Lamar Jackson’s most encouraging moment Thursday, the Ravens’ third day of organized team activities this offseason and first open to reporters, might have been a post-practice self-assessment that was at odds with his coach’s. John Harbaugh said his starting quarterback “looked good. What you...
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“Jeopardy!” champion James Holzhauer has become the sports world’s favorite adopted son, his stats tracked daily like an All-Star slugger’s, his rise to fame profiled by ESPN, his day job making him the face “of the American sports bettor.” On Monday night, he also drew attention from New England...
The agenda of the May meeting of the California Horse Racing Board was generally filled with routine procedural matters, leaving center stage to the heightened, and at times, hyperbolic rhetoric over what should be the future of horse racing in California. The public comment part of Thursday’s...
Former Maryland standout Kevin Huerter was named Tuesday among the top 10 rookies in the NBA this season. Huerter was voted to the All-Rookie second team after receiving one first-team vote and 43 second-team votes among the panel made of up 100 broadcasters and sportswriters. Huerter, who was...
Old Mill has been on a magical run the second half of the high school baseball season, winning 11 straight as it heads to play its first state championship since winning its third crown in 2003 when ace Nick Couzantino two-hit Perry Hall in a 7-0 shutout at Joe Cannon Stadium. The Patriots also...
Maryland graduates Cathy Nelson Reese and Sarah Forbes were selected for induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2019, the Hall of Fame announced Wednesday. Reese and Forbes will be officially inducted in a ceremony on Oct. 19, at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley....
Hampton University lacrosse coach Lloyd Carter, the first coach of the Pirates program, announced that he will be retiring as coach June 30. Carter served as head coach of the men's lacrosse program after co-founding and coaching the university's club lacrosse team since 2013. A native of Baltimore,...
Hero’s Lacrosse, an Anne Arundel County tradition since 1972, is disbanding. Chip Bullen, longtime president of Hero’s Lacrosse, said the summer league operation is no longer viable due to decreased participation. Last year, Hero’s Lacrosse fielded a total of 22 teams in five divisions – Pee Wee,...
Arnold, Md. – The No. 1 Harford Community College women's lacrosse team claimed its first NJCAA Division I National Championship in program history, defeating the No. 3 Anne Arundel Riverhawks, 22-12, Sunday afternoon at Anne Arundel's Siegert Field. "After the loss to Anne Arundel in the Region...
Kyle Lowry just wanted something he could put on his shoes, something that made them feel like they were his. He didn’t know that he’d inspire a movement that’s inescapable during the Eastern Conference finals. He didn’t know he’d empower his young teammates to take control of their marketing futures,...
The Clippers’ season ended last month but they were the most talked-about team in the league on Wednesday. That’s what happens apparently when you have an off day on the NBA playoff schedule and the Lakers take a momentary break from airing their dirty laundry on national television. While the...
The Washington Mystics sit atop the preseason Associated Press WNBA poll for the first time. The runner-up from last season's WNBA Finals received five first-place votes from the 14-person national media panel Wednesday. It's the first time in the four-year history of the poll that Washington is...
Without even playing, the Golden State Warriors won again Tuesday. As they began a nine-day break ahead of a fifth consecutive appearance in the NBA finals, their remaining challengers guaranteed more work for themselves. The Toronto Raptors’ 120-102 victory Tuesday against the Milwaukee Bucks ...
The Florida A&M athletics program has been hit with some of the toughest sanctions in school history after the NCAA determined the school suffered from a lack of institutional control. FAMU first self-reported extensive administrative errors that violated NCAA rules in 2015. The NCAA’s ensuing...
Wyoming has steadily improved under the direction of coach Craig Bohl, posting three consecutive bowl eligible seasons. The Cowboys remain a tough lineup, but lack of depth on both lines could make it tough to earn more than six wins in 2019. Orlando Sentinel college insider Matt Murschel ranked...
Northern Illinois will play Notre Dame in football for the first time in program history when the Huskies visit South Bend, Ind., in 2024. The game against the Irish on Sept. 7, 2024, was among a list of future nonconference opponents NIU announced Thursday. The Huskies also will play Kentucky...
UAB was one of the best stories in college football the past two years, with the program earning back-to-back bowl bids and winning the 2018 Conference USA championship immediately after the shuttered program was reinstated. However, the Blazers face new challenges after a wave of seniors graduated....
Don’t be a hater. If there was something to be learned from Brooks Koepka’s dominating and then nerve-jangling victory in the PGA Championship, it is that we should step back, put away our biases, and appreciate the history we are seeing. Koepka is never going to be as eloquent in sharing his thoughts...
One has 23 Olympic gold medals in swimming. The other, 15 major championships. Michael Phelps can relate to Tiger Woods, especially after watching him up close at the Masters. Perhaps you saw the picture of Phelps behind the 16th tee at Augusta National. “Tiger has laser-beam eyes when he walks...
Brooks Koepka took his place in PGA Championship history with a victory, minus the style points. In a raging wind that turned Bethpage Black into a beast, Koepka lost all but one shot of his record seven-shot lead Sunday. He lost the brutal Long Island crowd, which began chanting “DJ!” for Dustin...
UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin completed his staff Thursday, hiring Nebraska’s Michael Lewis as an assistant. Lewis spent the previous three seasons with the Cornhuskers as part of a coaching career in which he has spent 17 seasons at five stops. Before arriving at Nebraska in 2016, Lewis coached...
Edward W. “Bill” Rothe, a former radio engineer who was the voice of the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team, died Tuesday of multiple infections at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Nottingham resident was 68. Edward William Rothe, the son of Edward Rothe, a Baltimore Gas and Electric...
A new professional league for elite swimmers will launch in October with meets in seven cities across the United States and Europe, ending with a championship in a temporary pool in Las Vegas. The International Swimming League announced its schedule Tuesday. The season begins Oct. 4-5 in Indianapolis,...
While swimming to Olympic glory, Michael Phelps found comfort in the pool and quite a bit of angst out of it. His bout with depression reached its nadir in 2014 after a second DUI arrest. That's when the most decorated Olympian of all time checked himself into a rehabilitative center in a desperate...
Outside the modest Sherman Oaks home of Los Angeles’ most unassuming sports legend hangs a flag. It is not a flag of a team or an accomplishment, but of a mission. “Love,” it reads. Inside, Rafer Johnson, 83, an athlete whose life both literally and figuratively lit a flame, speaks of his legacy...
The organizers of this weekend’s Annapolis Windsurfing Festival are hoping to kickstart a revival of the once popular hands-on sailing sport. The event Saturday and Sunday, both on the grounds and offshore of the Severn Sailing Association in Eastport, will feature a regatta of races in different...
The Baltimore Brigade (2-2) were upended, 48-41, by the Atlantic City Blackjacks (2-2) on Saturday night at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in their first road game of the season. Baltimore rallied for 22 points in the fourth quarter, ending the game with a touchdown pass to wide receiver Joe Hills...
The Arena Football League has reached an agreement with ESPN to broadcast its games for the rest of the season. The remaining regular-season games will be made available on ESPN3 and the ArenaBowl will be on ESPN2. ESPN3 is available on the ESPN App. The Arena Football League season began last...
The Baltimore Brigade opened their Arena Football League season Friday night with a 59-51 victory over the Washington Valor at Royal Farms Arena. The victory avenged the Brigade’s loss to the Valor in last season’s championship game. Indoor soccer: The Blast head to Milwaukee to play the Wave on...