Baltimore Sun
Tim Kurkjian, former Orioles reporter for The Sun, to be honored at Baseball Hall of Fame with Career Excellence Award
Kurkjian, who turns 65 on Friday, is a graduate of Walter Johnson High — the school was named for the baseball Hall of Famer —- in Bethesda and the University of Maryland. He was hired by The Washington Star in 1979, covered the Texas Rangers for the Dallas Morning News from 1982 to 1985 and the Orioles for The Sun from 1986 to 1989.
Baltimore Sun
Despite MLB lockout, Orioles have chance to add talent at margins with this week's minor league Rule 5 draft
In the minor league Rule 5 draft, teams can select any player who is not on a40-man roster and has been in professional baseball for at least three (for college draftees) or four years (for younger signees). Teams also have a 38-man reserve list for Triple-A players not on the 40-man roster to protect them from being selected by other teams.
Camden Chat
Tuesday Bird Droppings: Where we're playing the waiting game
If the owners and players have made any incremental progress toward an agreement on a new CBA, we haven’t heard about it. In fact we haven’t heard about the two sides having any further negotiations at all since cutting off talks last Wednesday night. So don’t expect this thing to be resolved anytime soon, folks.

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