SPORTS WITHOUT CHARM
Some rapid reaction to the Ravens’ bizarre and emotional 31-30 win over the Patriots: The game ended as weirdly as it began with Bill Belichick attempting to arm-tackle an official on a narrowly good Justin Tucker field goal. The Ravens have finally beat the Pats in a regular season game, the AFC Championship is behind…
The Baltimore Orioles schedule for 2013 was announced today, and it’s a little more interesting than most years. The main reason is because of the divisional change of the Houston Astros coming over to the AL West. As you’ve probably heard this means that there will be a different inter-league game played every day of…
The 2012 season began at M&T Bank Stadium much the same way it ended in the preseason for the Baltimore Ravens, gaining 430 yards of total offense throttling the Cincinnati Bengals 44-13 in front of 71,064 fans. After displaying a no-huddle offense that quarterback Joe Flacco seemed extremely comfortable with in the last preseason game…
If last season’s primetime opening victory/knobtease against Miami was indicative of how the 2011 Maryland football season would go, then the 7-6 nail-biter over William & Mary should give us plenty of hope for 2012. It was far from pretty and it was against a team that was being paid a quarter million dollars to be there, but it…
Much has been made of the fact, here and elsewhere, that crowds are not overwhelming Camden Yards despite the Orioles’ excellent play this season. By now, you’ve been provoked into anger or indifference about the myriad reasons why there were barely five figures worth of fans present on Monday night for a relatively crucial game…
We all saw some pretty good things on the field in Baltimore’s final pre-season home game versus Jacksonville. Yes, it’s the Jacksonville Jaguars, but coach John Harbaugh has to be pleased with what he saw as the Ravens ramp up towards the team’s opener, September 10th against the Bengals. Here’s a few things I noticed…
The Ravens made their preseason debut at home last night against the Detroit Lions with a lot of questions coming off an uneven performance in the first preseason tilt against the Atlanta Falcons. One of the questionable areas being the offensive line which didn’t do much in the way of protecting quarterback Joe Flacco on…
C.J. Brown, the only quarterback with any college experience on the Terps roster, is done for the season. Where do our hopes and fears go from here? The junior tore his ACL on Tuesday at practice in the latest setback of Randy Edsall’s Frank Grimesian tenure as Maryland’s head coach. Brown was to be the centerpiece…
If you don’t go to a lot of high school football games, you forget that we benefit tremendously from the elevated perspective at a college or pro affair. Many venues, like Baltimore’s Gilman School, offer spectators little more than a couple bleacher row’s relief from the chaos of being field-level. Football is a messy, complex and frenetic…
Baltimore Orioles Have Called Up Prospect Manny Machado To Help With Playoff Push Dan Duquette and the Baltimore Orioles have decided to call up superstar prospect Manny Machado from Double-A Bowie. Machado will make his first start in the big leagues tonight against the Kansas City Royals at third base. I know what you’re thinking……
