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Orioles' lefty Wei-Yin Chen says he's going to have a good 2013 and there's no reason not to believe him.

As Baltimore continues to celebrate after the Ravens win in the Super Bowl, it's worth noting that Baltimore hasn't had mutliple major league playoff teams in 42 years.

Orioles Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver will be memorialized Saturday in Davie, Fla., after a private, family-only ceremony Thursday in South Florida.

Earl Weaver, the former Orioles Hall of Fame manager who died Friday night, left those around him with such great memories and stories, that it was hard to get them all in for the one story I did Sunday.

Timeline of the life of former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver.

Earl Weaver was a reporters dream-come-true. If you were a young columnist covering the Orioles in the early 80s, as I was for the old Evening Sun, you couldn't ask to be around a more colorful manager.

The electorate of the Baseball Writers Association of America sent a clear message to tainted superstars on Wednesday: If you were suspected of taking performance enhancing drugs, you don¿t belong in the Hall of Fame. At least not in 2013.

Hall of Fame former Oriole Jim Palmer weighs in on Wednesday's announcement that no players were elected to the Hall this year.

The Orioles have released the autograph session schedule for FanFest on Jan. 19 at the Baltimore Convention Center from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Deputy Cpl. Charles B. Licato, a 14-year veteran of the sheriff's office was killed in a single vehicle accident near Darlington. Black bunting adorned the three Harford County Sheriff's Office buildings in Bel Air, Edgewood and Jarrettsville.

Baseball's winter meetings begin in earnest Monday and this was supposed to be the year that a lot of the impact signings were made before the sport's annual powwow.

Dr. Joshua Breschkin, a retired optometrist whose early work with contact lenses earned him the respect of well-known Baltimore Colts and Orioles players, died of stroke complications Nov. 6 at his Cross Keys home. He was 94.

Lee MacPhail, former American League president, passes away at 95

Lee MacPhail, a longtime Major League Baseball executive who served as Orioles general manager from 1959 to 1965, died Thursday evening at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 95.

He was a gritty 6-foot-3 guard from the Bronx with boundless energy and a long, sweet jumper that seemed to kiss the Civic Center's ceiling before finding its mark. "Bullseye!" Baltimore Bullets broadcaster Jim Karvellas would exclaim as Kevin Loughery scored again.

For the first time in decades, Baltimoreans can wear the colors of two teams with equal pride. Orange one day, purple the next. A Ravens jersey with an Orioles cap. It wouldn't make the cover of GQ, but it captures the mood of the city — and harkens back to happy days of yore.

The TBS team of Ernie Johnson, Cal Ripken and John Smoltz was outstanding. Johnson, the play by play guy, sets a table as well as anyone this side of Al Michaels. And he was superb all series long at drawing the best out of Ripken and Smoltz, who provided original and insightful analysis.

Epic is probably too strong a word, but Wednesday night's Orioles-Yankees battle was another great playoff game. And once again, TBS delivered a telecast worthy of it in almost every way.

With the Baltimore Orioles on the verge of Game 3 against New York on Wednesday night in the Bronx, the return of the Birds to baseball's elite has been the stuff of sweet conversations all around town.

Each time a playoff series moves into a new phase or encounters a particularly pivotal game ¿ usually odd-numbered -- the outcome becomes more and more dependent on how the players on each team handle pressure

With his team in the playoffs and fans loving the statues he commissioned to celebrate past Orioles greats, Peter Angelos is encountering more public good will than he has in 15 years. But the Orioles owner has still chosen to remain out of the spotlight.

This is the kind of thing they used to teach in journalism school and I wish they still did: The way one careless mistake can diminish an otherwise strong performance and bring embarrassment instead of praise.

We all know singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer Joan Jett loves Rock and Roll. She also has proclaimed her love for the Orioles for years.

Players attribute their success to hard work, perseverance – and maybe a healthy serving of breakfast cereal

For the second consecutive year, center fielder Adam Jones was named Most Valuable Oriole — an award he said should go to the entire roster of this upstart club.

Priest Holmes, Jim Palmer and Dick Nolan are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for September 30 to October 6

Here are Adam Jones' thoughts on being named Most Valuable Oriole:

Center fielder Adam Jones, who has 32 homers and played every game of this season, has been named the Most Valuable Oriole, becoming the seventh player in club history to win the award in consecutive seasons.

Following is a transcript of Baltimore Orioles legend Brooks Robinson's speech at his sculpture unveiling ceremony Saturday at Camden Yards.

Orioles fans and former players expect an emotional scene Saturday evening when Brooks Robinson, ailing for much of the last year, celebrates the unveiling of his statue at Camden Yards.

The Orioles announced that outfielder L.J. Hoes and right-hander Dylan Bundy are the recipients of this year's minor league player and pitcher of the year, respectively.

If there is one television sportscaster to whom the adjective ¿legendary¿ can honestly be applied it is Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer of NBC¿s ¿Sunday Night Football.¿

Every morning, Monday through Friday, blogger Matt Vensel will hook you up with reading material -- mostly on the Ravens but with some other Baltimore sports stuff, too -- to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday. That way he'll have an excuse to do the same to start his workday, too.

Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy was asleep in his hotel room in Sarasota, Fla., at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday morning when his roommate told him that Brian Graham, the Orioles' minor league instruction coordinator, was on the phone.

The major league call-up of Orioles 19-year-old phenom Dylan Bundy to help replenish the club's bullpen after an 18-inning game Tuesday night is a surprise. But it's being made for the right reasons, according to Jim Palmer.

Dan Duquette said the decision to bring up 19-year-old pitching phenom Dylan Bundy to help a bullpen depleted by an 18-inning marathon in Seattle on Tuesday was pretty simple.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette never revealed his specific expectations for the season when it began in April. But now his immediate goal is clear: "We're in a position now that we have the kind of ballclub that we could win the division," Duquette said Tuesday.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he didn't go old school by design. It was purely by necessity and circumstance that four of his young, inexperienced starters have ended up in the bullpen in September.

Ann L. Rector, a homemaker and longtime volunteer, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at her Towson home. She was 93.

Though rules define it clearly, baseball's strike zone is delightfully inexact, an enigma at the heart of the game.

If the term "mob scene" could be applied to a joyous event, such as that of a beloved local ballplayer being immortalized with a bronze statue of his likeness being installed at the park where he spent half of his Hall of Fame career, then the scene at Camden Yards on Thursday, when Cal Ripken Jr.'s long-awaited sculpture was unveiled to the public for the first time, would be it.

Cal Ripken turned both the center field unveiling and the pre-game ceremony into a total endorsement of this budding new era of Baltimore Orioles baseball.

"I've been doing a lot of reflecting today. It's been emotional. As excited as I am to go to California and keep pursuing what I set out to do a long time ago, I'm just realizing how lucky I've been to be in my home market and covering teams I grew up loving."

What a fitting backdrop this Orioles team is to the tribute being paid this season by the ballclub to six of its legendary players, to include Aberdeen's own Cal Ripken Jr.

On Thursday, the Hall of Fame shortstop will attend the unveiling of a bronze statue at Oriole Park, one of six such sculptures made to honor Baltimore baseball legends

Mussina, along with former Orioles second baseman Rich Dauer and scout Walter Youse, will be honored as this year's Orioles Hall of Fame inductees before Saturday night's game against the Blue Jays at Camden Yards.

Honor our aging Orioles while they're still with us