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Mailbag: With teams getting close to shutting down until training camp, John Clayton examines some of the biggest remaining questions.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Courtney Upshaw is in the news after his coach, John Harbaugh, suggested Upshaw needed to cut weight by improving his diet. Top Listed Weights in NFC West Rank Player Tm. Wt. 1 Terrell Brown STL...

My tour of the division minicamps begins next week. I will make a stop over at the Ravens tonight, when the coaches and players receive their Super Bowl rings. The plan is to have a post from the event later tonight. In the meantime, here's the wake-...

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh has a simple reason why second-year linebacker Courtney Upshaw once again is battling weight problems. "

Here's what is happening this week: the Cleveland Browns hold their mandatory minicamp, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals wrap up their voluntary workouts and the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens visit the White House to meet Preside...

There's no question that linebacker James Harrison is interested in playing for the Baltimore Ravens. He'd get to stay in the familiar surroundings of the AFC North and get to face the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team that released him after he refused ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- At Alabama and under coach Nick Saban, you don't just walk onto the defense and start right away. Learning the ins and outs of his complicated 4-3 scheme takes time and patience. Dont'a Hightower and Courtney Upshaw went throug...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- As it turned out, 2008 was just the beginning. Alabama's 2009 signing class was one step ahead for Nick Saban and the coaching staff as it finished No. 2 in the country, highlighted by the likes of Dre Kirkpatrick, Trent Richardso...

Here are the inactives for the Bengals (who play the Cowboys), the Browns (who face the Chiefs) and the Ravens (who play the Redskins): BENGALS: K Mike Nugent, CB Dre Kirkpatrick, RB Cedric Peerman, TE Richard Quinn, DE Devon Still, S George Iloka...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- For Nick Saban, his success started on the recruiting trail, not the football field. In his first season, the University of Alabama head football coach went 6-6 and guided the Crimson Tide to a berth in the Independence Bowl, t...

Alex Scarborough writes: It took a couple of months, but the loss of several key defenders to the NFL has finally cost Alabama, as the Crimson Tide have suffered from a lack of big plays. Scarborough: Big 3 - Alabama's Nick Saban believes SEC team...

Steve Spurrier has suggested Alabama might be good enough to defeat an NFL team. I'm not sure whether Spurrier was serious, but as Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll pointed out, the notion is ridiculous (unless, perhaps, Spurrier had the 2002-03...

It's Wednesday and you know what that means: It's time to get some feedback from you. The weekly AFC North poll will get posted later today and we'll sit down for our usual midweek chat at 2 p.m. Speaking of our routine, it's time for your wake-up ca...

When it comes to getting production from rookies this season, it's a case of one team getting a lot of immediate help and another getting essentially nothing from its draft class. According to ESPN Stats & Information, the Browns rank first in...

PHILADELPHIA -- Good morning and hello from the press box at Lincoln Financial Field. They have just announced the inactive players for today's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens, and neither of Philadelphia's starting wide...

The Ravens' Paul Kruger is inactive for today's game at Philadelphia with a back injury. That means the Ravens will be without Kruger and Terrell Suggs, the two projected starting outside linebackers for this season. Suggs tore his Achilles this s...