Opinion

As exciting as the 101-win Orioles season bodes for a competitive future, the biggest questions looming over the offseason, from long-term contracts to impact free agents, are shadowed by the owner's buzz-killing comments to the New York Times.

Between two teams returning after long absences in the postseason, Texas’ mantra of “Go and take it” resonates with their approach. The Orioles’ “Soak it in” unfortunately reflects how they weren’t aggressive enough in their moves, especially at the trade deadline.

The core of the Orioles will likely remain in place, but Mike Elias and his staff have several major decisions to make.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 3 people will get jiggy with varicella zoster virus in their lifetimes. If you’ve had chickenpox, there’s a very good chance the virus will pay you a return visit.

Some backing a lawsuit in federal court seeking to stop the Naval Academy from using race as an admissions factor want to define who gets to be a midshipman based on their experience. They don’t want a fair system, they want the same one that favored them.

Thomas Smallwood led hundreds of enslaved people in Maryland and D.C. to freedom and made a point of letting the public, including enslavers, know what his “underground railroad” had achieved.

Lamar Jackson overpaid? Rugby balls caused the drops? The Ravens screwed up plenty on Sunday, but naturally a lot of people breaking it down fixated on very weird things.

A shooting that injured five young people during homecoming week at Morgan State University should serve as a call to action for an entire community, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Taylor Swift’s influence is unmistakable and undeniable, whether it’s on voter registration numbers or Travis Kelce’s merch sales.

Only 10 MLB teams have ever recovered from losing the first two games of a five game series, but the Orioles have shown resiliency this year.

The Orioles and the Ravens made us feel bad this weekend. Let's deal with it by ranking how bad each bad thing felt.

The Orioles’ plans have worked out so often this year. They didn’t in several ways on Sunday.

On Sunday, manager Brandon Hyde said it was a missed hit-and-run signal.

Baltimore needs to prioritize emergency rental assistance to protect families from the physical and mental harm caused by evictions, representatives of two community advocacy groups say.

The game is familiar, but the playoffs are amplified in almost every meaningful way. The Orioles need to get used to the new environment after failing to capitalize in a tense Game 1.

Anita Kassof, executive director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry, disagrees with a suggestion to move the museum from its Inner Harbor location as part of a strategy to redevelop the area,

The starting pitchers will have an outsize role in the team’s fate this postseason, but the ramifications will extend far beyond that.

They were there for each other after each of the hundreds of losses the Orioles endured before things got good, mourned friends lost too soon, and shared life’s most special moments together.

Federal charges against Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr. of Arnold, then a senior member of the Pentagon’s communications staff, and his Glen Burnie barber, detail their roles in an alleged dog fighting ring that operated via encrypted text messages and a private message board. They just don’t explain how this could have gone on so long.