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Feeling lucky this summer with fun new games

BP Podcast Audio

Another $2 million local scratch-off winner and not enough Orioles Home Run Riches home runs highlight our weekly visit with Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin, who gets Nestor ready for summer and another batch of Maryland Crab Cake Tour stops.

Hitting it big in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

John Martin of Maryland Lottery tells Nestor about the latest Dundalk big winner on Fast Play progressive and hopes for more homers from Orioles in Home Run Riches summer of big hits.

Brothers: Triple Crown needs to be rethought for future of horse racing

Baltimore Positive

Every year, we’re joined by NBC horse racing analyst Donna Brothers, who returns for Preakness 150 and the last time at the Old Hilltop of Pimlico as we know it and once again without the Kentucky Derby winner. This is a serious conversation about Maryland racing, the state of the industry and the future of Triple Crown series for the sport.

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Another year without Kentucky Derby winner means more Preakness upheaval amidst change

Baltimore Positive

This will be the last year of the Preakness at Pimlico as we know it or ever knew it. Legendary horse racing insider and Baltimorean Dick Jerardi returns home to update Nestor on the state of the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes and the stakes of the future of industry as another Derby winner has skipped Old Hilltop on the third Saturday of May. Something’s gotta give…

Here comes Howie to Annapolis: The mandate for party comedy from Mandel

Baltimore Positive

From actor to comedian to game show host to “America’s Got Talent” judge, the always irreverent Howie Mandel says bringing his stand-up act on the road is his real home. A wide-ranging chat about shaking hands and holograms, mental health and what makes a joke funny with Nestor in advance of his show at Maryland Hall on Annapolis on Saturday, May 17th.

The Caps are trying to hold on…

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a great Stanley Cup tournament so far but the Washington Capitals are in a tough spot in the Carolina series. Leonard Raskin and Nestor pimp the puck as the good old hockey game makes spring better when the games go to overtime and memories are made.

Finding your best stroke of the golf season in West Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

As the PGA Championship preparation begins at Quail Hollow this week in North Carolina, a reminder that it’s always golf season at the Classic 5 courses in Baltimore. Our Forest Park PGA pro R.J. Sheppard talks West Baltimore golf strokes and the star power of Majors to peak interest in the aftermath of a classic Masters win by Rory McIlroy.

A “Raw” 1991 chat with Mike Peters of The Alarm before epic Hammerjacks concert

Baltimore Positive

With the passing of Welsh rocker Mike Peters of The Alarm this spring, Nestor Aparicio has unearthed a drove of memories, photos and audio of his Almost Famous turn as a teenage music critic at The Baltimore Sun. This is a “Raw” 1991 chat with the founder of Love Hope Strength before a sold-out concert at Hammerjacks Inner Harbor Concert hall on their “Change” tour.

Viva Las Vegas: Wins, Wynn and the legend of The Maryland Party every May

Baltimore Positive

Nearly three decades into throwing the biggest Maryland party not held in-state, Howard Perlow tells Nestor about the Baltimore lore of Steve Wynn and the lure of Las Vegas sunshine for local leadership to gather for networking and business. Attended by the state’s premier developers, managers, brokers, professionals, lenders, lawyers, politicians, consultants and government officials, we’ll be at the Encore pool in May broadcasting Baltimore Positive and talking about growth and potential for our region.

Coming down the stretch for horse racing season

Baltimore Positive

With the Kentucky Derby in the books to Sovereignty, a reminder that the race never ends at the Maryland Lottery. Executive Director John Martin talks progressive jackpots, Orioles home runs and the seriousness of responsible gaming with Nestor as the eyes of the horse racing world turn to Baltimore and Pimlico for another Triple Crown hopeful.

Ready to pick a door and make a deal?

Baltimore Positive

Anything that allows us to talk about the legit old game shows makes life better. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready to pick a door in the new “Let’s Make a Deal” and “Press Your Luck” scratch-off games.

The life of a real NFL agent during Draft Week

Baltimore Positive

It’s always time well spent on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour talking rock music, Orioles baseball and his business as a lifelong NFL player agent with Chad Wiestling, who lives here in Baltimore but will be in Green Bay with his client and superstar running back Josh Jacobs all weekend. Lots of football knowledge in this one…

Bringing the Home Run Riches home

Baltimore Positive

Three big winners around Baltimore this week and the Orioles homers keep adding up. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery brings the winners home with local jackpots and the new Back To The Future scratch-off game.

Lemme tell you how proud I am of Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson

Baltimore Positive

If you love the Maryland Terps, you know the recruiting work of longtime Assistant Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson. Nestor has often told the 1989 story of drafting him Number One overall in a frigid Golden Ring Middle School gym when Bino was 11 years old on a Golden Ring Junior house league team. They finally sat down at Costas Inn to talk about it 36 years later…

The power of youth sports to bring Baltimore together

Baltimore Positive

It was serendipity that old-school listener and realtor Greg Szczepaniak chose to join the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas Inn to discuss South Baltimore Little League baseball mojo while sitting in with longtime Terps basketball assistant coach Bino Ranson, who Nestor coached as an 11-year old basketball prodigy in a Rosedale rec league in 1989.

Springing into new jackpots and games

Baltimore Positive

There’s an enhanced version of Mega Millions, a bunch of new spring games of fun and Home Run Riches is bound to hit it big when the Orioles’ bat fall into form. Executive Director John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talk big hits and hitting Fast Play jackpots as spring action brings new games to life.

As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

How your wallet knows that The Masters is a tradition unlike any other

Baltimore Positive

Our pal and golf pro Ed Miller of Pine Ridge and Classic 5 gets ready for another drive to Augusta to see the majesty of the azaleas, hills and the best players in the world this weekend as another Masters is set to tee off in Georgia. Of course, Nestor needs those pimento cheese sandwiches investigated this year…

Viv comes outta retirement with a winning pitch for the community

Baltimore Positive

His work on the sidelines and field is done at WJZ but longtime sports anchor Mark Viviano isn’t sitting in the stands and watching life unfold – he’s contributing where it matters in our community. Viv joins Nestor at Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss real life after sports media and serving others across the city via several charities and managing Little League baseball and his two sons.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Gotta get back in time

Baltimore Positive

Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery goes Back To The Future with Nestor as they torpedo into the swing of Home Run Riches and baseball season with Orioles homers for cash.

Turning on the lights of Spring Illuminations at The Maryland Zoo

Baltimore Positive

We love the Zoo and you should, too! It’s time to turn on the lights of spring at The Maryland Zoo for Spring Illuminations in Druid Hill Park. Let Mike Evitts tell you everything about the gem of a place right in the middle of Baltimore and ways to visit and be involved in celebrating these beautiful animals.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Let’s talk out loud about expectations for Team Rubenstein and Orioles in Year Two

Baltimore Positive

The Orioles payroll has almost doubled in the first year of the David Rubenstein era as April begins the second year of the “post-Peter” era in Baltimore for baseball fans. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the expectations of new ownership and what he learned hearing the new boss speak at a CEO luncheon in Hunt Valley last week.

R.I.P. Mister Costas Triantafilos – the loss of a legendary man in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

Costas Triantafilos was a giant of a man in my community because his presence was omnipresent. His authenticity, beauty and kindness, displayed over a lifetime, leave no words here that will ever convey. Not many folks know a community like Dundalk, a place like Costas Inn or a man like the man whose life and business was profiled by Vice just 15 months ago, capturing his absolute essence brilliantly.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

Feeling lucky this summer with fun new games

BP Podcast Audio

Another $2 million local scratch-off winner and not enough Orioles Home Run Riches home runs highlight our weekly visit with Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin, who gets Nestor ready for summer and another batch of Maryland Crab Cake Tour stops.

Hitting it big in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

John Martin of Maryland Lottery tells Nestor about the latest Dundalk big winner on Fast Play progressive and hopes for more homers from Orioles in Home Run Riches summer of big hits.

Brothers: Triple Crown needs to be rethought for future of horse racing

Baltimore Positive

Every year, we’re joined by NBC horse racing analyst Donna Brothers, who returns for Preakness 150 and the last time at the Old Hilltop of Pimlico as we know it and once again without the Kentucky Derby winner. This is a serious conversation about Maryland racing, the state of the industry and the future of Triple Crown series for the sport.

preakness pimlicojpg 800x445 1

Another year without Kentucky Derby winner means more Preakness upheaval amidst change

Baltimore Positive

This will be the last year of the Preakness at Pimlico as we know it or ever knew it. Legendary horse racing insider and Baltimorean Dick Jerardi returns home to update Nestor on the state of the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes and the stakes of the future of industry as another Derby winner has skipped Old Hilltop on the third Saturday of May. Something’s gotta give…

Here comes Howie to Annapolis: The mandate for party comedy from Mandel

Baltimore Positive

From actor to comedian to game show host to “America’s Got Talent” judge, the always irreverent Howie Mandel says bringing his stand-up act on the road is his real home. A wide-ranging chat about shaking hands and holograms, mental health and what makes a joke funny with Nestor in advance of his show at Maryland Hall on Annapolis on Saturday, May 17th.

The Caps are trying to hold on…

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a great Stanley Cup tournament so far but the Washington Capitals are in a tough spot in the Carolina series. Leonard Raskin and Nestor pimp the puck as the good old hockey game makes spring better when the games go to overtime and memories are made.

Finding your best stroke of the golf season in West Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

As the PGA Championship preparation begins at Quail Hollow this week in North Carolina, a reminder that it’s always golf season at the Classic 5 courses in Baltimore. Our Forest Park PGA pro R.J. Sheppard talks West Baltimore golf strokes and the star power of Majors to peak interest in the aftermath of a classic Masters win by Rory McIlroy.

A “Raw” 1991 chat with Mike Peters of The Alarm before epic Hammerjacks concert

Baltimore Positive

With the passing of Welsh rocker Mike Peters of The Alarm this spring, Nestor Aparicio has unearthed a drove of memories, photos and audio of his Almost Famous turn as a teenage music critic at The Baltimore Sun. This is a “Raw” 1991 chat with the founder of Love Hope Strength before a sold-out concert at Hammerjacks Inner Harbor Concert hall on their “Change” tour.

Viva Las Vegas: Wins, Wynn and the legend of The Maryland Party every May

Baltimore Positive

Nearly three decades into throwing the biggest Maryland party not held in-state, Howard Perlow tells Nestor about the Baltimore lore of Steve Wynn and the lure of Las Vegas sunshine for local leadership to gather for networking and business. Attended by the state’s premier developers, managers, brokers, professionals, lenders, lawyers, politicians, consultants and government officials, we’ll be at the Encore pool in May broadcasting Baltimore Positive and talking about growth and potential for our region.

Coming down the stretch for horse racing season

Baltimore Positive

With the Kentucky Derby in the books to Sovereignty, a reminder that the race never ends at the Maryland Lottery. Executive Director John Martin talks progressive jackpots, Orioles home runs and the seriousness of responsible gaming with Nestor as the eyes of the horse racing world turn to Baltimore and Pimlico for another Triple Crown hopeful.

Ready to pick a door and make a deal?

Baltimore Positive

Anything that allows us to talk about the legit old game shows makes life better. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready to pick a door in the new “Let’s Make a Deal” and “Press Your Luck” scratch-off games.

The life of a real NFL agent during Draft Week

Baltimore Positive

It’s always time well spent on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour talking rock music, Orioles baseball and his business as a lifelong NFL player agent with Chad Wiestling, who lives here in Baltimore but will be in Green Bay with his client and superstar running back Josh Jacobs all weekend. Lots of football knowledge in this one…

Bringing the Home Run Riches home

Baltimore Positive

Three big winners around Baltimore this week and the Orioles homers keep adding up. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery brings the winners home with local jackpots and the new Back To The Future scratch-off game.

Lemme tell you how proud I am of Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson

Baltimore Positive

If you love the Maryland Terps, you know the recruiting work of longtime Assistant Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson. Nestor has often told the 1989 story of drafting him Number One overall in a frigid Golden Ring Middle School gym when Bino was 11 years old on a Golden Ring Junior house league team. They finally sat down at Costas Inn to talk about it 36 years later…

The power of youth sports to bring Baltimore together

Baltimore Positive

It was serendipity that old-school listener and realtor Greg Szczepaniak chose to join the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas Inn to discuss South Baltimore Little League baseball mojo while sitting in with longtime Terps basketball assistant coach Bino Ranson, who Nestor coached as an 11-year old basketball prodigy in a Rosedale rec league in 1989.

Springing into new jackpots and games

Baltimore Positive

There’s an enhanced version of Mega Millions, a bunch of new spring games of fun and Home Run Riches is bound to hit it big when the Orioles’ bat fall into form. Executive Director John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talk big hits and hitting Fast Play jackpots as spring action brings new games to life.

As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

How your wallet knows that The Masters is a tradition unlike any other

Baltimore Positive

Our pal and golf pro Ed Miller of Pine Ridge and Classic 5 gets ready for another drive to Augusta to see the majesty of the azaleas, hills and the best players in the world this weekend as another Masters is set to tee off in Georgia. Of course, Nestor needs those pimento cheese sandwiches investigated this year…

Viv comes outta retirement with a winning pitch for the community

Baltimore Positive

His work on the sidelines and field is done at WJZ but longtime sports anchor Mark Viviano isn’t sitting in the stands and watching life unfold – he’s contributing where it matters in our community. Viv joins Nestor at Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss real life after sports media and serving others across the city via several charities and managing Little League baseball and his two sons.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Gotta get back in time

Baltimore Positive

Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery goes Back To The Future with Nestor as they torpedo into the swing of Home Run Riches and baseball season with Orioles homers for cash.

Turning on the lights of Spring Illuminations at The Maryland Zoo

Baltimore Positive

We love the Zoo and you should, too! It’s time to turn on the lights of spring at The Maryland Zoo for Spring Illuminations in Druid Hill Park. Let Mike Evitts tell you everything about the gem of a place right in the middle of Baltimore and ways to visit and be involved in celebrating these beautiful animals.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Let’s talk out loud about expectations for Team Rubenstein and Orioles in Year Two

Baltimore Positive

The Orioles payroll has almost doubled in the first year of the David Rubenstein era as April begins the second year of the “post-Peter” era in Baltimore for baseball fans. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the expectations of new ownership and what he learned hearing the new boss speak at a CEO luncheon in Hunt Valley last week.

R.I.P. Mister Costas Triantafilos – the loss of a legendary man in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

Costas Triantafilos was a giant of a man in my community because his presence was omnipresent. His authenticity, beauty and kindness, displayed over a lifetime, leave no words here that will ever convey. Not many folks know a community like Dundalk, a place like Costas Inn or a man like the man whose life and business was profiled by Vice just 15 months ago, capturing his absolute essence brilliantly.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

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