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    Angel Reese joined other expected WNBA draftees at The Empire State Building on April 15, 2024 in New York City.
    Angel Reese helped college basketball reach new heights. Can she do it for the WNBA?
    Women’s college basketball’s popularity — and therefore the earning power of its players — is soaring. So why would Reese, a Randallstown native, skip her final season?
    Orioles left fielder Austin Hays is 3-for-35 this season, and rookie Colton Cowser has been on an extremely hot streak.
    Jon Meoli: Austin Hays deserves a chance to get right for the Orioles. It’s a unique challenge for Brandon Hyde to make that happen.
    This likely will prove to be one of the most meaningful test cases of Brandon Hyde’s skills that the reigning AL Manager of the Year has faced to date.
    Jackson Holliday
    Supersized hype means outsized growing pains for Orioles rookie Jackson Holliday
    Baltimore's top prospect is still waiting for his first big league hit, a tedious stretch made more trying because of sky-high expectations for the 20-year-old second baseman.
    O.J. Simpson walks out of courthouse after the verdicts concerning his civil trial were read.
    Reflections on covering O.J. Simpson’s murder trial as a photographer for the Los Angeles Times
    Kirk McKoy covered the O.J. Simpson murder trial as a young news photographer and remembers how it affected his view of the world — and whether his football idol was innocent or not. He also shares photos he took at the time.
    The Orioles drafted pitcher DL Hall, now with the Milwaukee Brewers, in the first round in 2017.
    Jon Meoli: Get used to seeing former Orioles prospects returning to Baltimore with new teams
    DL Hall and Joey Ortiz of the Brewers will not be the last former Orioles prospects to visit Camden Yards with another big league team.
    Detectives investigate the scene of a shooting in Pasadena, where police said a 61-year-old woman raised a handgun officers before they shot her.
    Maryland’s new approach to gun violence is all about the data
    State lawmakers recently approved legislation creating the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention, sending it to the desk of Gov. Wes Moore. The idea is to collect and use data to design strategies — the same technique used to fight disease — to reduce the number of people killed and injured by guns every year in Maryland.
    O.J. Simpson stands as he listens to Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell as she reads her decision to hold him over for trial on July 8, 1994, in connection with the June 12 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
    O.J. Simpson: Parsing the late athlete and former murder suspect’s legacy
    The legacy of the late OJ Simpson remains complicated, even 30 years after the murders that cast him into suspicion.
    Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
    How the total eclipse of the sun became a ‘total eclipse of the heart’ for my family
    This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.
    The Orioles have a group of highly ranked prospects in their system, but Jackson Holliday is the only one rated No. 1 overall.
    With a call-up, the Orioles finally stop treating Jackson Holliday like just another prospect
    It didn't make sense when the Orioles sent Holliday back to the minors after a strong spring. Two weeks into the season, Baltimore is finally making the right call with its top prospect.
    Awadagin Pratt will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday.
    A renowned Black pianist will perform in Annapolis. Is it a milestone?
    Annapolis is a city with a racist past. There’s just no nice way to say that. The arts, well, they are no different. The question is, what has changed?
    Maryland coach Michael Locksley speaks on SiriusXM at Super Bowl LVIII on a Feb. 8.
    Terps football will take its lumps without a clear-cut quarterback
    Was Taulia Tagovailoa the thing keeping the Terps afloat for the last three seasons? Maryland and Mike Locksley are about to find out.
    Jackson Holliday could remain in Norfolk even if the Orioles make changes to their major league roster soon.
    Jon Meoli: With the Orioles’ offense scuffling and their top prospects ready to contribute, a ‘perfect storm’ is brewing
    You don’t see these circumstances often. Sooner rather than later, the Orioles will have to pick a path out of it.
    Angel Reese is expected to be a first-round pick in the WNBA draft.
    Angel Reese and the perils of being a Black female athlete
    Randallstown native Angel Reese is headed for the WNBA. Can she get ahead of the double standards for Black women in sports?
    Ernie Dimler, who's lived on Stoney Creek in Pasadena for 30-plus years, points out some of the debris that's washed up since the Key Bridge Collapse on March 26.
    Downstream from Baltimore, life, tragedy and trash just keep washing up
    The debris floating up now on the shoreline of Sunset Beach, Orchard Beach and Riviera Beach in Anne Arundel County is the consequence of a horrible tragedy, so no one wants to criticize. But this is life living downstream from Baltimore.
    The water keeps rising at City Dock in Annapolis, often measured against the statue of author Alex Haley.
    In its race against climate, Annapolis’ future and past are at war
    What will Annapolis give up as it works to save itself from the ever-increasing number of floods and the rising tide of climate change?
    Coby Mayo is one of the five top prospects at Triple-A Norfolk who has begun the season by pounding on the major league door.
    Jon Meoli: Breaking down how the Orioles can sustain their player development success, level by level
    Here are the things I’ll be watching based on each club’s roster and which factors will influence the continued upward trajectory of the club’s farm system.
    BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MARCH 30: Cam Spencer #12 of the Connecticut Huskies celebrates a basket against the Illinois Fighting Illini during the second half in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at TD Garden on March 30, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
    From Loyola to UConn, Cam Spencer has earned his way to the Final Four
    The Davidsonville native’s journey through three colleges in as many years is thanks to the NCAA transfer portal, which has made it easier for quality midmajor players to reach the upper tier of college hoops.
    Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2024.
    He’s a country music fan. She loves Beyoncé. Could they agree on ‘Cowboy Carter’?
    To get a sense of the impact of “Cowboy Carter,” we asked two locals — one country music fan and one Beyoncé stan — what they thought of the album.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore gives an update to reporters at a news conference in Dundalk after a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge early March 26, collapsing the bridge into the Patapsco River.
    Wes Moore has an opportunity: Getting Marylanders behind Baltimore
    The collapse of the Key Bridge can be a defining moment in the life of Maryland’s young governor and for Maryland as well.
    Angel Reese of the LSU Tigers looks on prior to a game against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Elite 8.
    Angel Reese’s celebrity has exacted a crushing toll: ‘I just want them to always know, I’m still a human.’
    After falling in a headlining game against Iowa, the LSU star and Randallstown native allowed the world to see how difficult it can be to carry expectations and misconceptions that accompany her celebrity.
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