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Trimble has transitioned from a shooting guard to point guard, a transformation he hopes to complete as a freshman in College Park.

Denver looks like the men's lacrosse team to beat in 2015.

National champion Maryland finished No. 1 in the final Inside Lacrosse women's media poll of 2014.

The Terps baseball team came up one game short in its bid to win an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship before departing for the Big Ten Conference.

It is Maryland¿s first appearance in an ACC final since 1976; the Terps last won the conference in 1971.

The Maryland baseball team moved one step closer to the ACC title game Friday with a 5-3 win over No.2 seed Florida State, moving the Terps to 2-0 in the group stage of the conference tournament.

The Maryland and Notre Dame men's lacrosse teams entered the season having played five times in their histories.

For years, the Notre Dame men's lacrosse program was known for building strong defenses that helped grind out tight wins.

Maryland's national women's lacrosse semifinal matchup with Northwestern on Friday pits two of the top draw control experts.

Previewing the women's lacrosse national semifinals

The 2014 induction class for the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame has been approved by the US Lacrosse Board of Directors. This year's eight-person class will be officially inducted in a ceremony on Saturday, October 25, at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley.

Maryland ace Jake Stinnett made a $70,000 gamble with his baseball career last summer, when he turned down the Pittsburgh Pirates' bid to sign him as a 29th-round draft pick and returned for his senior season.

I am predicting that when we evaluate the Baltimore Ravens' 2014 draft after this season, the name with the most upside will be none other than former River Hill star Mike Campanaro. If used properly, Campanaro could become a big time receiver like Wes Welker and Julian Edelman. He has the moves and he hangs onto the ball. He has always been considered to be too small, but at Wake Forest, he set the school's all-time receiving record with 229 catches and would have added to that number if not

Q&A with ESPN's Mark Dixon

When the Ravens landed undrafted rookie free agent offensive tackle James Hurst, they beat out a lot of competition.

Salisbury routs Augustana, 16-3, in the third round of the Division III women's lacrosse tournament.

Even though Maryland went into halftime of Saturday's NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament quarterfinal against Duke with a six-goal lead, the No. 1 Terps wanted to make a statement coming out of the break.

The 2014 NCAA women's Division I tournament looks more like the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament 2.0 than a national tournament.

Previewing the NCAA men's lacrosse quarterfinals

Previewing the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals

If not for that unfortunate set of circumstances, James Hurst probably would have been drafted instead of being signed to a free-agent deal by the Ravens this week.

The Ravens gave undrafted Virginia Tech defensive tackle Derrick Hopkins a $10,000 signing bonus for the highest bonus the AFC North franchise negotiated this year for their class of undrafted free agent rookies.

Even after fighting back to tie the game in the fourth quarter, host No. 2 seed Syracuse could not break through against Bryant, which never trailed en route to a 10-9 upset on Sunday night.

The Ravens take their recruiting and signing of undrafted rookie free agents extremely seriously, enlisting coach John Harbaugh to personally convince players to sign with them.

Johns Hopkins at Virginia: Three things to watch

No. 5 Denver started a four-goal run late in the first quarter and led visiting North Carolina 5-1 at the break in a 9-5 Division I first-round win Saturday.

Snubs, omissions from list of finalists for 2014 Tewaaraton Award

Maryland¿s Taylor Cummings and Megan Douty are among the five finalists announced Thursday for the women¿s Tewaaraton Award, given annually to the best player in college lacrosse.

Top-seeded Maryland rolls into the NCAA tournament looking to extend some of the most impressive streaks in any college sport.

When Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse coach Janine Tucker talks about star attacker Taylor D'Amore, she doesn't point to numbers in a record book or read a list of postseason awards. She reaches for a framed photo on a shelf in her office.

The former Delaware defenseman, who can be followed on Twitter via his account @EvanWashburn, took a spin through the 18-team field of the NCAA tournament.

Terps' Megan Douty, Zoe Stukenberg and coach Cathy Reese earn top ACC women's lacrosse individual honors

Loyola Maryland's women's lacrosse team jumps back into the media poll Top 10 in the final regular

The Atlantic Coast Conference, led by overall No. 1 seed Maryland, dominated the top spots in the NCAA Division I women's championship bracket announced Sunday night, with six teams among the eight seeded spots in the 26-team field.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun will publish a Q&A with a college lacrosse player to get you better acquainted with his or her team. Today's guest is Syracuse defender Natalie Glanell, a South River graduate aiming to help the No. 2 Orange win its first national championship in her senior year.

The Loyola Maryland women are already in the NCAA tournament, earning an automatic berth with its Patriot League championship Sunday, but the Greyhounds could make a big impression on the selection committee with a win over the No. 2 Orange in Saturday's regular-season finale.

Loyola and Notre Dame became the first two teams to lock up berths in the upcoming NCAA men's lacrosse tournament, and their entries have already begun to shape the 18-team field, which will be announced on Sunday at 9 p.m.

With its decisive Atlantic Coast Conference championship win over Syracuse, Maryland's women's lacrosse team strengthened its position at No. 1 in this week's Inside Lacrosse Brine Division I Women's Media Top 20.

Penn State took the lead in the first minute and never trailed, and an own goal by visiting No. 12 Hofstra led to an 8-7 upset win for the Nittany Lions on Saturday in men's lacrosse.

Brooke Griffin tied an Atlantic Coast Conference tournament record with seven goals as top-seeded Maryland defeated fifth-seeded Virginia, 15-9, in a women's lacrosse semifinal at Boston College on Friday.

For the second straight game, Halle Majorana posted four goals as top-seeded Maryland defeated eighth-seeded Virginia Tech, 14-9, in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Thursday at Boston College's Alumni Stadium.

Maryland's women's lacrosse team lands five players on the All-ACC teams.

The No. 15 Loyola Maryland women's lacrosse team won the Patriot League regular-season title Saturday, defeating visiting No. 20 Navy, 11-6.

Madison Cyr scored the go-ahead goal on an assist from Jenna Mosketti with 10:20 left as host Penn State beat Johns Hopkins, 12-10, in women's lacrosse Friday night.

Paige Hanson, a senior attacker on the national champion North Carolina lacrosse team, was honored earlier this month as one of the NCAA's Elite 89 Award winners with a trip to the NCAA men's basketball Final Four and a Bruce Springsteen concert.

Kerrin Maurer completed her hat trick with 26 seconds left in overtime as Duke upsets North Carolina, 7-6, on Wednesday night in the first women's lacrosse game at Kenan Stadium.