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The story behind the story – how local journalism works and everything you need to know about the reporting of the Justin Tucker massage scandal

Baltimore Positive

With three blockbuster tales of reporting the allegations of 16 different women accusing Baltimore Ravens’ kicker Justin Tucker of inappropriate behavior during massage therapy appointments more than a decade ago, reporter Julie Scharper of The Baltimore Banner answers all of Nestor’s questions about how the story came to light and the journalism, reporting and fact-checking done by their staff to confirm and write these “serious and concerning” stories.

The nights on Broadway on Park Heights Avenue

Baltimore Positive

Who doesn’t love a great night of music and Broadway? Jillian Manko of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation invites Nestor out on March 22nd for a special night of Broadway music featuring John Rapson and hosted by Rain Pryor, daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor. Oh…and the desserts!

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Are you Tuckered out on that zero-tolerance policy?

Nestor Aparicio

Methinks we’re kinda getting to the point where we’ll soon hear from “your people” in a two-sentence press release on the team website about the future of the kicking department of the Baltimore Ravens. Probably after lunch on Friday, the way all the cowards in your industry drop the news they want to bury. Not-so-bold prediction: Justin Tucker has kicked his last kick for your franchise.

That’s “Sir” Digital Williams now as a courtside legend enters Coppin Hall of Fame

Baltimore Positive

He’s been a visitor many times over three decades and now we can call him “Hall of Famer” Gary Williams. He’s the “other” Gary Williams of Beltway Boxing “aka” Digital, who was inducted into the Coppin State Hall of Fame after all of his years on the mic at the Coppin Center and the beautiful new Physical Education Complex. A little Eagles love here with one of our favorite local historians of the sweet science.

Justin Tucker Nestor Aparicio Super Bowl Radio Row

The happy times with Justin Tucker

Baltimore Positive

At the Super Bowl in January 2015, Nestor sat down to discuss with then-young Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker a potentially glorious Hall of Fame career in the Charm City eating Royal Farms chicken and drinking real fresh, real fast coffee and going to Canton. Tucker also sings some Texas fight song music in this one…

The big Ravens Maryland Lottery winner returns with his Voices of Hope to help others overcome addiction in Harford County

Baltimore Positive

He bought a Ravens scratch-off Maryland Lottery ticket on Harford Road 18 months ago and T.J. Humphries is going to the games with his daughter for the next 20 years. He returns to “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” to tell Nestor about his cushy club level seats but also his amazing story of addiction, recovery and now helping others via his Voices of Hope recovery and mentoring journey.

Gathering a half century of East Baltimore history and lifting the Stanstock Music Festival

Baltimore Positive

It’s not hard for Nestor to discuss his 50-year friendship with Stan Gibson, whose namesake musical festival “Stanstock” has become a September tradition of bringing dozens of bands together this century. Let Vance Van Horn and Sheila Coulson tell you about this year’s big weekend at Fallston Barrel House and watch the Kevin Bacon-Smalltimore connection that leads through Sheffield Studios and Buddy Ryan and Lawrence Taylor back in 1997.

The safety and defense of senior dogs and putting “Ed” ucation and love into Reed’s Rescue

Baltimore Positive

Our final stop for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” was at Kooper’s North in May Chapel, named after a dog, so it was appropriate that Kate Bell brought Nestor her safety story of true love for senior dogs. Reed’s Rescue, whose mission is to provide care for older dogs, often overlooked in shelters, by placing them in foster homes and finding them adoptive families, was named after a dog named “Reed,” whose name was inspired by a certain Baltimore Ravens’ Hall of Famer.

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.

The amazing holiday story of Ann’s Toy Closet in Essex

Baltimore Positive

When we bring “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” on the road every February, these are exactly the kinds of stories we seek to tell so you’ll get involved. Meet Robin Emrick, who tells Nestor the incredible story of Ann’s Toy Closet in Essex and holiday joy for children and struggling parents in East Baltimore County.

A bucket list African experience: “Hurry, boy, it’s waiting there for you”

Baltimore Positive

Local musician and wanderlust traveler Jason Siemer takes us through three weeks of an African safari bucket list journey. From capturing the wildlife and real life of Kenya and Tanzania through his lens and into the sky across the Serengeti, let the leader of the local band Bad With Names tell you how he’s become good with finding remote places on the planet like the Faroe Islands and Patagonia to sharpen his eye.

And old friend tells us how to be a new Friend of Patapsco Valley State Park

Baltimore Positive

It’s always fun when our guests begin a segment by telling Nestor about an old roadtrip they partcipated in during the golden purple era. Bruce Clopein had two community tales on “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” at State Fare in Catonsville: his Patapsco Valley State Park volunteer advocacy and how his group at Catholic Charities makes a difference all around Baltimore.

When true love and Koco’s crab cakes are on your plate for Valentine’s Day

Baltimore Positive

Nothing says true Baltimore love on Valentine’s Day like crab cakes. Let our beloved proprietor Marcella Knight and Ko-host show and tell you about what she loves about making people when they come to her legendary little pub in Lauraville. And how ordering ahead and grabbing them to go on the side door has become a boon to her business and makes folks all over town aware of the Mayor’s favorite crab cake.

Serving up a second bowl of Soup For The Soul in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

On our last trip to Costas Inn for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” we met an old Dundalk friend who kept telling us that his wife is the real leader of Soup For The Soul, serving hot meals for local folks in need. Meet Stacy Nagel and Irene Mann, who told Nestor what makes their organization special in East Baltimore County and the impact it brings.

Doing great things at Camp Opportunity for kids to experience outdoors

Baltimore Positive

More than 40 years ago, Trish Woodward and Nestor Aparicio performed in a childhood version of “Oliver” at Colgate Elementary. She returns to “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” at Costas Inn to update us on the incredible work of her Camp Opportunity, which provides a summer experience for abused children to see nature and find care and make friends.

Fighting food insecurity and providing emergency assistance in Catonsville

Baltimore Positive

Our “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl Week” is designed to create awareness during these coldest weeks of the year to folks less fortunate and the humans and incredible organizations that power and support to the neediest families and children. Meet Caitlyn Kirby of Catonsville Emergency Assistance, who returns to State Fare to update Nestor on the impact of donations to feed families in 21228 and beyond through the Maryland Food Bank.

Burgers, music, gumbo and the spirit of survival at Kooper’s North

Baltimore Positive

The games are on, the music is perfect and the food is terrific, which is why we keep coming back to Kooper’s North in Mays Chapel. And, of course, the gumbo! On the final day of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl,” we reconvened with our favorite two-time cancer survivor Terry Beck, who tells his journey and support of LLS and many other charities via the “Burger Of The Month” in Timonium and Fell’s Point.

From Paris, with Accelerent, hot wings and charity for LLS Visionary research

Baltimore Positive

Our defending Accelerent champion and runner-up for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “Visionary Of The Year,” Cate Paris joins Nestor to discuss networking the right way, raising money to beat cancer and a future career in improv comedy from State Fare on “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl Week” in Catonsville.

How and why The Y continues to lift our community with federal support

Baltimore Positive

Our defending champion of community returns to Koco’s Pub on “A Cup of Soup or Bowl Week” as John Hoey of The Y joins Nestor to discuss community programs like Head Start affected by federal money and why community schools matter in the neighborhoods that need them the most.

Positively changing people’s attitudes about blindness

Baltimore Positive

As “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl” moved to Kooper’s North, Jessica Normington of Blind Industries and Services of Maryland joined Nestor to open his eyes to the many needs of the blind community and how every citizen could help empower the incredible humans who inspire us all on the streets of Baltimore and beyond. And, Maurice, if you’re still out there…

Meet the man who rescues food at 4MyCity

Baltimore Positive

There aren’t enough folks addressing food waste and hunger in America. Chris Dipnarine tells Nestor the amazing sustainability and food story of 4MyCity and feeding folks in West Baltimore through inspiration and perspiration on our annual “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” week of community triumphs.

Screenshot 2020 06 08 03.21.38

Tooten discusses his Deep South journey and state of education and race in America

Baltimore Positive

Dr. Tim Tooten was no stranger to Baltimore citizens. The longtime education reporter at WBAL-TV and pastor of Harvest Christian Ministries joined us during the early days of COVID in June 2020 to tell us about his journey from the Suwannee River near Gainesville, Florida to Baltimore and what he has learned about people. A very compelling conversation with a Baltimore education reporting legend, who had just retired from his work as a local journalist. We lost a treasure with his passing.

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.

Talking aging, accountability and leadership with still-ready-to-throw Joe Flacco

Baltimore Positive

We gave him a chance to announce his retirement but Joe Flacco says he is not done throwing the football. The well-traveled Super Bowl MVP comes home to Baltimore to talk about Father Time, kids in his house and the locker room, the family life in Indianapolis, great offense, bad analytics and hitting the quarterback. And the answer he gives as to why he went to the podium in Pittsburgh after throwing the Polamalu interception in the 2009 AFC Championship Game is as “elite” as he was in January 2013. Twelve years later, let Joe tell ya what he knows about real life and playing ‘ball…

Please join us and give for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” Week on Crab Cake Row

Baltimore Positive

Next week, it’s time once again at Baltimore Positive and WNST-AM 1570 for our 2nd Annual February “Crab Cake Row: A Cup of Soup Or Bowl Week” and we’d love for you to come by and be a part of it as we tell local stories and raise awareness for dozens of different charities, community groups. And, hopefully, you help us by bringing food and donations for the Maryland Food Bank locally through community food pantries that feed hungry Baltimoreans during the toughest weeks of winter.

Canisius students Nick Howard and Ryan Patota

Meet the Bills Mafia students of Canisius kindness who started the Mark Andrews Go Fund Me For Breakthrough TD1 diabetes research

Baltimore Positive

They didn’t look like mafia to us? After Mark Andrews dropped the ball, many fans lowered the floor with insults and threats toward the Baltimore Ravens tight end on social media. These two Canisius students saw it from their Buffalo campus on Monday morning and started a Go Fund Me page on their Instagram fan page to support Andews’ charity work for Breakthrough TD1, which has now collected well over $100,000 in donations. Meet Ryan Patota and Nick Howard, two of the good ones who make us wanna “shout” for the Bills – and give to the cause.

No One Listens Aparicio Nestor Nasty

Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll learn. Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Story of Baltimore Positive, Nestor Aparicio & WNST” here. A documentary film narrated by Kyf Brewer, Gina Schock, Mickey Cucchiella, Mike Brilhart, John Allen, Ray Bachman and Bill Cole. Special and eternal thanks to Gregg Landry and Blue Rock Productions for the spiritual guidance and documentary awesomeness on this project. Nestor and his family and partners would like to thank every one of you for four decades of support of WNST, our sponsors and advertisers who allow us to do this Baltimore Positive thing.

Nestor Aparicio media guy

My fall journalism “Declaration of Independence” – Breaking ‘kayfabe’ on how we’re going to cover Orioles and Ravens after 40 years

Nestor Aparicio

What does it say that Nestor Aparicio has been professionally bullied, gaslit and banned by Orioles and Ravens ownership after four decades of covering Baltimore sports as a professional reporter, author and journalist? Plenty. About billionaires, money, fealty and the death of local sports journalism and the emergence of team websites as monopoly “news” sources. Read and learn…

Making sense of Trump’s America

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a while since our government policy expert Matt Gallagher of The Goldseker Foundation has joined us at Faidley’s but with another Trump government and a stocked cabinet of completely unqualified humans about to run the United States of America, it was time for Nestor to try to attempt to make sense of nonsense reality.

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Ask Chad Steele what he thinks I said about Sage so I can tell Ravens fans why I was really exterminated

Nestor Aparicio

“What did do you do wrong, Nestor?” “Why would the Ravens throw you out?” “Why are you the only one in the local media whom they’ve thrown out?” “Why have they treated you this way?” “WHAT DID YOU DO WRONG!?!” I am fed up with these questions from Baltimore sports fans so I wrote to the owner because these questions are his to answer. Letters to John Harbaugh and Eric DeCosta are also coming soon.

Ricig Dummy

My lifer friend (and your favorite cartoonist) who loves the Buffalo Bills

Baltimore Positive

Legendary local sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano and Nestor have been friends since working together at The News American in 1984. Before the Ravens play in Orchard Park for a chance to move on in 2021, let them tell you about their journey with the Buffalo Bills during the K-Gun halcyon days.

Finn McCusker Nacho Mama's Half Shell

The legend of Nacho Mama’s will never die…

Baltimore Positive

The legend of Patrick “Scunny” McCusker, founder of Nacho Mama’s and Baltimore bon vivant, continues to grow posthumously in Owings Mills as his son Finn McCusker hosts Nestor at Mama’s On The Half Shell to tell tales about Scunny and seafood on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour brought to you by the Maryland Lottery and Jiffy Lube Multicare.

Going to the Canton school of what makes a Hall of Famer

Baltimore Positive

Longtime NFL writer and author Clark Judge gives a clinic on Hall of Fame voting and discusses Lamar and King Henry running Ravens to a Super Bowl in New Orleans next month. Also a primer here on Terrell Suggs, Marshal Yanda and Steve Smith Sr. bids for Canton immortality.

Mike Flynn

The “legend” of Ravens’ Super Bowl champion Mike Flynn

Baltimore Positive

He’s always been a legend to us but it was the magic of a quarter-of-a-century of memories flooding back on the field when Super Bowl XXXV champion center Mike Flynn returned to the Baltimore Ravens as a “Legend of Game” with his family and personal tales of Lamar support for MVP. And Costas crabs, of course on his way outta town…

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 4: The night we brought Harbaugh, Tomlin and Billick together to share Super Bowl glory stories

Nestor Aparicio

In the aftermath of Jennifer Aparicio’s miraculous survival following a second bone marrow transplant, we were inspired to do a second “Night of Heroes” after leukemia survivor Chuck Pagano came back to Baltimore in 2015 to raise money and awareness for There Goes My Hero and the power of swabbing to save lives. If you missed one of the great nights in Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh sports partnerships in May 2016, you can relive it by watching three Super Bowl winning head coaches on one stage for a great cause. This was also the last public appearance of former Ravens president David Modell, who had some very important words, as did Super Bowl XXXV champion James Trapp, who also survived leukemia. A powerful evening.

The story behind the story – how local journalism works and everything you need to know about the reporting of the Justin Tucker massage scandal

Baltimore Positive

With three blockbuster tales of reporting the allegations of 16 different women accusing Baltimore Ravens’ kicker Justin Tucker of inappropriate behavior during massage therapy appointments more than a decade ago, reporter Julie Scharper of The Baltimore Banner answers all of Nestor’s questions about how the story came to light and the journalism, reporting and fact-checking done by their staff to confirm and write these “serious and concerning” stories.

The nights on Broadway on Park Heights Avenue

Baltimore Positive

Who doesn’t love a great night of music and Broadway? Jillian Manko of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation invites Nestor out on March 22nd for a special night of Broadway music featuring John Rapson and hosted by Rain Pryor, daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor. Oh…and the desserts!

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Are you Tuckered out on that zero-tolerance policy?

Nestor Aparicio

Methinks we’re kinda getting to the point where we’ll soon hear from “your people” in a two-sentence press release on the team website about the future of the kicking department of the Baltimore Ravens. Probably after lunch on Friday, the way all the cowards in your industry drop the news they want to bury. Not-so-bold prediction: Justin Tucker has kicked his last kick for your franchise.

That’s “Sir” Digital Williams now as a courtside legend enters Coppin Hall of Fame

Baltimore Positive

He’s been a visitor many times over three decades and now we can call him “Hall of Famer” Gary Williams. He’s the “other” Gary Williams of Beltway Boxing “aka” Digital, who was inducted into the Coppin State Hall of Fame after all of his years on the mic at the Coppin Center and the beautiful new Physical Education Complex. A little Eagles love here with one of our favorite local historians of the sweet science.

Justin Tucker Nestor Aparicio Super Bowl Radio Row

The happy times with Justin Tucker

Baltimore Positive

At the Super Bowl in January 2015, Nestor sat down to discuss with then-young Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker a potentially glorious Hall of Fame career in the Charm City eating Royal Farms chicken and drinking real fresh, real fast coffee and going to Canton. Tucker also sings some Texas fight song music in this one…

The big Ravens Maryland Lottery winner returns with his Voices of Hope to help others overcome addiction in Harford County

Baltimore Positive

He bought a Ravens scratch-off Maryland Lottery ticket on Harford Road 18 months ago and T.J. Humphries is going to the games with his daughter for the next 20 years. He returns to “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” to tell Nestor about his cushy club level seats but also his amazing story of addiction, recovery and now helping others via his Voices of Hope recovery and mentoring journey.

Gathering a half century of East Baltimore history and lifting the Stanstock Music Festival

Baltimore Positive

It’s not hard for Nestor to discuss his 50-year friendship with Stan Gibson, whose namesake musical festival “Stanstock” has become a September tradition of bringing dozens of bands together this century. Let Vance Van Horn and Sheila Coulson tell you about this year’s big weekend at Fallston Barrel House and watch the Kevin Bacon-Smalltimore connection that leads through Sheffield Studios and Buddy Ryan and Lawrence Taylor back in 1997.

The safety and defense of senior dogs and putting “Ed” ucation and love into Reed’s Rescue

Baltimore Positive

Our final stop for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” was at Kooper’s North in May Chapel, named after a dog, so it was appropriate that Kate Bell brought Nestor her safety story of true love for senior dogs. Reed’s Rescue, whose mission is to provide care for older dogs, often overlooked in shelters, by placing them in foster homes and finding them adoptive families, was named after a dog named “Reed,” whose name was inspired by a certain Baltimore Ravens’ Hall of Famer.

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.

The amazing holiday story of Ann’s Toy Closet in Essex

Baltimore Positive

When we bring “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” on the road every February, these are exactly the kinds of stories we seek to tell so you’ll get involved. Meet Robin Emrick, who tells Nestor the incredible story of Ann’s Toy Closet in Essex and holiday joy for children and struggling parents in East Baltimore County.

A bucket list African experience: “Hurry, boy, it’s waiting there for you”

Baltimore Positive

Local musician and wanderlust traveler Jason Siemer takes us through three weeks of an African safari bucket list journey. From capturing the wildlife and real life of Kenya and Tanzania through his lens and into the sky across the Serengeti, let the leader of the local band Bad With Names tell you how he’s become good with finding remote places on the planet like the Faroe Islands and Patagonia to sharpen his eye.

And old friend tells us how to be a new Friend of Patapsco Valley State Park

Baltimore Positive

It’s always fun when our guests begin a segment by telling Nestor about an old roadtrip they partcipated in during the golden purple era. Bruce Clopein had two community tales on “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” at State Fare in Catonsville: his Patapsco Valley State Park volunteer advocacy and how his group at Catholic Charities makes a difference all around Baltimore.

When true love and Koco’s crab cakes are on your plate for Valentine’s Day

Baltimore Positive

Nothing says true Baltimore love on Valentine’s Day like crab cakes. Let our beloved proprietor Marcella Knight and Ko-host show and tell you about what she loves about making people when they come to her legendary little pub in Lauraville. And how ordering ahead and grabbing them to go on the side door has become a boon to her business and makes folks all over town aware of the Mayor’s favorite crab cake.

Serving up a second bowl of Soup For The Soul in Dundalk

Baltimore Positive

On our last trip to Costas Inn for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Week” we met an old Dundalk friend who kept telling us that his wife is the real leader of Soup For The Soul, serving hot meals for local folks in need. Meet Stacy Nagel and Irene Mann, who told Nestor what makes their organization special in East Baltimore County and the impact it brings.

Doing great things at Camp Opportunity for kids to experience outdoors

Baltimore Positive

More than 40 years ago, Trish Woodward and Nestor Aparicio performed in a childhood version of “Oliver” at Colgate Elementary. She returns to “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” at Costas Inn to update us on the incredible work of her Camp Opportunity, which provides a summer experience for abused children to see nature and find care and make friends.

Fighting food insecurity and providing emergency assistance in Catonsville

Baltimore Positive

Our “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl Week” is designed to create awareness during these coldest weeks of the year to folks less fortunate and the humans and incredible organizations that power and support to the neediest families and children. Meet Caitlyn Kirby of Catonsville Emergency Assistance, who returns to State Fare to update Nestor on the impact of donations to feed families in 21228 and beyond through the Maryland Food Bank.

Burgers, music, gumbo and the spirit of survival at Kooper’s North

Baltimore Positive

The games are on, the music is perfect and the food is terrific, which is why we keep coming back to Kooper’s North in Mays Chapel. And, of course, the gumbo! On the final day of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl,” we reconvened with our favorite two-time cancer survivor Terry Beck, who tells his journey and support of LLS and many other charities via the “Burger Of The Month” in Timonium and Fell’s Point.

From Paris, with Accelerent, hot wings and charity for LLS Visionary research

Baltimore Positive

Our defending Accelerent champion and runner-up for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “Visionary Of The Year,” Cate Paris joins Nestor to discuss networking the right way, raising money to beat cancer and a future career in improv comedy from State Fare on “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl Week” in Catonsville.

How and why The Y continues to lift our community with federal support

Baltimore Positive

Our defending champion of community returns to Koco’s Pub on “A Cup of Soup or Bowl Week” as John Hoey of The Y joins Nestor to discuss community programs like Head Start affected by federal money and why community schools matter in the neighborhoods that need them the most.

Positively changing people’s attitudes about blindness

Baltimore Positive

As “A Cup Of Soup or Bowl” moved to Kooper’s North, Jessica Normington of Blind Industries and Services of Maryland joined Nestor to open his eyes to the many needs of the blind community and how every citizen could help empower the incredible humans who inspire us all on the streets of Baltimore and beyond. And, Maurice, if you’re still out there…

Meet the man who rescues food at 4MyCity

Baltimore Positive

There aren’t enough folks addressing food waste and hunger in America. Chris Dipnarine tells Nestor the amazing sustainability and food story of 4MyCity and feeding folks in West Baltimore through inspiration and perspiration on our annual “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” week of community triumphs.

Screenshot 2020 06 08 03.21.38

Tooten discusses his Deep South journey and state of education and race in America

Baltimore Positive

Dr. Tim Tooten was no stranger to Baltimore citizens. The longtime education reporter at WBAL-TV and pastor of Harvest Christian Ministries joined us during the early days of COVID in June 2020 to tell us about his journey from the Suwannee River near Gainesville, Florida to Baltimore and what he has learned about people. A very compelling conversation with a Baltimore education reporting legend, who had just retired from his work as a local journalist. We lost a treasure with his passing.

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.

Talking aging, accountability and leadership with still-ready-to-throw Joe Flacco

Baltimore Positive

We gave him a chance to announce his retirement but Joe Flacco says he is not done throwing the football. The well-traveled Super Bowl MVP comes home to Baltimore to talk about Father Time, kids in his house and the locker room, the family life in Indianapolis, great offense, bad analytics and hitting the quarterback. And the answer he gives as to why he went to the podium in Pittsburgh after throwing the Polamalu interception in the 2009 AFC Championship Game is as “elite” as he was in January 2013. Twelve years later, let Joe tell ya what he knows about real life and playing ‘ball…

Please join us and give for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” Week on Crab Cake Row

Baltimore Positive

Next week, it’s time once again at Baltimore Positive and WNST-AM 1570 for our 2nd Annual February “Crab Cake Row: A Cup of Soup Or Bowl Week” and we’d love for you to come by and be a part of it as we tell local stories and raise awareness for dozens of different charities, community groups. And, hopefully, you help us by bringing food and donations for the Maryland Food Bank locally through community food pantries that feed hungry Baltimoreans during the toughest weeks of winter.

Canisius students Nick Howard and Ryan Patota

Meet the Bills Mafia students of Canisius kindness who started the Mark Andrews Go Fund Me For Breakthrough TD1 diabetes research

Baltimore Positive

They didn’t look like mafia to us? After Mark Andrews dropped the ball, many fans lowered the floor with insults and threats toward the Baltimore Ravens tight end on social media. These two Canisius students saw it from their Buffalo campus on Monday morning and started a Go Fund Me page on their Instagram fan page to support Andews’ charity work for Breakthrough TD1, which has now collected well over $100,000 in donations. Meet Ryan Patota and Nick Howard, two of the good ones who make us wanna “shout” for the Bills – and give to the cause.

No One Listens Aparicio Nestor Nasty

Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll learn. Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Story of Baltimore Positive, Nestor Aparicio & WNST” here. A documentary film narrated by Kyf Brewer, Gina Schock, Mickey Cucchiella, Mike Brilhart, John Allen, Ray Bachman and Bill Cole. Special and eternal thanks to Gregg Landry and Blue Rock Productions for the spiritual guidance and documentary awesomeness on this project. Nestor and his family and partners would like to thank every one of you for four decades of support of WNST, our sponsors and advertisers who allow us to do this Baltimore Positive thing.

Nestor Aparicio media guy

My fall journalism “Declaration of Independence” – Breaking ‘kayfabe’ on how we’re going to cover Orioles and Ravens after 40 years

Nestor Aparicio

What does it say that Nestor Aparicio has been professionally bullied, gaslit and banned by Orioles and Ravens ownership after four decades of covering Baltimore sports as a professional reporter, author and journalist? Plenty. About billionaires, money, fealty and the death of local sports journalism and the emergence of team websites as monopoly “news” sources. Read and learn…

Making sense of Trump’s America

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a while since our government policy expert Matt Gallagher of The Goldseker Foundation has joined us at Faidley’s but with another Trump government and a stocked cabinet of completely unqualified humans about to run the United States of America, it was time for Nestor to try to attempt to make sense of nonsense reality.

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Ask Chad Steele what he thinks I said about Sage so I can tell Ravens fans why I was really exterminated

Nestor Aparicio

“What did do you do wrong, Nestor?” “Why would the Ravens throw you out?” “Why are you the only one in the local media whom they’ve thrown out?” “Why have they treated you this way?” “WHAT DID YOU DO WRONG!?!” I am fed up with these questions from Baltimore sports fans so I wrote to the owner because these questions are his to answer. Letters to John Harbaugh and Eric DeCosta are also coming soon.

Ricig Dummy

My lifer friend (and your favorite cartoonist) who loves the Buffalo Bills

Baltimore Positive

Legendary local sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano and Nestor have been friends since working together at The News American in 1984. Before the Ravens play in Orchard Park for a chance to move on in 2021, let them tell you about their journey with the Buffalo Bills during the K-Gun halcyon days.

Finn McCusker Nacho Mama's Half Shell

The legend of Nacho Mama’s will never die…

Baltimore Positive

The legend of Patrick “Scunny” McCusker, founder of Nacho Mama’s and Baltimore bon vivant, continues to grow posthumously in Owings Mills as his son Finn McCusker hosts Nestor at Mama’s On The Half Shell to tell tales about Scunny and seafood on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour brought to you by the Maryland Lottery and Jiffy Lube Multicare.

Going to the Canton school of what makes a Hall of Famer

Baltimore Positive

Longtime NFL writer and author Clark Judge gives a clinic on Hall of Fame voting and discusses Lamar and King Henry running Ravens to a Super Bowl in New Orleans next month. Also a primer here on Terrell Suggs, Marshal Yanda and Steve Smith Sr. bids for Canton immortality.

Mike Flynn

The “legend” of Ravens’ Super Bowl champion Mike Flynn

Baltimore Positive

He’s always been a legend to us but it was the magic of a quarter-of-a-century of memories flooding back on the field when Super Bowl XXXV champion center Mike Flynn returned to the Baltimore Ravens as a “Legend of Game” with his family and personal tales of Lamar support for MVP. And Costas crabs, of course on his way outta town…

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 4: The night we brought Harbaugh, Tomlin and Billick together to share Super Bowl glory stories

Nestor Aparicio

In the aftermath of Jennifer Aparicio’s miraculous survival following a second bone marrow transplant, we were inspired to do a second “Night of Heroes” after leukemia survivor Chuck Pagano came back to Baltimore in 2015 to raise money and awareness for There Goes My Hero and the power of swabbing to save lives. If you missed one of the great nights in Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh sports partnerships in May 2016, you can relive it by watching three Super Bowl winning head coaches on one stage for a great cause. This was also the last public appearance of former Ravens president David Modell, who had some very important words, as did Super Bowl XXXV champion James Trapp, who also survived leukemia. A powerful evening.

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