Saturday, April 27, 2024

WNST Classic

From Buffalo to Italy to Baltimore with sports cartoon love

Old old Italiano sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano discusses his recent soujourn to the motherland and catches up on a lifetime of friendship and sports and their 1984 meeting as colleagues at The News American on Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Gunpowder Lodge.

Baltimore’s adopted music professor Thomas Dolby tells his Live Aid tales with David Bowie at Wembley

If you love music, Live Aid, Todd Rundgren or the children of Baltimore, you'll love this chat with Thomas Dolby. Always poetry in motion. And he's a part of two big nights at Rams Head On Stage Annapolis doing the music of the Thin White Duke. Baltimore's adopted professor joins Nestor to discuss the music, fashion and passion of David Bowie.

World Series history and memories that last a lifetime

New York Times baseball writer and author Tyler Kepner has penned a book on the history of October lore. "The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series" chronicles the most enduring showcase in our country's history with the grand old game but Nestor wanted to discuss a personal history of his Baltimore Orioles and Kepner's childhood Philadelphia Phillies and some 1983 and 1993 magic in pretty fare baseball towns.

Feeling the Hootie and Midlife Priceless vibe with guitarist Mark Bryan

Always great to reconnect the with Silver Spring native whose work with Hootie and The Blowfish is weaved into his side gig with The Screaming Trojans, who will be coming home to Frederick for a show at Weinberg Center on Saturday, October 22.

Rethinking and writing the “analytics” on legend of The Earl of Baltimore

Nearly a decade after the death of Orioles Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver, author John Miller reached to Nestor to discuss the last interview that No. 4 ever granted. Miller outlines his tales and research on the life and times of the greatest skipper the Birds ever had.

For the love of keeping score at a baseball game with legendary Bob Ryan

The legendary emeritus columnist of The Boston Globe tells Nestor old baseball stories and dishes on legacy of Bill Belichick and the ghosts of Foxborough past.

Author Buzz Bissinger talks football, war and the legend of Stoney Case

The legendary author of Friday Night Lights discusses his latest work "The Mosquito Bowl" and death of sports journalism via social media.

Who gets to ask Mr. Big the questions at those press conferences?

Bill Cole and Nestor discuss the wonders of Lamar Jackson and the death of independent media voices covering Baltimore Ravens. Might be time for a #ColumnNes

Maryland Crab Cake (and Brewery) Tour Day 9: Finding Mike Tomlin on the fields of Latrobe

The ninth day of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour presented by The Maryland Lottery, Goodwill, Window Nation and the Restaurant Association of Maryland featured a morning drive around Deep Creek Lake and an adventure north through the rolling hills of Pennsylvania past Ohiopyle, Falling Water and on to bucolic Latrobe to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers participate in one of the final old-school training camp days still remaining in the NFL.

Crab cakes and comedy with Mickey Cucchiella in Dundalk

Mickey Cucchiella joins Nestor and Don at Costas to celebrate all things Maryland and local comedy
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Weird April for Holliday winds down with Orioles sending him back to minors

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What is Oakland losing with the Athletics?

Author Jason Turbow gives Nestor an Oakland Athletics history lesson and discusses everything that went wrong over 50 years dating back to Charlie Finley and a book he wrote on the 1970s World Series champions draped in thrift and constant acrimony.

Ravens tab cornerback Nate Wiggins as best cross section of talent, need in first round

"Just getting a corner at this point like Nate is probably the best way we could have started this weekend."

Ravens address secondary with Wiggins as we await offensive line help

Late in the night the Baltimore Ravens were quite excited about drafting Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins with the 30th pick and now Luke Jones and Nestor await how general manager Eric DeCosta will address the offensive line and other needs this weekend via what has already been a wild NFL Draft.

Fielding a field of crowded outfielders as Kjerstad arrives for Orioles

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the Orioles returning from Anaheim to see the A's and Yankees at Camden Yards with the Heston Kjerstad promotion and the curious Rashod Bateman deal with the Ravens before NFL Draft. A big week of sports ahead in Baltimore.

A sportswriting legend talks about her roots in Oriole Magic and what went wrong in Oakland

Recovering sportswriter Susan Fornoff comes home to Baltimore to talk Oriole Magic, Athletics history and why it matters to fans in Oakland and beyond. And Nestor finally gets to tell some old newspaper tales of her legend and lore at The News American in the 1980s before that creep Dave Kingman showed who the real rats of Major League Baseball were to baseball beat writers.

Ravens excited to land “best cover corner in the draft” in Clemson’s Wiggins

General manager Eric DeCosta said he didn't expect Nate Wiggins to be available at the end of the first round.

First-round cornerback Nate Wiggins says pre-draft visit with Ravens “felt like it was home”

The Clemson product is the first cornerback selected by Baltimore in the first round since Marlon Humphrey in 2017.
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