Baltimore Sports and Life
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...
2026 NFL: Previewing Week 4
All lines from DraftKings. All percentages from ESPN’s Match-Up Predictor. The cliche is true: this is a week-to-week league. Underdogs won seven of the first 15 games in Week 3, per CBS Sports, and Chicago made it eight of 16 on Monday night with its third-string...
Maryland Basketball 2026-27: Year Two of Buzz Williams
Maryland projects at roughly 21-11 overall and 11-9 in the Big Ten - an NCAA Tournament team seeded 9 to 11, after a 12-21 first season under Buzz Williams. The roster is more talented and looks like it fits together far better than last year’s did. There is room for...
What We Learned: Week 3
Thank goodness that game ended how it did. It should’ve never been that close, but given how it was that close, Baltimore got an unwelcomed opportunity to galvanize and keep pace with the rest of their division and conference. Here’s what we learned in Week 3. The...
2026 MLB Playoff Preview
The Orioles finished fourth in the AL East and will watch October from home, but Birdland still has a stake in this bracket. Three AL East rivals made the field, the Yankees and Red Sox open against each other in the Bronx, and four former Orioles are playing...
Ravens Win In Rio, Tennessee Comes To Baltimore
This is the biggest Ravens win in some time. Baltimore beat Dallas 34-31 at the Maracanã on Tyler Loop's 56-yard field goal as time expired. A week after losing a fourth-quarter lead at home to New Orleans, the Ravens fell behind 10-0, scored 24 of the next 27 points,...
2026 College Football: Reviewing Week 4, Previewing Week 5
Week 4 gave us a new power in Gainesville, a scare in Knoxville, a frightening night at the Coliseum and the first real answers of the season. Quick Hits We were wrong about Ole Miss at sixth. Florida won 52-28, and it was not close after halftime. Jadan Baugh ran for...
What Comes Next: Maryland’s Job, Its Candidates, and Its Actual Problem
Maryland lost 54-3 at home to a UCLA team that was 3-9 a year ago. The Terps gained 181 yards, rushed 30 times for 39, went 1-for-15 on third down and threw four interceptions, two returned for touchdowns. It was UCLA’s largest margin in a conference road game since...