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IFK Maryland has joined the Northeast-based American Soccer League for the 2016 season

He struck out a Nationals-record 17 on Saturday, walked none and allowed only one baserunner — on an error by third baseman Yunel Escobar.

As the Washington Wizards opened training camp Tuesday at the university's two-year-old basketball home in Baltimore County, players and even coach Randy Wittman reminisced about those halcyon days when they only had to worry about classes and basketball.

After eight years as a basketball vagabond that took him from Turkey to the NBA Finals, Gary Neal will cherish a rare opportunity to revisit his roots this week.

Under Armour has signed sponsorship deals with four young players, including former Maryland swingman Dez Wells.

Lefty Driesell, who recruited Moses Malone and got him to commit to Maryland only to have Malone sign a professional contract with the Utah Stars before playing for the Terps, said he and Malone developed a close relationship over the years.

Under Armour extends deal with NFL combine as its official outfitter

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and NBA star Stephen Curry have wrapped up a whirlwind, five-city, five-day tour of Asia, where the Under Armour athlete appeared before cheering fans in packed arenas and malls and unveiled his latest Under Armour shoe.

Fox Sports Southeast has promoted Stephanie Ready to NBA game analyst for Charlotte Hornets broadcasts, making her the first female to hold such a full-time position in the league.

At a luncheon at the Sports Legends Museum, former Orioles third baseman Robinson was introduced as one of seven inductees this year in the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame. Also announced were Tom McMillen, John Mackey, Kevin Glover, Bernard Williams Del Dressel and Jeff Pyles.

Under Armour shareholders on Wednesday approved an unusual two-for-one stock split that will create a new class of stock without voting rights and give owners of each existing share of common stock one new share of the new class.

AEG Live, the Los Angeles-based live-entertainment company, has purchased the downtown music venue Rams Head Live, according to a press release.

After getting injured during summer league practice with the Washington Wizards. former Maryland star Dez Wells will get training camp tryout with Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Washington Wizards are scheduled to play five games on national television — ESPN or TNT — and will not be in one of the five on Christmas Day.

Under Armour expands partnership with NBA with new deals tied to combine

Incoming Chapelgate freshman Jason Murphy experiences NBA Africa

Ivan Bender has spent the past seven months at the University of Maryland quietly trying to restart a basketball career that was interrupted twice in the last two years — each time after the 6-9, 230-pound forward tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

When he was back in the area last week for his annual summer camp in Montgomery County, former Maryland point guard Steve Blake stopped at his alma mater to play in pickup game with the current team.

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.

City of Gods, which is named after a Baltimore clothing store, includes several players with local ties, including former Maryland star James Gist and Omar Strong, a former two-time All-Metro guard at Douglass High who played collegiately at Texas Southern.

It's gets personal for me. Perhaps that's because at various times in my life I have felt the sting of prejudice and even anti-Semitism

Should the Maryland men's basketball team make the quantum leap from surprising Big Ten upstart last winter to national championship contender in the upcoming season, much of the success will be traced to what Kyle Tarp has done with the Terps over the past year.

With Melo Trimble playing on the U.S. team at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, sophomore from Springfield, Mass., is getting a chance to show Maryland coach Mark Turgeon how the offense looks when he gets to run it during the limited summer workouts allowed under NCAA guidelines.

Good vibrations -- that's what the Bullets had when they selected him No. 1, the ninth pick in the NBA draft. Stan Love, a forward, was skinny but rugged, a 6-foot-9 shooter who'd starred for Oregon after growing up in suburban Los Angeles. What the Bullets got from 1971 to 1973 was a carefree, blond surfing dude with Beach Boy genes

A little more than a year after trying to prove he was worthy of the hype as Maryland's first McDonald's All-American since Mike Jones in 2003, Melo Trimble is keeping more heady company these days as the youngest member of the U.S. Pan Am team.

Terdema Ussery II, a longtime top executive of the Dallas Mavericks, is joining Under Armour as president of global sports categories, accordiing to the company and the NBA team.

In its annual list of most valuable sports teams, Forbes ranked the Ravens 22nd overall with a value of $1.5 billion.

Maryland junior center Brionna Jones (Aberdeen) won the gold medal with USA Basketball at the World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea.

The Detroit Pistons have acquired former Terps guard Steve Blake from the Brooklyn Nets in a trade for forward Quincy Miller.

Ben's Cat returned to Laurel Park after finishing what trainer King Leatherbury described as a "very disappointing" sixth in Saturday's $200,000 Parx Dash Handicap in Bensalem, Pa.

Former Maryland star Dez Wells, who hoped to use the NBA Summer League with the Washington Wizards as a showcase to earning an invitation to training camp this fall, will not play with the team in Las Vegas because of a badly sprained thumb suffered last week during team workouts.

It wasn't as glamorous or well attended as the NBA outfits in Las Vegas or Orlando, but six of Carroll County's eight public school basketball teams got their own taste of offseason play with the Steve Johnson Memorial Summer League, which ended last week.

Pat Connaughton moved one step closer to his NBA dreams, and perhaps one further from returning to the Orioles, when he signed with the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday.

The Wizards on Thursday formally announced that they signed Gary Neal, a Calvert Hall and Towson product. The reported one-year, $2.1 million contract makes Washington his fifth NBA team and fourth since leaving the San Antonio Spurs in 2013.

The Washington Wizards and free-agent swingman Alan Anderson, formerly of the Brooklyn Nets, have agreed to a one-year, $4 million contract.

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.

The Washington Wizards have agreed to a one-year deal worth approximately $2.1 million with guard Gary Neal, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Former University of Maryland basketball star Juan Dixon brought his basketball camp to Howard County the week of June 22-26

Melo Trimble is one of 22 players invited to try out for U.S. team that will play in the Pan American Games in Toronto in July.

The Orioles have agreed to terms with first-round draft selection D. J. Stewart, according to an industry source.

Jordan Spieth's extended courtship by Under Armour provides a high-profile example of how the Baltimore-based sports apparel company scouts potential endorsers, often targeting young up-and-comers, and how it pays off.

Point guard Melo Trimble, incoming center recruit Diamond Stone and forward Jake Layman all have received attention as possible first-round picks in next year's draft.

After going undrafted Thursday, Dez Wells' agent said the Wizards called him three times to express interest in the shooting guard.

The battle lines between the Orioles and Portland Trail Blazers were drawn late Thursday night, when 6-foot-5 Notre Dame shooting guard Pat Connaughton was taken in the second round.

Minnesota selected Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, the first of three straight freshmen chosen before New York chose Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis, triggering loud, long boos from their fans inside Barclays Center.

Chris Hasbrouck resigned as St. Mary's coach to accept the position of head varsity boys coach, wellness instructor and student adviser at Episcopal High in Bellaire, Texas.