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- For Virginia and Texas Tech, doing something that had never been done before took hard work, dedication, determination — and vision.
- Freshman forward Jalen Smith finished with 19 points and 12 rebounds, while former Mount Saint Joseph teammate and sophomore guard Darryl Morsell tied his career high with 18 points to lead sixth-seeded Maryland to a 79-77 win over 11th-seed Belmont in the NCAA tournament Round of 64.
- Two memorial scholarships at Edgewood High School are named for a student basketball star and a former teacher, coach and athletic director. Their families accepted the honors during the school's annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday.
- Orioles third baseman Manny Machado was always going to be the villain after his reckless slide into Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia last month sparked
- Sean Burns was born without use of his right hand and he developed a way to play baseball one-handed.
- Now that summer is officially upon us, we're taking a look at the definitive summer songs of all time, based on their seasonal popularity on Billboard's Hot 100 charts. Today, we count down the summer jams of the 1990s.
- If Len Bias could attend his own Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday, he'd do so as a 50-year-old man. That's a heck of a thing to wrap your head around if you grew up as an obsessed ACC basketball fan in the 1980s.
- Constant repetition of AT&T commercials becoming annoying to NCAA Tournament viewers
- Making Sports Illustrated's cover is an honor, but some say it's also a curse, something that Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco contends with this week as Baltimore heads into the AFC championship game against the New England Patriots.
- 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.
- As an NBA assistant coach since retiring after a Hall of Fame career, Patrick Ewing might have a better seat than many of his contemporaries to compare this year's U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to the fabled Dream Team of 20 years ago.
- A few fun facts about the 49-year-old lefty the Orioles signed to a minor-league deal Wednesday.
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