I write sports columns and blog about sports for The Baltimore Sun and baltimoresun.com. The Ravens, Orioles, and the University of Maryland football and men's basketball teams are among the teams in our area that I cover.

I moved back to the Sun's sports section in April of 2009 after 22 years as a humor columnist and features writer with the newspaper. During my first stint as a sports columnist (1981-1987)with the Baltimore Evening Sun, I also covered the Baltimore Colts and reported from their team headquarters on the snowy night that owner Robert Iray summoned the Mayflower vans and moved the team to Indianapolis, perhaps the darkest day in the history of sports in Baltimore.

Hiking, golf (played with varying degrees of effectiveness), beer-drinking (especially imported and craft brews, although I'll swill anything made from barley, water, yeast and hops), travel (recently spent two weeks in Ireland) and novel-writing.

Orioles send a message against Red Sox and long-time tormentor Lester 6/16/2013
O's treated lefty the way they treat a lot of pitchers now — rudely This is how good the Orioles are going now: even Jon Lester can't stop them anymore.

Orioles are in a tough spot with scuffling Pedro Strop 6/12/2013
Reliever is out of options, so expect team to ride him for the time being Forget the goofy way he wears his cap — Pedro Strop has bigger issues to deal with right now.

Paralympian's 71-day journey from L.A. to New York stops in Baltimore 6/9/2013
Ryan Chalmers' racing wheelchair travels haven't been without complication When you set out to push 3,000 miles across the country in a racing wheelchair, you expect a few challenges along the way.

Baltimore native Matt Brown focuses on NFL dream in Tampa 6/6/2013
Every time he steps on the field at a Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice, Matt Brown finds himself in the land of the sequoias.

Give Showalter credit for sticking with Gausman 6/2/2013
The big story for the Orioles at steamy Camden Yards on Sunday was Kevin Gausman, the mega-talented young righty who means so much to this franchise going forward