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• Sports

After Grand Slam run, Marylander Frances Tiafoe could be the next American hope in tennis

21-year-old tennis pro Frances Tiafoe has risen to No. 30 in the world rankings after advancing to the first quarterfinals of his career at last month’s Australian Open.

By Edward Lee

Feb 7, 2019

• Sports

He scored 16 points against LeBron James, then Baltimore's Rudy Gay did something even better

Known for giving back in Baltimore, where he grew up, Rudy Gay of the San Antonio Spurs delivered for two of his fans after helping the Spurs beat LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.

• Sports

Carmelo Anthony (Towson Catholic) reportedly set to part ways with Thunder

The Thunder reportedly will either trade Anthony or use the NBA's stretch provision or a buyout-and-stretch combination.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 6, 2018

• Sports

What they're saying about Cousins and Warriors one-upping LeBron and Lakers

A day after LeBron James rocked the NBA by joining the Los Angeles Lakers, the Golden State Warriors, NBA champions three of the past four years, made a stunning addition of their own.

• Sports

Ravens weigh in on the great debate: Who's the GOAT? LeBron James or Michael Jordan

The Ravens posted a video to Twitter on Sunday in honor of LeBron James' Lakers decision. In it, the players definitively settled who truly bears the title of GOAT in the NBA.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 2, 2018

• Sports

What they're saying about LeBron James' deal with the Lakers

A look at what sports writers, columnists and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert are saying about LeBron James' departure from Cleveland to Los Angeles.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 2, 2018

• Sports

Nearly quarter-century after leaving Maryland as NBA's top pick, Joe Smith in different spotlight

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.

By Don Markus

Mar 13, 2018

• Baltimore City Paper

Melo Returns: Carmelo Anthony adds to his Charm City legacy as host of The Basketball Tournament

Hoop dreams often incubate in dim, cramped gyms, much like the one at the Mount Royal Rec Center.

• Baltimore City Paper

Sole Searching: Ballin' on a budget and Lonzo Ball's $500 shoes

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

• NBA

Wall scores 32 to lead Wizards to 114-107 win over Hawks in Game 1

John Wall scored a playoff career-high 32 points and Markieff Morris added 21 in his NBA playoff debut as the Washington Wizards beat the Atlanta Hawks 114-107.

• NBA

Digest: James' 3 forces OT, then Irving lifts Cavaliers over Wizards, 140-135

Patrick Cole and Dajuan Graf combined for 52 points as the North Carolina Central men's basketball team picked up its eighth straight win, beating host Coppin State, 86-77.

• Sports

Michael Phelps and LeBron James had a moment of 'greatness' Sunday night

"Just recognizing greatness, that's all that's about," James said of his gesture.

By Jonas Shaffer

Jan 9, 2017

• Baltimore County

Catonsville pulls away in girls basketball victory over Mount de Sales

Catonsville fell behind early and they didn’t pull away until midway through the fourth quarter, but in the end, the host Comets (4-0) stayed unbeaten.

By Craig Clary

Dec 20, 2016

• Sports

Digest: Terps men's soccer beats Michigan State, heads to Big Ten final

The top-seeded Maryland men's soccer team defeated fourth-seeded Michigan State, 2-1, in the semifinals of the Big Ten Conference tournament Friday afternoon at Westfield, Ind.

• MLB

Indians take Game 1 of the World Series, 6-0, behind Kluber's arm and Perez's bat

Corey Kluber set a franchise record for strikeouts in a World Series game, Andrew Miller walked through the fire in two scoreless innings and Roberto Perez

By Andy McCullough

Oct 25, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Carmelo's Way: How Baltimore's Carmelo Anthony found himself and countered critics at the Olympics

In the fifth grade, my lips were chapped and 50 Cent's debut album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" spun feverishly in my Walkman. I was finally able to shoot free

• Opinion

Roughly Speaking podcast: LeBron's hot hand, and a million-dollar first novel (episode 116)

Paula Gallagher reviews Emma Cline's debut novel, "The Girls." Dan speaks with Jonathan Flombaum about Lebron James' "hot hand" in basketball.

By Dan Rodricks

Jun 27, 2016

• Olympics

Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony to play in fourth Olympics

The U.S. has selected its 12-player roster that will try to win the Americans' third straight Olympic basketball gold medal.

• LeBron James

For a lifelong Cleveland sports fan, Cavs' win erases painful memories

As a lifelong Cleveland sports fan, when I saw LeBron James hoisting the championship trophy, I was the one hoisting it.

By Ron Fritz

Jun 20, 2016

• Business

He's not Michael Jordan, but Stephen Curry is Under Armour endorsement gold

Popular Stephen Curry is endorsement gold for Under Armour but he's not Michael Jordan

By Jeff Barker

Apr 25, 2016

• Maryland

Appreciating history in the making

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

• Maryland

It's fun to start up GOAT talks

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

• Maryland

What happened to coaches coaching?

• NBA

LeBron James, 5-year-old Leah Still form unbeatable team

With 5-year-old Leah Still, a cancer survivor, in the stands cheering him on, LeBron James scores 34 points to help the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Washington Wizards.

• Wandering Eye:

Activist Tariq Touré's #NoJusticeNoLeBron gets national headlines

• LeBron James

LeBron James delivers a victory in more ways than one in Boston

LeBron James makes a 16-year-old fan's night in Boston even though James was booed all night by the home crowd.

• Sports

Forward Kiah Gillespie brings transcendent talent to Terps women as season gets under way

The game has different values now. A forward who can rebound and defend and post up remains a commodity, same as it has been since the sport's early days. But a forward who also can shoot 3-pointers and lead fast breaks and handcuff opposing guards — the kind of player James Naismith might have conceived of only in a science-fiction setting — has become like basketball's analog of the smartphone. Everyone wants one, and it's getting increasingly difficult to imagine life without.

By Jonas Shaffer

Nov 10, 2015

• LeBron James

Seth Myers and Amy Poehler say 'Really!?!' to SI writer who dislikes women's sports

Comedians Seth Myers and Amy Poehler had some fun last night at the expense of Sports Illustrated writer Andy Benoit, who wrote on Twitter this week that "women's sports in general not worth watching."

By Alexander Pyles

Jun 25, 2015

• Harford

Harford student-athlete stars in her college's 'Together' video

Cedar Crest College basketball player Breonna Lewis, who hails from Harford County, has a prominent role in a video made to promote her school, a video inspired by the recent Nike "Together" commercial featuring NBA star LeBron James.

• Maryland

Wizards hand Cavaliers 3rd straight loss, 91-78

• Maryland

New-Look NBA: A player's perspective, Paul Pierce

• Sports

LeBron James' homecoming bolsters Maryland football's recruiting pitch

Randy Edsall and the Maryland football coaching staff face the same challenge every year: How do you get a top prospect from Maryland or Washington, D.C., to stay home rather than choose a bigger, more prestigious football program

• Sports

Ravens, NFL players react to LeBron James' return to Cleveland

NBA superstar LeBron James' blockbuster decision to leave the Miami Heat and rejoin the Cleveland Cavaliers triggered shockwaves throughout the sport world and Twitterverse on Friday.

• NBA

Otto Porter, Glen Rice Jr. ready for summer with Wizards

All Otto Porter Jr. and Glen Rice Jr. could do last season was sit, watch and wait. T

• Maryland

Free agency opens in the NBA

• Maryland

LeBron tells Heat he will become free agent

• NBA

C.J. Fair has put in the work to hear his name called at NBA draft

C.J. Fair, the Baltimore-born Syracuse star, has prepared for the NBA draft by training with George Gervin and John Lucas.

• Medical Research

$50 million or more pledged to fight blindness

Gordon Gund is the CEO of a venture capitalist fund, the former owner of major league sports teams and a member of the Kellogg Company's board of directors.

• High School sports

Mount St. Joseph to play in Slam Dunk to the Beach basketball tournament

Mount St. Joseph will play in the revived Slam Dunk to the Beach basketball tournament in December, the Delaware Sports Commission announced Wednesday.

• Baseball

Coffee Companion (6/9): Machado irks Oakland, Terps face baseball Game 3

Manny Machado's antics upset the Orioles, and Maryland baseball faces an elimination game with a spot in the College World Series on the line.

• Major League Baseball

Coffee Companion (6/6): Orioles return home on down note

The Orioles fell 8-6 after a bad Chris Tillman start and three J.J. Hardy errors.

• Baltimore City Paper

YOUR SUPER BOWL EARLY BIRD LINE

• Miami Heat

Seth Rollins turns on The Shield, joins Evolution On RAW

We knew that The Shield would break up at some point. Many people, myself included, thought that the breakup would even happen at Payback. Once The Shield won so convincingly, it certainly seemed that they¿d be around longer than we expected. And many people expected that it would be Dean Ambrose, not Seth Rollins, that would make the turn.

• Baseball

Coffee Companion (5/21): Chris Davis doubles home run total in win

Chris Davis hit three home runs in the Orioles 9-2 win Tuesday.

• Baseball

Coffee Companion (5/13): Norris' night spoiled by blast, beanball

Reaction from the Bud Norris ejection and Ravens draft notes

• Opinion

Remember her name [Editorial]

Terrapins have a shot at the Final Four thanks to the greatest basketball player in school history who has been widely ignored by fans

• Sports

Thoughts on Ralph Friedgen, Melo Trimble starting next year and the odds Damian Prince picks Maryland

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and producer-editor Jonas Shaffer weigh in on three topics from the past week in Maryland sports.

• Terps

Shy off the court, Alyssa Thomas dominates on it as leader of Maryland women

Alyssa Thomas has grown from a painfully shy youth to perhaps the greatest all-around player in the history of Maryland women's basketball.

• High School sports

Southern's Brown enjoys 'rough and tough' inside play

As one of the top inside threats in Baltimore-area girls basketball, Southern's Jordyn Brown gets a lot of attention. She averages more than 21 points and 12 rebounds per game.

• High School sports

New Town point guard Danny Shand wants the ball -- and redemption

The most difficult day of Danny Shand's basketball life came last March. In a stomach-turning 54-52 loss to Dunbar in the Class 1A state championship game, he made just one of 10 free throws.