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Chol Marial, a 7-foot-2 center from South Sudan, will take a visit to Maryland beginning on Thursday.

By Don Markus

Apr 24, 2019

Many of the Terps who will take the floor Saturday in the NCAA tournament knew they’d end up in College Park years before they enrolled.

By Jonas Shaffer

Mar 22, 2019

Fred Jackson's long relationship with new Maryland football coach Michael Locksley played a significant role in his son Josh's decision to play for the Terps as a graduate transfer.

By Don Markus

Feb 21, 2019

Virginia Tech quarterback Josh Jackson announced on social media Monday night that he will transfer to Maryland after graduating this spring with two seasons of eligibility remaining.

By Don Markus

Feb 18, 2019

As the federal government in Washington sinks into ever-deeper dysfunction and the public casts about for alternatives, some so-called “Never Trump” Republicans are urging Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run in a 2020 primary against his party’s president.

Maryland quarterback Kasim Hill, who torn his ACL in both knees in each of his two seasons in College Park, announced on Twitter Friday night that he has put his name into the NCAA transfer portal and is exploring the possibility of leaving.

By Don Markus

Feb 8, 2019

In two months, the size and strength of Michael Locksley’s inaugural recruiting class grew by leaps and bounds.

By Jonas Shaffer

Feb 6, 2019

Local students were among those receiving degrees during the May 20 commencement exercises at King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Sean W. Floto, of

Sister Mary Michelle Carroll, who was the first principal of Mercy High School, died Thursday of complications from old age at Mercy Convent in Savannah, Ga. She was 96.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Aug 27, 2018

In his first media availability since being named Maryland's interim head coach, Matt Canada said he is still the offensive coordinator and still an assistant coach despite head coach DJ Durkin being placed on administrative leave Saturday.

By Don Markus

Aug 15, 2018

Before the induction ceremony in Canton on Aug. 4, get to know the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018 with a career breakdown of each inductee.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 27, 2018

Randallstown resident and McDonogh graduate Jordan McNair, an offensive lineman at Maryland, was hospitalized after collapsing during a team workout two weeks ago and died Wednesday.

Programs such as Florida Gulf Coast have proved that lower mid-major schools can continue to have NCAA tournament success even after losing a transformative coach.

John M. Purnell, a veteran reporter who had worked for Eastern Shore newspapers and earlier for The Palm Beach Post, died Thursday from undetermined causes at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The West Ocean City resident was 73.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 22, 2018

The Maryland football team signed 22 players, including 15 from the DMV, to its 2018 recruiting class Wednesday.

By Don Markus

Dec 20, 2017

Transfer to Fairmont State was right choice for former Pallotti standout Stockman

Navy took on Pittsburgh in the nightcap of the fourth annual Veterans Classic. The Midshipmen were seeking their first win in the season-opening tournament.

By Bill Wagner

Nov 10, 2017

Junior defensive end Eyabi Anoma played his first full season of football at St. Frances last year. His second will draw a little more attention.

By Jonas Shaffer

Apr 20, 2017

Cindy Reese Kelley starred in two sports during her high school sports career at Westminster High School.

That was two decades ago, and the Owls gradu

Christan Carter "Chris" Cannella, a research librarian who grew up in Severna Park, died of a heart attack Oct. 24 at his office at Florida International University in Miami. He resided in Miramar, Fla. and was 39.

By Jacques Kelly

Nov 15, 2016

News and announcements about student accomplishments in Carroll County

Nettie Barcroft Taylor, 102, who was recalled as a driving force in building Maryland's library network who was much esteemed by her profession, died of respiratory failure Oct. at her Gwynn Oak area home.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 27, 2016

Sitting to write this on Saturday morning, I certainly can't offer up any thoughts or impressions, a recap, or any takeaways from the Ravens' game on Sunday

News and announcements about student accomplishments in Carroll County

Now 38 and residing in Illinois, former NFL player Tommy Polley returns to Baltimore on Wednesday to help The Sun celebrate its 50th annual Athlete of the Year awards luncheon, serving as the keynote speaker at the newspaper's downtown headquarters.

By Glenn Graham

May 31, 2016

The Toronto native visited Maryland recently but is expected to commit to Virginia Tech.

Just three weeks remain before the NCAA Tournament as teams try to gain momentum for postseason.

Johns Hopkins neuroscientists and their partners in Florida and Atlanta have shown the Zika virus destroying or damaging cells that are the building blocks of brain development in the lab, another step toward confirming the Zika's connection to the birth defect microcephaly.

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 4, 2016

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.

David W. Andrews, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, has been tapped to head a private nonprofit university in California that caters to nontraditional students.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 7, 2016

Five Bowie State football games this season have been nullified after the program self-reported an eligibility violation to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and NCAA.

Things have been quiet in College Park the past couple of weeks regarding the search for fired football coach Randy Edsall's successor. Athletic director Kevin Anderson, whose own legacy with the Terps will certainly be tied to this hire, has declined to discuss who he might be looking at since saying on the day of Edsall's firing that Maryland wanted a coach "to excite the fan base." Many names have surfaced in a variety of media outlets, a few that seem to have validity and others that appear

By Don Markus

Nov 4, 2015

The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, a subordinate element of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, welcomed representatives from local colleges and universities to its Academia Day 2015 at Aberdeen Proving Ground Friday to talk about internships and other opportunities for students.

Politicians, as well as political reporters, ignore Bernie Sanders' upsurge at their peril, says Robert Reich.

McDaniel welcomes new assistant professors Stoddard and Zajac

Altoona Curve relief pitcher John Kuchno, a Baltimore native who grew up in the Dorsey's Search neighborhood of Columbia and attended Glenelg Country School, after four years in the minor leagues, is looking to continue his climb toward the majors.

"Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book Of Wonders" deals with former Owings Mills asylum and Elkton plane crash

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 22, 2015

Rasheed Sulaimon is going to play basketball for the University of Maryland. http He is a very good basketball player and will likely help the Terps in their quest for a national championship, but he comes with a troubling cloud hanging over his head. Mr. Sulaimon was dismissed in January from Duke University's basketball program for "unspecified reasons" and had earlier been accused of sexual assault.

Tiana Jones and Demarkis Cooper are helping bring notice to the school's Professional Golf Management program. It is one of 19 accredited by the PGA of America and the only one at a historically black university.

By Don Markus

Jun 7, 2015

Michelle Elizabeth Saunders, a product of West Friendship Elementary, Marriotts Ridge High School and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Salisbury State University has just completed her Masters Degree at the University of Alabama.

The Ravens have a strong track record of finding players in the bottom third of the round. Here's a look at five possible first-round scenarios for the Ravens, including potential trades.

By Aaron Wilson

Apr 29, 2015

Philanthropy limited to the super-rich and giant corporations can easily be abused says Robert Reich.

Pat Healey scored a sixth-attacker goal with 2:22 left and assisted on Evan McNeley's power-play goal 38 seconds later as the United States beat the Czech Republic in the WMF Arena Soccer World Cup.

An English teacher's lament

When No. 16 Maryland takes the court Tuesday against No. 5 Wisconsin, the Terps will have moved past their offseason soap opera to a place unfamiliar under Turgeon: national prominence.

By Don Markus

Feb 21, 2015

Patrick Allen, Kai Locksley and Lawrence Cager were among dozens of Baltimore area football and soccer players signing national letters of intent to receive athletics scholarships.

By Katherine Dunn

Feb 5, 2015

Frostburg State University announced that several local students have received scholarships for study there.

Three standout juniors, whom The Baltimore Sun is following through the recruiting process until national signing day in 2016, had stellar performances on the field last fall, playing major roles in their teams' championship seasons and earning first-team All-Metro and All-State accolades.

By Katherine Dunn

Jan 30, 2015

New research from Johns Hopkins suggests reframing a stressful situation as potential gains or losses can help people avoid performance failures

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 9, 2015

Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, the Heisman Trophy favorite, has been named the winner of the 2014 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.