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- Hunt Auctions announced Saturday that a Babe Ruth New York Yankees road jersey dating to 1928-30 sold for $5.64 million, breaking the world record.
- The runner-up from last season's WNBA Finals received five first-place votes from the 14-person national media panel Wednesday.
- Apprentice jockey Jenn Miller, riding for the first time since being seriously injured in a spill 17 months earlier, ran second in her comeback race aboard River Card Stable’s Moneymeister in Monday’s opener at Laurel Park.
- SEATTLE -- For much of Sunday's Game 2 of the WNBA Finals, the Washington Mystics had made good on their vow to improve on the mess they delivered in the
- The Washington Mystics earned their first WNBA Finals berth. To win the title, though, they'll have to through top-ranked Seattle.
- The Washington Mystics overcame a quiet night from Elena Delle Donne to earn a trip to the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history, holding off the Atlanta Dream 86-81 in the decisive fifth game of their semifinal series Tuesday night.
- The Washington Mystics have a chance to reach the WNBA Finals, but they must first defeat the Atlanta Dream in Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals.
- The 15th WNBA All-Star game will be played on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Minnesota's Target Center. Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne and Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker head each team.
- Baltimore native Angel McCoughtry, former Terp Kristi Toliver and Washington Mystics star Elena Delle Donne were selected to the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game.
- For the first time, four former Terps are playing together for the Washington Mystics.
- Fresh off the second graded-stakes win of his young career, jockey Jevian Toledo picked up right where he left off upon his return to Laurel Park for Sunday's
- The study conducted by The School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State found that black female athletes were forced to up their femininity to avoid scorn by the press — but that regardless of what they did, they would always be undermined.
- Washington's Citi Open announced Wednesday that a quartet of tennis' most intriguing rising stars has committed to play this year's tournament, which runs July 28 to Aug. 5 at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.
- Digest: Ex-Loyola Maryland midfielder Rehfuss named Siena women's lacrosse coach
- Digest: Tammaro's TD pass lifts Johns Hopkins in OT, 32-26
- Angel McCoughtry has no regrets about becoming the latest WNBA player to sit out the season to rest and recover from playing professional basketball year-round.
- The Washington Mystics want the sharpshooting guard to become more comfortable and aggressive.
- The Washington Mystics had a vision for former Maryland guard Kristi Toliver’s role when they signed her as an unrestricted free agent in the offseason.
- Johns Hopkins, ranked No. 8 in Division III football, scored 35 points in a span of just under 15 minutes between the second and third quarters to turn a tight game into a 45-10 victory at Dickinson on Friday night.
- Angel McCoughtry (St. Frances) scored 37 points and the Atlanta Dream beat the visiting Seattle Storm, 94-85, on Wednesday night in a single-elimination WNBA playoff game.
- Brad Snyder sets a U.S. record and earns silver and fellow swimmer McKenzie Coan breaks a Paralympic mark and wins gold in Rio.
- Maryland-bred star Ben's Cat will look to avoid losing his fourth race in a row for the first time ever when he takes the gate in the $100,000 Laurel Dash as part of the 11-race Turf Festival program Saturday at Laurel Park.
- Donnell Whittenburg of Baltimore won a silver medal in the men's vault final on the final day of artistic gymnastics at the Pan American Games in Toronto.
- 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.