Sports – The Comet

UMBC Basketball Preview 2018-19

UMBC Basketball Preview 2018-19

November 19, 2018

“The superlatives, you can’t come up with enough,” said Bill Raftery on that fateful Friday night in mid-March, a night that would change UMBC forever. The Retrievers come into the 2018-19 season with a bigger fanbase then ever after beating #1 overall seed Virginia, pulling off the bigge...

Trying Out for CHS Boys Basketball

Trying Out for CHS Boys Basketball

November 7, 2018

Every year, around 50 people tryout for the CHS basketball team, but only a small amount make the cut. Thirteen players will make each team, JV and varsity. This year tryouts run from Nov 15-18. The minimum GPA to be able to try out for both the JV and the Varsity basketball team is 2.0 by the end of Quarter One. Each player also needs ...

Orioles Looking to the Future

Orioles Looking to the Future

November 7, 2018

Looking to the future, the Orioles will have a lot to improve upon. Just like Rome wasn’t built in a day, the Orioles won’t be rebuilt over just one year. It will take some time, but the Birds do...

Candidates for New O’s Manager

Candidates for New O’s Manager

October 10, 2018

The Orioles have officially moved on from longtime manager Buck Showalter. This isn’t surprising considering that the O’s had the worst record in the Majors at 47-115 and that there is a rebuilding peri...

The Sad State of the Orioles

The Sad State of the Orioles

October 10, 2018

The Baltimore Orioles have been the joke of the league throughout this season. The worst record in baseball, every star player except for Adam Jones traded, and a very uncertain future. While the Orioles...

Should Maryland Part Ways With Turgeon?

Should Maryland Part Ways With Turgeon?

September 28, 2018

Upon Gary Williams’ retirement in 2011, then-Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson decided to hire the then-Texas A&M men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon. Turgeon had guided A&M to four...

Mystics Season-In-Review

Mystics Season-In-Review

September 28, 2018

Coming off a dreadful 13-21 season in his fourth season in charge of the Washington Mystics Head Coach and General Manager Mike Thibault knew he had to make a change. Headed into his fifth-year coaching...

O’s Make a Huge Mistake Firing Showalter

O’s Make a Huge Mistake Firing Showalter

September 28, 2018

If the rumors are indeed true, the Orioles will be parting ways with longtime manager Buck Showalter at the end of the year while at the same time extending GM Dan Duquette. While this year’s Orioles...

UMBC Soccer Preview 2018-19

UMBC Soccer Preview 2018-19

September 28, 2018

Entering his 27th season as UMBC head soccer coach, Pete Caringi has had a ton of success, reaching five NCAA tournaments and coaching seven MLS players under his tenure. This year, however, he ...

Hey, Trump, Invite the Women, Too

Hey, Trump, Invite the Women, Too

June 12, 2018

The White House inviting sports championship teams to visit with the president hasn’t been a new tradition. Calvin Coolidge invited the then-Washington Senators to the White House after winning the World...

The Student News Site of Catonsville High School.

Sports