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Baltimore's Famous National Chess Champion Isn't A National Chess Champion<em></em>The biggest chess story of the year is uplifting—and bogus....

Remembering Ted LippmanBeautiful piece by David Simon:...

A Day in the Life...Of the Baltimore Sun back in the 1970s. Check out Helen Whitney's classic short, First Edition:...

Oxbox Won The Preakness Stakes, Apparently

Never heard of Oxbox. Better name than Oxbow, though. Better name, now that we think of it, than Itsmyluckyday and Mylute, too....

Annals Of Bullshit: The Myth Of The Myth Of Cal Ripken's Historic Home Run

Twenty years ago, Oriole Park at Camden Yards brought in an era of fake history in baseball architecture. So it fits that The Baltimore Sun's roundup of the park's greatest moments would feature fake history too. For the No. 1 moment, baseball beat reporter Dan Connolly described the night Cal Ripke...

What It's Like To Get Fired In The Press Box

Last week, The Big Lead reported about some of the layoffs at the Baltimore Sun. One of the reporters who was fired, David Steele, recounts his personal trauma for Real Clear Sports....

Michael Phelps Has His Own Personal Newspaper

Remember during the whole Brett Favre saga how his first, most candid interviews would always pop up in his hometown Biloxi Sun Herald? Michael Phelps shares a similar bond with the Baltimore Sun....