Ah, the trash talk begins.  Quite frankly, it wouldn’t really be an important playoff game if we went the whole week without any.  It gets kind of old to hear teams that have faced off in such important and closely played games over the years (like the Patriots and Ravens have), heap praise and respect [...]

Every columnist has done it at one point or another.  I’m talking about the timeless “trash talk” piece of course.  You know, the one where they talk bad about the opposing team coming in to town and talk up their own team.  It’s actually a decent strategy.  It gets the people who read the newspaper [...]

Baltimore’s love for Ray Lewis began long before he led the Ravens to a Super Bowl championship, earning MVP honors in the process.  It began long before the University of Miami standout was even drafted by the Ravens in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft.  It began on the fateful night in March [...]

Stop picking on LeBron – LeBron James is the best player in basketball right now. There is no debate.  He is a top five player of all time. There is no debate.  The guy has won an NBA Championship and is now following that up with a historic season so far this year; having numbers [...]

There have been two high profile violent acts this month.  First, the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide on December 1st in which he murdered his “on and off” girlfriend in front of his mother, then drove to the Chiefs practice facility where he turned the gun on himself in front team employees including his head coach and [...]