college basketball
- Morgan State men’s basketball great Marvin Webster was inducted posthumously into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., along with five players and two coaches.
- Bruno Fernando was able to stay out of foul trouble as unbeaten Maryland beat winless Mount St. Mary's, 92-77.
- 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
- The No. 2 seed Terps will meet No. 3 seed Princeton in an NCAA tournament semifinal on Friday with an eye on capturing their ninth national championship, but first since 2011.
- Kaila Charles scored 22 points, freshman Taylor Mikesell added 15 and No. 9 Maryland won for the second time in three days, beating Dayton, 82-71, on Sunday.
- The Maryland Terps and Navy Midshipmen faced each other in a basketball game for the first time in 33 years Friday night in the fifth annual Veterans Classic at Alumni Hall. The Mids hung tough into the second half, but the heavily favored Terps wore them down and prevented a huge upset.
- Marquette held NCAA tournament darling UMBC to 22 percent shooting in a 67-42 win on Tuesday night.
- Two days before the season opener, the Maryland men's basketball team took a quick trip to Baltimore to practice at Mount Saint Joseph.
- Coming off a disappointing 19-13 season after which his team was not invited to a postseason tournament, Maryland men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon believes the Terps are poised for a turnaround in 2018-19.
- A capsule-by-capsule look at all eight Division I men’s college basketball teams (not including Maryland) in the state for the upcoming 2018-19 season.
- The No. 10 high school prospect according to ESPN, former Mount Saint Joseph star Jalen Smith starts his Maryland career without much national attention. He prefers it that way.
- A former Adidas consultant who was called as a government witness at a New York trial looking into college basketball corruption testified in court Thursday that a Maryland booster paid the guardian of former five-star prospect Silvio De Sousa $60,000.
- Maryland was picked to finish seventh in the Big Ten this season in a unofficial preseason media poll of 28 representatives.
- Becky Martin is taking an indefinite leave as McDaniel College women's basketball coach after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier in the year.
- Maryland coach Mark Turgeon used his team's trip to Italy this summer to get his players — both old and new — indoctrinated in a new style both offensively and defensively.
- Rec Sports Spotlight for Sept. 16, 2018.
- Amending a previous proposal for a visible 60-second shot clock, the NCAA will add an 80-second clock for the 2019 season in men’s lacrosse.
- Pikesville sophomore Evan Flaks doesn't like to lose. That's why he won two gold medals this summer, one in Israel, one in California.
- The Maryland men's soccer team fell to UCLA, 1-0, Saturday at Ludwig Field. It was fourth-consecutive match for the Terps (0-2-2) against an opponent receiving
- The 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament will be held at Capital One Arena in Washington, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced
- Former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell and former North Carolina and NBA star Charlie Scott have been close since Driesell, then the coach at little Davidson College, recruited a mostly unknown prospect at Laurinburg Institute in 1964.
- Laurel Park's 61-day fall meet, which begins Friday, is highlighted by three Saturdays, serving up 18 stakes, two graded, worth $1.8 million in purses, three
- The Big Ten announced its football schedules for the 2022-2025 seasons Wednesday afternoon. As part of the Big Ten's schedule rotation, Maryland will host five
- Becky Martin has announced that she will take an indefinite medical leave from the sidelines of the McDaniel College women's basketball program and her administrative duties.
- Former Naval Academy athlete Lt. Jesse Iwuji is scheduled to make his debut in a NASCAR national series start during this weekend's Camping World Truck Series
- The Washington Spirit, which has not won in three months and scored once in the past 11 matches, fired Jim Gabarra as its coach and general manager Tuesday.
- The Maryland men’s basketball team will open and close its 2018-19 Big Ten schedule at home.
- The 2018 Carroll County Athletic League golf season is set to begin Friday.
- Three-star forward Ricky Lindo has committed to the Maryland men’s basketball team and will enroll in time to join the Terps this season.
- Some of the NCAA’s long-standing restrictions that have kept a firm line between amateur and professional athletes are no more.
- Morgan State men's basketball great Marvin Webster will be inducted in the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame. This year's class – the third in Small
- At first, Overseas Elite didn’t cruise in the final of The Basketball Tournament on Friday night at Morgan State. They instead survived, outlasting an Eberlein Drive team nipping at a tenuous lead from the match’s start.
- St. Frances All-Metro forward Angel Reese, one of the nation's top girls basketball prospects, has trimmed her college recruiting list to 10 schools and the rising junior plans to make her final decision in September.
- The Maryland men's basketball team will leave Saturday for a 10-day trip to Italy, where Mark Turgeon hopes to continue preparation for the 2018-19 season.
- The Golden Eagles, named after Marquette, won all three rounds in the Northeast bracket to reach Baltimore as one of four surviving teams who have battled through a field of 72 in July to reach The Basketball Tournament (TBT) semifinals.
- The Maryland men's basketball team will open the 2018-19 season Nov. 6 against Delaware.
- Two Maryland youth soccer teams earned US Youth Soccer National Championship titles this past weekend in Frisco, Texas.
- Online voting, which determines many of the night’s winners, is still open.
- For the first time, four former Terps are playing together for the Washington Mystics.
- “He really wants to know it, he wants to master it, and you can see it in the way he practices — every rep is 100 percent," Ravens linebackers coach Mike Macdonald said of linebacker Tyus Bowser.
- Ryan Brown scored six goals as the United States clinched the top seed in the Blue Division with an 18-2 victory over Scotland in the Federation of International Lacrosse men's world championship in Netanya, Israel.
- Two days after needing a second-half comeback to beat the Iroquois Nationals, the United States rolled to a 19-1 victory over Australia on Saturday in the
- After Jairus Lyles, the star of 16th-seeded UMBC’s upset of No. 1 seed Virginia in this past March’s NCAA tournament, learned the Utah Jazz had offered him a two-way contract, he was awed by his dream inching closer to becoming true.
- The UMBC men’s basketball team will travel to face Penn State in a nonconference game Dec. 29, the programs announced Wednesday.
- UMBC guard Jairus Lyles played in the Utah Jazz's summer league, hitting 3-pointers off the bench.
- Buoyed by a March Madness run, UMBC men's basketball's day camp has grown by leaps and bounds.
- Maryland, the latest school to be linked in the FBI investigation into correction in college basketball, will have to see whether the New York grand jury is satisfied with the information the university provided.
- John McNamara, a Capital Gazette editor and sports reporter who covered the University of Maryland Terrapins and was a high school basketball history specialist, died Thursday at the attack at the Annapolis newspaper’s office.
- Monday night was the start of the NBA Summer League, which meant three players with Maryland ties got their first chance to make a case for a roster spot.
- Wayne Rooney knows where D.C. United stands right now. It's not the team that won three of the first four Major League Soccer Cups after the league began in