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No team entered Thursday with more wins than the Orioles’ 34 since the All-Star break, and they’ve been winning at a .680 clip since the beginning of July.

After spending his whole career erasing doubts about his ability to play football’s most difficult position, Lamar Jackson will be entrusted to pass more and assert more control over the Ravens’ offense.

Jimmy Buffett, who died last week, was all about the beach and the sun — and resonated in places with neither.

There’s no blanket skill set the Orioles seek, but there are plenty of common traits among their top pitching prospects.

This fall, the Anne Arundel County Department of Health and the city of Annapolis will select one neighborhood and one nonprofit for its first Cure Violence program. The goal is to end the tragedy of deaths like Robert Clark's.

"What do you do?" is often among the first questions we're asked. On this Labor Day, a commemoration dedicated to celebrating the American worker, I wanted to know why.

The Orioles will spend the weekend in Arizona, where Santander has tasted success before.

September has always been a difficult month to identify with one season. Is it summer or fall? The beginning or the end?

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle had a personal relationship with Under Armour's Kevin Plank. It's complicated. And also not.

Adley Rutschman was fated for greatness as soon as the Orioles selected him, but Gunnar Henderson — taken out of high school — represented more of a gamble. Could the O's develop young talent into top-level players? The answer, increasingly, appears to be yes.

Ryan Mountcastle, Austin Hays, Anthony Santander and Cedric Mullins have helped steady the Orioles with their veteran presence — but they’ve also taken turns carrying the offense as talented, but young, players find their way.

The day Sarah E. Carter broke the color barrier in Anne Arundel County nearly a half-century ago, she said she recognized the significance of her achievement. On Monday, Anne Arundel County finally honored it as well.

Americans like to recall the hope Martin Luther King expressed in what became known as the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington, but King always recognized forces that would stand in the way, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

As my son goes back to school, it reminds me how much he has come into his own — and how much less he may need me.

For one college season, Adley Rutschman was Oregon State's kickoff specialist. It's given the Orioles star a healthy appreciation for just how hard Raven Justin Tucker, the most accurate placekicker in NFL history, has to work more than a decade into his career.

It will require scans and doctors to determine the prognosis for the All-Star closer. No such expertise is needed to explain how daunting a stretch run without The Mountain would be.

Turning your children over to someone else requires trust. You put your kids on the bus for the first day of kindergarten or watch them drive off for the start of senior year and believe they’ll come home safe and ever-so-slightly better educated. Yet, as school starts next week for most Maryland students, it’s no longer a given that parents have that trust.

Back to school is about more than buying classroom supplies. It’s about getting children back into the mindset of being able to learn (and wake up early).

Even after an up-and-down start Tuesday, this much is clear: Grayson Rodriguez is ready for a high-pressure role in the playoffs. He and Kyle Bradish should give Baltimore the type of 1-2 punch teams need to succeed in October.

A run of strong performance has helped Beavers to an .833 OPS over two levels in his age-21 season, a debut representative of the talent the Orioles acquired with the 33rd pick of last year’s draft out of Cal.