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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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

By Jonas Shaffer

Jan 9, 2017

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Jeff Barker

Apr 25, 2016

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Reaction from the Bud Norris ejection and Ravens draft notes

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

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.

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

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.

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.