Saturday, April 27, 2024

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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 in a little while as well. If you ever want to know what I'm thinking during the games, I've been...

Bengals-Ravens Notebook: 100-yard streak snapped, Ed Reed strikes again

- The Baltimore rush defense hadn't allowed a 100-yard rusher in nearly three years before the Bengals' Cedric Benson ended the streak at 39 games on Sunday. Benson's 28-yard touchdown run pushed him over the century mark while also giving...

Matt Birk is laying down charity roots in Baltimore as well as Minneapolis

I spent the early part of last night with Ravens center Matt Birk at Mother's Grille in Federal Hill where he kicked off his local charity initiative, the HIKE Foundation, with a dinner and cocktail reception. Birk was extremely active...

5 W’s and 1 H

31-62. No, it is not the Washington Nationals' current record (22-51), but it's the Orioles' record against the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards since 1998. And despite what many would have you believe, the fans donning pink and green Boston...

5 W's and 1 H

31-62. No, it is not the Washington Nationals' current record (22-51), but it's the Orioles' record against the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards since 1998. And despite what many would have you believe, the fans donning pink and green Boston...

Today’s Ravens guest: center Matt Birk of Vikings

According to the Minneapolis media machine, highly intelligent center Matt Birk -- he graduated from Harvard -- is here in Baltimore talking shop with the Ravens brass today. Hopefully, he's smart enough to sign here and make our offensive...

Ravens will play in Miami at 1 p.m. on Sunday

Here's the skinny on the Ravens 2009 Postseason Festivus schedule: The Ravens drew the 1 p.m. game on Sunday in Miami. If they beat the Dolphins they would return to Nashville to play the Tennessee Titans in the early...
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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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