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Baltimore's Brad Snyder and Timonium's Becca Meyers returned to the top of the podium on Monday at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

With senior quarterback Perry Hills picking up where he left off in the first half Saturday against Howard, the Terps built a 31-7 halftime lead and cruised to a 41-14 win

COLLEGE PARK — For years, William Likely Jr. saw more than two dozen high school football players from Belle Glade, Fla., and surrounding rural commun

Years from now, Maryland football fans hope to look back to Saturday’s season opener against Howard as the start of the program’s turnaround under DJ Durkin.

The Tigers (7-4 last year, 5-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association) take on a once-sorry South Florida bunch, which after three losing seasons in the American Athletic Conference has morphed into a power to be reckoned with.

In terms of this season, DJ Durkin is not looking past his first game as Maryland's football coach a week from Saturday against Howard in College Park. As for building the Terps into a competitive Big Ten team, Durkin is clearly looking into the future. That was apparent when Durkin took quarterback Caleb Henderson, a redshirt sophomore at North Carolina, as a transfer earlier this week.

C. Milton Wright graduate Amanda Barnes was named the first head coach at East Carolina.

Maryland continues to be in the running for some top recruits in the Class of 2017.

Century grad paced Terps' eighth-ranked defense as a co-captain in 2016

Last Wednesday, Harbaugh and his Michigan coaching staff embarked on a month-long trip that includes 38 camps in 21 states across two countries. Monday, the eighth stop on that journey was in Baltimore.

Labeled the best rookie in Division I, Loyola Maryland's Pat Spencer has scored 71 points on 30 goals and 41 assists. The Davidsonville resident and Boys' Latin graduate has tied the Greyhounds' Division I record for points, set a freshman record for assists, and ranks fifth in the program's record book for assists in a single season.

Maryland will host Michigan State on Oct. 22 in a nationally televised matchup on Big Ten Network with a 7:30 p.m. kick.

The subject has already come up between Ravens draft picks Kenneth Dixon and Keenan Reynolds. They had never met before being picked last month and were roommates for the team's rookie minicamp.

Five former Maryland football players were signed by NFL teams as undrafted free agents.

The Ravens enter Thursday's draft with seven of the top 135 picks for the first time in franchise history.

When Durkin was asked about the ruling after Maryland's practice on Tuesday morning, he came down in the middle of the road.

"Dancing with the Stars" is back! And so is Len Goodman! And the original "Throw on a bikini and a bedsheet and call it a rumba costume" pro, Edyta Sliwinska! Happy day!

Lacrosse's superpowers are struggling while younger programs are on the rise. Quint Kessenich examines why.

The comparison is inevitable. Eight years ago, Joe Flacco, a tall, strong-armed quarterback out of Delaware, made the jump from the Football Championship Subdivision to be made a first-round draft choice by the Ravens. This year, North Dakota State's Carson Wentz is hoping to make a similar jump and Flacco's success with the Ravens shows it can be done.

UCLA linebacker Myles Jack has become the first prospect in this year's NFL Draft class to clinch a major apparel and footwear deal, signing with Under Armour.

There were plenty of questions surrounding the Maryland football during recruiting season, from struggles on the field to changes on the coaching staff, and it led to some upheaval in the Terps¿ recruiting class. The Class of 2016 as it stood in early September looked far different from the one announced last Wednesday, with some familiar faces heading off to different places than expected.

Pallotti's Justin Mulbah signed a National Letter of Intent for a full scholarship on Feb. 3 to play football at the University of Buffalo.

Maryland coach DJ Durkin faces an uphill climb with the program he took over at the beginning of December. The Terps are in one of the nation's toughest divisions -- the Big Ten Conference East -- and though they reside in one of the most fertile recruiting grounds in the nation, they have to square off with the nation's top programs again. That's a difficult task. But according to ESPN.com, Durkin's tenure could get off to a smooth start on the field.

Indeed, Merritt held scholarship offers from Alabama and Clemson, the two teams that played for the national championship last month. He held an offer from Ohio State, which won the first College Football Playoff championship a year ago. Both programs that played for the final Bowl Championship Series title in 2014, Florida State and Auburn, offered him a spot in prestigious programs. But on Dec. 18, Merritt tweeted he was becoming a Terp.

Durkin's first recruiting class hasn't been easy to assemble. He took over less than two months before National Signing Day and inherited a class in which the future of some recruits was tied to former Maryland interim coach and offensive coordinator Mike Locksley's status. It didn't help that Meyer plucked two of Maryland's top verbal commitments and prominent local stars in quarterback Dwayne Haskins and outside linebacker Keandre Jones last month. Durkin, though, has kept his recruiting

Maryland has agreed to play a home-and-home series with Charlotte in 2022 and 2023, according to a report by FBSchedules.com. The first-ever meeting between the teams is set to be played in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 10, 2022 while the 49ers will make the return trip to College Park almost a year later on Sept. 9, 2023.

The Greyhounds and Mids were picked to finish first and second, respectively, in a preseason poll of the league's head coaches and sports information directors.

Maryland coach DJ Durkin finalized his coaching staff last week with the hiring of offensive line coach Dave Borbely. In the process of hiring nine assistants, Durkin combined elements of experience and youth, along with recruiting prowess and coaching talent. It¿s an impressive staff on paper.

A roundup of players linked to the Baltimore Ravens in early mock drafts.

Clayton A. ¿Bud¿ Beardmore, the architect of the Terps¿ first two ¿ and only two ¿ NCAA lacrosse championships in 1973 and 1975, died Wednesday morning of complications related to Parkinson¿s at his home in Severna Park. He was 76.

Scott Shafer seemed at ease as he sat in Maryland's Gossett Team House on Tuesday and fielded questions about his past stints as a coach, his present job as the Terps' defensive coordinator and the future of his unit, one that struggled at times during a 3-9 season in 2015.

When Pete Lembo first met DJ Durkin last June at a Michigan camp, he was taken with Jim Harbaugh's young defensive coordinator. Lembo, then the coach at Ball State, wouldn't have batted an eye if he had just spent the whole day with Harbaugh, spoke at the campers and then gone on his way.

Maryland do-it-all cornerback Will Likely will pass on the NFL draft and return for his senior season, the school announced Friday.

Bert Jones, who quarterbacked the Colts to three AFC East championships in the 1970s, was elected Friday to the College Football Hall of Fame. A first-team All-American at LSU, Jones is one of 16 players and coaches named to the class of 2016, which will be inducted in December.

It might seem obvious now, but the full significance of the 1966 Tangerine Bowl was not so apparent to the terrific Morgan State team that traveled to Orlando, Fla., a half-century ago to make college football history. "That was a turning point for black universities,'' said co-captain James Phillips, "but the thing about it was, we really didn't know. All we knew was it was a football game and that we were going there to win a football game."

Maryland will add Ball State coach Pete Lembo to its staff as special teams coach, according to a Fox Sports report. Lembo, 45, was 8-16 in the past two seasons after going 10-3 in 2013. Lembo spent five years with Ball State and was 33-29. In his career, Lembo was 112-65 in three stops, which also includes Elon and Lehigh.

Arkansas State offensive coordinator Walt Bell will fill the same position on Marylands staff, the university announced Sunday.

Maryland will hire Arkansas State offensive coordinator Walt Bell to fill the same position in College Park, FOX Sports reported Saturday. SI.com also reported Bell will be hired.

Maryland football coach DJ Durkin is taking his time in his search for the Terps next offensive coordinator.

When Mike London joined the Maryland coaching staff earlier this month, it added another dimension of experience to first-time head coach DJ Durkin¿s coaching staff in College Park. London, who led Virginia¿s program for six years before he resigned in late November, joins former Syracuse coach and new Maryland defensive coordinator Scott Shafer on the defensive side of the ball as defensive line coach and associate head coach.

After less than a week on the job, Maryland coach DJ Durkin has moved swiftly with working to fill out parts of his coaching staff. A former defensive coordinator at Michigan and Florida, Durkin is regarded as a top, young defensive mind, and he¿s already made additions on the defensive side of the ball that are expected to fit his vision for Maryland in Scott Shafer (defensive coordinator), Mike London (defensive line) and Aazaar Abdul-Rahim (defensive backs).

Former Syracuse coach and former Virginia coach join Aazaar Abdul-Rahim and Rick Court on DJ Durkin's coaching staff at Maryland.

Navy and Pittsburgh have met 39 times. Their 40th meeting will be on Dec. 28 in the Military Bowl at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis

When Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson introduced DJ Durkin as the university's 36th football coach Thursday, he kept coming back to one thing during his comments: Durkin's pedigree. By now, it's well-known that Durkin coached under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan and Stanford and under Urban Meyer at Florida and Bowling Green. He was on the same staffs as current Stanford coach David Shaw and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn, who was the defensive coordinator for the Super Bowl XLVIII-champion

It would be difficult not to be charmed by new Maryland football coach DJ Durkin. The 37-year-old former Michigan defensive coordinator is young, energetic, well-spoken and — by some accounts — as competitive as the uber-intense Jim Harbaugh, who he was working for at Michigan when he got the call from Terps athletic director Kevin Anderson. So, he can strike the good first impression off the checklist of important coaching attributes he has brought to Maryland, after Thursday's

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson has viewed new hire DJ Durkin as a viable head coaching candidate since the former Michigan defensive coordinator missed out on the Bowling Green job in 2013.

New Maryland football coach DJ Durkin won't coach Michigan in its bowl game.

Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds led the ESPN Heisman Trophy Fan vote before he was removed from the poll.

What they're saying about Maryland hiring Michigan defensive coordinator DJ Durkin to coach the Terps football team.