Kevin Cowherd: The NFL will miss a guy like Ricky Williams

February 8, 2012

I miss Ricky Williams already. You talk about a guy who should leave his brain to medical science when he's gone. This guy's brain would keep researchers busy for 50 years.

Little by little, Towson basketball team making strides

February 5, 2012

Don't cry for the Towson Tigers, America.

Ravens owner opens up about 2011 season

February 1, 2012

I came away from Wednesday's "State of the Ravens" news conference at The Castle with one thought: Don't you wish, Steve Bisciotti would open up a little?

Turgeon can't lie — Terps are an enigmatic bunch

January 29, 2012

Mark Turgeon would make a lousy poker player.

Cowherd: Plenty of reasons to bring back Cam Cameron

January 26, 2012

So now Ravens Nation waits with bated breath to see if Cam Cameron stays or gets the ax, this being the hot topic now that Chuck Pagano has flown the coop to be the head coach for the Indianapolis Colts.

Weight of future championship falls on Flacco's shoulders

January 21, 2012

Go ahead, tell me who's under more pressure on championship Sunday than Joe Flacco.

Distractions the last thing the Ravens need before Sunday

January 18, 2012

Quick, what's the last thing the Ravens need going into Sunday's AFC championship against the New England Patriots?

Win wasn't pretty, but Ravens will take it

January 15, 2012

Let's get the negative stuff out of the way first.

All talked out, Ravens ready to settle business

January 14, 2012

Are you ready for some football? The Ravens sure are.

Ravens defense ready to pressure Yates on Sunday

January 11, 2012

You're rookie T.J. Yates and Sunday you play in the biggest game of your life.

Everything setting up nicely for Ravens

January 8, 2012

Are you getting the feeling things are breaking really well for the Ravens? Like the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter's aligned with Mars and all that?

Running for hope and gratitude, Ruxton native tackles first half marathon in Orlando

January 6, 2012

Ray Lewis, Ed Reed have plenty left to offer Ravens

January 3, 2012

You know the old saying about rocking the boat? The Ravens do, too. Which is why there is absolutely zero chance they'll address the declining productivity of Ray Lewis and Ed Reed anytime soon.

Yeah, I guess Kegasus does sum up this year

December 29, 2011

It was a year of soaring highs and mind-numbing lows in local sports. And of course when you talk about the lows, at least on a tragicomic level, one name comes instantly to mind: Kegasus.

Kevin Cowherd: Ravens' Flacco adamant that just making playoffs isn't enough

December 21, 2011

Joe Flacco was positively chatty at the Castle the other day, and it was something to see.

Kevin Cowherd: Orioles have been frugal this holiday season

December 17, 2011

As usual, it looks like the Orioles are celebrating this holiday season on the cheap.

Don't worry, Ravens will pay plenty of dough to keep Rice

December 14, 2011

Let's see a show of hands: does anyone really think Ray Rice won't be a Raven next year?

Another ho-hum win for Ravens against overmatched opponent

December 11, 2011

Let's begin with this because there's no way to underplay it: the Indianapolis Colts were awful.

Kevin Cowherd: A Ravens loss Sunday? Not a chance

December 10, 2011

I got quite a few e-mails this week from Ravens fans who say they're worried about Sunday's game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Not much for Ravens to say about matchup with Colts

December 7, 2011

The mood at The Castle Wednesday seemed as gray as the skies overhead, with one Raven after another stepping up to the microphone to say, well, not much.

Towson has nothing to be ashamed of

December 3, 2011

The dream season came to a crashing halt.

Ravens defense is ready to hunt again

November 29, 2011

The Ravens locker room was nearly deserted the other day when Cory Redding strolled in, looking for some quiet time after meetings.

What, Ravens fans worry? Of course they will

November 28, 2011

Let's agree, for the sake of argument, that Ravens fans are among the most neurotic in the NFL.

Kevin Cowherd: Like it or not, focus Thursday will be on Harbaughs

November 24, 2011

Have we heard enough about the Harbaugh brothers this week? I don't know. I feel as though there are still some things we need to know.

Ravens' win over Bengals was anything but business as usual

November 20, 2011

Just another ho-hum Ravens win, wasn't it?

Kevin Cowherd: As its record soars, Johns Hopkins football team stays grounded

November 18, 2011

Want to see a small-college football program that gets it? Gets its core mission and still is wildly successful? Coached by a guy who doesn't think he's God just because he walks the sideline with a set of headphones and a play chart on Saturdays in the fall?

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