Kyle Goon

Baltimore

Sports Columnist at The Baltimore Banner

Sports columnist for The Baltimore Banner, covering Ravens, Orioles and Maryland sports.

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Articles

Kyle Goon: Corbin Burnes' injury doesn't take the Orioles off the hook

5 days ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

While Corbin Burnes’ stint with the Orioles was all too brief, it was long enough to leave a rooting interest. On Sunday afternoon, as Burnes cursed aloud and mouthed “my elbow” to his concerned teammates, plenty of Baltimoreans cursed with him. These days, it feels like even a minor tweak in an elbow eventually leads to a surgeon’s table and a long, arduous recovery.
Kyle Goon: M&T Bank Stadium must become a premier event destination

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

When you spend half a billion dollars, you’d love to enjoy the investment as much as possible. Walking through M&T Bank Stadium while wearing a hard hat and dodging metal cables dangling from the ceiling, it’s easy to see where all the money’s going. But it also feels crazy that much of the new amenities — including ultra-elite club seating and field-level views — will be enjoyed only about 10 days a year. That’s why the Baltimore Ravens need to be thinking bigger when it comes to their calendar.
Buck Showalter is an Orioles hero. But he's not their savior.

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

It was halfway through my conversation with Buck Showalter that things really started to take a turn for the Baltimore Orioles. The longtime manager called me on Friday, his 69th birthday of all days, to answer a few questions — questions every Orioles fan is wrestling with lately.
Caitlin Clark's injury forces her out of action in Baltimore WNBA game

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

Just days ahead of one of the most anticipated basketball events in Baltimore in years, the biggest name will be forced to sit out. The Indiana Fever announced Monday that star guard Caitlin Clark will miss at least two weeks with a left quad strain, a huge absence for Wednesday’s game against the Washington Mystics at CFG Bank Arena. Clark, who is averaging 19 points and 9.3 assists for the 2-2 Fever, is one of the huge economic drivers of the WNBA, selling out arenas at many of her games.
Kyle Goon: Here's how Brenda Frese and the Terps have succeeded in the transfer portal.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

It was around 9 o’clock Eastern on a night in April when Brenda Frese called her latest transfer portal target to pitch a whirlwind suggestion. Yarden Garzon, a three-year standout and the all-time 3-point leader at Indiana, had been talking with Frese on the phone and liked what she was hearing. So then, Maryland’s coach asked, Why don’t we get you on a visit to College Park? Could you fly out tomorrow morning? Garzon was game — but had an added request.
Terps' AD Jim Smith's mandate is clear. He's got to raise revenues.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

COLLEGE PARK — Jim Smith gets why he’s here. He may get it more than anyone. Maryland’s new athletic director waited patiently in the front row as his higher-ups touted the things about his new job that don’t really matter. Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti solemnly reminded the hundred-odd donors in a packed hotel ballroom that college sports is, first and foremost, an academic affair. “We need leadership focused on that mission,” he said.
Kyle Goon: Mike Elias has arrived at the right conclusions at the wrong time

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

Over the last few months, we’ve seen that Mike Elias can arrive at the right answer. He’s just always far behind schedule. Speaking to the press Tuesday was emblematic of how the season has gone for the Orioles’ general manager.
Once, they owned Pimlico. Now the De Francis family and friends are grappling with nostalgia.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

To Karin De Francis, Pimlico Race Course is alive. That won‘t make much sense to most visitors to America‘s second-oldest racetrack, who will see crumbling and condemned buildings with cracked and broken windows, warped and crooked with age. If there was ever a tidy metaphor for the ailing state of the horse racing industry, Pimlico is all too on the nose.
Kyle Goon: After firing his manager, all the heat is now on Mike Elias.

3 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

Only the Baltimore Orioles could make an act as bold as firing their manager feel like mere convention. If dismissing Brandon Hyde just two weeks after publicly supporting him feels uncharacteristically spicy for general manager Mike Elias, you are only measuring it by his own standard. By every meaningful metric, the Orioles are drastically underachieving, hitting poorly and pitching inconsistently while losing 10 of their last 12.
Kyle Goon: The Baltimore ‘O!’ is about community pride. Don’t lecture us about it.

3 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Kyle Goon

There is no quicker method, unscientific as it may be, to gauge the civic spirit of Baltimore than to listen to the national anthem. If you hear a loud, crisp “O!” three-quarters of the way through, that’s how you know we’re doing all right.