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The Havre de Grace boys basketball team won its 19th straight game Thursday night and it was a bit easier than many might have expected.

Corey Davis had 16 points, Breaon Brady added 13 and No. 21 Houston beat Coppin State, 75-44, on Sunday to improve to 12-0 and extend the nation's longest home winning streak to 25.

“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.

Baltimore native Justin Gorham started just nine games for the Tigers last season but finished third on the team in scoring and led them in rebounding.

As a junior, Manges led Maryland to 11 straight victories, a No. 4 ranking and a berth in the Cotton Bowl, earning a Sports Illustrated cover along the way.

Digest: Brigade fall to Valor, 41-35; will face Soul in playoffs

Tyus Bowser, Tim Williams arrive at minicamp hoping to form Ravens' pass rush of the future

Maryland women's basketball seniors Brionna Jones (Aberdeen) and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough will have their jerseys honored in the rafters of Xfinity Center immediately after their Senior Day game against Minnesota on Feb. 26.

The top-ranked Maryland men's soccer team received the No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament Monday.

Jairus Lyles scored 18 points and the host Retrievers tied a school record with 17 3-pointers to cruise over the Blazers (0-1) in coach Ryan Odom's debut Friday night.

Local men's basketball preview capsules

Navy's offense made a dramatic improvement between the Air Force and Houston games. Offensive coordinator Ivin Jasper took responsibility for the Air Force debacle and vowed the Mids would get better.

With an 0-2 record in the Colonial Athletic Association, Towson needs to start a winning streak to have any chance of making the tournament.

Maryland men¿s basketball coach Mark Turgeon knows firsthand how good the two teams in Monday¿s NCAA tournament final are.

Maryland coach Mark Turgeon seemed to know where he was going. Those who knew Turgeon growing up in Topeka, and are still in touch with him now, are not surprised that the player who used to orchestrate their pickup games on the fully-lit 65-foot basketball court Bob Turgeon built in the backyard is coaching on the sport's biggest stage, in its biggest spotlight. Just as he will be Thursday, when Maryland faces his alma mater, Kansas, in the Sweet 16 in Louisville, Ky.

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

Former Terps star Joe Smith reflects on his memorable debut against Georgetown.

In his comments after coach Randy Edsall was fired, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said the schools is looking for its next football coach to be someone to "excite the fan base," particularly on the offensive side of the ball. College football is filled with young offensive minds right now, many of whom have recently ascended to head coaching jobs.

A look at college football players from the state of Maryland who will play in bowl games this winter.

Johns Hopkins football coach Jim Margraff earned American Football Coaches Association Region 2 Coach of the Year honors after leading the Blue Jays to an 11-1 record, a Centennial Conference title and the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament this season.

Junior guard Four McGlynn made all eight of his free throws and scored 10 points as Towson (3-1) rolled to a 63-42 victory over Bethune-Cookman (1-3) in a CBE Hall of Fame Classic game Saturday in West Long Beach, N.J.

The American Athletic Conference (AAC) announced Friday the two six-team divisions the conference will use when Navy joins for football in 2015.

With four consecutive wins, Navy (8-4) now wants to do something it hasn't done since 2009 — win a bowl game. The Midshipmen will get that opportunity when they meet Middle Tennessee State (8-4) on Monday in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas.

Billy Cosh, a record-breaking quarterback from Arundel, is now at Houston after stints at Kansas State, James Madison and Butler (Kan.) Community College.

College basketball previews for Coppin State, Loyola, Morgan State, Mount St. Mary's, Navy, Towson, UMBC and UMES.

Former Randallstown guard Tione Womack of Hagerstown Community College has signed with the Houston Cougars.

Recruiting Report: Superlatives for Maryland's 2012 football class

Brian Stewart targeted by Terps as coordinator

Don Markus has been critical of many things Maryland football coach Randy Edsall has said and done over the course of his first season in College Park, but the moves he made in replacing his team's offensive and defensive coordinators are to be applauded -- on a number of fronts.

Next Level Player of the Year: Tavon Austin, West Virginia

Navy won't be joining Big East as football-only member but is interested in reconsidering once bowl, game and TV obligations expire

LSU and Alabama were Nos. 1 and 2 in Sunday's next-to-last release of the Bowl Championship Series standings, meaning we're one week away from the formal unveiling of a rematch.

Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Saturday that he has been assured by Big East commissioner John Marinatto that the league has yet to extend bids to five schools, including Air Force, as reported by ESPN, adding that the Midshipmen are still in discussions to join the restructured league.