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Michael Phelps is the headliner among a slew of stars at the Arena Pro Swim Series meet at the University of Minnesota.

Kevin Durant left at halftime with a strained left hamstring and Russell Westbrook took over, compiling a triple double to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder past the Washington Wizards, 125-101 Tuesday night.

Swain rushed for 108 yards and three touchdowns on 18 carries in a 45-20 win over Memphis

The Blue Jays will head to the NCAA tournament with a 14-4-1 record.

Alex Ovechkin had a goal in regulation and scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lift Washington to a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center.

Wide receiver Steve Smith Sr. was announced as the Ravens' nominee for the Salute to Service Award presented by USAA.

Swimmer Becca Meyers of Timonium and wheelchair marathoner Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville are among five finalists for Female Paralympic Athlete of the Year.

Nevada-Las Vegas suspended guard Daquan Cook (St. Frances) on Tuesday for the nonconference portion of the men's basketball season after a DUI arrest. The school said in a statement that Cook was arrested Sunday.

Week nine on the gridiron for Harford County gridders was a good one for five teams Friday night, highlighted by John Carroll closing out an 10-0 regular season.

UMBC said it will honor all athletic scholarships and will grant unconditional releases to any student-athletes who choose to transfer.

The Fallston golf team and four additional golfers from Harford County ventured back to College Park on Monday to play in the final round of the Maryland State Golf Tournament at the University of Maryland Golf Course.

Sykesville has passed a law that enables the town to provide tax breaks to developers of historic areas designated for growth — specifically the Warfield Complex — in order to ease and encourage development.

The Atholton graduate finished Sunday in 1 hour, 43 minutes, 4 seconds.

St. Albans Boy held off a closing Perfect Title inside the final 70 yards to win the 52nd running of the $100,000 Laurel Turf Cup by a nose Saturday at Laurel Park.

Baltimore's Donnell Whittenburg finished in eighth place in the men's all-around final at the World Gymnastics Championships on Friday at the SSE Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Harford County officials and the Historical Society of Harford County are working to move and preserve the historic Joesting-Gorsuch House, which had been slated for demolition to make way for five new houses to be built on the north side of the Winters Run Golf Club property near Bel Air.

The Washington Nationals intend to hire former San Diego Padres manager Bud Black to become the sixth full-time manager in the team's history, The Washington Post reports.

American Pharoah arrived in soggy Kentucky on Tuesday to begin final preparations for the last race for the Triple Crown champion in this weekend's Breeders' Cup Classic.

Lansdowne is one of five schools in Baltimore County ¿ the others are Woodlawn, Parkville, Dundalk and Owings Mills ¿ that offer the ESOL program, English for Speakers of Other Languages, so Dunn's roster is dotted with foreign-born athletes who are not foreign to soccer.

The family-friendly Halloween-themed race begins at 8 a.m. Saturday at Camden Yards.

The Heat Strokes defeated a team from Skillman, N.J., 44-42, in the final, held at the Cayce Tennis and Fitness Center in Cayce, S.C.

Victor Carrasco rode five winners on Laurel Park's 12-race program Saturday.

No. 6 Maryland won its second straight Big Ten field hockey regular-season championship Friday night with a 1-0 overtime victory over Indiana.

Wheelchair marathoner Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville won the 2015 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award at the Women's Sports Foundation's 36th annual Salute to Women in Sports on Tuesday night in New York.

Triple Crown champion American Pharoah, two-time Breeders' Cup winner Beholder and Travers winner Keen Ice will meet in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic next week.

Marriotts Ridge, Glenelg win regular season finales to grab piece of field hockey county championship

Nicklas Backstrom scored twice to lead the visiting Washington Capitals to a 6-2 victory over the struggling Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.

Even if Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden senses his team's season is on the verge of spiraling out of control, he is not giving any thought to replacing Kirk Cousins as his starting quarterback.

Chris Pontius scored in the 39th minute, and D.C. United added three second-half goals to beat the Chicago Fire, 4-0.

Tickets for the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony Nov. 12 at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie are on sale at mdsahof.com by clicking on the tab for the banquet tickets.

Jonathan Germano completed 16 of 25 passes for 269 yards and four touchdowns to lead host Johns Hopkins to a 34-7 Centennial Conference victory over Dickinson on Friday night.

Washington's gameday task grew more difficult with wide receiver DeSean Jackson suffering an apparent setback during practice and two key offensive linemen — left tackle Trent Williams and center Kory Lichtensteiger — unable to practice at all.

The Maryland women's basketball team was selected to win the Big Ten this year by both the league's 14 head coaches and the league's media panel.

Former Morgan State tight end Raymond Chester (Douglass) and defensive lineman Len Ford and Maryland State (now UMES) running back Emerson Boozer are among 25 finalists for induction into the Black College Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2016.

Don Osman, a prominent Havre de Grace volunteer leader, retired teacher and one-time Harford County School Board member, is returning to the site where his longtime community high school service club, SMILES, got its start: Citizens Care & Rehabilitation Center.

Sophomore Melo Trimble was rated No. 7 overall, ahead of senior Jake Layman (No. 49), freshman Diamond Stone (No. 80) and senior Rasheed Sulaimon (No. 97).

Closer Jonathan Papelbon is "all but gone" from the Washington Nationals after a trying first season with the club, according to MLB.com.

Ben's Cat is among the 155 nominees for the Jim McKay Maryland Million on Saturday at Laurel Park.

Sophomore George Campbell scored a natural hat trick as the No. 25 Maryland men's soccer team rallied from two goals down to defeat Penn State, 4-3, on Friday night.

David Hutsell, assistant PGA professional at Woodholme Country Club in Pikesville, was named the Omega Middle Atlantic PGA Open Category Player of the Year on Thursday.

The artifact, a steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center site, will become part of a future Carroll County 9/11 Memorial.

Northwestern wide receiver Jelani Roberts (Gilman) is one of five scholar-athletes who will receive National High School Scholar-Athlete Awards during the National Football Foundation Chapter Awards Luncheon on Dec. 8 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

Demolition of a former H&S Bakery distribution center located between Harbor East and Fells Point began Thursday, as the Harbor East Development Group prepared to begin construction of a new building.

After dropping three straight games, Centennial bounces back and defeats Marriotts Ridge 4-1 to earn its first county win of the season Thursday at home

Led by senior Zach Billings' round of 38, the Fallston Cougars golf team won the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference's Chesapeake Division title Tuesday at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre de Grace.

Atholton, led by freshmen Catalina Lennon and Caroline Morton, earns its first win of the season against Liberty at the Catonsville Tournament

A day before the start of their season, at least 10 Morgan State football players were ruled academically ineligible Friday after an NCAA review revealed shortcomings in mandated academic requirements.

Golf teams from Fallston and Harford Tech waged a tight match Thursday at Mountain Branch Golf Course. So tight that the match came down to the final golfers on

Loyola Blakefield football coach Brant Hall has seen good and bad days in his four seasons coaching the Dons. He just hopes the days of consecutive 3-8 campaigns are behind his team.