Kudos to my radio partner Damon “The Bulldog” Yaffe for his work in Tampa in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Damon had a live location on “radio row” in Tampa and corralled guests (football personalities past and present) for us to chat with on 105.7 The Fan while I remained in Baltimore.  […]

 Meet the youth of Baltimore sports:  Joe Flacco, Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and John Harbaugh.  The first three are young players, the last is a young coach- and they all stand to factor prominently in the future fortunes of major sports in our town.             Hope springs eternal in Ravens Nation and Flacco is the […]

The 2008 Ravens regular season and playoff run took Baltimore on a ride that won’t soon be forgotten.  Though the players and coaches insist they expected success, it’s not a reach to categorize their accomplishments as surprising, even inspiring.  It sounds sappy to suggest the Ravens run was inspirational, but being […]

    The Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers are the last two teams standing on the AFC road to the Super Bowl and one will bump off the other when they clash at Heinz Field for the conference title.  Rival teams, rival cities, divisional foes, blue collar brawlers, dominant defenses, grinding running games, meeting […]

 Coach Todd Bozeman and his band of fearless Morgan State Bears traveled to College Park and knocked off the state’s basketball powerhouse, the Maryland Terrapins.  It was nearly 19 years ago to the day that Fang Mitchell did the same with Coppin State:  the little Baltimore school slayed the giant on the Terps home court.  […]

The most impressive aspect of the Ravens playoff win over Miami was the businesslike, perfunctory manner in which the Ravens did their business.  Not skipping a beat from how they rolled through the regular season, they remained in a steady gear of grinding out the opposition with a dominating defense and a […]