The right call for voice of Camden Yards

May 21, 2012

The 911 call came in like so many do, a frantic voice that cuts through the night like the wail of a siren.

Kevin Cowherd: With future at Pimlico secure, Preakness 2012 is best in years

May 19, 2012

Let's come right out and say it: This was the best Preakness we've had in years.

Lava Man has a calming effect around the track

May 16, 2012

He toils in relative obscurity now, a beer-and-a-shot horse in the champagne world of big-time racing.

I'll Have Another gets acclimated to Pimlico

May 9, 2012

Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another is one regal-looking horse, a real show-stopper with a distinctive white, diamond-shaped patch on his forehead.

After surreal win, it seems these O's won't go away

May 6, 2012

You're an Orioles fan and the big question on your mind now is: How long will it last?

Surgeon explains treatment, recovery for Achilles injuries like Terrell Suggs'

May 3, 2012

Ravens outside linebacker injured his Achilles tendon during a workout last week and is expected to miss most — if not all — of the 2012 season.

O'Brien continues Penn State tour in Maryland

May 1, 2012

Bill O'Brien looks right out of Football Coach Central Casting: thick neck, hulking shoulders, receding hairline and a mug that looks like it caught a few forearms back when he played linebacker and defensive end at Brown.

Kevin Cowherd: Let's not spoil Orioles' fun by looking ahead to tough stretch

April 29, 2012

Just another day at Camden Yards, right? Another ho-hum, garden-variety 5-2 win Sunday, this time over the Oakland Athletics? OK, maybe not.

Kevin Cowherd: Ravens' picks fill needs — but not with household names

April 28, 2012

Let's begin with the premise that no team ever comes out of the NFL draft and says: "Well, that didn't go very well."

There's some intrigue left in the NFL draft

April 25, 2012

I admit I was one of the skeptics when it comes to the NFL draft.

Ozzie Newsome should draft Dont'a Hightower to be Ray Lewis' successor

April 22, 2012

Ozzie Newsome, you could make a lot of Ravens fans happy Thursday.

Orioles fans should give Gregg and Reynolds a chance

April 11, 2012

I see Orioles fans have a couple of new players to rip just six games into the new season, which might be something of a record around here.

Kevin Cowherd: Orioles pitching has been sublime in opening weekend

April 8, 2012

Let's agree there are worse ways for the Orioles to open the season than the beat-down they gave the Minnesota Twins this weekend.

Kevin Cowherd: Orioles need to bottle this Opening Day performance

April 6, 2012

The first lunatic trespasser of the season jumped on the field in the fourth inning and led the cops on the usual merry chase until one of them turned into Ray Lewis and took him down hard.

Kevin Cowherd: Orioles knock Camden Yards renovations out of the park

April 4, 2012

Give the Orioles credit: They sure do stadium renovations well. Way better than they play ball.

Believe it or not, there are reasons for Orioles optimism

April 1, 2012

Let's face it: you've heard nothing but doom and gloom about the Orioles for weeks.

Loyola extends Jimmy Patsos' contract

March 28, 2012

Even though the whole thing was handled in a hush-hush way that doesn't make much sense, Loyola University did the right thing Wednesday when it agreed to a new multi-year deal with Jimmy Patsos.

O's fans starving for title, but no feast this season

March 25, 2012

The first thing that strikes you about the American League East is this: every day will be like the arena fights in "The Hunger Games."

Goodell was right to send a message with Saints' punishment

March 21, 2012

Say this much for Roger Goodell: when he sends a message, he sends a message. In fact, the last guy to send a message like this was probably Vito Corleone.

Orioles smart to tout Camden Yards anniversary over current team

March 18, 2012

I come today to praise the Orioles, not bury them.

Loyola fans don't need to look far for inspiration for Greyhounds' game

March 14, 2012

Loyola fans, you're hoping for a miracle in Pittsburgh Thursday night, aren't you?

Loyola's big moment was worth the wait

March 11, 2012

What a great scene that was Sunday at Loyola, the little Catholic college in north Baltimore that gives us the best local basketball story this season.

Cowherd: NFL business is never easy

March 7, 2012

This kind of thing is always ugly.

Moment can't be taken away from Loyola basketball team

March 6, 2012

They walked off the plane Tuesday at BWI-Marshall with Shane Walker, their senior big man, cradling the gleaming trophy like it was a baby— his baby— and in a sense it was.

Turgeon's antics almost worked, but Terps aren't there yet

March 4, 2012

That was some show Mark Turgeon put on in Sunday's Maryland-Virginia game, wasn't it?

Maryland president gives his assessment of Terps athletics program

February 29, 2012

If I'm Randy Edsall right now, I'm thinking of that old Al Davis motto: just win, baby. Oh, and graduate players, too.

Orioles' new PA announcer lives dream

February 26, 2012

Even though we're meeting in a busy coffee shop in White Marsh, it's clear Ryan Wagner has the voice-of-God pipes he needs for his next gig.

Stover stands toe-to-toe with greatest Ravens of all time

May 25, 2011

Matt Stover retiring? At the tender age of 43? What's he going to do, sit home all day and wait for the mailman to show up, like lots of other retirees we know?

Mack Lewis offered troubled kids a way out through boxing

November 17, 2010

Mack Lewis wanted to save them all.

An awful lot to like as O’s end awful skid

April 18, 2010

I turned on the game and saw players lining up and smiling and fist-bumping each other.

Ravens remember McNair as the ultimate teammate

July 9, 2009

The public tributes for Steve McNair began yesterday at LP Field in Nashville, a memorial service is set for today and the sad and sordid details of his life and murder keep slowly leaking out.

Bill Hagy was one wild fan of the O's

August 22, 2007

I am not going to tell you "Wild Bill" Hagy was a choirboy, because someone who guzzles nine or 10 Budweisers and shot-puts his cooler from the upper deck of a stadium before being led away in handcuffs probably doesn't qualify for that.

Class acts amid the meltdowns in the Olympics

February 23, 2006

Sasha Cohen, Kimmie Meissner and Emily Hughes aside, it's easy to think of these Winter Olympics as another depressing reality show, only without a lot of bad singing or Donald Trump and his lacquered hair reducing some poor apprentice to tears.

Medal man needs a mighty moniker

August 21, 2004

Sure, Michael Phelps appears to have everything a 19-year-old guy could want: fame, fortune and a chestful of Olympic gold medals that's the ultimate babe magnet, way better than hot wheels or walking your poodle past the bars at Happy Hour.

For cicadas, the party's nearly over

June 14, 2004

I smell death in the air.

Here cicada, there cicada, everywhere cicada cicada

April 19, 2004

YOU PEOPLE who haven't seen these things, you have no idea what you're in for.

People can really get charged up over Isabel

September 18, 2003

TO SEE THE Isabel panic for myself, I went to Home Depot yesterday because there is simply no better place to be with a hurricane bearing down on you than a store the size of a NATO base that offers 15 varieties of duct tape.

Even in face of 'Columbia,' astronauts say, carry on

February 3, 2003

BY YESTERDAY, the cold, sick feeling of seeing the space shuttle Columbia explode in the blue Texas sky was fading for many, replaced by a numbness as gray as the February dawn.

Johnny on the spot

January 7, 2003

The first time I heard Johnny Holliday broadcast a University of Maryland basketball game was the winter of 1982. I was driving through some Eastern Shore backwater at night, and it was freezing cold, and the only light inside my little Toyota was the glow of the radio dial.

Police chief dealing with nonsense from media

October 17, 2002

IN THE GLARE of the TV lights, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose's scowl seemed to deepen with each idiotic question thrown his way, to the point where you wondered if the poor man's features could ever return to normal.

Soon ghastly fish will walk off into the sunset

August 8, 2002

AND SO THE death watch begins for the northern snakeheads in that Crofton pond, the infamous "fish from hell" that provided us with so much entertainment throughout this long, horrid summer.

Arming pilots both concerns and comforts

September 27, 2001

I'M TRYING to picture something here, and the more I picture it, the jumpier I get.

'Hoping for little miracles,' says firefighter of operation

September 17, 2001

IN THE spring of 1990, John Morris, a New York City firefighter and an old friend of mine, rolled up with Ladder 27 to the Happy Land social club in the Bronx, where a tragedy of unspeakable proportions had just occurred.

What seemed like just another day actually wasn't

September 13, 2001

The morning after the worst attack in U.S. history, with images of a jetliner serenely plowing into a glittering office tower and the Pentagon on fire seared into our minds forever, maybe what was most startling was how utterly, blessedly normal everything felt.

Exchanging vows is good reason to hit the ice

February 15, 2001

Experience is in their court

February 12, 2001

IT'S A LITTLE after 12:30 on a sunny February afternoon when the first game begins in the worn gym at the Bykota Senior Center in Towson.

Man doesn't break a sweat buying lingerie for his wife

February 8, 2001