin Ollie, Tyson...
Thanks to a new 20-game Big Ten schedule, we got an early sense of conference competition last week. Teams will take a break to play a handful of nonconference games before getting back to Big Ten action Jan. 2. Here are our updated power rankings after two conference games for each team. 1. Michigan...
Runnymede Racing's Alwaysmining went straight to the front under jockey Daniel Centeno and never looked to register his first stakes victory with another impressive front-running performance in Saturday's $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park . The 37th running of the Juvenile Futurity...
There’s a dusty, quiet corner at the back of the 240-acre San Luis Rey Downs horse-training facility, far away from the handsome, newly constructed pavilions topped with roofs the color of freshly fallen snow. The area, jarringly out of place from all the rebuild and rebirth, resembles a scene...
Kathleen Willier's Scrap Copper, winner of the James F. Lewis III Stakes last month, and Tremont Stakes winner Our Braintrust, undefeated but unraced since early June, will meet up for the first time on their home track in Saturday's $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel Park . The 37th...
Five Baltimore-area players are among the 34-player roster selected by coach Kelly Amonte Hiller for the U.S. under-19 women's lacrosse team that will compete during the Spring Premiere at Stanford University from Jan. 25-27. Baltimore area players on the team are: Sarah Cooper, defense, Lutherville,...
Loyola Maryland has released its schedule for the 2019 season. Here is a breakdown of the slate that awaits the Greyhounds, who went 13-4 last spring, collected their third straight Patriot League championship, and lost, 8-7, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament to eventual national champion...
UMBC has released its schedule for the 2019 season. Here is a breakdown of what awaits the Retrievers, who went 5-8 last year and finished in a tie for fourth with UMass Lowell in the America East. 10: The last UMBC team to compile 10 victories in a single season was the 2009 squad. That team went...
Johns Hopkins has released its schedule for the 2019 season. Here is a breakdown of the slate that awaits the Blue Jays, who went 12-5, captured their second Big Ten tournament championship in four years, and lost, 14-9, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament to Duke. 10: Johns Hopkins, which...
Former Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid, the winningest coach in MLS history, was in intensive care at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Monday, confirmed the hospital, which refused to release any other information. Schmid, 65, has battled both weight and heart issues in recent years, and his health...
One of the most anticipated matches in South American soccer finally came to a conclusion in Madrid on Sunday, with River Plate celebrating victory over fierce Argentine rival Boca Juniors in the twice-suspended final of the Copa Libertadores. Nearly a month after the first leg was played in Argentina,...
U.S. national coach Jill Ellis was asked before the Women's World Cup draw whether she thought her team would be grouped with Sweden for the fifth straight time. "Oh, we will," Ellis laughed, recalling her reply. Turned out she was right. The defending champion Americans were grouped — again —...
The U.S. Olympic Committee fired chief of sport performance Alan Ashley in the wake of an independent report released Monday that said neither he nor former CEO Scott Blackmun elevated concerns about the Larry Nassar sexual abuse allegations when they were first reported to them. The 233-page independent...
An emotional six-year journey proved worth every step for Patricio Manuel on Saturday when he climbed into the ring at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio to become the first transgender male boxer in U.S. history. Twelve minutes later he climbed out with a win in his professional debut,...
Skaters came and went, the perfect 6.0 score became history, and the artistry that made figure skating so compelling was slowly strangled by a scoring system that encouraged risky jumps in soul-stifling succession. Through every era and rule change over more than 50 years, until he retired in August,...
Louis Oosthuizen won his first title at the South African Open on Sunday, running away from his challengers with a final-round 67 for a six-shot victory. Oosthuizen led from the front on the final day at Randpark Golf Course and although his three-shot overnight lead was cut to one after three...
Sports is moving to the internet. But the internet still isn't ready for sports. Media giant AT&T was forced to make a pay-per-view golf match between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods free to watch on Friday after suffering a glitch processing customers' online purchases. It marked the latest botched...
The world knew her as MacKinzie “Mac” Kline. When the golfer from Encinitas was 15 years old in 2007, she was making headlines in this country and abroad by doing something no one else had. Personally invited by Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam to play in the Ginn Tribute tournament in South Carolina,...
Around Thanksgiving, local hunters and farmers teamed up with No Person Left Behind/Operation Outdoors to hold the annual “Marvin Dorsey SoCo Deer Hunt for Veterans.” Eleven military veterans from the Army, Jason Griggs, Dwayne Applebee, Sylester Goode and Matt Davis; Marines, John Brewer, Eric...
The Arena Football League will be relocating its business headquarters to Philadelphia next month. The League offices had previously been located in Las Vegas. The Arena Football League will be led by Ron Jaworski, who will serve as chairman of the executive committee, Randall Boe, who will serve...
As Washington Valor players rejoiced around the Arena Football League’s Foster Trophy on the field at Royal Farms Arena on Saturday night, the owner of the team, Ted Leonsis, was grinning — even while his other team, the Baltimore Brigade, walked back to its locker room empty-handed. “Both [Baltimore...
After pounding the two-time defending champion Philadelphia Soul last week, ArenaBowl XXXI was the Brigade’s battle to lose — and they sure lost it. The Washington Valor were supposed to be an easy meal — the team went 2-10 in the regular season, the kind of mark that, had there been more than...