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Honest sportswriter in a corrupt world … $25 a day and expenses. Dashiell Hammett disciple. Columns, features for Allegany Communications.

Cumberland, MD
Joined June 2015
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Fort Hill-Allegany 2.0, Round 13. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/11…
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Just great, Heinrich Himmler is now White House Chief of Staff. Oh, this will work out well.
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Lefty and even Big John would want it this way. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/11…
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Alco-Fort Hill Memories: The great Jim Daum. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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Good for Milwaukee. What a grand old town.
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Megill, with that beer gut, would have fit right in with the 1982 @Brewers - Gorman and Vuckovich? Hell, yeah.
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Stay alive, baseball. Three more games. Please.
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And just like that, it’s Allegany-Fort Hill. It didn’t always get here so fast. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, It is always with the best intentions that the worst results do come. My Allegany Communications Sports column #Terps: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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If Maryland doesn’t get into Maryland’s way, nobody else will. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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Commanders find dysfunctional is as dysfunctional does. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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Great day of baseball. Enjoy ‘em while you got ‘em.
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Alan Alda, now 90, is one of the country's most-beloved actors, best-known for his role as "Hawkeye" Pierce on the classic TV series "M*A*S*H." Alda talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent @DrLaPook about his challenging childhood, dealing with polio and his mother's schizophrenia; his decades of work to help scientists and health care professionals communicate more clearly; and about living with Parkinson's disease, which he refuses to let define him.
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Nobody beats Maryland more efficiently than Maryland does. Every stinking week.
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Baseball in the afternoon: It’s like you’re getting away with something. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/10…
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Terps have reached the point of no return. It’s time. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/09…
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So long, 162. We’ll miss you. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/09…
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Bawlmer loves baseball, hon; even on Elimination Eve. My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/09…
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” My Allegany Communications Sports column: cumberlandsmagic.com/2026/09…
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