This Orioles Opening Day Was About More Than the Game
This was a different, bigger-than-sports day—one where the realities of life mix with what many hope is an escape from it at the ballpark.
Corey McLaughlin
Writer and editor in Baltimore, Md.
Ravens Take a Gut-Punch in AFC Title Loss to Chiefs Dynasty
All in all, in the Chiefs’ 17-10 AFC Championship win in front of 71,439 jazzed-up Ravens fans at M&T Bank Stadium, Kansas City and its quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, showed why they are a dynasty. Meanwhile, the dud of a result for the Ravens—the top-seeded playoff team in the AFC with a 13-4 record—left room for so many questions.
Your Five-Minute, Essential Ravens Playoff Guide
Even if you think of a man named Justin Tucker as only a Royal Farms spokesperson, or wouldn’t know Lamar Jackson if he walked in your living room, here’s everything you’ll need to keep game day conversation going with even the biggest Ravens fan in your life.
Lamar Jackson Silences Doubters (Again), Leading Ravens to AFC Championship
With one spectacular half on Saturday night, Jackson made a bullet-proof case for another NFL MVP trophy. He’s now within grasp of everything he’s wanted, as well as everything he promised to Ravens fans upon being drafted at the end of the first round in 2018.
The Ravens Coaches’ Favorite ’80s Hype Song Needs to Be on Your Playlist This Week
By the time Ravens coach John Harbaugh was speaking in his post-game press conference on Saturday night, the celebratory dancing he had done a few minutes earlier in the locker room after a 34-10 win over the Houston Texans was already going viral.
Potomac Curling Club Unites Hundreds Who Find Joy in the Strangely Satisfying Sport
A visit to the National Capital Curling Center in Laurel, pictured above, is like experiencing a Winter Olympics broadcast of the peculiar, competitive (in a leisurely sort of way) broom-and-rock game brought fantastically to life.
The Best Places to Go Ice Skating Around Baltimore
A Q&A with nationally-ranked figure skater and Pikesville native Ting Cui, plus information about the best places to ice skate indoors and out in the region.
At MissionFit, Wesley Jamison Teaches Life Skills to Young Adults
Although he had trouble focusing in high school, Wesley Jamison found direction, strength, and more in the then-newly erected gym at The Park School. Today, the 2005 Park alum and Baltimore City native aims to provide a similar environment for teenagers and young adults in the city as the executive director of the nonprofit MissionFit.
“There’s Always Next Year.” For These Orioles, It’s Really True.
No doubt, the end hurt—and it arrived earlier than expected. The scenes of a sudden finish late Tuesday night to an otherwise joyous, six-month season told the entire story. Adley Rutschman just stared at the Texas Rangers jumping up and down near the pitcher’s mound. So did Gunnar Henderson and everyone else in the visiting dugout after the Orioles lost 7-1 in Game 3 of the American League Division Series.
Can the O’s Save Their Season? They’re Going to Fight For It
Gunnar Henderson stood in front of his locker Sunday night after the Orioles’ 11-8 loss to the Texas Rangers, wearing the scars from it. A fresh bruise marked the corner of his right eye and dirt sprinkled across the chest of his orange jersey—the result of a head-first slide into home plate in the first inning in Game 2 of the American League Division Series. It “felt like a razor” hit his face, he said, as he hit the ground and his helmet went flying.
And that was when things were going well.
Orioles Discuss Reviving Playoff Magic at Camden Yards
It’s been seven years—and one heck of an organizational rebuild—since the O's last made the postseason, but the waiting is over. October baseball is back in Baltimore.
Mattias Skjelmose gets help from a teammate to win sweltering Maryland Cycling Classic
More than 100 pro cyclists pedaled their lightweight bikes across 70 miles of northern Baltimore County roads, up and down hills and beside farmland and water. Then, like a herd of fast-moving, skin-tight-jersey-wearing sheep, they turned south on Falls Road until reaching the streets of downtown Baltimore for a sweltering four-lap sprint to the finish.
PLL brings pro lacrosse back to Baltimore — and it could be here to stay
Baltimore, arguably the hottest of lacrosse hotbeds (only people from Long Island and perhaps central New York have legitimate arguments) is a favorite to be one of eight first-time home bases for PLL clubs when the league begins a sixth season next year.
40 years later, the 1983 World Series team reunites as current Orioles surge
Before you get too far afield with thoughts of destiny for Charm City’s baseball team on the ruby anniversary of its last championship season, consider the 1983 and 2023 Orioles aren’t exactly in similar situations staring down the end of the season.
Maryland native Frances Tiafoe returns to D.C. as top American tennis star
In what Frances Tiafoe has described as a Cinderella story, the 25-year-old from Hyattsville by way of first-generation African immigrants from Sierra Leone — one of whom was the maintenance head of a junior tennis facility in College Park, where Tiafoe first started playing the sport — is an elite player himself. He is ranked 10th in the world and is the United States’ top men’s tennis star.
Trio of Maryland alums help U.S. defeat Canada in World Lacrosse final
When the 23 members of the U.S. men’s national lacrosse team started jumping up and down on a field in San Diego to celebrate their newly minted World Lacrosse championship Saturday, University of Maryland alums Jesse Bernhardt, Michael Ehrhardt and Matt Dunn embraced each other first before mobbing their other teammates in a scrum.
Everything Looks Like It Comes Easy to Adley Rutschman
It’s almost too perfect of a story, an image of stereotypical Americana. The cute kid (in a cul-de-sac, for crying out loud) dreams about playing professional baseball one day, takes batting practice in relative anonymity from an available father while mom prepares supper. You could make this stuff up, but with Adley Rutschman you don’t have to. It’s all true.
Dulaney alum Sammy White’s journey comes full circle in Northwestern lacrosse’s national title game win — and she’s not done yet
McDonogh grad Jack Simmons helps Notre Dame win its first title; Salisbury takes the D-III men’s crown; and a controversial finish makes the case for more replay
McDonogh alum Simmons helps Notre Dame end Johns Hopkins’ season in NCAA quarterfinals
They were begging for autographs and, after the Fighting Irish’s 12-9 win over Johns Hopkins on Sunday evening before 13,354 fans at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis, Jack Simmons was happy to oblige.
College lacrosse: Maryland men can’t find a way against Army in NCAA opening round
Maryland, which a season ago became the first undefeated team to win a national title in 16 years, was bounced in the NCAA tournament first round for the first time since a 16-8 loss to Cornell in 2013.
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