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Unleashed is looking for its next owner (of sorts). Unleashed needs a freelance blogger who can write Baltimore-centric pet news items and features. You'll post about local pets and their people, animal issues (think pit bulls!), cat/dog shows, animal events, helpful tips, amazing images and viral videos. You'll work your social-media contacts to help drive traffic to the blog. And you can gush over your own animal(s) as well, as long as they're cute and/or lovable. Unleashed has standing features but plenty of opportunity for one-off posts; some postings appear in Sun print publications as well.

After I ruminated earlier today about the relationship between writers and editors , coming down rather heavily on the side of the latter, Frank Moorman posted a comment on Facebook that pointed me to a contrary view, one too good not to share.  As recounted by Neel Mukherjee , the editor of the Times Literary Supplement  cut a sentence and a half from a 5,000-word Henry James review to make it fit. James returned the proofs, writing,...

Bolton Hill baseball and travel writer Charlie Vascellaro normally can be found hanging out at ballparks. So the opportunity to spend a night in late April at the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Station after hearing tales about ghostly occupants was something he wanted to experience — but, understandably, not alone.

You heard some derivative of the phrase over and over yesterday: "I've been around horse racing a long time, and I've never seen something like this . " Or: "In all my years covering sports, I haven't had many days like this . " And, so, here are some of the best words used to describe the shocking scratch of I'll Have Anotherfrom the 144th Belmont Stakes, robbing him of a chance to become the 12th Triple Crown winner....

Though I'd like to write about Saturday's Class 3A state baseball final being the highlight of my work as a journalist, a flawless pitchers' duel that went into extra innings tied 0-0, or 1-1, and from which emerged an ace hurler who went the distance in the final game of his high school career to bring home the title, it just did not live up to the hype I had created in my own head (I'm always hoping for a high school version of game seven of the...

Dudley Clendinen relished nothing more than telling a great story — even the story of his impending death. A journalist and author who wrote for The New York Times and had once served as an editor for The Baltimore Sun, Mr. Clendinen died Wednesday at Baltimore's Joseph Richey House hospice of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 67. He chronicled his 18-month struggle with the condition commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease on Baltimore public radio station WYPR in a series titled "Living with Lou: Dudley Clendinen on a Good, Short Life.

Don Markus covers Navy football and outdoors and recreation. He was the Maryland basketball beat writer for more than a decade as well as covering golf and the NBA. He has taught sports journalism at American University for the past seven years.

On June 25, 1992, The Baltimore Sun published its first letter to the editor from Patrick R. Lynch, who bemoaned the theft of his father's car from a Baltimore County park-and-ride lot. He called the incident "park and heist. " Since then, the Nottingham resident's letters and comments have appeared in The Sun more than 100 times. "Although I never pursued a career in the print media, I have always found writing to be an excellent release," says Lynch, The Sun 's most prolific letter writer of the past year.

"Lovely Molly," the horrific tale of a woman either demonically possessed or tragically insane, may be the film that makes Eduardo Sanchez someone other than one of the guys responsible for 1999's "The Blair Witch Project. " Which would be fine with the Maryland-raised filmmaker, whose movie gets its local premiere tonight to cap the first day of the 14th Maryland Film Festival. "I love being one of the guys that did 'Blair Witch,' but I'm really proud of 'Lovely Molly,'" Sanchez, 44, said about the film he shot last fall in and around Hagerstown.

As a reporter, you are taught to keep your opinions out of the stories you write. But the blogosphere has allowed certain freedoms that didn't exist before. As someone who has covered and followed University of Maryland athletics since coming to The Baltimore Sun more than 25 years ago, I have the unique perspective of not only comparing coaches but athletic directors as well. I think it's too soon to judge Kevin Anderson's tenure in College Park, but in talking with Anderson for a story that appeared on the Sun's website Wednesday night and in the newspaper on Thursday, my feelings for the job he has done over the past 18 months have certainly changed.