Corey McLaughlin

Baltimore Magazine • July 25, 2024

Why This Catonsville Man is Running Six Marathons in Six Days

Tom Yorke will run. Six marathons in six consecutive days. Just him, sneakers squishing the pavement, and an RV trailing on the road behind him—carrying an EMS professional and a videographer to capture what he’s doing for perpetuity. Because this is, indeed, a story.

Baltimore Magazine • June 18, 2024

Why Are So Many Pitchers Getting Hurt? Orioles Ace Corbin Burnes Has Thoughts

Baltimore Orioles ace pitcher Corbin Burnes says the pitch clock—which makes for quicker games and a better viewing experience on TV and in-person—is in part responsible for what is an ongoing, potentially worsening epidemic of arm injuries for Major League Baseball pitchers.

Baltimore Magazine • May 28, 2024

Ten Things That Make Camden Yards The Best in MLB

The Orioles lineup is full of likable young stars legitimately eyeing a World Series trip, so the ballgames themselves are an attraction. But Oriole Park, recently voted MLB’s best park, has a lot to offer, too. Here are insider tips, new attractions, and perennial favorites.

The Baltimore Banner • May 27, 2024

Maryland men’s lacrosse falls in national title game

Brothers Chris and Pat Kavanagh combined for 11 points, the Irish won just enough faceoffs against Maryland’s Luke Wierman, and after jumping out to an early two-goal lead, the Terps couldn’t keep up with the impressive Irish or get past goalie Liam Entenmann much the rest of the way in a 15-5 loss to Notre Dame in the Division I men’s national title game.

The Baltimore Banner • May 25, 2024

Terps advance to NCAA lacrosse final with 12-6 victory over Virginia

The recognition of what they just did and the sweet reality that they had one more game to play was loud and clear as the 50 members of the Maryland men’s lacrosse team walked into their locker room after a 12-6 win over Virginia late Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field.

The Baltimore Banner • May 24, 2024

Maryland men’s lacrosse took an unusual path to its Final Four matchup

The Maryland men’s lacrosse team’s road to the Final Four literally took an unexpected detour last week.

Baltimore Magazine • May 21, 2024

Big Game Hunter

When everything is clicking, you can see Grayson Rodriguez scream with excitement into his glove after a strikeout or successful inning. His emotion on the field belies what could otherwise be described an unassuming nature—that is, as unassuming as 6-foot-5 can be.

The Baltimore Banner • May 20, 2024

Virginia, paced by Millon, edges Hopkins in double-OT to advance to Final Four

Amid the spontaneous celebration, when sticks, orange gloves and Virginia players themselves went flying across the turf, Cavaliers freshman attacker and former McDonogh star McCabe Millon sprinted toward the veteran hand, grad student Connor Shellenberger.

Baltimore Magazine • May 19, 2024

Adult Baseball Leagues to Join Around Baltimore This Season

Like almost every adult who puts on a mock Orioles, Nationals, or other MLB uniform each spring Sunday morning to play in the Baltimore Senior Baseball League, Travis Wright dreamt as a kid he’d play in the biggest of leagues one day: the majors. “Growing up, you always thought that’s what you were going to do for a living,” Wright, 53, of Hampden, says. “At least I did. I thought I was going to be a ballplayer."

Baltimore Magazine • May 19, 2024

Sheehan Stanwick Burch on Why Local Lacrosse Culture Matters

The Stanwicks are arguably Baltimore’s first family of lacrosse, which is arguably the most popular and pervasive team sport in town come spring. Sheehan Stanwick Burch—a National Lacrosse Hall-of-Famer and 1997 Notre Dame Prep alum—is the eldest of eight college lacrosse-playing siblings raised in Roland Park, and she knows the game as well as anyone.

Baltimore Magazine • May 19, 2024

Seize the Grey Wins Soggy 149th Preakness Stakes

The story of Preakness Day is about the race, pomp and pageantry, and infield revelry, yes, but there’s also always the underlying narrative about the setting itself: Pimlico Race Course, a 154-year-old source of nostalgia for those in the horse racing industry.

Baltimore Magazine • May 14, 2024

His Ripken Way

Cal Ripken Jr. has long been known as the strong, silent type, definitely not an (Iron)man of many words. But that certainly isn’t true of his son, Ryan. He's carving his own path in sports media.

The Baltimore Banner • May 13, 2024

Johns Hopkins advances in NCAA lacrosse tournament, but it wants more

After a nearly hourlong weather delay, the second of the game, Johns Hopkins strength and conditioning coach Jay Dyer walked from the Blue Jays’ locker room holding cardboard boxes of Uncrustables and Mott’s applesauce.

Baltimore Magazine • May 11, 2024

That’s Mr. (Ruben)Splash, To You

At this very moment, David Rubenstein is the perfect owner of the Baltimore Orioles. He’s a fan, at heart. He was born and raised here, in Pikesville, where he jokes he played a mean shortstop in a Jewish Little League. And, today, decades later, he’s a content, 74-year-old billionaire who keeps hitting all the right notes two months into taking over control of the beloved hometown professional baseball team in a $1.7 billion deal.

Baltimore Magazine • March 29, 2024

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.

Baltimore Magazine • January 29, 2024

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.

Baltimore Magazine • January 26, 2024

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.

Baltimore Magazine • January 21, 2024

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.

Baltimore Magazine • January 21, 2024

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.

Baltimore Magazine • January 19, 2024

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.