Five yards to go: The Ravens' last standNEW ORLEANS -- The San Francisco 49ers needed five yards to break the Baltimore Ravens' hearts, and Dean Pees was having flashbacks. "We were not going to let him run it in on us," the Ravens' defensive coordinator said a few moments later, re… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Before he could bask in a shower of confetti, before he could put his fingerprints on the Lombardi Trophy and before he could head into retirement as a champion, Ray Lewis had one final task: stop the San Francisco 49ers on three plays 5 yards from the … |
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Greg Garber, ESPN.com Power outage sets stage for late-game dramatics in Ravens' win |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Capping a pretty perfect postseason, Joe Flacco completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and three first-half touchdowns Sunday to earn Super Bowl MVP honors for leading the Baltimore Ravens to a 34-29 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. |
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Chalk it up to the "Ray Lewis Effect" if you want. Call it destiny or some other overused term for that which defies logical explanation. The only thing that matters now is that you can call the Ravens the undisputed champions of the football world. |
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The Baltimore Ravens outlasted the 49ers in a thrilling Super Bowl that looked all but over after the first half. Then the lights went out and the Ravens stopped pressing deep and the 49ers capitalized on some poor punting and suddenly we had a football… |
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Frank Schwab, yahoo.com The moment San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick's final fourth-down pass hit the ground, the beginning of the debate could be heard on whether there should have been a penalty. Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith was all over 49ers cornerback Michae… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Here's Jim Harbaugh's response to the 49ers' failed fourth down play in the end zone, and for once, it's tough to really say he's overreacting. Ravens' cornerback Jimmy Smith probably held Michael Crabtree in the middle of his route, and when Crabtree l… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Jacoby Jones of the Baltimore Ravens set an NFL postseason record with a 108-yard kickoff return against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Sunday night. |
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Maggie Hendricks, yahoo.com As you may have heard, Super Bowl XLVII marked the first time two brothers faced off as head coaches. In the end, it was the older brother getting the win as John Harbaugh coached the Baltimore Ravens to a 34-31 win over his brother Jim's San Francisco … |
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The Ravens are Super Bowl champions. Joe Flacco threw three TDs and Baltimore survived a wild San Francisco rally after a power outage to win 34-31 for its second title ever. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com A Jim Harbaugh GIF could almost serve as the basis for an entirely new generation of Mad Libs. "In the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl against (noun), Jim Harbaugh (verb) like a little fucking (noun) after the 49ers (verb)." More » |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Ravens running back Bernard Pierce, who has rushed for 30 yards on nine carries in Super Bowl XLVII, exited the contest after taking a big hit. He went to the locker room, and the Ravens said nothing about what happened inside. (He possibly was evaluat… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com After a one-sided first half and a weird power outage, we’ve got a great football game in our hands. Colin Kaepernick ran for a 15-yard touchdown with 9:57 left in the fourth quarter, getting the 49ers as close as they’ve been since the Ravens scored … |
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Performance further dispels doubts about her ability to sing liveIf any questions lingered about Beyonce's ability to sing live — or her ability to make even the most crazed football fans momentarily forget about a game — then she answered them with f… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Here's how the Ravens played in the third: A long Jacoby Jones touchdown return—bad news for the 49ers, obviously—a 34-minute power outage, punt, punt, Haloti Ngata knee sprain (which has him doubtful to return), fumble, Jacoby Jones getting enormousl… |
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Pro Bowl defensive tackle hurt in third quarterThe Baltimore Ravens' reeling defense suffered another blow in the third quarter when the San Francisco 49ers scored a touchdown on a 6-yard run by running back Frank Gore. |
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NEW ORLEANS -- My thoughts on the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers: What it means: Twelve years after the Ravens' first Super Bowl title, Baltimore is once again on top of the football world. Joe Flacco went from a heavily c… |
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Play resumed in the Super Bowl after a 35-minutes power outage interrupted play on Sunday with the Baltimore Ravens holding a commanding 28-6 lead over the San Francisco 49ers. |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Things aren’t getting any better for the Ravens since the lights came back on. On the Frank Gore touchdown play that cut the gap to 28-20, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was injured on the play, and went to the locker room. He suffered a knee injury, and… |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com With the Baltimore Ravens storming out to a 28-6 lead over the San Francisco 49ers when Jacoby Jones returned the opening kick of the third quarter 100 yards for a touchdowns, the NFC champions were in need of a big play. As has been the case throughout… |
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John Clayton, ESPN.com From a blackout to the 49ers' rally to Ray Lewis' last stand, it was a lights-out Super Bowl, writes John Clayton. |
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Here come the NinersFeb 3
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The power has been restored. And so has the game. After a pair of quick touchdowns, Jim Harbaugh and the 49ers have pulled to within eight points of the Ravens, 28-20. A 32-yard Ted Ginn punt return after a three and out led to a two-play, 20-yard driv… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com When the lights went out at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome (FedEx realizes it could have been worse, after all), the Ravens led the 49ers by 22 points. Once the lights came back on, the 49ers finally hit paydirt. A seven-play, 80-yard drive ended with a 31… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Jacoby Jones of the Baltimore Ravens set an NFL record with a 109-yard kickoff return against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Sunday night. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com What a weird Super Bowl this has been. The Ravens are all over the 49ers, but it's been a handful of big plays rather than methodical domination so it almost feels like San Francisco is still in it. A fake field goal, a kickoff return, a 56-yard tumblin… |
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Kevin Iole, yahoo.com The family of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali has disputed a report in a London newspaper that the flamboyant ex-heavyweight champion is near death. Instead, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Ali was in his Phoenix area home watching the Super Bowl wearing… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Unlike some of my PFT colleagues, I’m watching Super Bowl XLVII on television rather than from the Superdome. That means I’m writing this post with the benefit of electrical light, something that can’t be said for many of those at the game. Shortly … |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) As 26 children in white polo shirts excitedly walked to center of the Superdome field and prepared to sing, a packed Super Bowl crowd revved up by a day of partying in the Big Easy fell silent. |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Not sure whether Beyonce used too much electricity in the halftime show or the Baltimore Ravens pulled the plug on the San Francisco 49ers, but there was an unprecedented delay at the Super Bowl. With the Ravens leading 28-6, half of the … |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Joe Flacco threw three touchdown passes in the first half of Super Bowl XLVII as the Baltimore Ravens owned a 21-6 lead over the San Francisco 49ers at halftime. |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com For the second time this postseason, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones has somehow managed to get behind the opposing secondary to catch a deep touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Flacco. On the first play after the two-minute warning, a third… |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com If you needed any more evidence that the referees are doing everything they can to let the players play, look no further than Baltimore's Cary Williams, who, in the midst of a second-quarter brawl, shoved a ref right in the chest ... and remained in the… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com We've previously mentioned Baltimore's affinity for the deep ball and here is Joe Flacco, once again, successfully going long. He may have underthrown it just a bit (give him a break though, he did throw it 50 yards downfield), but Jacoby Jones helped h… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Baltimore has three less points than it otherwise would right now because John Harbaugh got greedy (or went briefly insane) and tried this fake field goal run for a first down on 4th and 9. It would have been a 32-yard attempt for a kicker that made 30 … |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Chris Culliver’s rough week continues. With the Ravens leading 14-3 and two minutes remaining in the first half, receiver Jacoby Jones raced past a flailing Culliver into the clear. Similar to the play that forced overtime against the Broncos, Jones h… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Ravens coach John Harbaugh had his little brother in a headlock and was giving him a noogie, and might have just let him up off the floor to continue the fight. The former special teams coach rolled the dice with his field goal unit, and it backfired. T… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com After an ugly pass from 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to receiver Randy Moss floated into the hands of Ravens safety Ed Reed for the first interception ever thrown by a 49ers quarterback in any Super Bowl, chippiness that had been building all game… |
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Frank Schwab, yahoo.com It took more than five full games and one quarter, but a San Francisco 49ers quarterback finally threw a Super Bowl interception. Joe Montana never threw one. Neither did Steve Young. But Colin Kaepernick made the wrong kind of history in the second qua… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com LaMichael James had 27 carries in the regular season, because Jim Harbaugh hates rookies, and because the 49ers were pretty well stocked in the backfield. But tonight, Harbaugh loosened up a bit, giving James the chance of a lifetime—an opportunity to b… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com Watch as brothers Jim and John react to the same play—a third down sack of Joe Flacco midway through the first quarter—with characteristically appropriate Harbaugh emotion. Jim: intensity bordering on insanity, and John: mild disappointment. Can you i… |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Early penalties and miscues have put the San Francisco 49ers in an early 14-3 hole to the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII. The 49ers received the ball to start the game and, on their opening play, quarterback Colin Kaepernick hit tight end Vernon D… |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Joe Flacco's 1-yard touchdown pass to Dennis Pitta with 7:10 remaining in the second quarter gave the Baltimore Ravens a 14-3 lead over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The first XXV percent of Super Bowl XLVII have been played, and it’s a good game so far. The Niners started with a three and out that came after a penalty wiped out a 20-yard gain on the first snap. The Ravens then drove for a touchdown, the 49ers res… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com An early shot by Ravens safety Ed Reed on 49ers tight end Vernon Davis had an impact on both players. Davis was getting checked out by trainers on the sideline, and Reed just went into the locker room with team medical personnel. The game has been a har… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS -- The San Francisco 49ers may be Super Bowl XLVII's home team by dint of the NFL's rotation system between NFC and AFC teams, but there's a clear crowd superiority among the Baltimore Ravens fans in the Superdome. Both in number and in shee… |
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Jeffri Chadiha, ESPN.com Ray Lewis' greatest contribution to the Ravens' victory was the inspiration he provided. |
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GL Shacks exploded with cheers and "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes blasted from the speakers of the Frederick Road bar in Catonsville as the Baltimore Ravens clinched a Super Bowl win Sunday night. |
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Going into halftime of Super Bowl XLVII, Baltimore Ravens fans around Ellicott City are feeling confident in the home team's chances. |
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Only the sound of celebratory car horns cancelled out the singing and chanting of Towson's Ravens fans Sunday night just moments after the team sealed a 34-31 win over San Francisco to earn the franchise's second Super Bowl title. |
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Frank Schwab, yahoo.com Ray Lewis' interview with former Baltimore Ravens teammate Shannon Sharpe provided one of the few intriguing moments of the first few hours of CBS' pregame show. Sharpe asked Lewis what he would say to the families of the two men killed in Atlanta after… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com With less than an hour to go before kickoff, the Superdome is still half empty. (Or half full.) But unless about 30,000 San Francisco fans are on their way in, the Baltimore contingent will be the louder fan base here in New Orleans on Super Bowl Sunday… |
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Purple-clad fans at Bel Air nightspots cheered their hearts out as the Ravens quickly took the lead in the first half of the Super Bowl. |
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Baltimore Ravens relatively healthy for Super BowlThe Ravens are relatively healthy for tonight's Super Bowl, with no surprises among the inactives announced for this game against the San Francisco 49ers at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers having two weeks off led to relatively clean injury reports and, not surprisingly, zero surprises on the team's inactive lists. A notable absence for the Ravens is guard/tackle Ramon Harewood, who opened the … |
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A Moment With the MayorFeb 3
Brett Michael Dykes, nytimes.com Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, says the Super Bowl has helped New Orleans rebuild. And he picks the 49ers. |
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I’m not trolling for any sympathy, since I got to spend the whole week in New Orleans covering the buildup to the Super Bowl, but it hasn’t been all happy hours and fancy "Hurricane" drinks for this former party animal. The only party I got in… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com More than any sporting event this side of Air Bud, the Super Bowl is where we go for cinematic, overproduced sports theater. CBS will have 62 cameras on hand, bringing sweeping panoramas, close-ups, high-definition snot-rockets—everything you could want… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- There are no surprises on the Baltimore Ravens' inactives for the Super Bowl: CB Asa Jackson, S Omar Brown, CB Chris Johnson, LB Adrian Hamilton, OL Ramon Harewood, WR Deonte Thompson and DT Bryan Hall. |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com The ramifications may not be felt immediately, but what this man has done cannot be undone. Aimlessly wandering around Bourbon Street, this man—a Ravens fan, way to go Baltimore—stumbled across the NFL Network's camera crew filming a light hearted liv… |
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Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers set to clash in Super Bowl It's a quiet, chilly scene inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as the Ravens and San Francisco 49ers prepare for tonight's Super Bowl. |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Barring an extension this month, the Baltimore Ravens will designate quarterback Joe Flacco with the franchise tag during the designation period, which will run from February 18 through March 4. The 2013 franchise tag for quarterbacks is projected to be… |
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Nickel Package: Five Things to Watch in Ravens vs. 49ers |
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The New York Times, nytimes.com Ben Hoffman, Andrew Das and a host of Times reporters, photographers and editors offer live coverage and analysis of the N.F.L. championship game, the commercials and the halftime show. |
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Sapp, Sanders, Mariucci, Irvin, Stark and Eisen shineI wasn’t there for the 7 a.m. start, but I’ve seen almost all of the NFL Network’s Super Bowl Sunday pre-game coverage. And as of 1 p.m. (EST), I am here to tell you it is outstanding. |
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In New Orleans, there's good weather for a championship. |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Here is what the celebrities are predicting for the Super Bowl, courtesy of the Scripps Howard News Service: MALLORY HAGAN, Miss America: Ravens 24-14. ANDREW DICE CLAY, comedian: 49ers 33-27. I am going with the 49ers, but I think it is … |
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Are you ready? We're quickly closing in on the Ravens and 49ers facing off in Super Bowl XLVII. Get ready for the much-anticipated clash with SI.com's live blog leading up to the game. |
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ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said Ed Reed has told him he wants to get into coaching, and the GM will talk to Reed about possibly coaching with the Ravens when he retires. |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Have we run out of storylines yet? Pretty much, yes. After doggedly reporting on the various verbal gaffes and screwy pronouncements emanating from the Ravens and 49ers this week, football writers turned to Colin Kaepernick and decided they needed an id… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com Ray Lewis will wear specially designed cleats for Super Bowl 47. They are Ray Lewis cleats through and through: sparkling gold overpowering Baltimore purple and a special Psalms 91 shout out. Proselytizing being the obvious goal of these shoes and, real… |
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Join our ESPN.com NFL experts for Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. Contribute your thoughts and questions at 5:30 p.m. ET. See you there. |
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Sal Paolantonio and Ed Werder, ESPN.com Highlights of the 49ers and Ravens' Saturday night meetings before Sunday's Super Bowl. |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com The Baltimore Ravens held their first practice of training camp on July 26, 2012. On the following day, the San Francisco 49ers held their first practice of training camp. 191 days later, both teams will square off in Super Bowl XLVII and compete for th… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Based on their history, the Ravens will keep 49ers tight end Vernon Davis out of the end zone in the Super Bowl. The Ravens have allowed only two touchdown passes to tight ends this season, including the postseason. That's the fewest touc… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com NEW ORLEANS -- It should come as no surprise, with all the talk about the Harbaugh family this week, that the final walkthroughs for both the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers were full of families. Both teams structured their Saturday workouts w… |
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NEW ORLEANS -- The best barometer of the Ravens' success has been quarterback Joe Flacco. More specifically, it's his interceptions. The Ravens are 9-0 this season, including the playoffs, when Flacco isn't picked off in a full game (this excludes the r… |
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In this game-day staple, blogger Matt Vensel makes four sometimes-courageous predictions for the game. All he asks is that you don¿t hold it against him whenever those predictions end up being embarrassingly wrong. |
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Game-by-game look at the run to New OrleansWeek 1 (Sept. 10) at M&T Bank Stadium: Ravens 44, Cincinnati Bengals 13 |
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NEW ORLEANS -- Hope everyone is enjoying the start of Super Sunday. We're now less than 11 hours from kickoff between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. This is the first time in 12 years that the Ravens have reached the Super Bowl. Here's wh… |
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NEW ORLEANS — The elusive presence of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick could become a unique challenge for the Ravens' defense Sunday night. |
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Rolling Baltimore Ravens out to halt San Francisco 49ers on their quest for six Super Bowl titlesFeb 3
“Quest For Six.” It may not be as catchy as “The Last Ride,” the so-tired theme concocted by Ray Lewis as he embarked on his month-long retirement tour, but it still means a lot to the 49ers. |
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