SPORTS WITHOUT CHARM
With all the Orioles Magic going on of late, it’s been easy to forget about the good football team playing just a couple hundred yards away. With Orioles dormant for so long, it’s understandable that there’d be a surge in public interest when one team is in the playoffs and the other is playing the Kansas…
A.J. Francis is hands-down the best Maryland athlete to follow on Twitter. He’s smart, opinionated, funny and “gets it” in terms of life beyond football. He also made the best analysis of the Randy Edsall Era so far during tonight’s presidential debate: You’ll notice that this tweet is both RT’d and favorited. Regardless of your…
Back in February I discussed the Baltimore Ravens forcing fan websites to rename themselves, removing “Ravens” from their URLs. RavensGab.com renamed itself BaltimoreGridIronReport.com and Ravens24x7.com, the area’s best fan site in this blogger’s opinion, temporarily change its name to RaveOn24x7.com. On Wednesday night, Tony Lombardi and his team at 24×7 chose a more permanent name…
Phil Hecken and the gang over at Uni Watch wrote an excellent post about the curious circumstances that abound when an existing franchise relocates and basically morphs into an “expansion team” (as the Browns did into the Ravens in 1996). It raises some interesting points about team ownership vs. city “ownership.” Also it offers a glimpse…
A weekly wrap-up of the best stuff you may have missed on our excellent Tumblr: A sweet multi-GIF of the Orioles’ 1-2-3 leadoff homers the other day. Our impassioned plea to whomever is misusing the #Ravens tag on Tumblr. Maybe the most liked/reblogged thing we’ve ever passed along. Guys, it’s cool (and true), but it’s just an ad for an…
A weekly wrap-up of the best stuff you may have missed on our excellent Tumblr: Words to live by. Pretty lady in Orioles underwear? Pretty lady in Orioles underwear. This person literally “put a bird on it” and got an old-timey Orioles tat. Every Ravens draft pick in a single photo. Great old school photo series of…
We like to regularly feature Alex Ovechkin’s massive blowups here, and with good reason. Anyone who doubts Ovi’s physicality should note that his peers, in an SI poll of 193 current NHLers, voted him the 10th hardest hitter in the league. This isn’t the first or last time his colleagues show Ovechkin the respect he’s earned…
According to the team’s Twitter account, Director of Player Personnel Eric DeCosta isn’t going to seek out a general manager opportunity with another team. As the Sun reported earlier in the year, majority partner Steve Biscotti has tabbed DeCosta as Ozzie Newsom’s eventual successor if he sticks around. While Newsome’s indellible mark is on the…
Almost four years removed from The Wire‘s finale, Charm City is still shoehorning its way onto HBO. In last night’s excellent episode of “24/7: Flyers vs. Rangers,” injured star Claude Giroux* met with trainer Jim McCrossin in his office. Trained eyes spotted a different (read: better) shade of orange lurking in the background than that…
