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    Jon Meoli: Albert Suárez’s Orioles debut is another win for the pro scouts
    Through an integrated pro scouting department, the Orioles may have for the second year running found a gem as they were sifting through depth options.
    Starting pitcher Albert Suárez, left, and catcher Adley Rutschman fist bump at the end of an inning against the Minnesota Twins on April 17.
    How do you dress for Maryland’s ‘Spring of Deception’? Two stylists have some ideas.
    It can be hot, cold, snowy, sunny and rainy all in one week. Here’s how to dress for Maryland’s crazy weather.
    Two people share an umbrella as they walk in the rain.
    I’m new to commuting on the Baltimore Beltway. Is it always this bad?
    I’ve been commuting from Annapolis to Baltimore a couple of days each week for a few months now. We’ve got traffic in Annapolis, and sometimes it’s maddening. There was that one time a sailboat mast got caught in a powerline on Forest Drive. But I have to ask you Baltimore Beltway commuters a question: Is it always this bad?
    A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
    Jon Meoli: Kyle Bradish looked like himself in Bowie. There’s cause for guarded optimism.
    There’s no way to know with injuries like this. There are success stories with nonsurgical treatments, but far more end with Tommy John. I do recognize, though, I saw a pretty good version of Bradish on Tuesday.
    Orioles starting pitcher Kyle Bradish looks on at Spring Training in Sarasota.
    Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort present full-court fashion
    Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort shone sartorially at the draft.
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Angel Reese arrives prior to the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
    St. John’s College is reckoning with its racist past. That includes Francis Scott Key.
    St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.
    Percy Moran's 1905 painting of Francis Scott Key and John S. Skinner as they watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry took a good deal of creative license.
    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?
    Angel Reese joined other expected WNBA draftees at The Empire State Building on April 15, 2024 in New York City.
    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.
    Orioles left fielder Austin Hays is 3-for-35 this season, and rookie Colton Cowser has been on an extremely hot streak.
    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.
    Jackson Holliday
    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.
    O.J. Simpson walks out of courthouse after the verdicts concerning his civil trial were read.
    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.
    The Orioles drafted pitcher DL Hall, now with the Milwaukee Brewers, in the first round in 2017.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
    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.
    The Orioles have a group of highly ranked prospects in their system, but Jackson Holliday is the only one rated No. 1 overall.
    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?
    Awadagin Pratt will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday.
    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.
    Maryland coach Michael Locksley speaks on SiriusXM at Super Bowl LVIII on a Feb. 8.
    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?
    Angel Reese is expected to be a first-round pick in the WNBA draft.
    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.
    Jackson Holliday could remain in Norfolk even if the Orioles make changes to their major league roster soon.
    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.
    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.
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