The Orioles' corridor of rooms in the league hotel at this week's baseball winter meetings weren't exactly penthouse-level heights, yet the fact that Sig Mejdal stood in the team's suite with the title of assistant general manager is just one way to describe the lofty status he's climbed to since...
A 27-24 overtime loss Sunday to the Kansas City Chiefs did not knock the Ravens from the postseason picture. In fact, it had the opposite effect on some. Safety Eric Weddle went as far as to say afterward that the game proved the team was a Super Bowl contender. But if the Ravens’ season ends at...
At its core, baseball's winter meetings is a trade show, one put on by Minor League Baseball for its member clubs to congregate and build their businesses in every facet. The major league rumorfest only subsumes that. Yet when the Orioles’ affiliates — many of whom share a unique connection to...
Maryland men’s basketball freshman Jalen Smith didn’t have much fun in Saturday’s homecoming game against Loyola Chicago at Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore. The former Mount Saint Joseph star picked up a couple of early fouls and never got into much of a flow, finishing with a season-low one point...
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...
Holding off a spirited Long Reach comeback in the second half, Reservoir finally got the signature victory it’s long been searching for on Wednesday. Senior Emily Dorn filled the stat sheet with 28 points, 15 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 blocks, while sophomore Abby Bailey added a double-double (10...
UCF athletics director Danny White stood mostly alone for months. When asked why he declared the 2017 undefeated Knights national champions, he pointed to a Football Bowl Subdivision postseason model that never gave the Knights a chance to play for a championship. White vocally argued the playoff...
Manny Diaz has, in his three years in Coral Gables, helped transform the Miami Hurricanes defense. Now it appears Miami’s defensive coordinator will try to do the same — on a bigger scale — at Temple. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday night that Diaz had agreed to take over the Owls...
Clemson has begun preparations for its College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame at the Cotton Bowl. The No. 2 Tigers (13-0) had taken a week-and-a-half break — aside from several All-Americans crisscrossing the country for various college football awards — since winning the Atlantic...
Florida Atlantic’s all-time leading rusher is bound for the NFL. Junior running back Devin “Motor” Singletary announced on Twitter on Wednesday morning he is declaring early for the NFL draft. Singletary, a Deerfield Beach native who attended American Heritage-Delray, finishes his college career...
Kyrie Irving scored Boston's last 12 points, including back-to-back 3-pointers in the final 40 seconds of overtime to outduel John Wall in a point-guard showdown, and the Celtics extended their winning streak to seven games with a 130-125 victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. ...
CLEVELAND — The Knicks rally came up short. Jordan Clarkson scored 28 points and a basket by Rodney Hood in the fourth quarter gave Cleveland a late lead as the Cavaliers defeated the Knicks 113-106 on Wednesday — all after squandering a 22-point lead. Hood put the Cavaliers in front 107-106 with...
The Miami Heat tempted fate again. This time they got burned. Badly. After rallying from a 19-point first-quarter deficit the previous time the teams met, the Heat this time fell behind by 25 in the opening period Wednesday night against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena and it got even...
Kaleb Hunter and Eric Hamilton each scored 17 points and host UNC Greensboro rolled to a 77-54 victory over Coppin State on Wednesday night. The Spartans (9-2) extended their program-record home winning streak to 14 games. Dejuan Clayton scored 11 points to lead Coppin State (0-12). Hunter's 3-pointer...
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...
Mount St. Mary’s has released its schedule for the 2019 season. Here is a breakdown of the slate that awaits the Mountaineers, who went 5-9 last year and finished fifth in the Northeast Conference. 10: In its past 10 season openers, Mount St. Mary’s has a 3-7 record. Scheduled to face Delaware...
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...
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 —...
Rachael Denhollander, who sent a message that was heard by hundreds of other women when she refused to remain silent about the sexual abuse of former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar, was presented with Sports Illustrated's "Inspiration of the Year" award. And she was introduced...
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,...
Eighteen-time major champion Jack Nicklaus and his grandson, GT Nicklaus, headline a field of some of golf’s greatest champions during the 21st playing of the PNC Father/Son Challenge. Scheduled for Thursday through Sunday at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Grande Lakes, the field will feature...
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 Baltimore & Annapolis Trail has lost its mayor. Thomas H. Caraker III, 84, died on Sunday. Caraker had been fighting pancreatic cancer since February. Caraker had a few nicknames. He was Crackerbox Tom, Tomboy or Trailblazer Tom to some, but the nickname he lived up to most was “Mayor of the...
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...