A New Pot of Orioles Magic is Brewing
The product on Baltimore’s iconic baseball field is again something worth seeing—and you might miss a win if you don’t watch until the end.
Corey McLaughlin
Writer and editor in Baltimore, Md.
Charm City Is World Cup Worthy—No Matter What They Say
Much like an American football Sunday in the fall, a pregame buzz carried into M&T Bank Stadium for what was billed as the Charm City Match—a friendly professional soccer game between Arsenal and Everton, two clubs from the English Premier League, the most widely followed and highest-level pro league in existence.
Why Kevin Liles Wanted to Bring the “Soul” to Preakness
On a sweltering Preakness Day, Kevin Liles was the picture of cool. At the Pimlico Race Course infield on Saturday afternoon—leaning against a second-story deck railing overlooking the front-stretch—he held an expensive cigar in his left hand, wore a straw fedora on his head, and sported a light brown suit with silk black lapels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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