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An Easter Sweet 16 of treats that were better than candy in the basket

Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com

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5. Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots (Jan. 22, 2012)

Not a game anyone from Baltimore would ever want to remember but it was an amazing game where the Ravens had a golden chance to beat Tom Brady and the Patriots in Foxborough to advance to a Super Bowl. The Lee Evans drop, the Billy Cundiff shank – it’s all still very vivid to anyone who had their heart broken. The Ravens would rectify it 52 weeks later but as John Harbaugh told WNST.net two months later at the combine in Indianapolis regarding the 23-20 loss. “I’m not over. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it.”