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Todd Monken built a great Ravens offense, but AFC championship disappointment looms over his achievements
Living in a pressure cooker might just be a Baltimore offensive coordinator’s lot in life.
Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken (center) had a successful first year in the job — before the team reached the AFC championship game.
Arms on the Farm: Examining the rapid rise of Orioles pitching prospect Luis De León
De Leon has a chance to be the top pitching prospect in the organization by the end of the year, which is saying a lot considering the pitching talent that has emerged.
Luis De León pitches as a member of the Delmarva Shorebirds.
Naval Academy grads will live with the climate and energy crisis. Are they ready?
When midshipmen graduating from the Naval Academy today reach retirement age in 2066, the Chesapeake Bay will be more than a foot higher.
Naval Academy midshipmen present their capstone project on a microgrid power system for a Navy air station in Sicily.
Black women are told to ‘go high.’ Jasmine Crockett went low, and I’m proud.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s clapback to a personal insult from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a refreshing reminder that Black women no longer feel compelled to cater to respectability politics.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) speaks during a press conference in December.
Jon Meoli: How one drill explains Orioles top pick Enrique Bradfield Jr.’s developmental plan at Aberdeen
It's uncomfortable to watch — but already showing signs of effectiveness.
Orioles prospect Enrique Bradfield Jr. has elite speed and defensive skill. The team has a plan for his hitting to reach that level too.
Letters: Critic of Planning Board reform offered no help
Baltimore County Council member David Marks says a critic of his approach to reforming the county Planning Board should participate in the council’s reform effort.
David Marks is a member of the Baltimore County Council representing the Fifth District.
Letters: The case for renaming a new Key Bridge the William Donald Schaefer Memorial Bridge
Honoring William Donald Schaefer by renaming the Key Bridge replacement after him would make perfect sense, says a Baltimore resident who cites Schaefer's “do it now” approach as Maryland’s governor and Baltimore’s mayor.
Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer and developer James Rouse stand at the center of a celebration for the opening of Harborplace.
When coaches get together, they tell great stories. Here are the best from the newly launched Harbaugh Coaching Academy.
John Harbaugh and Bill Belichick riffed on some of their favorite NFL memories. Harbaugh, along with his brother Jim, father Jack and brother-in-law Tom Crean, hopes to share more coaching wisdom through a new website.
Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh laughs during a news conference at the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills on Thursday, March 14.
Remembering Pvt. Parker, 80 years after his secret death in WWII
Ralph Parker’s story is unlike any others you’ll hear as we approach Memorial Day. It is about secrets and secret families, and a man who otherwise won’t be celebrated.
Ralph Parker died on May 21, 1944 in an accident at Pearl Harbor that killed hundreds of soldiers.  His named is carved into the Maryland World War II Memorial near Annapolis.
Commentary: Long emergency room wait times point to health system failures
Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.
From left: Sarah Stanton, Kim Dobson Sydnor and Maija Anderson.
The ‘Black wife effect’ trend is cute, but we’re not miracle workers
A recent TikTok trend provides real-life evidence of the glow-up that comes with the “Black wife effect.” But I have questions.
Scott Zervitz, with hair, circa the late 1990s, and in 2012 with wife Leslie Gray Streeter at a wedding in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Commentary: Immigrants make our communities better. Our words must show it.
Communities must stand against the language that criminalizes and dehumanizes immigrants, says the managing attorney of an organization supporting immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.
Daniella Prieshoff is the managing attorney of the Tahirih Justice Center, which supports immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.
Commentary: Migrant children are vital to the fabric of our communities
Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A composite photo of Sarah Polk and Kiara Alvarez.
The view from downtown Annapolis is changing. These people are fighting back.
When the mayor of Annapolis plans a $10 million, glass-walled maritime welcome center at City Dock — right on top of an $88 million public works project to save downtown by lifting part of it above climate-driven flooding — Historic Annapolis pays attention. The question is, is anyone listening?
A rendering of the planned Maritime Welcome Center shows how it would look from the end of City Dock, where a new park will be built as part of a flood protection project.
Amid low Preakness turnout, ecstatic Seize the Grey owners give horse racing a shot of life
For just $127, more than 2,500 investors bought a share in Preakness winner Seize the Grey. The money bought them the thrill of a lifetime.
Members of the owner group for Seize the Gray, celebrate after he wins The Preakness Stakes.
What out-of-town fans would change about Pimlico, Preakness
It’s not news to anyone that the course and its facilities need work. Visitors have suggestions.
Preakness attendees place bets and wander through the upper concourse at Pimlico Race Course Saturday.
Jamal Bryant: Atlanta eulogy means revisiting outrage about Freddie Gray
Preparing to speak at the funeral of Roger Fortson, who was shot and killed by police at his Florida home, the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, a former Baltimore pastor, revisits his Freddie Gray eulogy and his outrage fueled by the deaths of young Black men during interactions with police.
The Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, who delivered the eulogy for Freddie Gray, will speak in Atlanta at the funeral of a young, Black U.S. airman shot to death by police at his home.
Pimlico needs to be razed. Top trainers hope one thing can be saved.
They aren’t in the best shape, but Pimlico’s green stakes barns have earned a reprieve from the wrecking ball because of their place in racing history, trainers say.
Assistant trainer Ray Bryner walks Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan back to the barn following a training session ahead of the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes.
Jon Meoli: In 2 years, Adley Rutschman has set a new standard for the Orioles
The Orioles have won 59.9% of their games since recalling Rutschman. If anything can make a 27-14 start to the season seem ordinary, it’s that.
Next week will mark the second anniversary of Adley Rutschman’s major league debut, a moment that changed the Orioles.
‘Stay tough.’ How a late House speaker’s words still inspire congressional candidate Sarah Elfreth.
I recently caught up with state Sen. Sarah Elfreth over coffee, days after she won the Democratic nomination for Congress in Maryland's 6th District. She recently adopted a puppy named Ollie and thinks often of the late House Speaker Mike Busch, who encouraged and inspired her.
State Sen. Sarah Elfreth talks with Del. Shelia Ruth of Baltimore County Thursday morning in Annapolis. Ruth and others stopped Elfreth outside the State House to congratulate her on winning the Democratic primary for Congress in the 3rd District.
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