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In college baseball Friday, Ben Verlander and Gloucester High graduate Joey Burney belted home runs to help Old Dominion win 7-4 at James Madison in a series opener in Harrisonburg. Verlander, batting .398 this season, is showing he's much more than just...

Linebacker Chris Frey, like many other Ohio juniors, has a “definite interest” in playing football at Kentucky. “He is very interested in them,” said (Columbus) Upper Arlington High School coach Mike Golen. “They were just...

 Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Is the Atlantic Coast Conference being vindictive with Maryland regarding its basketball schedule for its final season?...

TALLAHASSEE -- Guess who's coming back? Bobby Bowden, Florida State's Hall of Fame former head coach, will end his FSU absence. After four years of staying away from Doak Campbell Stadium to allow current coach Jimbo Fisher to lead the Seminoles, Bowden...

ACC commissioner John Swofford was portrayed as a modern-day Nero at the fiddle. The conference’s presidents were mocked for their joint statement of solidarity. No matter what Swofford did or CEOs said, the ACC was on life support. The Big...

Notre Dame will visit Virginia in 2015 and host Virginia Tech in 2016 as part of the Fighting Irish’s five annual football games against ACC teams. The conference announced Friday Notre Dame’s rotation of league opponents for 2014-16....

A recently published study led by U.S. government climate researchers predicts warming global temperatures will mean more moisture in the air, and thus heavier precipitation extremes. The research, reported in the peer-reviewed academic journal...

More than a quarter century after he was forced to resign in the months following the cocaine-induced death of basketball star Len Bias, longtime Maryland coach Lefty Driesell was officially — and permanently — recognized Tuesday with the...

At last check, ACC assistant football coaches are not subject to term limits, but as teams went through spring practice last month and this, the turnover among staff was striking. Barring additional changes, 40.5 percent of full-time ACC assistants,...

UCF is finally on the board with its first commitment of the 2014 recruiting class. Running back Chris 'C.J.' Jones of Port Orange Atlantic apparently committed last week to the Knights, but news finally got out this week. “They love him over...

WASHINGTON — Although the prospect of drones flying over U.S. cities is generating cries of spies in the skies, groups from California to Florida are fiercely competing to become one of six federally designated sites for testing how the remotely...

The Atlantic Coast Conference today announced that Maryland fullback Tyler Cierski, offensive lineman Bennett Fulper, linebacker Cole Farrand and punter Nathan Renfro were named to the 2012 All-ACC Academic Football team. It’s Fulper’s third...