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“There’s a lot of similar movements between him and I, so I’m helping and providing advice based on things that I’ve had to figure out, navigate through and, ultimately, we’re not changing anything,” Alonso said.

COLUMN | Parents who have always donated school supplies to their kids’ schools and others’ are now stretched so thin that they can’t. And that’s tragic.

COLUMN | Bad behavior by team owners around the country helps highlight how disconnected they are from the fans they claim to serve. It’s one of the existential problems in sports.

COLUMN | O.J. Brigance inspired Ravens players with his hope and resiliency.

ANALYSIS | Since they broke out for 10 runs on Aug. 9 in Texas, the Orioles haven’t scored fewer than four runs in a game, totaling 51 runs in their last eight (6.3 per game).

COLUMN | I promise, I won’t be juvenile about this. Baltimore has a serial pooper on the loose. It’s a serious serial problem, and it’s a journalist’s duty to expose the truth. Ha ha. Duty.

COLUMN | On Saturday night, there was a lot for the Reed family to celebrate.

COLUMN | Rockville-based grocery chain MOM’s Organic Market has banned its employees from wearing masks at work. That’s bad mom behavior.

COLUMN | The Mayor’s Anti-Animal Abuse Advisory Commission, which was disbanded in 2020 during COVID, is back. And I’m glad, because when our economy suffers, as it is right now, so do our pets.

We’ve seen Jesse Minter on the home sideline at M&T Bank Stadium, and the Ravens won their first-year coach’s preseason debut, 24-7 over the Philadelphia Eagles. Here are five things we learned from the game.

COLUMN | Everyone in Maryland knows how to pick a Chesapeake Bay crab, right? There is a method to it, a shared technique. Well, what if we’ve been doing it wrong all along?

COLUMN | Annapolis author Tom Guay will discuss "Chesapeake Bound" at The Banner Book Club, exploring research, characters and the Easter eggs hidden in his historical fiction novel.

ANALYSIS | The Orioles are benefiting from learning to pinch-hit on the fly, with the club’s pinch hitters batting .295 with a 1.077 on-base-plus-slugging percentage since July 1.

COLUMN | Angel Reese made the interwebs mad for seemingly calling Baltimore “ghetto.” We’re going to love her anyway, especially after she made the women’s national basketball team.

COLUMN: Dirt bikes, part of Baltimore City’s Black culture for decades, are illegal on the streets. Advocates want to talk to law enforcement and others to figure out how to promote a safe way to continue that history.

COLUMN | The prospect of Mardelva is the latest in a line of oft-repeated threats to secede from Maryland. They grow loudest when the Eastern Shore fails to get its way in Annapolis.

COLUMN | Maryland’s decision to buy the Preakness’ IP rights and change the race date appears to have ruffled the feathers of its Triple Crown compatriots. But, given how hostile the most powerful bodies can be, the state’s self-interested moves are a sign of progress.

COLUMN | This vote to have more flexibility in drawing congressional districts is not about spite or waving signs. It’s about our perilous ability to exist as full citizens.

COLUMN | Oh, Andy. What is Maryland to do with you? To hear Republicans in Annapolis tell it, you’re the damsel in distress, a starlet in the clutches of a King Kong gerrymander unleashed by Democrats.

COLUMN | The Orioles organization was well on its way to righting the wrongs of 2025 and 2026, and it did itself a disservice in trading Adley Rutschman.