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The Maryland women's basketball team announced an upcoming two-year series with Connecticut starting in the 2020-21 season. The Terps and the Huskies will meet

In 2019, Maryland may see Bruno Fernando and Jalen Smith realize their own NBA dreams.

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.

A win would have pulled the Wizards up to seventh place and a first-round playoff series against the injury-marred Boston Celtics. Instead, they will play the Toronto Raptors in the opening round.

Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award on Tuesday and will be honored Friday in Baltimore.

Diamond Stone did not have a going-away party at Maryland after his freshman year, as Jake Layman and three others did in March on Senior Night.

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.

Baltimore native C.J. Fair was not selected in the Thursday night's NBA draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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

Results from each horse race on Preakness Day, Saturday, May 17, 2014 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

Congratulations to Ally Schito! The Centennial High School senior won a silver medal for her mixed media painting titled, "Adding a Dimension" in the renowned Scholastic Art and Writing competition, a national art contest sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.

Of Towson High School's 1,400 students, 607, or 43 percent, have requested to enroll in a music class for the 2014-2015 school year. And that is a tribute to John Olin, department head Dave Rhen and chorus director Derrick Jackson. Olin, of Towson, recently organized a trip for nearly 200 students to perform at Disney World in Orlando.

After playing in only four of the team's first 32 games, Alex Len has slowly made his way into first-year coach Jeff Hornacek's rotation, playing behind former Duke star Miles Plumlee and, if the Suns go to a smaller lineup, Channing Frye.

Alyssa Thomas had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for her second triple double in three games and fourth of her career as the Terps beat Wofford, 110-53, on Saturday in the Terrapin Classic semifinals.

Marcin Gortat knew he wasn't going to be in Phoenix long the moment the rebuilding Suns drafted former Maryland center Alex Len fifth overall in June, but that didn't make any less startling the news he had been traded to the Washington Wizards.

Steve Francis, "Wild" Bill Hagy and Jim Palmer are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for June 30 to July 6

If the top of the NBA draft Thursday was a surprise, the fifth pick was a bit of a relief for former Maryland center Alex Len.

It now appears that Alex Len could become the No. 1 pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers despite being sidelined since early April after undergoing surgery to repair a partial stress fracture in his left ankle.

Constant repetition of AT&T commercials becoming annoying to NCAA Tournament viewers

Lexie Brown prides herself on preparation. So when the Maryland women's basketball recruit became one of three high school seniors selected to the Under-18 USA National Team in May, she was nervous.

Dwight Howard has been the coach, general manager and star player in Orlando for about two years now.

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

TV ratings for the NBA playoffs have been through the roof. Saturday's Eastern Conference final set a new high for cable TV. In terms of what is expected to happen on the court, I am already hyped out of my head for game one of the finals between Oklahoma City and Miami Tuesday night on ABC. But I am also worried about what the coverage on Disney-owned ESPN-ABC is going to be like.

With two more wins, the Bobcats will finish with the worst winning percentage in NBA history.

A spontaneous decision to post one's thoughts on the social-media service can backfire in barely more than the time it takes to press the "send" button.

Mark Landsberger, apropos of his modest NBA career, makes only a barely noticed cameo in one of the most frequently replayed video highlights in NBA history: Dr. J's up-and-under layup in the 1980 NBA Finals.

Over the past few days, we saw players such as Carmelo Anthony, Deron Williams, Gerald Wallace, Kendrick Perkins, Baron Davis, Devin Harris, and the immortal Joel Przybilla switch jerseys as teams recalibrated for a playoff run. Now that the trade deadline has passed, which team is the NBA's best?

Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard is throwing something called the "Dwight Howard's Official All-Star Weekend Celebrity Kickoff" tonight in Hollywood. Ravens running back Willis McGahee was featured on the promotional poster.

It's been a rough week for Terps fans with Randy Shannon turning down an offer to be Maryland's defensive coordinator and the men's basketball team losing to Virginia Tech. This video of J.J. Redick getting juked out of his sneakers should cheer you up.