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Crystal Dunn, a rising star with the top-ranked U.S. women's national soccer team, has left the Washington Spirit to sign with English club Chelsea, the second prominent player to depart since the National Women's Soccer League final three months ago.

McVay, who just completed his third season as Washington's offensive coordinator, will interview for the position Thursday in Los Angeles.

Tony Donatelli scored two goals and the visiting Blast earned a 6-3 win over the Syracuse Silver Knights on Thursday night.

Eric Golz, a former Maryland assistant, was named coach of the Dayton women's soccer team.

Maryland hunters reported taking 35,078 deer during the state's most popular hunt, the two-week firearm season. The total was 12 percent greater than last year's harvest of 31,304.

Baltimore could get another preseason Wizards game soon. The wait for another Capitals game is another matter.

Syracuse wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo, a graduate transfer from Maryland, was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press.

Vini Dantas had two goals and two assists as the Blast beat the Florida Tropics, 7-0, on Saturday night.

Texas Rangers third base coach Tony Beasley has been declared cancer-free after missing much of the past season while going through extensive chemotherapy.

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

With his goal in overtime, Johansson lifted the Capitals to a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres, ending the team's three-game losing streak.

The Washington Wizards came close to ending a staggering run of futility in San Antonio, but Kawhi Leonard made certain the stretch would continue.

As the Wizards held off Sacramento, 101-95, in overtime, Beal scored 31 points and reached career-high figures with seven 3-pointers on 13 attempts.

Sianni Martin, Raven Bankston and Jordyn Smith combined for 57 points Sunday to lead the Towson women's basketball team to a 79-75 win over George Mason (3-4) to improve to 5-0.

Lamont Brown III had 13 carries for 113 yards and two rushing touchdowns to lead Morgan State to a 35-24 victory over host Savannah State in its season finale Saturday.

Dixon learned in late August that his biological father is Bruce Flanigan, a 60-year-old retired Baltimore County correction officer whom his mother never told him about.

For the first time since his knee surgery in May, John Wall played in back-to-back games, and the result was a rare win for the Washington Wizards.

A new Arena Football League team will begin play at Royal Farms Arena in spring 2017.

Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, and Washington Mystics, is bringing an expansion Arena Football League franchise to

The top-seeded Maryland men's soccer team defeated fourth-seeded Michigan State, 2-1, in the semifinals of the Big Ten Conference tournament Friday afternoon at Westfield, Ind.

Otto Porter scored a career-high 34 points and had 14 rebounds in the Wizards' 118-93 rout of the visiting Celtics on Wednesday night.

The end of this week marks one month since Ian Mahinmi, the Washington Wizards' 6-foot-11 center, underwent surgery to repair a partially torn medial meniscus in his left knee.

In the Wizards' 114-106 loss to the Houston Rockets, John Wall had 21 points and eight assists — reaching 3,826 for his career to surpass Wes Unseld to become the Wizards/Bullets all-time assist leader — but also picked up a pair of technical fouls. Wall's second came in the closing 33 seconds after using "inappropriate language" toward a game official.

For 27-year-old Atlanta Hawks rookie Malcolm Delaney, however, the decade-long quest that took him from Towson Catholic High to the fulfillment of his lifelong dream of playing in the NBA was a journey in the most literal sense of the word.

Baltimore newsmakers, from Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr. to Oprah Winfrey, revisit the spots where they made their marks.

Digest: Jets place LB Erin Henderson (Maryland, Aberdeen) on reserve list

The Johns Hopkins football team, ranked seventh in Division III, scored on six of its seven first-half possessions to build a 38-0 halftime lead and defeated visiting Gettysburg, 54-14, on Friday night to set a Centennial Conference record with its 34th straight league victory.

Alex Ovechkin scored his first goal of the season on the power play and assisted on one of T.J. Oshie's two goals as the Washington Capitals defeated the Colorado Avalanche, 3-0, on Tuesday night.

Patrick Mullins (Maryland) had a goal and an assist and D.C. United clinched a third consecutive MLS Cup playoff appearance with a 3-1 victory over New York City FC.

The Washington Wizards will start the season without their backup center and highest-paid free agent acquisition, Ian Mahinmi. On Saturday, the team announced that the center underwent surgery Friday night for a partially torn medial meniscus in his left knee.

Morgan State's School of Global Journalism and Communication and ESPN's The Undefeated will co-sponsor a symposium about black women in sports Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Student Center Theater.

Former Maryland basketball star Juan Dixon has wanted to coach his own team since his playing career ended in 2011.

Former Maryland point guard Anjale Barrett was named the Terps' director of recruiting operations and player personnel.

Kelly Oubre scored 24 points as the visiting Washington Wizards outlasted the Philadelphia 76ers, 125-119, for their first preseason victory under coach Scott Brooks.

Washington Wizards coach Scott Brooks has tentatively pegged Trey Burke as the starting point guard for the preseason opener against the visiting Miami Heat tonight at 8, replacing the recovering John Wall.

M & D Stables homebred Eyeplayeveryday ($19) took the lead in midstretch and held off a closing English Minister to capture the $75,000 Find Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.

Maryland could have three players chosen in Thursday's NBA draft, which would mark the first time that has happened for the Terps since 2002.

"Sometimes I sit back and I think, 'What if I would have stayed at Maryland?' "

Of the four Maryland players at this week¿s NBA combine in Chicago, forward Robert Carter Jr. might have had the most to prove.

Maryland senior forward Jake Layman has signed with Chicago-based agent Mark Bartelstein, the player¿s father said Friday.

The Washington Wizards have waived guard Gary Neal and signed Marcus Thornton to replace him.

Maryland junior Shatori Walker-Kimbrough has become, by one metric, the most efficient scorer and, with no close runner-up, the best 3-point shooter in Division I.

Baltimore product Will Barton is having a breakout season for the Denver Nuggets, and the ties that bind him to his hometown are as strong as ever.

The Colonial Athletic Association announced Thursday afternoon that the conference's men's basketball tournament would move from Baltimore to Charleston, S.C., after this year's championship is completed at Royal Farms Arena from March 4-7.

As the region tries to get back to some normalcy after the big snow storm, the Wizards will face the Celtics tonight at 7.

Here¿s a full transcript of what Connaughton had to say about being an NBA rookie, pitching for the Orioles, balancing the two sports and more.

Former Orioles draft-pick Pat Connaughton is following his dream of playing in the NBA, nearly three months into a rookie season with the Portland Trail Blazers that has seen little playing time, but in his eyes, plenty of promise.

With 5-year-old Leah Still, a cancer survivor, in the stands cheering him on, LeBron James scores 34 points to help the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Washington Wizards.

Trailing for much of the second half, No. 3 Maryland came from seven points down in the last six minutes to win, 75-71, before a sellout crowd of 17,950 at Xfinity Center.