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    Baltimore Orioles prospect Samuel Basallo warms up during the team’s spring training practice on February 20, 2024.
    Jon Meoli: Inside Orioles top prospect Samuel Basallo’s offensive and defensive development at Norfolk
    With Adley Rutschman and Maverick Handley hitting the injured list within the last week and the Orioles opting for journeymen deputies rather than Basallo, the 20-year-old backstop’s development has come into focus of late.
    Former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker maintains his innocence — but he’s not willing to fight to prove it.
    Kyle Goon: Even as he’s punished, Justin Tucker refuses to be accountable
    It’s difficult to take Justin Tucker’s claims of innocence seriously when he’s not even willing to fight to clear his name.
    At left, John Carlos speaks at the 50th anniversary of his Olympics experience in San Jose, California, in 2018. At right, Peter Norman, Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968.
    Olympic and civil rights icon John Carlos welcomes you to the revolution
    Carlos accepts his role as an icon and a pioneer, but refuses to believe it makes him different or more significant in spirit than others.
    Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie have built consistently competitive teams. For too many other owners, that seems like an afterthought.
    Kyle Goon: NFL owners love saving money more than winning, and fans should be furious
    A memo obtained by an investigative podcast shows the lengths NFL owners will collaborate to keep salaries down instead of competing. Lamar Jackson got caught in the crosshairs.
    Catching prospect Samuel Basallo watches his teammates play a Grapefruit League game against the Detroit Tigers in February.
    Kyle Goon: The Orioles are right to delay Samuel Basallo’s debut. It should be worth the wait.
    The Orioles’ top prospect beckons after the big league club experiences a sudden rash of injuries at catcher. But the 20-year-old deserves to come up when he’s ready, not just when the team has a positional need.
    From left, Matthew Schlegel’s attorneys Andrew Harvey, Peter O’Neill, and Patrick Seidel speak to reporters outside the Annapolis courthouse last week.
    For a teacher accused of abusing students, ‘not guilty’ doesn’t equal public exoneration
    When a teacher accused of sexually abusing students is found not guilty, the pain won’t go away easily. Not for the teacher, the student, their families or the community.
    President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Washington.
    Trump couldn’t resist the American temptation. We’re at war again.
    War is the American temptation, the one every president since the end of World War II has faced. Now it's Donald Trump's war.
    Waterlogged cars sit in the flooded parking lot of Westernport Elementary School after a catastrophic storm hit the area on Tuesday.
    Alas, poor FEMA. We knew you well.
    President Donald Trump plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. In the future, if you want help after a disaster, you’ll have to call him. How do you think that’s going to go?
    New Town sprinter Elise Cooper stands before practice with the Owings Mills Track Club at New Town High School in Owings Mills, MD on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
    Tons of money. Little guidance. How Maryland’s fastest sprinter navigated the dizzying world of high school NIL deals.
    Elise Cooper of Owings Mills became the first high school sprinter to sign with Puma in February. It was anything but a smooth process.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 19: Members of the U.S. Colored Troops and Buffalo Soldiers, living historians and re-enactors from Maryland, Georgia, Massachusetts and other states, prepare to march in the Juneteenth People's Parade on June 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. The first federal holiday to be established in almost 40 years, the Juneteenth National Independence Day marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
    Juneteenth is a celebration of everyone knowing the truth. We need that desperately.
    Juneteenth is the commemoration of when the last enslaved Black people in Texas found out they were free. But, like now, the truth was irrevelevant without the knowledge.
    Quarterback Lamar Jackson takes questions from reporters following the team’s mandatory minicamp Tuesday.
    Kyle Goon: Lamar Jackson’s forceful defense of Mark Andrews matters a lot — for both of them
    The Ravens quarterback took offense to offseason muttering about his longtime favorite target, reinforcing the tight end’s value while also showcasing his own vocal leadership.
    Cardyn Brooks, left, and Heather Brooks co-run The Write Women Book Fest, which was founded to support and give exposure for female writers and readers alike.
    The Write Woman Book Fest celebrates the power of literary ladies
    The sixth and final Write Woman Book Fest in Bowie is ending in its current form, but its founders say they’ll never stop supporting fellow female creators.
    Writer Wallace Lane and his son, Waylon.
    Opinion: A Black dad’s reflections on Father’s Day
    Being a dad in this digital age and all of its influences on children is one of the most difficult tasks, but if you have patience and genuine presence, then the playing field evens out.
    Del. Heather Bagnall warms up the crowd on June 14, 2025 as it begins to fill in Lawyer's Mall at the State House in Annapolis. The crowd eventually overflowed onto the surrounding sidewalks and even across the street.
    An assassination in Minnesota briefly silences ‘No Kings’ rally in Annapolis
    Jessica Davis took a breath and looked down at her phone. She read out the news to the ‘No Kings’ rally in Annapolis that a former Minnesota House speaker and her husband had been assassinated.
    Tarik Skubal has thrown two scoreless outings against the Orioles this season.
    Jon Meoli: Tarik Skubal was another challenge the Orioles weren’t up for
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 09: Police engage with protesters in the evening following three days of clashes after a series of immigration raids last Friday on June 09, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders.
    Trump’s military response to LA supercharges No Kings Day protests across Maryland
    What the hell. It’s a pretty apt summary of this moment. No Kings Day protests planned to counter President Donald Trump's military birthday parade Saturday are growing in response to events in Los Angeles.
    Hall of Famer and minority team owner Cal Ripken Jr. takes questions from reporters during a baseball clinic at Stadium Place, former site of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, on Thursday.
    Kyle Goon: ‘Mike’s our guy.’ Cal Ripken Jr. backs Mike Elias as he navigates the choppy waters of ownership
    Cal Ripken Jr. is no longer simply a figurehead, and that’s a tougher spot when things aren’t going well with the Orioles.
    LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 12:  Musician Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys performs onstage at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
    God only knows what we lost with Brian Wilson
    One of the things I loved most about former Beach Boy Brian Wilson was that he was weird. I mean that as a compliment.
    Baltimore Orioles' Cedric Mullins (31) practices swings while on deck during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
    Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ lineup is finally close to whole. That should make a difference.
    There are seven names written in pen every night — Jackson Holliday, Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Ryan O’Hearn, Colton Cowser, Jordan Westburg and Cedric Mullins.
    Leslie Gray Streeter and her son, Brooks, in 2019 at the Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
    Elementary school ‘graduation’ isn’t a big deal. So why am I crying?
    Call it a graduation or a promotion: My baby is going to be a middle schooler. Cue the sad songs.
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