Hayes Gardner is an enterprise writer for The Baltimore Sun with a focus on the intersection of news and sports. He previously wrote for the Louisville Courier Journal, where he was part of a team named as 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists. A Kentucky native, Hayes graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and served as an AmeriCorps member in Oregon.
A massive container ship adrift at 9 mph issued a “mayday” early Tuesday as it headed toward the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge, losing power before colliding with one of...
A Baltimore paperboy sold newspapers on the cities and streetcars of Baltimore in 1914, likely for 1 or 2 cents each. Along the way, he collected baseball cards of Baltimore...
One horse was crowned champion. Another died on the track. The 148th running of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore highlighted the great conflict in horse racing, which has recently faced...
The Orioles have been locked in a financial battle with the Washington Nationals for nearly a dozen years. It started before Manny Machado played his first game for the Orioles...
Thirty years ago, a generation of ballparks was born in downtown Baltimore. Last month, the top executives for both the Orioles and the state of Maryland visited an Atlanta suburb...
If Iowa women's basketball has shown all season how good a team can be with a superstar, Maryland showed Tuesday night just how good a cohesive team can be. The...
A week before this year's Super Bowl, ESPN Films will air a "30 for 30? documentary on the Super Bowl-winning Ravens team titled "Bullies of Baltimore." The documentary, which is...
The Ravens were knocking on the door of the improbable. Quarterback Tyler Huntley was in the midst of his best performance of the year. The Ravens had scored two touchdowns...