Corey McLaughlin

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.

Baltimore Magazine • October 2, 2020

The Last Time Preakness Was Run During a Pandemic, Two Horses Won

Baltimore’s place in American horse-racing history is so cemented that tomorrow’s Preakness Stakes will actually mark the second time the race will be run on Pimlico Race Course’s hoof-trampled dirt oval during a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Baltimore magazine • September 4, 2020

This Ravens Season Will Be Most Unusual to Watch—And Play

Football will be played, but like most everything else this year, it will be different. Because of the pandemic and government regulations, the Ravens home stadium—aside from the players on the field, coaches on the sidelines, and other team staff—will be empty on game days. Same goes for most road games, depending on the state and if policies change.

Baltimore magazine • August 28, 2020

Orioles, Ravens Take A Stand for Social Justice

Sports can be a distraction from real life, but also a platform to make real change. This year, it’s often been both, with games providing entertainment during a pandemic and athletes with microphones and cameras in front of them speaking out on social justice issues more and more.

Stansberry Research • August 11, 2020

What Sports Can Tell Us About Stocks

Professional football is America's "mission critical" sport... And if plans don't go off as expected, setbacks could negatively impact the broader stock market in the months ahead.

Baltimore magazine • July 31, 2020

What The New “Not Normal” Looks and Sounds Like at Camden Yards

Orioles public address announcer Ryan Wagner kept saying what he always has: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome…” We couldn’t blame him, or anyone else, for wanting Opening Day to be the same joyful scene it has always has been for so many different people. But on Wednesday night at Camden Yards, Wagner’s words fell on no ears.

Baltimore magazine • July 22, 2020

Bird Brains

“Do you see anything?” Orioles assistant general manager Sig Mejdal asks me, looking out a second-floor window in Camden Yards’ iconic brick warehouse. He scans the empty green seats behind home plate, some 450 feet away, in search of what is essentially a medium flatscreen-TV-sized black square known as TrackMan. “It should be right near the press box,” Mejdal says.

Baltimore magazine • July 10, 2020

How the Orioles Are Preparing for a “Pandemic Season”

He wasn’t doing it intentionally, but something Orioles manager Brandon Hyde told reporters (via Zoom) this week perfectly illustrated just how different this baseball season—if it even happens as planned—is for everyone involved. “We’ve done a nice job of staying apart,” Hyde said, looking into a laptop computer on his office desk at Camden Yards, where 47 players, coaches, and other staff have gathered to prepare for an unprecedented, pandemic-shortened 60-game season.

Baltimore magazine • May 22, 2020

The Preakness Has a New Date at the Same Home. But Will Fans Be There?

Given the unknown course of the coronavirus, whether the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes allow fans into the race—or if people even want to go—remains to be seen. Much will likely be dictated by the virus’ spread over the next several months. It’s also important to note the Park Heights area has had the most cases of COVID-19 in the entire state.

Baltimore magazine • May 13, 2020

Maryland’s Anthony Cowan Ready for NBA Life – Whenever It Happens

Former Maryland men’s basketball star guard Anthony Cowan Jr.—a 22-year-old who made a Mr. Big Shot reputation while entertaining thousands in loud, pre-socially-distant arenas—has spent the last two months like mostly everyone else: holed up and largely alone in the same off-campus College Park apartment he lived in before life turned upside down in mid-March.