Corey McLaughlin

Baltimore Magazine • April 12, 2022

Bruuuce! Homegrown Kid Zimmermann Sparkles in Orioles’ Opening Day Win

The night before the biggest game of his life, Bruce Zimmermann walked on to a quiet, empty, mostly dark Camden Yards field to imagine how things might go the next day—and take in the setting.

Baltimore Magazine • November 29, 2021

Sports Wagering Goes Legal in Maryland

Gone are the days of the bookie, those unseen characters who took bets from gamblers on pay-phones or in shady backrooms at horse tracks. Today, sports betting looks different—fancy, welcoming, and public.

Baltimore Magazine • September 7, 2021

Lamar Jackson Wants a Super Bowl More Than You Do

Maybe it's evolution, or how God planned it, but scientists say the human brain is wired in a way that often makes us remember severe pain longer than we enjoy great pleasure. Apparently the same is true even if you’re a little bit superhuman, like an Avenger, or Lamar Jackson on the gridiron.

Baltimore Magazine • August 30, 2021

Patrick Cantlay Wins an Epic BMW Championship at Caves Valley

Big crowds—around 120,000 spectators overall spanning Wednesday’s pro-am to Sunday’s final round, Caves Valley club chairman Steve Fader told us—crawled, jostled, drank, and cheered, across the normally private, roughly 1,000-acre property in the Baltimore County hills, which hosted Baltimore’s first PGA Tour event in nearly 60 years.

Baltimore Magazine • August 26, 2021

Michael Phelps, Jordan Spieth, and Kevin Plank Have a Round at Caves Valley Golf Club

“We can’t have a better group,” Michael Phelps said. “This group was unbelievable.” Despite his fears, so was Plank. “We just had an all-star cast, so there was no chance of having a bad day out there.”

Baltimore Magazine • August 9, 2021

The Caves Valley Golf Club is Set to Host Baltimore’s First PGA Tour Event in Nearly 60 Years

When Varada Maulkhan, the teenage daughter of immigrants from the South American country Guyana, first walked the grounds of Caves Valley Golf Club a few years ago, she observed what most visitors do about the private, picturesque property in the Baltimore County hills. “It’s gorgeous,” Maulkhan says. “It’s always been gorgeous.”

Baltimore Magazine • August 6, 2021

Brian Billick Talks Lamar Jackson and the 2021 Ravens

There aren’t many people who follow the Ravens with as much expertise and keen insight as their former Super Bowl-winning head coach, Brian Billick.

Baltimore Magazine • July 28, 2021

Keeper of the Yard

One of only two women in Major League Baseball’s 118-year history to be in the role, Nicole Sherry is the keeper of Camden Yards.

Baltimore Magazine • July 28, 2021

Lamar Jackson Out With COVID as Ravens Training Camp Begins

It’s not exactly the best practical start to the new football year, and a stunner for most everyone involved. Not to mention fuel for conversation and debate likely to be spawned from the news.

Baltimore Magazine • May 17, 2021

Preakness 2021 Was Equal Parts Stunning, Refreshing, and Confusing

In the dizzying moments after 12-to-1 longshot Rombauer won the 146th Preakness Stakes on early Saturday evening, winning trainer Michael McCarthy paused when someone asked him to describe what the sight of his horse running down the Pimlico frontstretch ahead of all the others looked like to him. "Stunning," he said.

Baltimore Magazine • May 11, 2021

At Long Last, Plans are Underway for a New “Home of the Preakness”

What to do with the decrepit Pimlico Race Course has been a source of endless talks, studies, and disputes for decades. Should the property be renovated or razed? Would the state take it over? How did its condition deteriorate to this point? Should the Preakness move 30 miles south to Laurel Racetrack, the preference of Pimlico owner Belinda Stronach?

Baltimore Magazine • April 9, 2021

Dear Camden Yards, We Missed You

People—real people! strangers!—wearing Orioles jerseys, t-shirts, and hats (and masks) strolled down Eutaw Street. Some lined up for food and drink while others snapped smartphone pictures of the scenes they used to know.

Stansberry Research • April 7, 2021

The Grass Is Not Always Greener

By Jordan Spieth's own admission, he was doing well and gaining fortune and fame without really knowing why. Anyone who finds at least a hint of success early in their career – or a pursuit of any kind – can fall victim to this mindset...

Baltimore Magazine • February 26, 2021

John Harbaugh Picks Up the Bill at Jimmy’s Seafood

Ravens coach John Harbaugh and his wife, Ingrid, quietly departed Jimmy’s Famous Seafood on Tuesday night, and left a good deed behind them—without anyone but their server noticing—after a good meal was had by all.

Baltimore Magazine • February 5, 2021

Shaquil Barrett, Donovan Smith’s Roots in Baltimore Shaped Their Paths to Super Bowl LV

Like a pair of boats drifting in opposite directions on a still Chesapeake Bay night, Donovan Smith and Shaquil Barrett—future NFL standouts, now teammates with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers—came and went from Baltimore in the summer of 2008, not recognizing each other one bit.

Baltimore Magazine • January 12, 2021

Boys to Men

Twenty years after their Super Bowl win—the first in franchise history—the 2000 Ravens are still talking about what it all means.

Baltimore Magazine • December 4, 2020

The Ravens-Steelers Rivalry Stops for (Almost) Nothing

Perhaps the longest week in NFL history—which began on Thanksgiving Day when the Ravens were first supposed to play the Steelers and finally ended almost a week later when the teams actually faced each other for the 54th time—would have been a little bit longer had it not been for the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

Baltimore Magazine • November 23, 2020

Cal Ripken Jr. Hits Another Milestone With Cherry Hill Youth Facility

Construction on a $2.25-million, 83,000-square-foot waterfront field complex at Reedbird Park in Cherry Hill is expected to start by the end of the year.

Baltimore Magazine • November 20, 2020

Former Ravens Coach Brian Billick: Give Lamar a Break

Former Ravens coach Brian Billick, who led the franchise to its first Super Bowl championship two decades ago, has been following Lamar Jackson’s career since before the Ravens drafted him. In fact, that’s a big part of the premise of Billick’s recently released new book, The Q-Factor: The Elusive Search for the Next Great NFL Quarterback.

Baltimore Magazine • November 13, 2020

Trey Mancini is Cancer-Free and Looking Ahead to 2021

Here is some much-needed good news: Orioles fan favorite Trey Mancini is cancer-free.