Columns

One year of Burnes at $15.6 million, provided he’s healthy, is the definition of value, especially when he’s being added to a rotation that already features emerging stars Kyle Bradish and Grayson Rodriguez.

The stardom of college basketball's best scorer is selling out arenas and drawing big ratings. The struggling Terps will get their moment in the spotlight, but if they want to play giant killer they'll have to do it as a team.

After the pain of losing the AFC championship, there are Baltimore fans with a lot of molten takes. Let's poor cold water on them.

Paul Alexander’s “Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year” focuses on the singer’s genius, not just her tragedies.

Mike Elias has built the Orioles around the idea that the team could never spend as much as its peers. What happens if that’s no longer the case?

Extensions for players and staff, a commitment to a bigger payroll and settling the Camden Yards lease through 2053 should be top priorities for the new group led by David Rubenstein.

State Sens. Sarah Elfreth and Clarence Lam, along with Dels. Mark Chang, Terri Hill and Mike Rogers, all started steps ahead of the rest of the field after congressman John Sarbanes’ surprise retirement announcement in October.

For those upset about "Barbie" Oscar snubs, let's remember to focus on other notable achievements (and nominations).

The Ravens’ mistakes in the AFC championship were borne of their desperate desire to win. With stars and coaches possibly moving this offseason, it was a devastating fumble of one of the franchise’s best opportunities at a Super Bowl.

The purple blanket of fandom spreading over the city is putting Baltimore in its best light, a far cry from the national narratives that focus only on the city’s problems.

From Everett, Massachusetts, to Conway, South Carolina, to Baltimore, Isaiah Likely has followed a familiar pattern. The gifted young tight end is overlooked until suddenly he isn’t. Then his teams just keep winning.

Now that a plan for a new sculpture has been dumped, what should go in Westgate Circle — a boundary point between downtown Annapolis and parts of the city unofficially known as the rest of Annapolis? Here, then, are five ideas, all on the theme of Unity.

The talented quarterbacks find themselves on much more even footing after Jackson started the head-to-head rivalry with three straight losses.

The world is focusing on Taylor Swift at the next Ravens game. But Baltimoreans’ eyes are on the real prize.

Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress, must have hoped no one would fact check his Ocean City disinformation event about wind turbines.

Swift, who is expected to make an appearance at M&T Bank Stadium for Ravens-Chiefs, is proving to a new wave of football fans that there’s nothing wrong with liking the sport.

I went from delivering The Baltimore Sun as a teenager to writing columns for its competitor. The news of its recent ownership change threw me for a loop.

Kansas City isn't just the defending Super Bowl champion but the NFL's leading brand with its most marketed stars. Baltimore should lack no motivation with an itch to claim the throne.

Baltimore fans can exhale. The 2023 juggernaut is built differently than the 2019 version.

Despite a worrisome display of hubris at his first staff meeting, I hope David Smith's return of The Baltimore Sun and the Annapolis Capital to local ownership will be good for them and for Maryland journalism as a whole.