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IFK Maryland has joined the Northeast-based American Soccer League for the 2016 season

He struck out a Nationals-record 17 on Saturday, walked none and allowed only one baserunner — on an error by third baseman Yunel Escobar.

As the Washington Wizards opened training camp Tuesday at the university's two-year-old basketball home in Baltimore County, players and even coach Randy Wittman reminisced about those halcyon days when they only had to worry about classes and basketball.

The quarterback rushed for a game-high 142 yards and three touchdowns and completed three of four passes for 40 yards and one touchdown Saturday against Connecticut.

After eight years as a basketball vagabond that took him from Turkey to the NBA Finals, Gary Neal will cherish a rare opportunity to revisit his roots this week.

Reynolds set an AAC single-game record with five rushing touchdowns in the Midshipmen's 45-21 win against East Carolina on Saturday.

After getting injured during summer league practice with the Washington Wizards. former Maryland star Dez Wells will get training camp tryout with Oklahoma City Thunder.

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.

Incoming Chapelgate freshman Jason Murphy experiences NBA Africa

Rij Patel of Hunt Valley shot his third straight 2-under-par 70 on Thursday to win the three-round Jos. A. Bank/David Leadbetter Championship, an American Junior Golf Association event at Cattail Creek Country Club in Glenwood.

Steve Blake has heard the same line for more than a decade, as the NBA careers of three of his former Maryland teammates came to an end.

City of Gods, which is named after a Baltimore clothing store, includes several players with local ties, including former Maryland star James Gist and Omar Strong, a former two-time All-Metro guard at Douglass High who played collegiately at Texas Southern.

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.

Former Maryland star Dez Wells, who hoped to use the NBA Summer League with the Washington Wizards as a showcase to earning an invitation to training camp this fall, will not play with the team in Las Vegas because of a badly sprained thumb suffered last week during team workouts.

Baltimore¿s Donnell Whittenburg finished in fourth place in the preliminary all-around rankings Saturday to qualify for the finals at the Pan American Games in Toronto.

Brionna Jones contributed game highs of 15 points, seven rebounds and two blocks off the bench as Team USA rolled to an 84-43 victory over Hungary in the quarterfinals of the World University Games.

The Wizards on Thursday formally announced that they signed Gary Neal, a Calvert Hall and Towson product. The reported one-year, $2.1 million contract makes Washington his fifth NBA team and fourth since leaving the San Antonio Spurs in 2013.

The Washington Wizards and free-agent swingman Alan Anderson, formerly of the Brooklyn Nets, have agreed to a one-year, $4 million contract.

The Washington Wizards have agreed to a one-year deal worth approximately $2.1 million with guard Gary Neal, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

Amaris Hinton of the Baltimore Rowing Club and Poly is one of four recipients of an America Rows Junior National Team Grant.

Defenseman Mike Green signed a three-year, $18 million contract with the Detroit Red Wings, according to reports, formally closing the door on his tenure with the Washington Capitals.

After going undrafted Thursday, Dez Wells' agent said the Wizards called him three times to express interest in the shooting guard.

Former Maryland and Montrose Christian point guard Greivis Vasquez is on the move again, having been traded Thursday night from the Toronto Raptors to the Milwaukee Bucks, according to news reports.

Tyler Fiorito made 23 saves and Ben Rubeor scored 23 seconds into overtime Saturday night as the Chesapeake Bayhawks beat the host Ohio Machine, 12-11.

"On the conservative side, we're hearing early second to mid-second," Turgeon said during Thursday night's Maryland Pride Tour event at the Inner Harbor.

Wells still is unlikely to be picked in the two-round draft June 25 but it seems his chances improve each time he steps on a practice court for an NBA team.

Lion Hearted, who stood his entire stud career at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Maryland, died of an apparent heart attack after breeding a mare Thursday.

The addition of Duke transfer Rasheed Sulaimon to a Maryland team many have already picked to win the Big Ten Conference next season and be a legitimate contender for a national championship gives the Terps the most talent fans in College Park have probably seen since the 1970s.

The Washington Wizards proved they can beat the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks without John Wall on Saturday night, and they're likely going to have to do it again in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series tonight.

Firing Line seemed to enjoy the peace and quiet surrounding Barn 42 on the Churchill Downs backstretch Monday morning as assistant trainer Carlos Santamaria walked the Preakness hopeful under the shedrow for about 30 minutes.

Strong, smart and a notorious streak shooter, Ray Scott stayed with the Bullets for 3 1/2 years, during which Baltimore climbed from last place to first in the NBA Eastern Division.

It will mark Wells' first visit to the ballpark ¿ and his first time throwing a baseball since he was a kid in Raleigh, N.C.

Speaking to the media at Air Canada Centre on Sunday, Toronto Raptors guard Greivis Vasquez was asked about Paul Pierce.

Pittsburgh basketball forward Durand Johnson is leaving the program, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.

Tina Langley has resigned as associate head coach of the Maryland women's basketball team to accept the head coaching position at Rice.

Joey Sankey had four goals for the Tar Heels (11-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). The host Cavaliers fell to 8-3, 0-3.

The UMES men's basketball team had a second-half letdown and lost, 70-64, to host High Point (23-9) in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com tournament Wednesday

As the lone defender under the Laurel High basket junior Kirk Hawkins braced himself as Bowie High began a three-on-one fastbreak against the host Spartans.

When No. 16 Maryland takes the court Tuesday against No. 5 Wisconsin, the Terps will have moved past their offseason soap opera to a place unfamiliar under Turgeon: national prominence.

Lindisfarne won the $100,000 Marshua Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, the first of two stakes Thursday at Laurel Park.

For Four McGlynn, the Towson junior who entered this week ranked second in Division I in free-throw percentage, the only superstition he practices is that he has no superstitions.

Maryland¿s emergence as one of the nation¿s top college basketball teams amid an unexpectedly-quick turnaround has landed a few players on NBA mock draft boards.

After barely playing as a sophomore at Mount Saint Joseph, Charlie Jones now is a starting forward at American, a core player for an Eagles team that is 11-9 overall and 4-4 in the Patriot League after a 68-66 loss to Army on Monday night.

LaMarcus Aldridge returned to the Trail Blazers two days after saying he was going to have thumb surgery and had 26 points and nine rebounds in a Portland's 103-96 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.

The Washington Wizards' John Wall is the first player drafted by the franchise to be voted a starter in the All-Star Game since Earl Monroe

Ray Lewis Lewis spoke with Stephen A. Smith on Sirius Radio on Tuesday and said ¿the only reason we know who Tom Brady is because of a tuck rule.¿

A Baltimore native, forward Greg Lewis will be facing his hometown school and the program he said finished second to Rutgers in his recruitment.

Eddie Jordan's return to Rutgers had been rough. Taking over a program that made national headlines two years ago when Mike Rice was fired for verbally and physically abusing his players, Jordan helped changed the atmosphere. But the product failed to improve.

Construction has begun on new stalls at Laurel Park, the Maryland Jockey Club announced.