Saturday, April 27, 2024

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Ravens release Training Camp Schedule

For those of you looking to plan your day trips to McDaniel College in Westminster to watch Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco, and the men in purple, the Ravens released their training camp schedule this afternoon. Quarterbacks, rookies, and select players...

Looking ahead to training camp

With the Orioles in last place and owning the second-worst record in baseball, Baltimoreans are obviously looking ahead to the Ravens reporting for training camp on July 27---only seven weeks away. The team holds another passing camp this week, as...

Willis McGahee leaves murky picture for Ravens' running game

As Willis McGahee laid on the field following a violent hit from Steelers cornerback Ryan Clark late in the AFC Championship game, it was the culmination of a bitterly disappointing season for the Ravens running back.  McGahee would prove...

Daydreaming of Purple Sundays and Festivus

As I count down the minutes to tonight's Orioles-Mariners game and David Hernandez's second major league start, my mind is drifting to Purple Sundays and thoughts of Festivus. Maybe it was watching the numerous minicamp and Ravens Roost Ocean City...

5 Ws and 1 H

It's easy to call the 134th Preakness a failure, but it would be more prudent to give the Maryland Jockey Club another year or two to see what can be done to bring the masses back to Pimlico.  The...

Purple Friday – Join me on WNST this afternoon

Join me on AM 1570 WNST or WNST.net this afternoon at 4:20 as we have an excuse to talk Ravens football despite the season still being months away.  What's the biggest question on your mind as we approach the...

Several dominoes must fall for Boldin to fly to Baltimore

In the months leading to the NFL Draft, talk has persisted over the Ravens' need to select a receiver in the first round.  But now with the draft only a week away, could Pro Bowl wide receiver Anquan Boldin...

Two weeks away from the draft

With the NFL Draft a mere two weeks away, Ozzie Newsome, Eric DeCosta, and the Ravens front office continue to evaluate talent and configure their board in anticipation for April 25-26. For the first time in franchise history, the Ravens...

The Miami Mission: Quieting the crowd won’t be a factor

It could’ve been a whole lot worse this weekend, being in New Jersey or Foxboro. Landing in Fort Lauderdale and having it be 75 degrees on Jan. 2nd, well, you can’t ask for much more. I spent the middle of...
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Weird April for Holliday winds down with Orioles sending him back to minors

BALTIMORE -- Regardless of your feelings on the Orioles' handling of top prospect Jackson Holliday, there's a good chance you've felt right and wrong...

What is Oakland losing with the Athletics?

Author Jason Turbow gives Nestor an Oakland Athletics history lesson and discusses everything that went wrong over 50 years dating back to Charlie Finley and a book he wrote on the 1970s World Series champions draped in thrift and constant acrimony.

Ravens tab cornerback Nate Wiggins as best cross section of talent, need in first round

"Just getting a corner at this point like Nate is probably the best way we could have started this weekend."

Ravens address secondary with Wiggins as we await offensive line help

Late in the night the Baltimore Ravens were quite excited about drafting Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins with the 30th pick and now Luke Jones and Nestor await how general manager Eric DeCosta will address the offensive line and other needs this weekend via what has already been a wild NFL Draft.

Fielding a field of crowded outfielders as Kjerstad arrives for Orioles

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the Orioles returning from Anaheim to see the A's and Yankees at Camden Yards with the Heston Kjerstad promotion and the curious Rashod Bateman deal with the Ravens before NFL Draft. A big week of sports ahead in Baltimore.

A sportswriting legend talks about her roots in Oriole Magic and what went wrong in Oakland

Recovering sportswriter Susan Fornoff comes home to Baltimore to talk Oriole Magic, Athletics history and why it matters to fans in Oakland and beyond. And Nestor finally gets to tell some old newspaper tales of her legend and lore at The News American in the 1980s before that creep Dave Kingman showed who the real rats of Major League Baseball were to baseball beat writers.

Ravens excited to land “best cover corner in the draft” in Clemson’s Wiggins

General manager Eric DeCosta said he didn't expect Nate Wiggins to be available at the end of the first round.

First-round cornerback Nate Wiggins says pre-draft visit with Ravens “felt like it was home”

The Clemson product is the first cornerback selected by Baltimore in the first round since Marlon Humphrey in 2017.
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