Providence Friars

Team Valor's Cerro favored in final stakes

2013-05-31 00:19:36

Pimlico Race Course Cerro, owned by Team Valor International, a partnership that includes Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, is the overwhelming favorite to win Pimlico Race Course's final stakes race of the spring...

Denver's move to Big East could force Johns Hopkins to look elsewhere

2013-05-30 13:27:00

Denver's announcement Thursday that it will leave the Eastern College Athletic Conference and move to the Big East for immediate membership next season could impact Johns Hopkins’ search for a conference that the program can call home. The Big...

Assessing which conference Johns Hopkins could call home

2013-05-18 05:00:00

Now that Johns Hopkins has opened the door for conferences to woo the illustrious program, the most pressing question centers on if there is one league that best suits the Blue Jays – and vice versa. If coach Dave Pietramala and athletic...

National men's lacrosse: Fairfield stuns No. 1 Denver, 10-9, in overtime

2013-04-21 01:11:00

Sam Snow scored the game-winner with 56 seconds left in overtime as the visiting Fairfield men's lacrosse team upset top-ranked Denver, 10-9, Saturday in front of an announced 2,520 at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium. The Stags (8-5, 4-2 Eastern College...

Notebook: Denver's Noble out for Loyola game; Koerber unlikely to play

2013-04-11 15:49:00

Denver midfielder Jeremy Noble, a preseason first-team All-American as a junior, won't play against Loyola in Saturday's pivotal Eastern College Athletic Conference matchup, a team spokesperson said Wednesday. He has been held out since the Pioneers'...

Q&A with ESPN's Mark Dixon

2013-04-08 08:58:00

ESPN analyst Mark Dixon, who will be handling play-by-play duties when No. 7 Notre Dame visits Georgetown this Sunday, writes a weekly column for Inside Lacrosse in which he provides his thoughts on results from the previous week. The former Blue Jays...

Roundup: No. 1 Denver men win in 2OT; Towson women beat JMU

2013-04-07 21:04:00

Senior Eric Law scored in the second overtime period as No. 1 Denver defeated visiting Bellarmine, 11-10, in men's lacrosse Sunday afternoon. The Pioneers' Cameron Flint matched a career high with four goals for his 10th career hat trick. The Pioneers...

Roundup: No. 7 Notre Dame rebounds, routs Marquette, 17-5

2013-04-02 21:09:00

No. 7 Notre Dame made its argument Tuesday for why it still belongs in discussions about the best men's lacrosse team in NCAA Division I. One day removed from falling out of the top spot in The Baltimore Sun's rankings, the Fighting Irish (7-2) rolled...

Sports on TV

2013-03-27 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY'S TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS ++++++++++++++++++++ || MLB exh. || Philadelphia@Detroit || ESPN1 || || Texas@Angels || MLB3 || || Yankees@Orioles || MASN7 || || M. base. || Georgia@Clemson || TCN7 || || NCAA m. || First Round: California vs. UNLV...

Terps Trio: Hoops' nonconference schedule, Pe'Shon Howard, NIT scouting report

2013-03-22 10:52:00

Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. Maryland’s nonconference schedule was so light. Will it be any tougher next season? Jeff Barker:...

Notebook: Ex-Duke coach Pressler on cusp of NCAAs with Bryant

2013-05-02 17:50:00

Bryant's men's lacrosse team is one step closer to winning the Northeast Conference's first automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament after knocking off Sacred Heart, 11-9, on Thursday in Providence, R.I. For the Bulldogs, one of the more impressive...

Notebook: Loyola's Fletcher, UMBC's Young, Villanova's Rice honored

2013-04-29 16:10:00

Loyola junior defenseman Joe Fletcher received the final Eastern College Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week award for the season Monday after helping the Greyhounds defeat host Johns Hopkins, 8-4, on Saturday. Fletcher was a big part of the...

Quinnipiac's Kevin Bui, right, gets the puck by Canisius goalie Tony Capobianco for the go-ahead goal to in the third period to make the score 4-3 Saturday night the NCAA hockey East Regional semifinals in Providence.

2013-03-30 00:00:00

Quinnipiac's Kellen Jones collides with Cody Freman of Canisius in the second period of the NCAA tournament East Regional semifinals Saturday night in Providence.

2013-03-30 00:00:00

A 6-7 junior attackman from Silver Spring, Wright might be the tallest player in Division I lacrosse. "He has a tremendous overhand release point," coach Chris Gabrielli said. "When he shoots overhand, he is driving the ball down from a 10-foot trajectory. Goalies have a hard time finding the ball.

2013-03-16 00:00:00