The girls’ soccer team from Archbishop Spalding High School began its Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference schedule in the same fashion it ended 2016, with a hard-fought victory over rival Notre Dame Preparatory.
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Bill Newman, bishop and jock, not necessarily in that order
Growing up with a love for baseball, the future Bishop William C. Newman didn’t stop playing the game even after he entered the seminary.
Support for Malone family part of IND’s fourth straight win over Mercy High in ‘The Game’
IND secured a 39-26 victory over Mercy High School before an estimated 2,800 at Towson University.
NDP grad shines with swim gold at Rio Paralympics
A parishioner of St. Joseph in Cockeysville and 2013 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, Meyers earned her first gold medal in the Paralympics with a world record in the S13 100-meter butterfly.
Awash in hope
If you want to meet some of the most passionate and quirky fans in baseball, come to Section 336 in the upper deck of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
John Harbaugh connects faith, work and family
Some of the best advice John Harbaugh ever received came on the day Steve Bisciotti hired him as head coach.
Ravens rookie Justin Tucker talks football and faith
Since he joined the Ravens this season, Tucker, who is Catholic, has earned points for both his kicks and his personality. Teammates have described the six-foot-tall, 180-pound kicker as fun-loving, goofy, “good weird,” a live wire and silly.
Blind Mount Carmel student overcomes big challenges
“I feel like I have to overcompensate by being the best I can in anything and everything I try,” said Dulany, his hand thumping a table for emphasis during an interview at his high school. “If I had a nickel for every time I was frustrated, I’d be rich. I didn’t give up. I never give up.”
Westminster parish marks 40 years of basketball, thanks to veteran volunteers
WESTMINSTER – Sitting in the bleachers as the repeated booming echoes of bouncing basketballs filled St. John’s gymnasium, Larry Baker and Donald “Bo” Yingling seemed like proud fathers.
Men in Black games get a ‘W’ in promoting vocations
Designed as a way of promoting religious vocations, the Men in Black basketball game was all about fun and awareness.
Ravens’ Matt Birk speaks up for life
“It seems like our society and media want to push pro-lifers to the side and hope that we would shut our mouths and go away quietly,” said Birk, whose 6’4’’, 310-pound frame struck a distinct figure among the hundreds of marchers who filed through downtown streets. “Let’s not do that.”
St. Frances dedicates basketball court to nun
Many high school basketball fans have crystallized the multi-championship, 1995-1996 season for St. Frances Academy’s boys basketball team into All-American Mark Karcher doing everything himself.