Mike Klingaman

As an offensive tackle for Maryland's football team, Roger Shoals gouged out holes wide enough to drive a Cadillac through. Now, the former Terp star sells the cars.

Oh, Baltimore sports. If we're being honest, your bad news ran neck and neck with your good in 2014. Often eclipsed it, in fact.

"Cotton" Davidson was the Baltimore Colts' starting quarterback before Johnny Unitas. He went on to coach at Baylor and now lives on a 700-acre cattle ranch.

Fifty years ago, Army defeated favored Navy, 11-8, behind Rollie Stichweh, a quarterback who outplayed his celebrated rival, Roger Staubach, that day.

Saturday¿s 115th Army-Navy game at M&T Bank Stadium will be the fifth edition of the rivalry to be played in Baltimore.

He wasn't the happiest of Colts, but who's surprised? In college, Roosevelt Leaks rushed for more yards in one game (342) than he did in four of his five years in Baltimore.

For a decade, each autumn, Glenn Ressler's Sundays were much the same. The mid-mannered Colts guard would slip into the locker room, remove his glasses, put on his uniform and perform feats of strength. Players called him Clark Kent.

Fifteen months after suffering stroke and needing a liver transplant, Towson football player Gavin Class wants to return to the field.

On Thursday, longtime coach Joe Brune is expected to don his blue-and-gold Loyola jacket — the one his players gave him 40 years ago — and root for his alma mater at M&T Bank Stadium at 10 a.m. in the 95th Calvert Hall-Loyola game.

Sanders Shiver arrived at the Baltimore Colts' training camp in 1976, a rookie linebacker out to make a name for himself. A fifth-round draft pick, Shiver earned a job with his speed and savvy.

For more than half a century, the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame shooed race horses from its door. But that changes Thursday night when the first thoroughbred is inducted, albeit posthumously, into the 234-member Hall.

The blond hair has grayed and Jack Scarbath wears glasses now. Remember the laser arm that Maryland's football team rode to fame more than 60 years ago?

Emerson Boozer played 10 years for the Jets, retiring in 1975 as the team's career rushing leader (5,135 yards). He also left with a Super Bowl ring, from New York's 16-7 upset win over the Colts for the 1968 championship.

Hall of Famer Leon Day's passion for baseball lives on in his widow. Geraldine Day attended "about a dozen" Orioles games this past season and watched the rest on television, even those on the West Coast.

Nearly 40 years later, the taunts still haunt Ed Simonini, the Colts' 6-foot middle linebacker.

The Brennans were among the first of a handful of special needs entrants to complete the Baltimore Marathon, many of them sponsored by Athletes Serving Athletes, a Cockeysville nonprofit that matches disabled athletes with race-day volunteers, or wingmen. One entrant, James Banks, bubbled over after finishing in 4:15:43.

Eddie Vega runs barefoot to drum up donations for a favorite cause. For nearly a year, Vega, an IT consultant from Raleigh, N.C., has run shoeless to bring attention to those in Third World countries who have no choice but to do the same.

For five years Tom Gilburg punted for the Colts, averaging 41.4 yards a boot before quitting in 1966 with a bum knee. Three times, he finished among the NFL's top 10 punters while doubling as a second-string offensive tackle.

Barry Goldmeier is a jogger who juggles - anything from footballs to baseball bats - while running. Or maybe he's a juggler who jogs. For short, folks call him The Joggler and, on Saturday, he'll strut his stuff in the Baltimore marathon.

Here's one man's scheme for running in Saturday's Baltimore marathon: strap an iPad to your back, show highlights of the Orioles' three world championships and hope other runners hang back to watch it.

In retirement, former Baltimore Colts Robert Pratt, George Kunz, Ken Mendenhall and Elmer Collett have gone hunting and fishing together, often with their old quarterback, Bert Jones.

Babe Ruth showed glimpses of what would become a Hall of Fame career during his first pro stop, half a season with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League in 1914.