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- Franchon Crews of Baltimore captured the National Police Athletic League middleweight championship Saturday in Oxnard, California
- If Len Bias could attend his own Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday, he'd do so as a 50-year-old man. That's a heck of a thing to wrap your head around if you grew up as an obsessed ACC basketball fan in the 1980s.
- Wes Unseld has never been one to seek the spotlight. Yet there he was on Thursday, surrounded by media, NBA players past and present and several hundred youngsters who packed the gym at the Unseld School in West Baltimore for the promotion of a Washington Wizards preseason basketball game to be played in Baltimore on Oct. 20.
- Fans who have a reflexive need to excuse Ray Rice should ask themselves whether they would feel the same if Rice were in a different business
- News media loath to accept disruptive competitor as a peer
- Ellicott City resident and college basketball official enlists the helps sports world to fight Sarcoidosis
- The Saint John Mill Rats have signed play-making guard Aquille Carr to a one-year contract.
- finalized a contact with the National Basketball League of Canada's Saint John Mill Rats Friday night
- Under Armour has offered NBA superstar Kevin Durant – one of the nation's most popular and marketable athletes -- a package worth between $265 million and $285 million that would be the company's largest sponsorship deal, according to a media report..
- In 1971, Laurel High School devoted two days to the radical idea of scrapping the standard curriculum for a non-traditional, student-designed one that was taught, in some cases, by students themselves.
- Former Patterson star Aquille Carr is reportedly close to signing a deal with the Saint John Mill Rats of the National Basketball League of Canada.
- Former Maryland men's basketball coach Gary Wlliams reflected on his career during an interview with The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday.
- On Friday he is to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, a greying icon of a long-gone professional league that introduced the tri-colored ball and the 3-point shot. That's where Bob "Slick" Leonard won acclaim.
- Maryland guard Dez Wells first met Chris Paul during an Amateur Athletic Union tournament at the University of North Carolina five years ago. They've been working out every summer since.
- As he prepares for his second season playing in the Japan National Basketball League with Link Tochigi Brex, Tommy Brenton sits down to talk about the thrills and challenges of playing professionally overseas.
- Trayvon Reed won't be allowed to enroll at Maryland after he was arrested Wednesday night in College Park.
- Maryland's victory song wasn't playing as Alyssa Thomas jogged onto the court at Verizon Center for pregame warm-ups, and she and her team weren't welcomed with a standing ovation from the crowd.
- Metta World Peace debuted his new song, "Baltimore," last night.
- Nearly three decades after he died from a cocaine overdose, Len Bias will be formally recognized by the University of Maryland as a member of its Athletics Hall of Fame.
- C.J. Fair wasn't selected in last month's NBA draft, but the Baltimore native and former Syracuse star has started to make at least something of an impression in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
- 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
- About one in 5,000 people have Marfan Syndrome, a rare progressive disease that affects many different organs and tissues. Common signs include heart and vision problems, curvature of the spine and the long arms, legs and fingers that in retrospect mark Baylor University basketball start Isaiah Austin as one of the affected.
- 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
- Baltimore native C.J. Fair was not selected in the Thursday night's NBA draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Aquille Carr isn't worried about the NBA draft Thursday night. After a journey from Baltimore to Beltsville to China to Delaware to New York City, the 20-year-old is excited to hopefully take a momentous step in his basketball career.
- Roscoe Smith, a former Walbrook star, wasn't invited to the NBA draft combine, but he tried to impress teams at individual workouts.
- C.J. Fair, the Baltimore-born Syracuse star, has prepared for the NBA draft by training with George Gervin and John Lucas.
- Elfrid Payton, an NBA draft prospect from Louisiana-Lafayette is the son of a CFL Hall of Famer who starred for the Baltimore Stallions.
- FIFA needs to follow the NBA's example and crack down on flopping.
- Baltimore Ravens tight end Owen Daniels, 31, has had a longtime affinity for meteorology and the weather — a fact that's mostly unbeknown to many of his teammates.
- Former Maryland womenĀæs basketball player Jasmina Perazic was inducted into the WomenĀæs Basketball Hall of Fame Satuday. She became MarylandĀæs fourth inductee, behind longtime coach Chris Weller (2010) and players Tara Heiss (2003) and Vicky Bullett (2011).
- The Orioles dropped their Sunday matchup with the division-leading Blue Jays, 5-2. The O's are 5-5 in their past 10 games, all of which have been at home, and now head on a six-game road trip to Tampa and New York.
- This past season, Jerelle Benimon and Davon Usher battled on the court as rivals, playing for the top two teams in the Colonial Athletic Association. Now they're both trying to latch on with NBA teams.
- Morning, yĀæall. IĀæve replaced Jon for todayĀæs Coffee Companion, where we recap yesterdayĀæs sports headlines, because he feels sleep is important, or something. Regardless, your daily trip to the water cooler is approaching, which means you should read up here so youĀæll have something to talk about while youĀære there.
- Consumers have come to know Under Armour's "compression," "Heat Gear" and "Storm," athletic wear, and now yet another product description is joining the mix – "ClutchFit."
- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the youngest members of Morgan State's 2014 graduating class that due to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 60 years ago that outlawed racially segregated public schools "your generation will never know a world in which 'separate but equal' was the law of the land."
- Book chronicles the rise and fall of a worldwide footwear manufacturing center