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Tokyo Olympic organizers are putting “a few hundred-thousand” tickets into a lottery next month for Japan residents who were shut out.

A former gold medalist has been elected to lead the Japanese Olympic Committee, which is mired in a scandal that forced the former president to step aside.

With the continuing and unresolved issue of National Football League players kneeling (or remaining in the locker room) during the playing of the National Anthem before games, one is reminded of two incidents involving the anthem: Both occurred 50 years ago this month.

The study conducted by The School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State found that black female athletes were forced to up their femininity to avoid scorn by the press — but that regardless of what they did, they would always be undermined.

Michelle Gross Daichman's love of figure skating runs as thick as ice — both professionally and through her involvement as a national champion skater with a Rockville-based synchronized skating group

From nuclear politics to American skiing stars to Russian doping, here are the key stories when the 2018 Winter Olympics begin Friday.

A log rolling champion works to popularize her sport and market a 65-pound log without splinters

NFL owners' treatment of Colin Kaepernick points to widespread racism.

An era comes to an end as Australia lacrosse legend Jen Adams, Loyola Maryland coach and former Maryland Terps star, retires from international play

Michael Phelps’ testimony represented the strongest step he has taken toward becoming a leading voice in the anti-doping movement.

Here's what you need to know about the swimmer's visit to Capitol Hill.

The hearing comes amid a recent global crackdown on doping in sports, particularly in Russia.

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It's a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China's demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It's a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China's demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The Ravens are signing former Army quarterback Trent Steelman to a contract and cutting undrafted rookie quarterback Jerry Lovelocke, according to sources.

The Ravens auditioned former Grambling quarterback D.J. Williams, the son of former Washington Redskins Super Bowl winning quarterback Doug Wiliams, and quarterbacks Trent Steelman and Austin Trainor, according to league sources.

The U.S. Olympic Committee on Thursday selected Boston as its candidate to compete for the 2024 Summer Olympics, squashing this region's hope of hosting the international sports spectacle.

The United States Olympic Committee is likely to announce Thursday which city will be the U.S. candidate to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Chairman of Washington Olympic bid is intrigued by RFK Stadium site but says Maryland will play big role

John MacAloon, who has spent the entirety of his career studying the interplay between sports and politics, will be discussing the Olympic host city selection process at the college Thursday.

The organization hoping to attract the 2024 Summer Olympics to the Washington region unveiled a website, logo and 17-member leadership team on Thursday that included Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank. Gov. Martin O'Malley offered his preliminary backTing, but the extent of Maryland's role – and potential financial commitment – remained largely undefined.

Advocates in Maryland who backed the successful passage of the first statewide legal protections for transgender citizens in housing, employment and public accommodations this legislative session don't consider their work complete.

Ellicott City residents are among the nation's top-ranked ballroom competitors in their age division, having won a national title in 2012 and gaining international experience and accolades along the way.

Jean Amos, who had been the swimming instructor at the Notre Dame University of Maryland and was a Red Cross water safety instructor, died March 1 of complications of dementia at her Loch Raven Village home. She was 90.

In a quest to create the world's fastest suit for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, two iconic Maryland companies, Under Armour and Lockheed Martin, created a unique collaboration to fashion the most aerodynamic suit possible, using computer modeling based on filming the athletes and hundreds of hours of wind tunnel testing.

Olympics organizers erred (as they often do) by awarding games to Russia

In a decision with wide-reaching implications, a federal appeals court ruled this week that potential jurors cannot be left off juries based on their sexual orientations.

When the winter Olympics gets underway next month in Sochi, Russia, Under Armour's logo will be seen by millions of viewers around the globe as the Baltimore-based brand sponsors two U.S. teams and another from Canada

Start off the New Year of 2014 by joining a winter reading program at Harford County Public Library!

After a four-year reprise, a 19th-century British law once again governs sexual relationships in India.

Former Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has channeled his early support for same-sex marriage and other gay-rights issues as a player into a post-retirement mission to raise awareness about LGBT equality — from high schools to colleges to corporate board rooms.

International Olympic Committee officials said Thursday they were "fully satisfied" that a Russian law barring gay propaganda doesn't violate the Olympic charter's anti-discrimination language, the Washington Post reports.

Amid growing concern from sponsors over the 2014 Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge acknowledged his organization does not have the authority to influence the enforcement or repeal of Russia's "gay propaganda" law.

Terps' wrestling coach Kerry McCoy gratified by decision to preserve sport in the Olympics

The Greater Baltimore-Washington region has everything it needs to come up with a credible bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics

Baltimore-area venues would see Olympic events under a D.C.-based group's plan to explore a bid for the 2024 summer games in Washington.

Russian runners Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissed on the podium after winning gold at the World Athletics Championships Saturday.

After Nick Symmonds won a silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, the American became the first foreign athlete to openly condemn Russia's anti-gay law on Russian soil.

Likely sensing that uproar over Russia's anti-gay law isn't going away, FIFA says it has asked Russia for "clarification and more details" ahead of the 2018 World Cup being held there

LGBT advocacy group All Out will deliver a petition Wednesday that asks the IOC to condemn Russia's anti-LGBT legislation.

It¿s clear from the decades-long gay rights movement here in the United States that gays and lesbians have always changed hearts and minds and forced public policy changes by being counted, not by sitting it out.

NBC Sports exec Mark Lazarus told members of the press the network will address Russia's anti-gay issues "as they are relevant at the time of the Games."

The International Olympic Committee released a statement saying it will "work to ensure" no discrimination against LGBT participants in Sochi.

The Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse announced Monday that Archbishop Spalding boys lacrosse coach Bear Davis will take over as head coach.