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- The investigation already has resulted in the arrest of four assistant coaches from Power Five conference schools as well as the firing of Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino at Louisville.
- Coming off a career-best season, Baltimore native Will Barton looks forward to a leadership role and playing LeBron James in the 2018-19 NBA season.
- Riverdale's Frances Tiafoe, a product of the Junior Tennis Champions program in College Park, saved 13 of the 15 break points he faced to upset 30th-seeded
- A 2011 graduate, Richman worked as a practice player for coach Brenda Frese and the Terps women before joining coach Mark Turgeon’s staff as a graduate assistant.
- Baltimore native Will Barton agreed to earn $54 million over the next four years with the Denver Nuggets.
- Monday night was the start of the NBA Summer League, which meant three players with Maryland ties got their first chance to make a case for a roster spot.
- 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.
- Wayne Rooney knows where D.C. United stands right now. It's not the team that won three of the first four Major League Soccer Cups after the league began in
- Recent Mount St. Mary's graduate Junior Robinson is set to play in the NBA Summer League in 2018.
- 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.
- A look at what sports writers, columnists and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert are saying about LeBron James' departure from Cleveland to Los Angeles.
- The Atlanta Hawks are loading up with guards this offseason and three of them have ties to Maryland.
- Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation will continue its Classic Five Golf Tournament Series next Saturday with the Baltimore Match Play Championship. The
- According to a story on the NCAA.com website, Maryland and Loyola-Chicago are close to finalizing a game during the 2018-19 season at Royal Farms Arena.
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Digest (June 29): McDonogh, UMBC alumnus Kansaye joining Loyola Maryland men's soccer coaching staff
Mamadou Kansaye will join the Loyola Maryland men's soccer program as an assistant coach. Kansaye won two Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association - The star of the NCAA tournament for UMBC, Jairus Lyles, will play for the Utah Jazz in the 2018 Summer League.
- It will be Virginia’s first game since its historic NCAA tournament loss.
- Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony plans to opt in and take the $28 million he is due next season.
- In 2019, Maryland may see Bruno Fernando and Jalen Smith realize their own NBA dreams.
- According to ESPN, new Atlanta general manager Travis Schlenk didn't make a trade with Milwaukee or San Antonio before drafting Kevin Huerter because he thought media picks on social media were correct.
- McDaniel College hosted the first week of its Green Terror Basketball Summer Camp at Gill Center on June 18-22, 2018.
- The guard directed St. Bonaventure (28-6) to a 13-game winning streak and the NCAA tournament,
- While Kevin Huerter will start his NBA career as a first-round draft pick and Justin Jackson will try to start his after being picked in the second round, both former Maryland players will be part of rebuilding teams at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
- After having shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum in January, Maryland forward Justin Jackson was selected No. 43 overall by the Denver Nuggets before being traded to the Orlando Magic.
- 6-foot-7 Troy Brown Jr. provides the Wizards with needed wing depth, a versatile defender and a potential playmaker for their second unit.
- Maryland guard Kevin Huerter went from being a fringe NBA prospect after his sophomore year to a first-round pick at No. 19 overall by the Atlanta Hawks in Thursday night's NBA draft.
- With more than a handful of NBA teams rumored to be considering drafting Kevin Huerter, here's a look at some of the scenarios that could play out Thursday night.
- Two years after leaving a close-knit community in upstate New York for Maryland, Kevin Huerter will watch his NBA future unfold with family, friends and neighbors at a draft viewing party.
- Luka Doncic is about to become an NBA player, though he's unlike the other top prospects who will be drafted. He's already a pro.
- One day out, it seems like Maryland guard Kevin Huerter will end up as a mid-to-late first-round pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. Forward Justin Jackson, who struggled last season due to injury, is likely to be a second round pick.
- Jaylen Adams, a standout guard from Mount Saint Joseph and St. Bonaventure, has auditioned for 13 NBA teams in the hopes he'll be drafted Thursday.
- Maryland guard Kevin Huerter became a hot item during workouts this spring — will he become a Laker, Timberwolf or fall to someone else?
- “I think he’s going to be a really, really good NBA player,” Maryland assistant coach Matt Brady told NBA.com about Kevin Huerter.
- Myla Abernathy, a 2018 graduate of Arbutus Middle School, was among the top finalists in the 800-meter run (girls age 15-16 division) at the USA Track & Field Potomac Valley Association Junior Olympic Championships on Saturday.
- Rudy Gay, the 2003-04 Baltimore Sun All-Metro Co-Player of the Year, will leave the San Antonio Spurs after turning down the second-year option on his contract.
- For those that don’t share that passion, I know it’s hard to watch a sporting event without having a dog in the hunt, and the embarrassing failure of our U.S. men’s national soccer team in last year’s qualifying matches could easily turn someone away from watching this summer’s World Cup.
- For the first time in four years, the Major League Lacrosse All-Stars will face off against Team USA. MLL announced the 30 players who will represent the
- Under Armour released a new ad after the Golden State Warriors clinched the NBA championship to celebrate Stephen Curry, the Baltimore brand’s biggest basketball ambassador.
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Justify could make Triple Crown history Saturday, but will the world care as much as it did in 2015?
Justify has a chance to become the 13th Triple Crown winner in history in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, but some observers perceive a lack of buzz compared to American Pharoah's run in 2015. - Washington Mystics star forward Elena Delle Donne is dealing with an illness that's being closely monitored because of her history with chronic Lyme disease and is listed as questionable for Thursday's 4 p.m. home game against the defending WNBA champion Lynx.
- The popular city league, which brings former top prospects like Aquille Carr and Stanton Kidd, kicks off June 10 at Baltimore City Community College.
- The Washington Redskins will honor their 1987 replacement team that won all three games by giving them Super Bowl rings next week.
- Charm City has a long tradition of supporting ice hockey but it seems to have been forgotten.
- This will be the first time the NFL or MLB will have participated in the Pride March.
- Mike Preston writes that schools in the MIAA should stop complaining about St. Frances and start trying to compete with the Panthers.
- Kevin Huerter’s decision to leave the Terps ends an anxious and bittersweet few days of waiting for Terps fans.
- Cleveland and Golden State will meet for the fourth straight year in the NBA Finals, with the Warriors looking for their third title in the four years. Can LeBron James and the Cavs steal one like 2016?
- Kevin Durant scored 34 points and the Golden State Warriors are heading to their fourth straight NBA Finals after fighting back from another big deficit with a huge third quarter and beating the Houston Rockets, 101-92, in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals on Monday night.
- Freshman center Bruno Fernando will return for his sophomore year after putting his name into the NBA draft but not signing with an agent.
- Given the choice of getting one or the other, who would Maryland coach Mark Turgeon choose between sophomore guard Kevin Huerter and freshman center Bruno Fernando.