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If you build it, they will come home sore
- Former Kansas City Royals All-Star Willie Wilson protected his identity by using the names of his favorite cartoon characters as aliases to check into hotels on road trips during his 19-year career.
Olympics will be about the United States of Baltimore
- Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen,” and Van Halen’s “Panama” pumped through my Walkman. My wardrobe consisted of an Orioles painters cap, a pair of checkered Vans, silver and black parachute pants and an “I heart you, Mary Lou” T-shirt my Aunt Jo won at the Arbutus Carnival.
- Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen,” and Van Halen’s “Panama” pumped through my Walkman. My wardrobe consisted of an Orioles painters cap, a pair of checkered Vans, silver and black parachute pants and an “I heart you, Mary Lou” T-shirt my Aunt Jo won at the Arbutus Carnival.
Athletes need to be better role models
- I used to love professional sports. But then I realized something: Every negative thing I ever learned about sports, I learned from pro athletes acting like kindergartners.
- I used to love professional sports. But then I realized something: Every negative thing I ever learned about sports, I learned from pro athletes acting like kindergartners.
Grab a No. 2 pencil and take the Hump Day quiz
- Welcome to this week’s edition of “Hump Day Pop Quiz,” a quick exam to see how closely you have been following the local and national sports scene. Remember there are no stupid questions — just stupid answers.
Top 10 worst sports uniforms of all time
- 10 Baltimore Orioles, 1971: Be sure to break out the Blueblockers to protect your retinas if you come across this photographic evidence of the monstrosity that was the team’s alternate uniform that season. The only way you can exit the dugout dressed like candy corn — orange tops and bottoms — and still have any dignity is if you have McNally, Palmer, Cuellar or Dobson heading to the hump. How many guys in the clubhouse called Boog Powell the “Great Pumpkin” when he donned these dubious digs?
- 10 Baltimore Orioles, 1971: Be sure to break out the Blueblockers to protect your retinas if you come across this photographic evidence of the monstrosity that was the team’s alternate uniform that season. The only way you can exit the dugout dressed like candy corn — orange tops and bottoms — and still have any dignity is if you have McNally, Palmer, Cuellar or Dobson heading to the hump. How many guys in the clubhouse called Boog Powell the “Great Pumpkin” when he donned these dubious digs?
For the Orioles, it’s time to break up the nest
- When I was a kid, I used to do one of two things with any baseball card I got with an Orioles player on it.
- When I was a kid, I used to do one of two things with any baseball card I got with an Orioles player on it.
Idea of Ravens signing Brett too Favre-fetched
- How is this for irony? A statue of Johnny Unitas stands outside M&T Bank Stadium, serving as a reminder of the greatest quarterback who ever lived. But inside, the field has become a place where quarterback’s careers go to die.
10 best athletes to play sports
- To celebrate the 4th of July, an authentic slice of Americana, I am celebrating the 10 best athletes who played the sports we love better than nearly all others even though they never turned down a slice of pie.
Top Nine Best Sports Names
- During my recent trip to Chicago’s Wrigley Field to watch the Orioles face the Cubs, one player, Kosuke Fukudome, reminded me of the power of the name. While I’ll save a snippet about the outfielder’s name for fear of losing my job, I will get your week started with my “Top Nine Best Sports Names.”
‘I love doing what I do because I think we make a difference’
- For action sports star Bucky Lasek, whose left knee has been scoped more times than outer space, the last place in the world he wants to be is a hospital.
- For action sports star Bucky Lasek, whose left knee has been scoped more times than outer space, the last place in the world he wants to be is a hospital.
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