Obama congratulates Ravens on Super BowlAssociated Press, ESPN.com President Barack Obama is congratulating the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. |
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Curtis Crabtree, profootballtalk.com Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has made the playoffs in each of his five seasons in the NFL and now has a Super Bowl ring and MVP award under his belt as well. According to Brian A. Shactman of CNBC, Flacco’s agent, Joe Linta, will be looking t… |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Super Bowl was streamed online by 3 million people, an increase from the 2.1 million who watched the big game online last year, according to CBS. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com The Browns' switch on defense started with Frostee Rucker being shifted out the door. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com When it comes to the MRI scheduled to be performed Tuesday on the knee of Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, the key word is nada. As in nothing. As in no one is saying anything. The latest word on the subject of Ngata’s knee came from Aaron Wilson… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Chris Rainey, the 2012 fifth-round draft pick who showed promise as a rookie with the Steelers but was sent packing after the latest in a long line of off-field issues, has passed through the NFL’s waiver wire unclaimed. All 31 other teams could have pi… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com The Bengals added Brandon Joiner to their active roster yesterday, the first day he was eligible. Cincinnati signed the undrafted Arkansas State linebacker last spring, less than a month before he began a prison sentence for aggravated robbery and felon… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com It took a while for Bryant McKinnie to work his way into the Ravens lineup at left tackle, but the wait wound up being worth it. McKinnie won a Super Bowl ring on Sunday night and celebrated it with a parade in Baltimore on Tuesday, which should give hi… |
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Stuart Miller, nytimes.com Plenty of people were discussing the Super Bowl officials' noncall on the 49ers' final play, but there were other officiating decisions that played roles in the game. |
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BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore celebrated with its Super Bowl champion Ravens on Tuesday, with thousands of fans in purple lining the streets of Charm City and packing the team's stadium for a celebration. |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Ravens center Matt Birk said before the Super Bowl that his exit from the NFL would be much quieter than that of his teammate Ray Lewis. Birk’s just not sure when that departure will come. He flirted with the idea of retirement last year before choosing… |
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Maggie Hendricks, yahoo.com For his last time on the Baltimore Ravens stage, Ray Lewis wasn't going to let some trophy get in the way of his dancing. At the Ravens' Super Bowl rally on Tuesday, Lewis brought the Lombardi Trophy out onto the field. After picking up a piece of grass… |
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Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Teams celebrating championships have used all sorts of transportation for their victory parades. The New England Patriots traveled via duck boat after winning Super Bowls. The San Francisco Giants used trolleys after winning the World Series in 2010, th… |
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BALTIMORE -- Two days after winning the Super Bowl, the Ravens are apparently thinking about another. At Tuesday's celebration, that included a victory parade, Ed Reed told fans, "Joe Flacco said we're repeating baby. They better look out for us, B… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com When 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick threw a high pass over the middle of the field to Randy Moss on Sunday, the ball sailed over Moss’s head without Moss even reaching for it, and Ravens safety Ed Reed intercepted it. Moss has taken some criticism t… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The Ravens aren’t finished partying yet, but the rest of the league is moving on with offseason business. The Lions have made a second cut already, parting ways with right guard Stephen Peterman, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. They… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Ravens front office has earned their rings. In the coming weeks, they’ll earn their money. The team’s starting quarterback, absent a long-term deal, could enter the new league year with a cap number in excess of $20 million. Other key players … |
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BALTIMORE -- A sellout stadium celebrated the Ravens' Super Bowl triumph on a cold Tuesday afternoon after a victory parade was completed through the streets of Baltimore. Fans watched Ray Lewis do his signature dance one more time. They sung along as E… |
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Something To Talk AboutFeb 5
We're two days removed from Super Bowl XLVII, and the offseason looms. But a couple of Sunday's controversies still have people -- including Peter King -- buzzing. |
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Peter King, CNNSI.com It's the first day of the rest of our lives. Thirty-one weeks and two days until opening night at M&T Bank Stadium and the world champion Ravens host the opener of the 2013 season. Time to breathe a little bit. And by the way, if you haven't seen vi… |
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Brian McIntyre, yahoo.com Future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis will end his NFL career with a parade through the streets of Baltimore and, later this year, a ring ceremony with his teammates. Lewis was the center of attention after the game and was a player that the 49ers tr… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco threw 11 touchdowns and no interceptions en route to a Super Bowl title this season. He wasn’t the first quarterback to post those numbers, though. He wasn’t even the first quarterback named Joe to do it. Joe Montana post… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Ray Lewis was able to ride off into the sunset as a Super Bowl champion, but he did not play well on Sunday. In fact, one of Lewis’s former Ravens teammates thinks Lewis shouldn’t even keep his Super Bowl game check. “Half of his playoff check shoul… |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Superdome officials warned just months before the Super Bowl that the venue's electrical system could suffer a power outage and rushed to replace some of the equipment ahead of the big game. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Super Bowl victory tour has taken Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco from New Orleans to Orlando to New Jersey to New York City, where he finished a whirlwind day with an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman (which tapes much earlier than 11:… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Today, he’ll ride in a parade celebrating his Super Bowl title. But it wasn’t that long ago when Ravens head coach John Harbaugh couldn’t get a call back for college jobs. Harbaugh reflected on that long road Monday, saying he was still in disbelief… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com When running back Chris Rainey was arrested on charges of slapping his girlfriend in the face, the Steelers made it clear that he wouldn’t be welcomed back to the team in 2013. League rules dictated the Steelers couldn’t pull the trigger until after t… |
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It's been expected that there would be a quarterback competition on the Cleveland Browns this year after everyone in the organization has been noncommittal on Brandon Weeden being the starter. On Friday, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam confirmed it. "I t… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com As Joe Flacco celebrated on the field after the Ravens won the Super Bowl, he yelled to a teammate, “This is f–king awesome.” Unfortunately, the CBS microphones picked up the F-bomb and broadcast it to 100 million or so people who were watching. Tha… |
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Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco went from a news conference in New Orleans to a parade at Walt Disney World to an appearance on the "Late Show" with David Letterman in a span of 12 hours. That's the life (or at least the first day) of being the … |
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Toni Monkovic, nytimes.com Two statistical analysts agreed that 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh made some tactical and mathematical blunders against his brother. |
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Let's take a look at what's happening around the division in the wake-up call ... RAVENS: Defensive tackle Haloti Ngata told USA Today that his injured left knee was feeling better. It was good sign that he was seen jogging through the team's New Orlean… |
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