Baltimore Sports and Life
2026 NFL: Previewing Week 5
All lines from DraftKings. All percentages from ESPN's Match-Up Predictor. Three teams are unbeaten after four weeks, and they got there three different ways. San Francisco has not allowed a sack all season, Kansas City has the league's leading rusher in Kenneth...
Ravens Hold Off Tennessee; Head To Atlanta
The Ravens beat Tennessee 24-18 on Sunday and are 3-1. They led 24-7 at halftime, lost Lamar Jackson to an ankle injury on the last sack of the half, and did not score again. It wasn't pretty after halftime, and it doesn't have to be. As we remind ourselves weekly,...
2026 College Football: Reviewing Week 5, Previewing Week 6
Week 5 gave us Alabama's loudest road win in several years, a 28-point correction in Columbia, a missed 36-yard field goal in Blacksburg and two Big Ten brands falling out of our Top 20 Power Rankings. Quick Hits We went 4-2 straight up, 4-2 against the spread and 2-4...
College Football Week 5 Preview
September has come and gone and we now enter the meat of conference schedules. So how do things stand? First, Some Business… We’ve had two off-field developments within the past several days that could impact the future of college football. First, the Protect College...
Apples to Apples: Ranking 21st-Century TV the Fair Way
One list of 100 is the wrong question The New York Times ranked the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century in a single list. Survivor sits at 31, three spots below Band of Brothers. The Great British Baking Show lands at 85, a few places from Shogun. That isn't a...
Locksley’s Fate Looms Over Next Three Games
As Maryland prepares for their first Big Ten Conference road game of the season against Nebraska in Lincoln on Saturday afternoon, all of the noise surrounding the football program is focused squarely on head coach Mike Locksley. After following up their disappointing...
The Orioles Off-Season; Early Thoughts – Option 2
Last time we laid out a version of the offseason where the Orioles largely run this group back: re-sign Trevor Rogers, add a catcher who plays, find at-bats for Coby Mayo in right field, and hope Dylan Beavers' glove rebounds. That's one path. Maybe you win in the...
The Orioles Off-Season; Early Thoughts
The MLB Playoffs are beginning this afternoon, and the Orioles will be home watching like the rest of us. Some early thoughts on the off-season for the O's. The Diagnosis The Orioles were average, literally average: 4.46 runs scored per game against a league mark of...