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Jim Rice: Making The Hall of Fame Bigger

The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York will need to get bigger as it prepares to welcome Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson as its newest members on July 26...

Written by Brian Conlin about 4 months ago 104 reads 5 comments
MLB All-Star Weekend: Three Gimmicks To Save the Game

Once upon a time, baseball’s All-Star Game was the gem of July. The best players from the National and American Leagues faced-off with bragging rights on the line. Believe it or not, those rights mattered...

Written by Brian Conlin about 4 months ago 173 reads 0 comments
Carolina Panthers: Ten Questions for an Anonymous Panther, Chad Upshaw

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Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 135 reads 0 comments
Will the Carolina Panthers' Dominance at Home Continue in 2009?

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Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 121 reads 0 comments
Four Reasons the Carolina Panthers Will Not Win the NFC South

Phoenix residents call it being in the way of destiny. In Charlotte, the Panthers’ 33-13 loss to the Cardinals in the 2009 NFC divisional playoffs is called nauseating...

Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 399 reads 5 comments
Jamall Lee: Life At The Bottom Of The Heap

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Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 364 reads 7 comments
Julius Peppers Acting in His Own Best Interest? That's Just Fine

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Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 555 reads 2 comments
Carolina Panthers On the Defensive Side of the Ball

Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme hit an open man 22 times in the NFC Divisional playoff game on January 10, 2009. Unfortunately, five of those passes landed in the hands of the Arizona Cardinals, who went on to win 33-13...

Written by Brian Conlin about 6 months ago 270 reads 0 comments
Jackie Robinson Stands Alone

With tremendous hacks, Babe Ruth blasted the 1919 Black Sox Scandal from the collective conscious of the nation and preserved baseball as this country's national pastime...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 561 reads 4 comments
For Jay Gibbons, Forgiveness Is a Minor League Contract Away

Jay Gibbons dropped to his knees and asked for a second chance. After being named in the Mitchell Report and being released from the Baltimore Orioles by COO Andy MacPhail for reasons disclosed ...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 581 reads 11 comments
Washington Nationals: Memorial Day Musings from D.C.

This past Memorial Day, three cars cut me off in a 20-minute span on the D.C. Beltway. I spewed F, D, B, C, S, and A bombs with no reserve...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 444 reads 1 comments
Yanks Falter As Orioles Fly High

In the scorching heat of expectations the New York Yankees are wilting before summer has even begun. Meanwhile in the shade of simpler expectations, the Baltimore Orioles continue to shock the baseball world...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 784 reads 1 comments
Surrounded By Negativity, Orioles Succumb to It

The offseason has transformed from golfing and hunting trips to a several month period in which to sculpt the perfect athletic body...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 477 reads 1 comments
Baltimore Orioles: Garrett Olson Provides Blueprint For Success

As a player hears his name called in the Major League Draft, it is only normal for him to think of the millions of dollars he could make and the hallowed stadiums that he may play in. Anything but the norm, engineering enveloped Garrett Olson’s mind

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 614 reads 1 comments
Daniel Cabrera: A Superhero in Disguise?

Forty-seven years ago, a Dodgers pitcher started a Spring Training game by walking the bases loaded on twelve pitches. His catcher, Norm Sherry, walked to the mound and told the hurler to let the batters make contact...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 539 reads 2 comments
Baltimore Orioles: On Top in April

Wiping sleep from their eyes, baseball fans across the country open the sports page, take a swig of coffee, and blink to make sure that they are seeing reality. Close your eyes all you want...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 497 reads 1 comments
Huffs Puffs Hits Scrutiny Down

Fans wonder at the skills of Major League Baseball players while they are on the field. Once these players step off the diamond, something happens. Their skills vanish and they lose whatever luster they had on the field...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 570 reads 1 comments
Orioles Find Model In Their Own Backyard

Banners wave from street posts across Baltimore proclaiming in that Spartan way that "This Is Birdland." The allusion to the film where 300 Spartans hold off hordes of Persians is a weak one...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 553 reads 1 comments
Experts Be Damned: The Baltimore Orioles Will Be Fun to Watch

As the last people staggered away from the St. Patrick's Day Festival on O'Donnell Street, Baltimoreans were already anticipating Opening Day, less than a week away...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 557 reads 4 comments
Daniel Cabrera Gets an 'F' for Frustrating

Calling Daniel Cabrera a pitcher is a formality. Although he stands atop the mound in the middle of a baseball diamond, a more apt term for the Baltimore Orioles right-hander is frustrating...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 625 reads 0 comments
New York Yankees Take a Break From the Soap Opera

To many, it’s just a game. However, it probably didn’t seem that way to the New York Yankees since the Mitchell Report went public...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 958 reads 1 comments
Orioles Nick-le and Dime Markakis

Nick Markakis is their best player. Why didn't the Orioles give him more money? Brian Conlin says it is just another mistake by a franchise that has been making them for the past 10 years.

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 854 reads 16 comments
Brains Over Beef: A Salute to Cerebral Ballplayers

Varsity Jackets collide with Pocket Protectors in hallways across America—it’s a high school symbol of a societal pecking order...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 740 reads 4 comments
Baltimore Orioles Play the Waiting Game with Brian Roberts

Who’s more curious? There is one Orioles fan who wonders if they will have to mothball another shipped-off player’s giveaway t-shirt. There is another Orioles fan, looking to the future and the booty of the return...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 824 reads 2 comments
One Person Should Have Your Sympathy During the Clemens Hearing

Veins bulged. Wills withstood pressure that could have bent steel. It was the World Series...of sorts. As my father's arm started to buckle and fall toward the Table of Defeat, I began to understand ...

Written by Brian Conlin about about 1 year ago 688 reads 4 comments

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Brian Conlin Article Archive

Jim Rice: Making The Hall of Fame Bigger

MLB All-Star Weekend: Three Gimmicks To Save the Game

Carolina Panthers: Ten Questions for an Anonymous Panther, Chad Upshaw

Will the Carolina Panthers' Dominance at Home Continue in 2009?

Four Reasons the Carolina Panthers Will Not Win the NFC South

Jamall Lee: Life At The Bottom Of The Heap

Julius Peppers Acting in His Own Best Interest? That's Just Fine

Carolina Panthers On the Defensive Side of the Ball

Jackie Robinson Stands Alone

For Jay Gibbons, Forgiveness Is a Minor League Contract Away

Washington Nationals: Memorial Day Musings from D.C.

Yanks Falter As Orioles Fly High

Surrounded By Negativity, Orioles Succumb to It

Baltimore Orioles: Garrett Olson Provides Blueprint For Success

Daniel Cabrera: A Superhero in Disguise?

Baltimore Orioles: On Top in April

Huffs Puffs Hits Scrutiny Down

Orioles Find Model In Their Own Backyard

Experts Be Damned: The Baltimore Orioles Will Be Fun to Watch

Daniel Cabrera Gets an 'F' for Frustrating

New York Yankees Take a Break From the Soap Opera

Orioles Nick-le and Dime Markakis

Brains Over Beef: A Salute to Cerebral Ballplayers

Baltimore Orioles Play the Waiting Game with Brian Roberts

One Person Should Have Your Sympathy During the Clemens Hearing

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