SPORTS WITHOUT CHARM
Guest post by Syreeta Hubbard . You can follow her on Twitter @theNFLchick. With the start of the NFL Draft less than 24 hours away, everyone’s getting out their final mock drafts for all 32 teams. While mock drafts are insightful to read and fun to create (if you’re a college football fanatic and/or a…
“I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.” – Harry Dunne After a scheduling conflict between the NFL and MLB failed to comprise on a situation to allow the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to kick off the 2013 season at home, the team was then forced to start its defense…
The off-field history of Rolando McClain has been littered with distractions and trouble ever since he was selected 8th overall in the 2010 draft by the Oakland Raiders. An assortment of run-ins with the law has led to two arrests in less than two years. Ranging from third-degree assault charges (which later were dismissed by…
If you took the pulse of the local fan base here in Baltimore, the start of the NFL off-season for the Baltimore Ravens has gotten off to a rocky one. As they always do, the front office of the organization has a plan in place, knowing this time of year is not when a championship…
With news over the weekend that the Baltimore Ravens asked Anquan Boldin to take a $2 million pay cut on his $6 million dollar base deal for 2013 still fresh in the minds of fans, it seems the thought process for the end result is split right down the middle. Boldin, 32, was a catalyst…
What a game. The Baltimore Ravens are Super Bowl Champions once again, holding off a furious 3rd quarter rally by the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII, 34-31. It was all Ravens early as they had San Francisco wobbly on the ropes when Jacoby Jones returned the opening 2nd half kickoff back 108…
Call it what you may – “The Harbowl”, the “Harbaugh Bowl”, and “Super Harbowl”, I could go on and on about the fancy nicknames for this Super Bowl, but two teams and 60 minutes (unless you like overtime) of football remain with one team getting chance to call themselves “Champions.” For the San Francisco 49ers,…
Image Credit: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images After last January’s heart-wrenching defeat in the AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium to the New England Patriots, Ray Lewis stood in front of his teammates in the Ravens’ locker room and vowed to them that they would be back in this exact same spot again. Nearly one year later,…
It took two overtime periods and playing a mile above sea level to outlast the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Playoffs last Saturday in what surely will go down in the annuals of NFL playoff history. For this Ravens team they now turn their collective attention to a foe they’re getting to know quite…
Image Credit: Jeff Gross/Getty Images The road to New Orleans and Super Bowl XLVII made a stop in Denver, Colorado but for the Baltimore Ravens that journey continues for at least another week in what may go down as one of the greatest NFL Playoff games in recent memory. Surviving two touchdowns from Trindon Holliday…
