Orioles outfielder Dwight Smith Jr. was a late addition to the Orioles roster this spring, but he has emerged as one of the team’s top offensive threats during the first month of the season. So, when he was removed from Sunday’s tight, 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins with a thigh injury, there...
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At 34, Ravens guard Marshal Yanda is old for an NFL player. Hall of Fame left tackle Jonathan Ogden retired when he was 33. Ravens special teams coordinator-in-waiting Chris Horton is just a few months younger than Yanda. No other Ravens lineman was born in the 1980s. And yet Yanda was honored...
Irvin “Skip” Crawford’s Senior Senator retained the Grand National Challenge Cup on Saturday with a dominant victory in the 117th running of the historic middle jewel of the Maryland Timber Triple Crown. Ridden by 23-year-old amateur Eric Poretz, his regular jockey throughout his timber-racing...
Michael Locksley’s first stint at Maryland began as the team’s running backs coach in 1998 and coincided with the arrival of LaMont Jordan, who remains the school’s all-time leading rusher with 4,147 yards. That initial five-year tenure also included Locksley coaching Bruce Perry, whose 1,242 rushing...
Gerstell Academy started its inaugural “Fight in the Falcons Nest” home tournament as strong as it could have hoped against visiting Winters Mill. Gerstell used an early early surge of goals to come away with a 9-5 victory Saturday morning. CJ Kovalsky scored two of his game-high three goals in...
Rick Reilly’s course of action isn’t to cheat the audience. The former L.A. Times, Sports Illustrated and ESPN writer sized up the room of about 30 bunched into the center of an independent book store in Manhattan Beach the other night and declared: As a golfer, your president is all about unplayable...
A Wisconsin man who claims to have never placed a bet on sports before he risked $85,000 on Tiger Woods winning the Masters is now more than a million dollars richer. James Adducci was presented with a check for more than $1.2 million Monday at a sportsbook in Las Vegas. Adducci's win represents...
Tiger Woods won his first major tournament in 11 years Sunday at the Masters, and longtime broadcaster Jim Nantz was on the call for CBS. "The return to glory," Nantz intoned as Woods' championship-sealing putt settled into the 18th hole. Following the putt, Nantz let the images of the aftermath...
When Tiger Woods won the Masters last weekend, it was a moment many thought would never happen. Woods has been one of the most important figures in modern sports because of the way he rocketed into golf and exemplified excellence. He is second all-time on the list of wins (81) and majors (15),...
After Iowa ousted Illinois in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, ensuring the Illini would miss the NCAA Tournament for a sixth straight season, freshman Ayo Dosunmu sat glumly in a United Center locker room. The dynamic guard from Morgan Park was a bright spot all season for the Illini....
The 76ers’ opening-round playoff series against the Nets has had its share of subplots. The two Atlantic Division rivals have engaged in trash talk, physical play, an on-court melee and even the Sixers' Jimmy Butler and the Nets' Jared Dudley being ejected. Now, you can add Dudley and Butler being...
The 11th-ranked Loyola Maryland women’s lacrosse team used an 18-9 win over Colgate on senior day at Ridley Athletic Complex Saturday to clinch the top-seed and home field advantage for the upcoming Patriot League Championships. The Greyhounds move to 12-4 on the season, 8-0 in the Patriot League...
No. 2 Maryland men’s lacrosse saw their early lead crumble in the second half to No. 9 Ohio State, but Logan Wisnauskas (Boys’ Latin) and Jared Bernhardt stepped up to deliver a 10-9 victory in overtime Saturday. The win was the third straight for the visiting Terps, who improved to 11-2, 3-1 Big...
Not again. For the second consecutive game, the Towson men’s lacrosse team found itself staring at a multiple-goal deficit after one quarter. Unlike that loss to No. 15 Massachusetts on April 13, however, the No. 14 Tigers battled back and scored 11 goals over the next 30 minutes to outlast No....
Navy men’s lacrosse has lost four of its last five games to fall below .500 for the first time all season. Things don’t get any easier for the Midshipmen this weekend. Navy (5-6) must try to right the ship against seventh-ranked Syracuse (8-3), which has won three straight and knocked off ranked...
A year removed from its first winning season since 2002, New Mexico State stumbled to its third 3-9 season in the past four years. Attrition hit the Aggies hard, forcing the team to rely on unproven talent. Orlando Sentinel college insider Matt Murschel ranked all 130 Football Bowl Subdivision...
Jackson Perkins earned praise from Navy defensive coaches last August for his performance during preseason training camp. Perkins stepped up to the point he was part of the defensive end rotation for the season opener at Hawaii. The 6-foot-6, 257-pound sophomore was credited with a tackle during...
The week started with nine of the 14 Big Ten teams coming out of spring practices planning to continue quarterback auditions in August. The number was down to seven by Friday. First-year coach Ryan Day of defending conference champion Ohio State insisted after the Buckeyes' spring game last Saturday...
Baltimore’s acting mayor and several other elected officials said Monday that they view the Maryland Jockey Club’s closure of nearly 7,000 seats at Pimlico Race Course as retribution for losing a legislative fight with the city about how to spend state subsidies on horse racing tracks. City officials...
Mark Beecher, a Fallston-based amateur jockey, took the inside trip with Upland Partners’ Mystic Strike in Saturday’s $50,000 My Lady’s Manor, surged to the lead at the final fence, and held off a hard-charging Witor to win Saturday’s 109th running of the Maryland timber classic. Bruton Street-US’s...
The last remaining historic section of Pimlico Race Course is being shut down a month before the Preakness Stakes after an engineering firm determined that 6,670 seats in the Old Grandstand’s open-air section are “no longer suitable to sustain that level of load bearing weight.” The Maryland Jockey...
The Blast had worked all their way back from a four-goal deficit against Utica City FC when Sam Guernsey scored on a tremendous bicycle kick midway through the fourth quarter that had the SECU Arena crowd in a frenzy on Saturday night. The three-time defending Major Arena Soccer Lague champions...
As the UCLA gymnastics team practiced Thursday, a little more than 24 hours before the start of the NCAA championships, the Bruins behaved as they have all season. They danced between exercises and to each other’s floor routines, laughed while sporting shiny blue sunglasses and appeared relaxed,...
Dave Treadway, a Canadian professional freeskier, died Monday after falling around 100 feet into a crevasse while skiing in the backcountry between Whistler and Pemberton, British Columbia. He was 34. Both his website and fellow members of the ski community confirmed the news of his sudden death....
Facing pressure to deliver the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics on budget, local organizers have signed an unusual deal they hope will guarantee crucial revenue. LA 2028 announced Wednesday that it will partner with NBCUniversal to sell media and sponsorship deals in tandem. Normally, organizers and broadcasters...
Turkeys, shads, and rockfish were all in play in recent days as Maryland sportsmen and women welcomed in the spring seasons. Some went afield to bag a spring gobbler while others went creekside to cast for migratory shads, both white and hickories. For Saturday’s rockfish opener, the forecast called...
The Arena Football League unveiled new uniforms for the 2019 season during a press conference at Capital One Arena in Washington on Monday. During the event, new uniforms were presented for all of the teams in the league, including the Albany Empire, Atlantic City Blackjacks, Baltimore Brigade,...
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...