When Jeff Luhnow took over the general manager's job in Houston after helping build the St. Louis Cardinals farm system, he didn't go alone — he brought new Orioles general manager Mike Elias with him. Elias was one of Luhnow’s first hires, bringing him along as a special assistant before installing...
Starting quarterback Joe Flacco is doubtful to play Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, the Ravens announced Friday. Flacco missed his third straight day of practice Friday with a right hip injury after not practicing during the team’s bye last week. He last practiced before their Week 9 game...
Baltimore sports fans by and large welcomed Mike Elias with open arms as the Orioles announced the team’s new general manager and executive vice president. Here’s what people are saying about Elias, who comes to the Orioles from the Houston Astros. Most fans on social media celebrated Elias’ addition...
Damian Prince was supposed to be one of the building blocks for a Maryland football program seemingly on the upswing. Coach Randy Edsall and offensive coordinator Mike Locksley had sold Prince and others on helping turn the Terps around. That seems like more than five seasons ago. When Prince and...
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, one of the University of Maryland’s leading boosters, said Wednesday that “there’s fault everywhere around” for the developments that led to the ouster of football coach DJ Durkin and the resignation of the chairman of the university system’s Board...
Tavian Montgomery has played in front of many spectators throughout the course of his young football career, but one in particular seems to stand out. On most Friday nights during the high school season, tucked away in the rural setting of Ruby Field, sits his father, Wilbert Montgomery. The elder...
It’s another weekend of college football, which means it’s time to cancel your other Saturday plans to binge-watch games from morning until late night. The Times’ Eduardo Gonzalez lets us know what will be on our televisions and computer screens this weekend: FRIDAY Memphis (6-4) at Southern Methodist...
On Sept. 21, the Navy sprint football team had to swallow a bitter pill when it lost a close contest against archrival Army. Seppi Ortman booted a 17-yard field goal with 4:55 remaining in the game as Army pulled out a 17-14 victory at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Making the narrow home...
The state ethics commission decided Thursday to appeal a Superior Court judge’s ruling that UConn did not violate state ethics codes when it hired Corey Edsall to be the tight ends coach on his father’s football staff. In a 41-page ruling last month, Judge Joseph Shortall said the Citizen's Ethics...
Let’s talk about road favorites. And let’s talk about the first bad bet I ever made. I was 13. My beloved New York Jets were 10-1. They were set to travel to Miami for a Monday night extravaganza. This was going to be huge. Validate us, Frank and Al! A friend of my parents named Michael, who had...
At this point, you have to wonder whether that’s it for Carmelo Anthony. And whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame. Anthony, perhaps the greatest Knick since Patrick Ewing, and the Rockets mutually parted ways Thursday, ending an embarrassing couple of months with the franchise. Houston represented...
Here’s what happened on a night when the Minnesota Timberwolves won the Jimmy Butler trade: Jimmy Butler made his debut with the Philadelphia 76ers, and the team promptly lost to the Magic in Orlando. Minnesota, debuting Robert Covington and Dario Saric, beat New Orleans. Advantage: Timberwolves....
With his broken right hand dressed in a splint, Rajon Rondo was on the practice court Thursday offering instructions and advice to the Lakers’ second unit even though he knew he was going to be having surgery to repair the third metacarpal of his right hand. The Lakers said that Rondo had a successful...
Hey, there, American, remember the “Hungry Huskies?” Maybe it’s time to get reacquainted. Dan Hurley has taken the listless, dispirited players he inherited from Kevin Ollie and turned them into a wild bunch. Whipped up into a pressing, diving, perimeter-shooting frenzy, they pulled off the program’s...
An early arrival of winter forced the cancellation of Thursday's nine-race program at Laurel Park . Horses were at the gate for the first race when the decision was made to cancel racing because of deteriorating weather conditions from Winter Storm Avery. Early morning snow turned to sleet and...
Saratoga Bob, a half-length winner of the $150,000 Maryland Million Classic in his previous start, makes his return in a $45,000 second-level optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up that serves as the feature of a nine-race program when live racing resumes at Laurel Park today. Owned by Wayne Harrison,...
Majestic Dunhill, a sprint stakes winner on the grass this summer for R A Hill Stable, transferred his success to the main track with a last-to-first half-length upset in Saturday's $100,000 City of Laurel at Laurel Park . The City of Laurel for 3-year-olds and the $100,000 Safely Kept for 3-year-old...
San Diego will have to wait a little longer for professional lacrosse. The National Lacrosse League on Thursday canceled the first two weeks of the 2018-19 season due to an ongoing labor dispute with its players’ union, wiping out the San Diego Seals’ first game in franchise history. San Diego...
Kaleigh Thereault is at an age when everything should be simple in her life. At 8 years old, she loves mint chocolate chip ice cream, the feeling of Jonathan the Husky’s fur under her fingertips and the special VIP badge she’s been given to wear around her neck for the day. It’s Tuesday and Kaleigh...
Towson has released its schedule for the 2019 season. Here is a breakdown of what awaits the Tigers, who went 7-8 last spring and finished second in the Colonial Athletic Association. 10 In the past 10 years, Towson has advanced to seven CAA tournaments and four NCAA postseasons — all since 2012,...
Former Johns Hopkins All-American Paul Rabil formally announced his intention to form a new professional outdoor lacrosse league by issuing a press release on Monday. Rabil and his brother Mike are co-founders of the Premier Lacrosse League, which intends to launch its inaugural season on June...
Christian Pulisic played just his second match with the U.S. national team in 13 months, and the Americans failed to muster much of an attack in a 3-0 loss to England on Thursday night that marked Wayne Rooney's farewell with the Three Lions. Jesse Lingard and Trent Alexander-Arnold scored in a...
With the club season taking its final pause of 2018, the spotlight for televised soccer turns to international matches this weekend. Latin America: While many countries have used the post-World Cup period to audition young talent, Brazil has continued to call up the core of the team it took to...
Soccer official David McNamara realized he had forgotten to bring a coin with him onto the field before a recent Women’s Super League game between Manchester City and Reading. So instead of the using a coin toss to determine which side would kick off, as required by rule, McNamara had the captains...
They were to gather at Saturday’s Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame induction to share hugs, swap tales and take bows for having brought a national title to Baltimore in 1994. Back then, a septet of girls from the North Baltimore Aquatic Club — some still in middle school — stunned their college-age...
Donnell Whittenburg was hurting. Aloft on the parallel bars, he had glided through the first couple moves of his routine somewhat cleanly. He had picked a challenging one, rated a 6.300. There was none tougher in the 30-man field at the U.S. gymnastics championships on the opening Thursday night...
The United States Olympic Committee would like to be seen as forceful and proactive for moving to disband USA Gymnastics and start over. Not so fast, please. Another body with a U.S. in front of it, the United States Congress, deserves the congratulations for dragging the USOC, heels digging-in-the-dirt,...
Lee Westwood was finally back in the winner's circle on Sunday and it was in a familiar setting, clinching his third title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa by coming from behind to overhaul a three-shot deficit in the final round. Westwood denied Sergio Garcia a wire-to-wire victory...
Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation, also known as Baltimore's Classic Five, announced 10 percent of all greens and carts fees at Carroll Park, Clifton Park, Forest Park, Mount Pleasant, and Pine Ridge golf courses Monday will be donated to the Links to Freedom Foundation. The Links to Freedom...
Justin Rose defended his Turkish Airlines Open title on Sunday in Antalya, Turkey, to ensure he will return to the top of the world rankings. Rose beat Haotong Li of China on the first playoff hole after the pair finished the final round tied on 17-under par at the Regnum Carya Resort. Rose, 38,...
Harry Legum, who teaches fitness to sailing buffs, has heard the query before. What do sailors need to know but how to swim? The answer: Nothing, really, if you’ve got a plush, push-button yacht with an automated crew. But what’s the challenge in that? For purists, sailing pits muscle against Mother...
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...