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Stephen Curry is using a foundation of faith to build a career away from the basketball court through his burgeoning production company.

Manny Machado was introduced as a new Dodger at a news conference in Milwaukee on Friday afternoon and said all the right things.

Former Maryland star Joe Smith tells Alex Rodriguez on a CNBC show that he is broke despite earning more that $60 million in his NBA career.

The 5-foot-8 guard was named the America East Conference's shortest-ever Defensive Player of the Year,

LaVar Ball, the father of prospective NBA lottery draft pick Lonzo Ball and patriarch of Big Baller Brand, recently released Lonzo's first signature shoe the

The attention Sunday will be on Steve Smith Sr. and his likely final game, but another Ravens wide receiver has a benchmark that he could hit.

"I led people on that I was going to UM. If I would have gone to college it was going to be Maryland. I was going to shock 'em all."

I've never really been a Kobe Bryant fan. Maybe it's because I grew up idolizing players like Johnny Unitas, Brooks Robinson, and Pele. In my young adult years

My very favorite thing about sports is that you never know when a game is going to take over your night.

At the end of a school day recently, the kids were winding down from a long week anticipating the final bell and I overheard some of the boys talking about the

Baltimore product Will Barton is having a breakout season for the Denver Nuggets, and the ties that bind him to his hometown are as strong as ever.

Steve Blake has heard the same line for more than a decade, as the NBA careers of three of his former Maryland teammates came to an end.

Ending a frantic few days of courtship ¿ and perhaps cementing the Spurs as the preseason favorites to win yet another NBA title ¿ Aldridge announced Saturday that he will sign with San Antonio and align with Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard to form what would figure to be among the league's most-formidable frontcourts.

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Fans who have a reflexive need to excuse Ray Rice should ask themselves whether they would feel the same if Rice were in a different business

Maryland recruit Jared Nickens doesn't get as much attention as Melo Trimble, Dion Wiley or Trayvon Reed, but he's confident he can help the Terps

Sports reporter's possessions reflect a life on the road and a love of home

WWE superstar CM Punk has been selected by Sports Illustrated to be among its "Twitter 100," categorized as the most "essential to your daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world."

Growing up, Terrence Turner-Blair wasn't like the other kids. While others wanted to be the next Kobe Bryant or Peyton Manning, he wanted to be the next Barry Bonds or Ken Griffey Jr.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Since Steve Blake went to the Los Angeles Lakers three years ago, the former Maryland point guard had rarely been much of a factor.

Rebel Wilson confusses and titillates at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards while tax-paying procrastinators struggled to submit their returns on a temporarily floundering TurboTax online. In gun control news, a sadly ironic turn of events took place at the first 500 Sprint Cup race sponsored by the NRA as a NASCAR fan shot himself in the head after an apparent argument with a fellow racing fan.

The weekend's NBA all star game gave halftime show junkies a fix after their Super Bowl withdrawl, Danica Patrick ran a fast qualifying lap, and Christoph Waltz shows everyone the lighter side of Hitler.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

The Maryland Terps lost to the Florida State Seminoles. Don Markus analyzes the defeat.

Digital Harbor forward-guard A'Lexus Harrison's commitment to Maryland after her freshman year has shaped her high school basketball career in a much different way than the careers of her peers.

Comets ride defense to seventh victory of girls basketball season

Christmas may come early for Apple CEO Tim Cooke who could find out today whether a mess of Samsung phones are permanently placed on the naughty list, out of reach of U.S. consumers. Lakers star Kobe Bryant just scored his 30,000 point joining the elite ranks of Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon and assistant Bino Ranson reportedly had lunch today in Texas with Aaron Harrison Sr., the father of the 6-5 twin guards Aaron and Andrew Harrison, who are choosing between the Terps and defending national champion Kentucky.

You know how they say there's no crying in baseball> Apparently they haven't gotten that message at the London Olympics.

The U.S. drove a stake through Nigeria in a preliminary men's basketball game, 156-73, making massive numbers of 3-pointers Thursday and smashing the Olympic record for points in a game.

David Haugh: Olympic gold could restore LeBron James' image

McCoughtry, Cash lead U.S. rally in 81-56 win over Croatia

Former Olympian Ronda Rousey talks about her negative experience around Michael Phelps in Beijing.

Assisting Mike Krzyzewski, Steve Wojciechowski helps prepares scouting reports and runs drills for the likes of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.

Being a member of the U.S. Olympic team has been Carmelo Anthony's haven. But the drive to win an NBA title is part of the reason he's in London for the Games.

Would you rather see an American team filled with the league¿s best players, or the best players under 23?

What was supposed to be a rousing sendoff for the U.S. team playing its last game on American soil before continuing its pre-Olympic tour later this week in England, turned into an embarrassing first quarter that saw Brazil take a 10-point lead amid an assortment of missed dunks, errant jump shots and porous defense by their more famous counterparts.

The debate raging these days between those arguing whether this year's U.S. Olympic men's basketball team could compete with the Dream Team of 20 years ago is not answered simply by a generational divide.