Sports
WBAL is the co-flagship station (with WIYY) of Baltimore Ravens football and the flagship station for Baltimore Orioles baseball and Navy football.
WBAL is also an affiliate of Sporting News Radio which it broadcasts late nights and weekends.
Since the Orioles began their inaugural season in 1954, WBAL has been their flagship station for most of their existence, though not continuously; for example, it carried Orioles games every season from 1987 to 2006 (after which the team's games were broadcast on crosstown rival WJZ-FM "105.7 The Fan"), and resumed that status in 2011. Ravens games have been broadcast on WBAL and WIYY since the 2006 season. In the event that the Orioles and Ravens are playing on the same day, WBAL will broadcast the Orioles game, while WIYY gets the Ravens game.
Other teams whose games have been broadcast on WBAL include the Baltimore Colts, the University of Maryland Terrapins and the Towson Tigers.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)