The transfer from South Carolina also has NFL aspirations.

The former Aberdeen High School and University of Maryland star plans on returning to the WNBA at full strength next season, and her sights are set even higher.

The NBA superstar was engaged and entertaining as he brought the Stephen Curry Baltimore Live Showcase to UMBC.

It wasn’t shocking that Tucker wound up at O’Connell, and interested local observers are now giddy that they’ll be able to see him in action at some point during his senior season.

The former Mount St. Joe's basketball star abruptly left IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, last year and no one knows where he’ll wind up next.

Angel Reese was in high demand on her trip home to Baltimore, but she presented a different front from the one fans see on the court. She showed, instead, a simmering focus on creating opportunities for young girls to play sports without feeling the need to live up to somebody else's expectations.

“I want to be remembered as the one that gave back, the one that all the little girls can look up to,” said the St. Frances graduate, who won a national title with the LSU Tigers.

"He turns the page quickly," Dana Washington said of his son, Malik. "He’s not looking behind him. He’s concentrating on what lies ahead. Right now he’s just enjoying the moment, living in the now.”

Carmelo Anthony’s AAU program has become a powerhouse, and is competing in the prestigious Peach Jam this week. One of the top players on its U15 team has taken a circuitous route to being on the cusp of basketball greatness.

Our writer has spent years in Baltimore, and he has been around some of the biggest sporting events in the world. But he'd never experienced Preakness. This is how he saw it.

Larry Stewart played three seasons at Coppin State. The North Philadelphia native played five years in the NBA and eventually turned his career to coaching. He returns to Coppin State as its new men’s basketball coach.

Baltimore (and NFL) fans everywhere weighed in as news of Lamar Jackson’s five-year, $260 million deal broke ahead of the opening round of the NFL Draft.

Plus, The Banner’s Alejandro Danois highlights some memorable games at the stadium known as “The Bank.”

It appears as though Carmelo Anthony, the best player ever from Baltimore, will not get a sentimental goodbye moment in the NBA. That’s truly a shame for a player who deserves to be recognized with the all-time greats.

How Lamar Jackson saga will play out is anyone’s guess. So The Banner reached out to a few people connected to the pro sports space from sports agent Leigh Steinberg to NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith to former Raven Willy Williams to get their thoughts about the drama or predict what they think is next.

More than 100 people packed the parking lot of the Lightning Quick Fit Boxing Club that Ernest Hall opened and ran to remember the 32-year-old Baltimore boxer who was shot and killed in West Baltimore last week.

“In a city like Baltimore, a blue-collar city of the disenfranchised and downtrodden, not only does Lamar represent that struggle of having to do more with less, but he looks like us, talks like us, dresses like us,” Aaron Maybin said. “He validates our kids’ existence.”

Dayshawn “Day Day” Wells, St. Frances grad, is a member of Marquette’s men’s basketball staff.

This week’s announcement that Coppin State fired men’s basketball coach Juan Dixon resonated on a more personal level for folks in Baltimore and the state of Maryland who have followed his Horatio Alger-like rise to fame and prominence.

Kevin Willard has far exceeded expectations in his first season at Maryland, but tournament success has long eluded him.