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- The Washington Wizards announced Saturday that they have acquired forward C.J. Miles from Memphis in exchange for center Dwight Howard.
- Bayhawks attackman Lyle Thompson put on an offensive show with five goals and an assist for the Bayhawks in a 14-13 loss to the Outlaws.
- Elena Delle Donne scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help the Washington Mystics hand the Connecticut Sun one of the worst defeats in WNBA history.
- Former Johns Hopkins lacrosse star Paul Rabil brings his new lacrosse league, the PLL, to Baltimore.
- The runner-up from last season's WNBA Finals received five first-place votes from the 14-person national media panel Wednesday.
- Atlanta Dream forward Angel McCoughtry's status for this season is uncertain as she continues to recover from a serious knee injury.
- 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.
- The Washington Mystics selected Kiara Leslie from North Carolina State with the 10th overall pick in the WNBA draft Wednesday night in New York.
- Toliver, 31, is the first active WNBA player to serve on an NBA coaching staff and just the second woman ever.
- 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.
- By the time Washington Mystics All-Star Elena Delle Donne descended the steps into Smith Center, ready for the last round of treatment and tests on her ailing
- On the brink of playoff elimination, the Washington Mystics went through another practice without all-star forward Elena Delle Donne, who spent Saturday
- Mystics star Elena Delle Donne went down with what looked to be a serious knee injury in the closing minutes.
- Page McKenney, an 8-year-old claimer who developed into a stakes-winning millionaire, is retiring from racing because of a tendon injury in his left front leg.
- Now with the third-seeded Washington Mystics, former Terp Kristi Toliver meets her old team, the Los Angeles Sparks, in the second round of the WNBA playoffs.
- Former Naval Academy athlete Lt. Jesse Iwuji is scheduled to make his debut in a NASCAR national series start during this weekend's Camping World Truck Series
- Morgan State men's basketball great Marvin Webster will be inducted in the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame. This year's class – the third in Small
- Former Maryland baseball player Brandon Lowe made his major league debut Sunday afternoon, starting in left field for the Tampa Bay Rays in an 8-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
- Friday night's game between the Las Vegas Aces and the Washington Mystics at Capital One Arena was canceled, the WNBA announced.
- Team Delle Donne 's Kristi Toliver of the Washington Mystics led all scorers with 23 points in a 119-112 loss to Team Parker in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday in Minneapolis.
- 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.
- St. Frances graduate Angel McCoughtry says she is in a better place. And with her back in the Atlanta lineup after taking a year off from the WNBA, so are the Dream.
- The Baltimore Cougars Legends program, run by Milford Mill graduate Tamara Moore, helps recent college graduates discover whether they have the talent to play professional basketball — and if so, how to make the contacts to get there.
- Elena Delle Donne had 30 points and 10 rebounds to help the Washington Mystics beat the New York Liberty 95-78 on Saturday in a WNBA game. The All-Star captain
- Atlanta Dream star Angel McCoughtry, a Baltimore native and former St. Frances standout, doesn't have a lot left to accomplish in her basketball career — except for a WNBA championship.
- Washington Mystics star forward Elena Delle Donne is dealing with an illness that's being closely monitored because of her history with chronic Lyme disease and is listed as questionable for Thursday's 4 p.m. home game against the defending WNBA champion Lynx.
- The Connecticut Sun passed on drafting UConn's Kia Nurse and instead selected Duke's Lexie Brown with the ninth overall pick of Thursday's WNBA Draft. Earlier the Sun traded for New Haven's Bria Holmes.
- Monumental Sports and Entertainment on Thursday announced the details of a privately funded, $40 million renovation of Capital One Arena, which will include
- Digest: Ex-Loyola Maryland midfielder Rehfuss named Siena women's lacrosse coach
- The former Aberdeen standout plays for the Russian team Nadezhda in the winter to supplement her income.
- Meet the Baltimore area’s most intriguing movers and shakers of 2017.
- Digest: Mystics' season ends with semifinals sweep
- Digest: Toliver scores 32, hits record 9 3-pointers to lead Mystics to semis
- 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.
- Digest: Mystics lose Elena Delle Donne for 2-3 weeks with thumb injury
- Digest: U.S. takes top seed in pool with 17-3 win over Canada at World Cup
- 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.
- Maryland's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Brionna Jones selected in top 10 of WNBA draft
- Former Terp Kristi Toliver signed with the Washington Mystics not so much to join Elena Delle Donne but to win with her.
- The Washington Mystics have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Elena Delle Donne, the 2015 WNBA MVP, from the Chicago Sky, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
- The Washington Spirit continued its roster overhaul, trading career scoring leader Diana Matheson to the Seattle Reign for rookie forward Arielle Ship and a third-round pick in the 2018 National Women's Soccer League draft.
- Angel McCoughtry isn't going anywhere when she returns from her break from the WNBA.
- Atlanta Dream star Angel McCoughtry said she will sit out an undetermined portion of the 2017 WNBA season.
- The Baltimore Cougars Legends basketball program will hold tryouts for a new women’s development league team this month.
- 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.
- Angel McCoughtry had 32 points and 11 rebounds and the Atlanta Dream beat the Los Angeles Sparks, 86-81, in the WNBA.