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DO FANS HAVE RIGHTS? Brian Ward, a member of the Daily News consumer panel, said he wouldn't call it rights exactly. "But I think ownership has to give a city a reason to root for the team," wrote Ward, of Blue Bell. "That doesn't mean they have to be good every year, but at least know that they want to win as much as the fans do." That helps segue nicely into what happened in Baltimore last Thursday, when a group of fans paid their way into Camden Yards and then loudly left the afternoon game at 5:08, a tribute...

Comcast cable company accused Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos yesterday of creating a regional sports network whose purpose is to keep Washington Nationals games off the vast majority of the region's cable networks. "Peter Angelos and the Orioles have knowingly created a situation where cable carriers predictably would not carry MASN and, thus, many Washington Nationals' games," Comcast said in a written release that coincided with a legal filing in Montgomery County Circuit Court. "This is particularly regrettable given that, unlike Mr. Angelos, Comcast supported the return of Major League Baseball to Washington D.C. and offered to broadcast the Nats...

Just before the start of this year's baseball season, the group representing workers who clean up the peanut shells and plastic beer cups at Oriole Park at Camden Yards thought they had reached a breakthrough on getting higher salaries. advertisement advertisement Not only had the United Workers Association persuaded the Maryland Stadium Authority to bring in a new contractor that pledged better wages and better treatment, the workers said that Orioles owner and labor champion Peter G. Angelos had personally phoned the group to say he would help. "I thought it was just a tremendous thing that he was willing...

Attorney Peter G. Angelos will receive $150 million over five years for his work on Maryland's tobacco lawsuit under a deal with Gov. Parris N. Glendening that will end an unseemly three-year fight between the state's top Democrats and their party's biggest financial contributor. While some elements were still being negotiated, the governor said he had reached an "agreement in principle" with Angelos to settle a dispute that could have cost the state much more. Angelos has long claimed he was owed at least $1 billion in the case. In 1996, he signed a contingency fee contract that said his...