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NFL owners want guarantees no other business provides

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sally Jenkins - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - The next time a league official claims the players make "outrageous sums," as Goodell does, fans should ask themselves the following questions: How much are owners making? And how much of that is due to government subsidies?

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Super Bowl Crawl

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Towson Patch - By Olivia Obineme - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - Here are our choices of places to watch Super Bowl XLV

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Happy 10-year anniversary!

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - It was 10 years ago today that the Ravens brought their first Super Bowl title to Baltimore. On Jan. 28, 2001, the Ravens routed the New York Giants, 34-7, in Tampa, Fla.

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Five Things We Learned in the Ravens 30-7 win

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Mike Preston, Jamison Hensley, Edward Lee, Ken Murray - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - I always love listening to Ray Lewis talk, even when I think he's going a little overboard, because it's a bit like being a parishioner in the Church of Football. You can't help but smile a little, even if you don't totally buy into what The Preacher is saying, because clearly HE believes in what he's saying. And I find passionate people fascinating. I say all that because when Lewis said earlier this week that the 2010 Ravens remind him a lot of the Ravens in 2000, I sort of rolled my eyes. This team has very little in common with the team in 2000. That team was a special group of players who were motivated not only to win, but to dominate. There are some starters on the 2010 team who might not even crack the special teams line-up on that Super Bowl squad. But today did remind you a little of that old aggressive, bullying style the Ravens used to play. Terrell Suggs was flying around the edge, Lewis was blowing up people after the catch, and Matt Cassel was hit often.

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Ravens TV: CBS fails to raise its game to playoff level

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By David Zurawik - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - Simms, Nantz and CBS Sports, in general, never call anyone out on the field during the games. But in avoiding the negative that way, they give lie to what viewers are seeing with their own eyes. If you are going to provide analysis, don't pull punches.

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An Unsung Role in Vick's Success

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William C. Rhoden - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - But even as Philadelphia fans celebrate Vick’s performances, the unsung hero of the Eagles’ season is the man fans often derided and the organization eventually traded, Donovan McNabb.

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A moral question for you

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Tomasky - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - American football post, but really a moral question. Steelers? quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, one of America?s biggest football stars, was just suspended by the NFL for the first six games of the year stemming from the charge that he "sexually harrassed" a woman in a Georgia bar. The basis of the suspension is a league rule calling on all players to comport themselves in a respectable manner and so forth. Six weeks is considered pretty harsh. On the sports talk radio show I sometimes listen to if I drive into work, Mike & Mike in the Morning were thinking more like four weeks. I say it?s not harsh enough. Here?s a little sense of what "Big Ben" actually did, from a news story from last Monday: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben ...

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How different are dogfighting and football?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Malcolm Gladwell - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - .......I had never passed out like that before, and I started becoming really paranoid. I went into a panic. ....... I started to lose control. My limbs were shaking, and I couldn’t speak. I was conscious, but I couldn’t speak the words I wanted to say.” Turley is ...... thirty-four years old,

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Beat a woman, play on; beat a dog, and you're gone

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:25:56 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Sandy Kobrin - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - Scores of NFL players as well as players from the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball have been convicted of domestic abuse, yet they play on with no fear of losing their careers. Most pay small fines, if that, and are back on the field immediately. The message is clear. Beat a woman? Play on. Beat a dog? You're gone.

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Character key to overcoming adversity

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:10:47 -0700

ESPN - By Len Pasquarelli - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - Battling a surplus of talented wide receivers in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' training camp, Maurice Stovall might not know until the final wholesale roster cutdown on Sept. 2 whether he has performed well enough to earn a regular-season NFL paycheck. What the rookie from Notre Dame does know, however, is that Tampa Bay is the kind of character-rich franchise with which he would prefer to spend his professional career.

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