The Back and Forth: Best Sports Day Of The Year?
Ted Bauer and Eric AngevineWhat is "The Back and Forth?" Seems a pretty simple discussion: what's the best sports day of the year? Is it today, 1.1 of the Madness, or is it som...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009Behind the Story: Matt Birk and The Hometown Discount
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Blog Entry | Conversation | February 27, 2009Condensing the NFL Combine
Chris SprowINDIANAPOLIS — The NFL Combine is a little like the Miss America contest after they ruined it by demanding that competitors have a) a personalit...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 24, 2009ESPN Insider: The Baltimore Ravens should keep their LB trio
Mike Tanier of Football Outsiders, via ESPN Insider...become an ESPN Insider. Point of this new ESPN Insider piece is fairly straightforward and simple: the Ravens should keep together their All-World (if aged) LB trio, even with coordinator Rex Ryan flying the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 12, 2009Super Freaky Fans: The Conference Title Game Losers
Lindsay Berra, Molly Knight and Ted BauerFrom the cliché department: "You win some, you lose some." Eagles and Ravens fans had to experience the latter half of that this past Sunday. We happened to be rolling...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 23, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...routinely embrace that route. Over the weekend, the Jets waited barely an hour after Rex Ryan's Ravens defense had given up 23 points in a loss to Pittsburgh to offer him the head job...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 20, 2009Stage-Setting: NFL Predictions
Rick Paulas...go with the former in this case. Eagles 27, Cardinals 17 Pittsburgh Steelers (Pittsburgh, PA) VS. Baltimore Ravens (Baltimore, MD) Pittsburgh • For a city founded on the grueling manual labor of the country...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2009ESPNTheMag.Com Presents: All-World Power Rankings
Ted BauerFOR BEST AFC/NFC TITLE GAME EVER, WE'RE GOING PATRIOTS VS. COLTS FROM THE 2006 SEASON [Ed's note: Not sure what All-World Power Rankings is? Please ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2009In This Issue: 3-2-1 Meltdown
Seth WickershamWe're picking a winner for our "You Be The Coach" quiz LATER TODAY (Jan. 21), so go take it now! Here's the deal: being a head coach in the NFL is qu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2009Dear Flem: Questions for Conference Championship Weekend
David FlemingDavid Fleming is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, who also pens "The Flem File" on Page 2. He's written some big-time NFL pieces for The Mag, in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 15, 2009The Back and Forth: Best Sports Day Of The Year?
Ted Bauer and Eric Angevine...doozy: the Cardinals are a great story, Donovan McNabb is playing for his legacy, and Steelers vs. Ravens is going to literally be a street fight. But…is it the best sporting day of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 15, 2009ESPNTheMag.Com Presents: All-World Power Rankings
Ted BauerMOST IMPORTANT PLAYER/COACH FROM ALL FOUR TEAMS THIS WEEKEND? WE'LL TAKE BRIAN DAWKINS [Ed's note: Not sure what All-World Power Rankings is? Please...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 14, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...eagles are also big time scavengers (see: bums) and often drown while fishing. Then of course the Ravens fly west to meet the outcast Steelers. But wait. Steelers? It sounds downright metallic. Elsewhere… Please...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 13, 2009Clip Reel: The Steelers vs. Ravens Rivalry
Ted Bauer...North talk board: "Nothing friendly about this rivalry." Baltimore Sun blog is already fired up. Another good article about the history of this thing. "Steelers and Ravens thrive on hatred." This post claims it's...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009The NEXT: Common Thread Between the NFL's Final Four
Ted Bauer...was actually an assistant under Reid for a while, doing work with the defensive backs, when the Ravens came calling. Mike Tomlin: Was leading the Vikings defense when he impressed the Rooneys. Ken Whisenhunt: coordinated...
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