The second half of the Maryland men’s basketball game Tuesday at No. 21 Iowa seemed fitting for a program looking to end its 11-year, 27-game losing streak to ranked teams on the road. As hard as it might seem for a team to lose all those games considering some of the Maryland players who’ve been...
It has only been a few weeks since the NFL season ended, but the Ravens have already named Eric DeCosta as their new general manager, gave coach John Harbaugh a contract extension and reportedly agreed to trade once-prominent quarterback Joe Flacco to the Denver Broncos. So, what’s next? Because...
The Alliance of American Football’s efforts to speed up the game apparently are not limited to the field. The Alliance, it seems, came perilously close to running out of money heading into Week 2 of its debut season, which, while perhaps not a record, is very fast work nevertheless. All that saved...
Anthony (T.J.) Cunningham, who played football at the University of Colorado and for the Seattle Seahawks, died Monday after being shot by a neighbor during a dispute over a parking spot. He was 46. Cunningham was shot during a fight with a neighbor who lived across the street Sunday morning just...
The Miami Dolphins and general manager Chris Grier have added an experienced NFL executive to their front office. Former Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie has joined the Dolphins as a senior personnel executive, according to a league source on Saturday. McKenzie, who was awarded NFL...
On Friday, the collusion case between the NFL and former teammates Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid was settled, the two sides announced. The news followed a Thursday Associated Press report that Kaepernick was approached by the Alliance of American Football but the 31-year-old quarterback was looking...
When veteran infielder Alcides Escobar was deciding whether to sign a minor league contract with the Orioles, it didn’t seem to bother him that they had shifted into a rebuilding mode and figure to look at a lot of young players this spring. “I’m young, too,’’ he said after reporting to camp on...
Jared Bernhardt scored four goals and Logan Wisnauskas added three goals and two assists to lift the No. 3 Maryland men’s lacrosse team to an 11-6 win over visiting No. 16 Colgate on Tuesday. After winning their past two games by one goal each — 10-9 over Richmond and 13-12 over Penn in overtime...
A tough freshman season, a major knee injury, and competing interests in basketball and baseball threatened Larry Aaron’s young football career at Oakland Mills. He later developed into one of Howard County’s premier linemen before being recruited to Marshall University.
With leading scorer Ethan Happ struggling, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard benched his star down the stretch and looked for someone else to lead the Badgers past Illinois. Brad Davison and Khalil Iverson answered the call. Davison scored 18 points, Iverson added 16 and the No. 22 Badgers held off Illinois...
When LeBron James walks onto the court, even two rosters of the best players in the NBA stop and take notice. That’s the result of a masterful career, 15 consecutive All-Star Game appearances, 15 straight seasons averaging more than 25 points, six rebounds and six assists. He’s dragged mediocre...
Navy junior attacker Kelly Larkin admitted during the preseason that she is in a development stage, taking on a new role for the Midshipmen this year. While the leading scorer for Navy a year ago adjusts, there will be others that need to step up and make up for the 117 points (62 goals, 55 assists)...
Lauren McDonald (Catonsville) scored a hat trick and UMBC women's lacrosse team won 11-8 over host Virginia Commonwealth Saturday. The game was delayed 11/2 hours because of weather. The Retrievers improved to 2-0 and the Rams fell to 0-1. The Retrievers took an early 5-0 lead with 12:41 remaining...
Connor Kirst scored the game-winner with 2:45 left in overtime as visiting Villanova upset No. 1 Yale, 11-10, in men's lacrosse Saturday. The victory was the 100th career win for coach Mike Corrado. The Bulldogs (0-1) trailed 10-7 early in the fourth quarter before Matt Gaudet, Jack Tigh and Joseph...
Pat Spencer was his usual spectacular self, but he had plenty of help in the No. 2 Loyola Maryland men’s lacrosse team’s 18-12 dusting of No. 17 Johns Hopkins on Saturday at Homewood Field in Baltimore. Spencer, the senior attackman who grew up in Davidsonville and graduated from Boys’ Latin, led...
Despite everything, Larry Aaron was eventually released from the hospital and was “progressing as well as we could hope for.” Before long, tragedy struck again. Even then the Oakland Mills community rallied behind Aaron and his family more than they had before.
Jim Harbaugh is taking Michigan's football team to South Africa in May. Director of football operations Mark Taurisani tweeted about the trip Tuesday. Like last year's visit to France , the Wolverines will not practice in South Africa. Harbaugh did have practices in Italy in 2017. Michigan alumni...
A couple of weeks before Morgan State would hire Tyrone Wheatley to helm the football program, athletic director Edward Scott and Wheatley engaged in a two-hour phone conversation. The topics during the first hour, according to Scott, bounced around from life to philosophy to children to family....
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is blasting the owners of the Pimlico Race Course after the company urged construction of a “super track” for horse racing in Laurel, not Baltimore. In a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan and General Assembly leaders, Pugh urged them to reject The Stronach Group’s efforts...
“Welcome back Victor.” “Let’s go Victor.” “Go get ’em Victor.” Fans offered warm, emotional words of encouragement to jockey Victor Espinoza on Monday at Santa Anita from the moment he emerged from the jockeys’ room and boarded his first official mount in seven months since breaking his neck in...
Morgan’s Ford Farm, Linda Walls and Kingdom Bloodstock’s Pink Pearl forged a short lead after a half-mile and drew off to a 4 ¼-length upset of Sunday’s opener at Laurel Park to give jockey Victor Rosales his first career riding victory. Rosales, 29, dedicated his milestone triumph to Emerson Schoenthal,...
Laurel Park 's annual Winter Carnival, featuring the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie (G3) and $250,000 General George (G3), will have enhanced coverage and exposure today. Laurel's 10-race program will be streamed in English and Spanish at LaurelPark.com and GulfstreamPark.com. The Spanish stream will...
Mired in scandal and a series of public gaffes, USA Gymnastics is hoping to turn things around with an NBA executive as its new leader. The embattled organization named Li Li Leung as its president and chief executive on Tuesday, concluding a long search marked by hiccups and controversy. “Li Li’s...
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France — Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must. It's now easier than ever in France to act out "Star Wars" fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the...
Lindsey Vonn walked off with her career haul of medals in her right hand, the gold, silver and bronze clinking together almost weighing her down. Or was it the bulging knee braces and metal support rods inside her vast array of broken bones? Whatever it was, the sound was a reminder of what Vonn...
J.B. Holmes rallied from a four-shot deficit in the final round and won a marathon finish Sunday in the Genesis Open for his first victory in three years and a trip back to the Masters. Holmes closed with a 1-under 70, and that was enough to overcome Justin Thomas, who took 19 putts on the back...
Justin Thomas worked his way around the holes at Riviera on Sunday. Around the edge of hole after hole, that is, his golf ball peeking in the cup before tauntingly lipping out. Consequently, he saw his four-shot lead evaporate in the final round of the Genesis Open, as J.B. Holmes overtook him ...
Tiger Woods was still the primary attraction Sunday, and drew the biggest gallery by far, but he essentially ran out of gas after a scorching start to the final two rounds. Woods, who was five under after his first four holes of the third round Saturday afternoon, drifted back into the pack Sunday,...
It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber which, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had other plans for the 20-inch slab in his backyard. A mallard, it would be. Carving ducks is old hat...
The Arena Football League announced its 2019 season schedule, along with rule changes for the upcoming season. The Baltimore Brigade will kick off the season in a rematch of last year's championship game at Royal Farms Arena, hosting the defending AFL champion Washington Valor on April 26. The...
Indoor football The Arena Football League , which includes franchises in Baltimore and Washington, is launching a team in Columbus, Ohio, to begin play this spring. The team will play its home games at Nationwide Arena , and will play a total of 12 games during the regular season. The Columbus...
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...