A Fu Purple Postcard from sunny San Diego with Flacco’s #5F message
Nestor checks in from San Diego with the newest craze in California fashion wear: the Flacco Fu
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Want Some reasons to be Sleepless in Seattle?
Will Ravens offense make a rare quality road start in most hostile stadium in NFL on rainy, 40-degree day? Nestor is in Seattle with the purple reports…
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Leaky offensive line needs improvement or Flacco will scuffle
I’m not the kind to pass judgment on any team based on anything I see in the preseason. Schemes, game
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Don’t go jumping off the Key Bridge just yet fellow purple bird watchers
PHILADELPHIA — As I sit here wrapping up a futile evening of unusually awful preseason football — and the bar
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It needs to be said: Good riddance, Derrick Mason!
Over the past two weeks I’ve read and heard and watched a myriad of different reactions to the swath of
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What the hell do these people want from Joe Flacco?
I love it when Joe Flacco talks dirty. Somehow it hasn’t raised a lot of eyebrows or created a ton
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Hey Baltimore sports fans, it’s Twitter not Spitter
The game is all set for Thursday night and I’m all set to jump a plane to Birmingham, Alabama and
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First aid & Band aids don’t aid Ravens’ Festivus run
The nagging injuries to Joe Flacco, Ray Lewis & Haloti Ngata are doing nothing to help the Ravens’ postseason run here in December. Here’s one gloomy observation on the upcoming purple postseason hopes for January in the AFC.
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With Big Ben & Polamalu out, no excuses for Ravens tonight
With the Steelers’ best players — Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu — not on the field tonight at M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens are out of excuses with their season on the line in Baltimore.
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Lots of questions but not lots of answers for Ravens
To say that frustration has fallen across the land here in Baltimore along with an early sunset would be an
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Hey John: You can’t be 4-4 and seriously talk playoffs
Just judging from the sheer volume of social media I consumed all day yesterday, the fan base here is in
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A somber locker room in Minnesota
All of the videos are up now here at WNST.net. I’m sure folks will be crazy in the Purple Haze
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Morning After: Undefeated Ravens now will play role of favorite in AFC
It’s hard to write these old-man “analysis” columns for the “morning newspaper” after I’ve been talking and Twittering and Facebooking
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‘Twas The Night before the Ravens opener…
It kinda reminds me of Christmas Eve with anticipation. We’ve been waiting…and waiting…and waiting…and finally, football season is really here
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Tamir Goodman checks in from Boston…
I’ll admit it. I’ve become a social media addict. I do Facebook, Twitter…the whole nine! I can’t imagine living my
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Chasing The Boss in Tampa
Well, after years and years and YEARS of waiting to meet and/or ask Bruce Springsteen a question, today it finally
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Live from Tampa…minus the purple!
The reality of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl visit has finally set upon the land here in Tampa, as we’ve
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In case you weren’t in Nashville…
The scene today at Graham Central Station could’ve only been followed by something as amazing as today’s win over the
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Joe Flacco vs. Bert from Sesame Street
While surfing for some of the garbage being said about Steve McNair on the internet today, I tripped across a
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Ravens locker room giddy for trip to Nashville
The kudos for the continued brilliance of Ed Reed and the poise of Joe Flacco permeated the Ravens locker room
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Bisciotti and Harbaugh walk ‘arm in arm’ into 2009 Festivus
What a difference 52 weeks makes. It will be a year ago this Wednesday — on New Year’s Eve —
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Ravens beat Dallas 33-24, throw a purple party in Dallas
It’s become a joke amongst the local media, calling the Ravens “mighty men.” It’s John Harbaugh’s favorite “term of endearment”
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Strange, nostalgic day to be in Dallas
It’s a crazy day to be in Dallas. They’re shutting their stadium tonight amidst a potential season-wrecker if Joe Flacco,
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The Teixeira conundrum and Angelos conspiracy theory
Because this saga regarding Mark Teixeira and the Orioles and the Red Sox and the Nationals and the Angels has
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A brutal call and a brutal loss for the Ravens
I suppose this is why referees and officials get police escorts when exiting football stadiums. In what will forever be
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Does Joe Flacco have “that fire”?
In this new era of the Ravens media access under John Harbaugh, there have been many changes. Some subtle and
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Beating the Redskins in Baltimore…is anything better?
Let’s start by stating the obvious: any win over the Washington Redskins is a great win, especially when you only
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LIVE BLOG from Cincinnati: Ravens crush hapless Bengals 34-3
It’s a lot more fun coming to Cincinnati when the team wins. After a few rough years of losses, the
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A beautiful day: Ravens 36, Eagles 7
The Ravens used an opportunistic offense and myriad of breakdowns by the hapless visitors to pummel the Philadelphia Eagles at
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Are they who we thought they were?
Any amateur football talking head can tell you that if you run the ball and play defense you’ll have a
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Beating the Giants would make Ravens a legit force in AFC
As I wake this morning the Baltimore Ravens – and, yes, they used the word “Baltimore” before it was “comprehensive
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Just how good are the Ravens?
It’s not time to start printing playoff tickets just yet but if there’s any message that the Ravens sent to
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The afterglow of Cleveland
Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. With just over a quarter remaining in yesterday’s key divisional AFC
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Selig makes the right call in Philadelphia
Even the blind squirrel finds the nut eventually, my Mom once told me. And for once, Bud Selig and Major
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Ravens crush woeful Raiders, 29-10
The Raiders have played an interesting foil in the annals of Baltimore football history. There was the “Ghost To The
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Harbaugh’s handling of C-Mac situation is suspect
So this is where new head coach John Harbaugh is learning the pain, instead of the joy, of being an
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Another lost afternoon in Indy
If there was any doubt about where the Ravens stand amongst the elite teams in the NFL, this afternoon’s resounding
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Ravens theme from locker room: “FINISH GAMES!”
After today’s late afternoon debacle, I had the honor of walking from one end of the Ravens’ locker room to
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Today we continue out education about the 2008 Ravens
The undefeated Tennessee Titans roll into town believing (as they should) that they are a Super Bowl contender. Sure, the