BRIAN WILLIAMS COMES UNDER FIRE FOR ‘CONFLATING’ HIS ACCOUNTS OF NEWS EVENTS HE COVERED The NBC anchorman seems to have become more concerned with personal celebrity and making the news than in reporting it WHATEVER HAPPENED TO OBJECTIVITY AND PROFESSIONAL DETACHMENT?   By David Maril   My reservations about NBC news anchor Brian Williams […]

  UNDEFLATED FOOTBALLS DON’T DEFLATE SUPER BOWL XLIX, AS NEW ENGLAND OUTLASTS SEATTLE SEAHAWKS, 28-24 Martin O’Malley:  Gone for the moment, but not forgotten; don’t count him out for a future United States Senate run NETANYAHU SHOULD NOT ADDRESS JOINT SESSION OF U.S. CONGRESS   By David Maril   While wondering if controversy and negative […]

  THE BALTIMORE BULLETS/WASHINGTON WIZARDS ICON IS IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF WHEN IT COMES TO SUPERSTAR HUMILITY 21st CENTURY CELEBRITIES HAVE LESS AND LESS IN COMMON WITH EVERYDAY PEOPLE NOWADAYS Nationals must be counting on winning dispute with MASN and the Orioles or they wouldn’t be so quick to pay pitcher Max Scherzer’s $210 […]

  CHARM CITY’S ‘ARENA OF DREAMS’: IF WE BUILD IT, WILL AN NBA OR NHL TEAM COME TO BALTIMORE TO PLAY? Hogan would gain bipartisan popularity if he supports public transportation and cleaning up Chesapeake Bay AN APPEARANCE BY OBAMA IN PARIS IN SUPPORT OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WOULD HAVE BEEN DISINGENUOUS   By […]

  BONDS, CLEMENS, McGWIRE & SOSA SHOULD BE VOTED IN OR OUT BASED ON THEIR RECORDS, NOT THEIR CHARACTER Mike Mussina gets shortchanged, as ‘Charlie Hustle’ (Pete Rose) morphs into ‘Charlie Hustler’ ROSE, FOUND GUILTY OF GAMBLING, DESERVES HIS LIFETIME BAN   By David Maril   One of the rewards from my having covered Major […]