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Jeff Barker is The Sun's Washington correspondent and a business of sports reporter. A University of Pennsylvania graduate, he formerly worked for AP and as the Arizona Republic’s Washington reporter. He has covered politics and Terps basketball and football for The Sun. He is co-director of a documentary on the development of baseball in China.
Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin will assume the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted Friday on federal charges that he accepted bribes.
If the Orioles find themselves in the opening game of the American League Division Series, there could be a clash with a Billy Joel/Stevie Nicks concert scheduled for the same date at the Ravens’ stadium.
An so-called anti-chump clause in the leases of Baltimore's two pro sports teams makes the Ravens a significant, if silent, party to the Orioles’ negotiations with the state.
The troubled, Baltimore-based pension plan of Ironworkers Local 16, which covers nearly 1,000 people, will receive $75.8 million in special assistance to restore benefits, according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
The state of Maryland seriously considered suing Major League Baseball on the Orioles' behalf, based on John Angelos' argument the league was misusing its antitrust exemption.
State Senate President Bill Ferguson expressed impatience Thursday that the Orioles and Maryland Stadium Authority have not yet agreed on a long-term lease, saying he wished a deal had been completed “yesterday.”
As the moments ticked down on the Orioles’ deadline to exercise a stadium lease extension, the then-chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority says he was left in the dark by John Angelos about the team’s intentions.
Four officials with knowledge of the request said Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos sought development rights to three state-owned parking lots at Camden Yards.