Columns

There are some holiday songs that are simply unavoidable. From Mariah Carey to Wham!, strap in and prepare to hear these on repeat for the next month.

Rookie Zay Flowers' two touchdowns were critical on a night when Baltimore's offense underwhelmed. His role is increasing just as the Ravens need a shot in the arm.

Maybe your family has this tale, too. Somewhere along the way, one of my ancestors whose family came from Europe married a Cherokee woman. Sometimes it’s a princess in the telling, sometimes it’s not. Whatever the details or how it was told, it was just not true.

Yes, it’s too late to cancel, order pizza and turn off all the lights off. Here’s some advice for navigating the assorted cast of holiday characters coming to your house on Thanksgiving.

Columnist Kyle Goon: A decade ago, Clowney was a viral college football star before athletes could profit from their likenesses. His missed opportunity is a reminder of how quickly the NCAA is changing.

The Orioles continue to build their proverbial chip pile as they wait to decide which hand to play. Eventually, it will be time to push those chips in — even the ones who agreed to inexpensive contracts at the non-tender deadline.

Travel & Leisure just put Annapolis 15th on its annual list of the top 25 towns to visit for Christmas for the second year in a row. The website, frankly, is late to the party. Annapolis has been a Christmas town for more than a century. Here, then, is an essential guide to the holidays in Annapolis.

Recent congressional shenanigans from the likes of people such as Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin make me wonder if elected officials are worthy of being role models.

Ravens Reality Check: Looking at national takes about the Ravens' Super Bowl chances, Odell Beckham Jr. and the hip-drop tackle.

Columnist Kyle Goon: If the Big Ten were an all-you-can-eat buffet, Maryland football would be cantaloupe. It’s nice that it’s there, but who is excited about it?

Created in the 1930s as part of a New Deal work and housing program, Greenbelt has a historic old town surrounded by more modern homes. The federal government has chosen it for the new FBI headquarters.

Kyle Goon column: The Ravens' receiving corps needs to keep doing it with Andrews lost perhaps for the season.

Whether you come to single motherhood intentionally or unexpectedly, like me, there is no one right way to do this.

In honor of his fifth anniversary with the club, here are the best and worsts of Elias’ tenure with the Orioles.

“I think the same methodologies and brainpower and people that have gotten us through this rebuild are very much equipped to tackle the project of sort of keeping the team at the top,” Elias said.

Given the chance Sunday, I joined a record-breaking 18,000 others to walk and run across the 4.3-mile eastbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I thought a lot about the future of Maryland’s defining engineering feat.

Evaluating the national takes on the Ravens’ fourth-quarter issues, Lamar Jackson’s consistency and the new AFC North picture.

She may not have walked away with "Golden Bachelor" Gerry Turner, but Maryland's Joan Vassos' time on the ABC dating show still ended in a love story.

For one of the first times this season, the Ravens were outmuscled by their AFC North rivals. That gap in physicality, as well as injuries they suffered against the Browns, raises significant concerns about their hopes in the playoffs.

Saturday, Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley will lead an unprecedented trip to the Netherlands for five days, hoping to learn what else the city can do and what Maryland and the nation can learn from Annapolis.