Ravens fail test, leaving questions unanswered

November 9, 2009

As the Ravens trooped wearily off the field at Paul Brown Stadium after Sunday's stunning 17-7 loss to the Bengals, the Cincinnati fans let them have it.

Say it if you must: Ravens need this one

November 8, 2009

In the NFL, what they drum into your head daily is this: Every game is a big game.

No toss-up: Flacco is the Ravens' MVP

November 5, 2009

Joe Flacco stood in the warm sunshine outside the Castle on Wednesday, in the only place where he doesn't look totally comfortable: in front of a microphone.

Ravens played like Ravens of old

November 2, 2009

Oh, did the Ravens need this one.

Ravens played like Ravens of old

November 1, 2009

Oh, did the Ravens need this one.

Ravens, don't tell us this is just another game

October 29, 2009

Let's begin today with a question.

It took charitable appeal to get Brooks Robinson to come to an honor dinner for himself

October 26, 2009

You don't say no to Sandy Unitas.

Ravens' Mason is focused, on field and on air

October 22, 2009

Tom from Reisterstown is on the line and ready to vent.

Mason is focused on the field and on the air

October 21, 2009

Tom from Reisterstown is on the line and ready to vent.

Frustrated Friedgen: 'We're just giving games away'

October 18, 2009

CUgly weather, ugly game, ugly result for the Maryland Terrapins.

Vikings won't go quietly in Metrodome

October 15, 2009

Think of the loudest event you've ever attended.

Don't blame the referees for this Ravens loss

October 12, 2009

Let's not hear any whining about the referees this week, OK?

Don't spare us, Chad; tell us what you really think

October 8, 2009

Sometimes you wish Chad Ochocinco would come out of his shell.

Mark Clayton is tough

October 7, 2009

Here's what you need to know about Mark Clayton this week: The guy's not a basket case.

For Ravens, not really just another football Sunday

October 4, 2009

You're a Raven and you walk onto the field at Gillette Stadium today and tell yourself: It's just another game.

Bringing back Trembley makes no sense

October 3, 2009

Bringing Dave Trembley back as the Orioles' manager isn't just surprising - it's shocking.

It's not fair, but Trembley needs to go

September 30, 2009

Dave Trembley reminds you of a guy in a knife fight and all he has to defend himself is a swizzle stick.

Ravens take care of business

September 28, 2009

Let's begin with this premise: There are bad NFL teams and there are really bad NFL teams.

Can the Ravens really deal with success?

September 27, 2009

OK, Baltimore, let's see what success does to you and your football team when it plays the Cleveland Browns today.

Brigance still the strongest guy in the room

September 24, 2009

This was at training camp 2008, in the conference room at the Best Western Hotel in Westminster, the place so quiet you could hear hearts beat.

Air this out: Defense still defines Ravens

September 20, 2009

Go ahead and dream about what could happen today at Qualcomm Stadium if the CPR the Ravens performed on their offense continues to hold.

Golfer with cerebral palsy wins 1-armed North American championship

September 17, 2009

Next time you face a challenge in life, think about a young man named Vince Biser.

Gritty performance averts devastating Terps loss

September 13, 2009

COh, did the Maryland Terrapins need this one.

Hey, NFL, try these on for size

September 10, 2009

The circus used to be the Greatest Show on Earth, but that was years ago, back when you could watch elephants balancing on tiny stools without a PETA demonstration breaking out and a juggling clown on a unicycle was considered quality entertainment.

As Ted Patterson retires, sports here won't sound the same

September 7, 2009

Ted Patterson has hung up the microphone, ending a terrific 45-year career in radio and TV broadcasting that should not go unrecognized.

O's on the ropes; Yanks under the limelight

September 3, 2009

For Orioles fans, there are times when hating the Yankees evolves from the usual small-minded parochial envy into good, clean fun.

Former Bowie State, Catonsville coach to take over Irish basketball team

August 27, 2009

With a mom born and raised in County Roscommon, I know the Irish do lots of things well.

Cranky Ravens campers about to meet their irritable old counselor

August 20, 2009

Down to the last few days of training camp, the Ravens are a cranky bunch.

Preseason ideas: cheaper tickets, fewer games

August 14, 2009

Let's start with a mini-rant on a favorite subject: preseason football.

Second-half swoon all too familiar for O's

August 13, 2009

So now the question is: What kind of nose dive are the Orioles in this time?

Flacco's still Joe Cool

July 29, 2009

The voice was loud and angry.

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.

Seniors have got game

April 12, 2009

Wondering what to do in your golden years?

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