PARTISAN HOMETOWN SPORTSCASTERS ARE DISPLACED BY NETWORK HACKS IN  ERA  SINCE  HOWARD  COSELL Night games in frigid weather not the Fall Classic of old; no ‘color,’  no ‘flavor’ Making double-plays sound like brain surgery; Fenway Park is ‘World’s Largest Beer Cooler’; still  ‘no place like home’  for broadcasters   By David Maril   Baseball […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 25 [Scroll down for full week’s compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on […]

  THE U.S. COULD WIN A GOLD MEDAL O’Malley’s  negative  rhetoric promises more-of-the-same ill  will  in  national  politics USE OF ‘ENTITLEMENTS’ TERM DOES LITTLE TO FIX BUDGET   By David Maril   Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was mocking Republi- cans after the news that Congress had finally come to an agreement to halt the government […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 18 [Scroll down for previous days’ compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on […]

  BALTIMORE COLTS FANS ADJUSTED, NOT ONLY TO A NEW TEAM NAME BUT TO A RAVENS FRANCHISE Boehner held prisoner by Tea Party; Is Ted Cruz running for president? Reid uses ‘rope-a-dope’ strategy The last politician to give a direct answer   By David Maril   While wondering how many people outside of the Land […]