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(BALTIMORE – September 7, 2026) – East Baltimore has its annual Legends Tournament at the Dome. A few weeks later, West Baltimore closes out the summer with the Labor Day cookout at Cloverdale. For me, you could not ask for a better combination. Down on the basketball court, young people compete, develop their skills, and begin building their own reputations. They are the legends to be. Up on the hill, beneath the tree, sit the legends who came before them. Scales. Mr. Rocky. Doc. Stacey Fowlkes. Al Leslie. George Pinchback. Roger Dickens. Timmy Greene. Brother Rasul. These are men whose…

From Eastern Shore crab pickers and Baltimore ship caulkers to Raymond Haysbert, Otis Warren, and my mother’s three rules (BALTIMORE — Labor Day 2026) — America. North America, specifically. The East Coast. The Mid-Atlantic. More specifically, travel up the Chesapeake Bay, and you will find a city of firsts. It is the place many of us call home. New York City has pizza. Philadelphia has cheesesteaks. Baltimore has crab cakes loaded with jumbo lump, lightly breaded, with a dash of yellow mustard and two crackers on the side. Mmph. Watch your mouf! I can smell a skillet with about five…

(BALTIMORE – September 4, 2026) – Kaii Gilliam doesn’t fit the mold of the typical Baltimore basketball legend piece — he’s only 27, still playing, still climbing. But his path from a sixth-grader who landed in Baltimore from the Bronx to a professional point guard hoisting a championship trophy in Colombia is exactly the kind of story that belongs alongside the city’s playground legends. Finding Baltimore Gilliam wasn’t born here. He was raised in the Bronx before his family moved to Baltimore when he was in sixth grade. He attended Woodlawn Middle School — now known as Southwest Academy —…