Baltimore Ravens News and Rumors
As Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis nears retirement, there's endless ranting and ravingRay Lewis’ “Last Ride,” a month-long extravaganza so big and so compelling that he gave it a name — can the patent application be far behind? — has become the Endless Last Ride. |
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Members of the San Francisco 49ers discuss facing Ray Lewis and the Baltimore 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS -- The word on the Baltimore Ravens for years has been a very simple one -- defense. No Ravens defensive squad ranked lower than sixth in Football Outsiders' opponent-adjusted DVOA metrics from 1999 through 2011, and Baltimore finished first… |
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Ravens seemed much more relaxed than the 49ersWhat once had devolved into an annual festival of foofery was surprisingly serious and subdued. The Ravens seemed much more relaxed than the San Francisco 49ers during their back-to-back Q&A sessions. |
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— There are times where it seems like it was only a couple of years ago and he remembers everything, the way Baltimore fans rallied around his team, the Ravens' march to Super Bowl XXXV, even his pointed criticism of the national media about its treatme… |
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Ravens offensive tackle's life was chronicled in book, movieOver the years, Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher hasn't exactly made it a secret about his discontent regarding how he's portrayed in the movie about his life. |
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New Orleans' Superdome was scene of misery, deathBathed in colorful lights and swathed in banners, including one featuring Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, the Superdome seems to have been polished to a fine sheen for Sunday's Super Bowl. |
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Jamison Hensley, ESPN.com A Harbaugh family reunion could take place before the Super Bowl. Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said there is a possibility that he and his brother Jim will get together for dinner Wednesday night. |
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Terrell Suggs didn't need a microphone. The booming voice from the Ravens outside linebacker was easily heard during the Super Bowl media day Tuesday. |
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Ravens offensive guard said he'll be ready by spring minicampsRavens left offensive guard Jah Reid is on crutches after recently undergoing surgery to repair the damage suffered to his dislocated toe against the Cincinnati Bengals. |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- Musings, observations and the occasional insight from Tuesday's Super Bowl Media Day at the Superdome, always the most inane day on the league's annual calendar... |
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Twelve years after his first appearance in the Super Bowl was marred by questions about his legal problems in Atlanta, Ray Lewis was back on that stage Tuesday, again being asked to defend his integrity and reputation. |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com After injuring himself in warmups, Denver mayor Michael Hancock finally paid up for his playoff bet with Baltimore. This is the most important football-related story today. More » |
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Tom Scocca, deadspin.com OK, now that two different reporters have battled for the chance to drag the mother of a victim in the Ray Lewis murder case to the graveyard, what else can the members of the press corps do to demonstrate that their Super Bowl coverage is about the une… |
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Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome isn't interested in looking for a quarterback any time soon. As far as he is concerned, Joe Flacco is the Ravens quarterback now and in the future. |
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Unit has given Ravens boost in the postseasonDean Pees wanted to believe nothing needed to change. This was the Ravens' defense, after all, and it isn't easy to overhaul a group that has long been one of the league's best. |
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Baltimore Ravens run-game coordinator hired by Ravens after long tenure as Eagles assistantStanding inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Juan Castillo took a look around and let it sink in that he's quickly gone from the coaching unemployment line to… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Deer antler extract became an unlikely player in Super Bowl week on Tuesday with a Sports Illustrated article alleging Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis contacted a company that sells it called S.W.A.T.S. about the product after tearing his triceps this seaso… |
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Ken Belson, nytimes.com Ray Lewis curtly brushed aside questions about a recent report in Sports Illustrated that he used a banned substance contained in deer antler spray. |
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Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com Last week, Sharon Osgood told the San Jose Mercury News she was disappointed that resale prices for tickets to Super Bowl XLVII were averaging more than three grand a pop. The Hayward, Calif., resident kept looking, and eventually she found someone on C… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- I walked into the Superdome wanting to hear from Ray Lewis about his last game, and I left wondering why this isn't Ed Reed's final one. Reed told reporters at Tuesday's media day that he has experienced issues that he believes stem from … |
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Bourbon Street has been one of the most famous New Orleans attractions for about 200 years, but I’m wondering if even the pirates who once walked the famous cobblestones would have been shocked and embarrassed by what it has become. |
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And their focus will be on his play and locker-room power, not Atlanta historyCBS Super Bowl broadcasters Jim Nantz and Phil Simms say they see a lot more than just Ray Lewis when they look at the Baltimore Ravens. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Ravens and 49ers are the football teams getting all the attention in New Orleans this week, but the Saints are taking care of some business as well. According to a report from WWL-TV, one item on their to-do list is to have safety Chad Jones in for … |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Another Super Bowl, another controversy for Ray Lewis. In 2000, the media swarmed around the Baltimore Ravens middle linebacker to repeatedly ask about involvement in a double-murder case from the year before. On Tuesday's media day, Lewi… |
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Joe Flacco seemed pretty relaxed during his hour before the assembled media, but he got serious in a hurry when a Baltimore reporter asked him whether Art Modell should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
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Super Bowl Media Day used to be an almost total theatre of the absurd, with goofy broadcast reporters from every corner of the football world trying to get attention by doing something outrageous. Not this year. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com PFT Live rolls your way on Tuesday with a coach who won a Super Bowl with the Ravens and the CEO of the 49ers team trying to keep the Ravens from winning a second title. Mike Florio and Brian Billick of FOX Sports will discuss the matchup coming our way… |
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Ray Lewis Would Prefer You Stop Asking Questions About His Murder Case, Because "This Is God's Time"Jan 29
Jack Dickey, deadspin.com Do people like Ray Lewis? It's hard to tell. Baltimoreans clearly do. But everybody else? No, right? He is—at this point—an average player, one who consumes the spotlight with canned postgame bible-thumping and tears. That's no good. More » |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Hours after Sports Illustrated reported that Ray Lewis has been given deer antler extract, which contains a substance banned by the NFL as a performance-enhancer, Lewis insisted that that’s not the case. Lewis said at Super Bowl Media Day that he never … |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Ray Lewis was given a product to help heal his torn triceps that contains a banned substance, according to a Sports Illustrated report, although he has not tested positive and denies using it, a team official told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio. |
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In case you hadn’t heard, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and his baby bro, San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, will become the first brothers to duke it out as dueling head coaches in the Super Bowl. |
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Frank Schwab, yahoo.com Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis found himself in a Super Bowl week controversy on Tuesday after he was asked about possibly taking a banned substance to help his remarkable recovery from a torn triceps earlier this season. Sports With Alternatives… |
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Pat Yasinskas, ESPN.com Ravens safety Ed Reed said former NFL linebacker Junior Seau, who police say committed suicide and reportedly had brain damage from repeated concussions, "signed up for it" when he came into the NFL. |
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Ray Lewis Has Reportedly Used A Banned Substance For Years, But No One Cares Because It's FootballJan 29
Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com In the wake of baseball's latest PED scandal, the NFL has one of its own. Everyone try to look surprised. This week's issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on supplement company S.W.A.T.S. That stands for Sports with Alternatives to Steroids, the alte… |
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Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com The country's sporting attention may be focused on the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens as the two teams prepare to square off in New Orleans on Sunday. It shouldn't come as a surprise, however, to find that ESPN's talking heads still have Tim T… |
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The press isn't the only group having fun on media day, the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers players also had a blast. The players hit Twitter with their reaction and photos from Super Bowl XLVII media day and we've compiled it for you. Enjoy. |
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Judy Battista, nytimes.com Judy Battista, the N.F.L. reporter for The Times, answers questions from readers. |
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Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Joe Flacco isn't a man of many words, but he's drawing criticism after using one word in particular during his Monday media session at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. The Baltimore Ravens quarterback is in hot water after using the word "retarded&qu… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco might be dull, but his brother still wants to follow in his footsteps. Mike Flacco has been a professional baseball player in the Orioles system since they made him a 31st-round draft pick in 2009, spending last season as a… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- For his next act, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will try to accomplish what Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady could not pull off in these NFL playoffs. Kaepernick will try to lead his team past the Baltimore Rav… |
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Maggie Hendricks, yahoo.com Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith celebrated his 24th birthday over the weekend. What was served at his party? A cake version of Smith, of course. Smith shared pictures of the cake on his Instagram account, and in Ravens' Super Bowl spirit, th… |
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Here is what other news outlets are saying about the Ravens, San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl XLVII today. |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Ray Lewis’s oldest son, Ray Lewis III, will be a freshman on the football team at Miami in the fall. But because of his famous name, he’s already accustomed to having a spotlight on him. And that spotlight isn’t always comfortable. Local 6 in Orland… |
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Forbes report breaks down people's impressions of Ravens' star linebackerWith his retirement ride wrapping up in the Super Bowl, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis remains a popular topic on social media. And while perceptions have changed since Lewis pleaded … |
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For as many people as Ray Lewis has inspired, it seems an equal number have tired of the Baltimore linebacker's story, writes Peter King. Do Lewis' detractors have a point? |
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Peter King, CNNSI.com NEW ORLEANS -- One thing, as Super Bowl week kicks off in full Tuesday with Media Day at the Superdome, I think that I should have dropped into Monday Morning Quarterback: |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Today is "Media Day" at Super Bowl XLVII, which gets underway with the San Francisco 49ers at 11 a.m. ET. The Baltimore Ravens portion will commence at 1:15 p.m. ET and you can follow along via a live stream right here at "Shutdown Corne… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- This Ravens defense isn't close to being as dominating as the one that led Baltimore to Super Bowl XXXV. This Ravens defense isn't ranked in the top 10 for the first time in a decade. This Ravens defense isn't statistically as strong as t… |
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Field Yates, ESPN.com Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis has forgiven the wife of Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker for recent comments she made via Facebook. |
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Ravens star linebacker hasn't changed his mind, future plansNEW ORLEANS -- Ed Reed smiled playfully upon his arrival in New Orleans, toying with the idea of whether Ravens star inside linebacker Ray Lewis might reconsider his plans to retire. |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com This weekend will mark Ravens safety Ed Reed’s first Super Bowl in his hometown. But today will be his second Super Bowl Media Day in New Orleans. When he was a star at a local high school, Reed got to attend the event as part of winning a regional punt… |
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Ravens coach was Philadelphia's special teams coordinator when Eagles lost Super Bowl to PatriotsNEW ORLEANS -- This isn't Ravens coach John Harbaugh's first rodeo. |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com As the Ravens began preparation for the 49ers last week, Terrell Suggs was uncharacteristically quiet, declining to offer any bulletin-board material for the Super Bowl. Now the Ravens have arrived in New Orleans, and Suggs is being classy and sportsman… |
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Each day this week, Baltimore Sun reporter and blogger Matt Vensel will break down a key matchup from Sunday’s Super Bowl. Today, he looks at the battle between the Ravens and 49ers pass rusher Aldon Smith. |
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George Bretherton, nytimes.com The 49ers are only one month removed from their last - and worst - loss of the season, a thumping by Seattle that almost cost them a first-round bye. |
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Sports Illustrated is reporting that Ray Lewis took deer-antler pills to more quickly heal his torn triceps. Shortly after his injury occurred, this p... |
