Gambrills man who played lacrosse at Salisbury vows to ‘fight like hell’...
When he was a goalkeeper for the Mount Saint Joseph lacrosse team, Johnny Rodriguez stared down the likes of Steele Stanwick of Loyola Blakefield and Marcus Holman of Gilman. And when he anchored the...
View ArticleNo. 4 Spalding boys lacrosse rolls to 14-4 win at Mount Saint Joseph, secures...
The noisy banter that comes from Archbishop Spalding boys lacrosse starts during warmups and doesn’t end until the final horn these days. In Tuesday’s regular-season finale at Mount Saint Joseph, the...
View ArticleMaryland Cycling Classic postponed for 2024, but officials expect race to return
The Maryland Cycling Classic will be postponed this year but is expected to return in 2025, officials announced Tuesday. The top-ranked road cycling race in the United States cited the capacities of...
View ArticleOrioles fall flat in 3-0 loss to Nationals as cold bats again can’t support...
WASHINGTON — The Orioles have been shut out twice this season. Both times, they tallied only a few hits, barely had any opportunities to score and squandered the ones they had. And both times, ace...
View ArticleOrioles slugger Ryan O’Hearn, manager Brandon Hyde ejected in loss to...
WASHINGTON — Tuesday night’s loss to the Washington Nationals was a frustrating one for the Orioles’ offense, and it boiled over with two outs in the ninth inning. Ryan O’Hearn was called out on...
View ArticleSeverna Park baseball’s Angel Santiago-Cruz shuts down Arundel in 9-0 county...
Angel Santiago-Cruz is not going to Richmond on a baseball scholarship and is not on the radar of professional scouts because of his pitching prowess. Santiago-Cruz earned his reputation as a...
View ArticleTwo years after cardiac arrest, Arundel’s Ian Shank defied the odds to play...
The Ian Shank sprinting down Arundel’s grass with a black Wildcats penny, a green lacrosse helmet and his stick raised for a drill still can’t believe he exists. He pats the hard shell shielding his...
View ArticleNavy track and field sweeps Patriot League outdoor championships
Nathan Kent and Joshua Boamah led the way on the men’s side, while Annie Lemelin was the catalyst on the women’s side as Navy swept the Patriot League outdoor track and field championships for the...
View ArticleJulia and Lydia Ward always played lacrosse together. Going from John Carroll...
Shared lacrosse memories go back further than Lydia or Julia Ward can remember. There’s an old picture of the two smiling side-by-side with their first lacrosse sticks. Lydia’s was pink and Julia’s was...
View ArticleOrioles’ record streak of avoiding sweeps in danger of ending vs. Nationals
WASHINGTON — Entering the season, the Orioles’ pair of two-game series against the Washington Nationals posed the greatest risk to Baltimore’s historic streak of not being swept in the regular season....
View ArticleAnnapolis to host Premier League teams Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton this...
Premier League soccer is coming to Annapolis. English sides Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderers (commonly known as Wolves) will play at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on July 31 at 8 p.m....
View ArticlePreakness 2024: Kentucky Derby champion Mystik Dan returns to track as...
Mystik Dan returned to the track Wednesday for the first time since he won the Kentucky Derby, jogging and then galloping as trainer Kenny McPeek continues to assess his fitness for a possible run in...
View ArticleHitting brakes on Maryland Cycling Classic leaves biking community feeling...
Scott McGill, a professional cyclist who grew up in Fallston and graduated from high school there, knew that participating in the Maryland Cycling Classic the past two Labor Day weekends was equal...
View ArticleDave Cottle to step down as Navy men’s lacrosse offensive coordinator after...
When Dave Cottle was hired as Navy men’s lacrosse offensive coordinator, it was assumed he was a stopgap for one season. Cottle said as much, telling The Capital in January, “I’ve agreed to give [Navy...
View ArticleOrioles outlast Nationals in 12-inning thriller, 7-6, to extend streak of...
WASHINGTON — After Craig Kimbrel’s ninth-inning problems resurfaced, the Orioles needed a lift. Then, after the Nationals erased a two-run deficit in the 11th, they needed another. The Orioles got both...
View ArticleNortheast softball holds off Crofton, 5-1, to win first county title in a decade
Kayleigh Fyffe could hear it — yellow plastic clappers on her fans’ side and desperate hoarse dugout screams on the other swelling to an overwhelming din. Northeast led Crofton all through Wednesday’s...
View ArticleThe Orioles’ home run craze is no fluke. They’re also the AL’s...
Orioles batting practice isn’t just a home run derby — although it could be for most of the team’s sluggers if they wanted it to be. During the pregame sessions on the field before most night games,...
View ArticleLed by stars, Loyola Maryland women’s lacrosse enters NCAA Tournament with...
Lauren Spence formulated the “Why Not Us?” slogan that Loyola Maryland women’s lacrosse adopted this spring as a rebuke to those who question the program’s candidacy as an NCAA championship contender....
View Article‘Dig deeper’: Experts question response to initial 911 call in Zay Flowers case
The exchange through a Ring doorbell was brief, and the door never opened. A Baltimore County Police officer outside the Owings Mills home was following up phone calls with a woman who dialed 911,...
View ArticleMIAA A Conference lacrosse playoff preview: Boys’ Latin and upstart Spalding...
No. 1 Boys’ Latin (13-2 overall, 9-1 in conference play) proved most consistent in the mighty Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference regular season to earn the top seed in the...
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