Chris's Bio
Growing up on Baltimore's southwest side, Chris developed a love of the city's sports teams, thanks to John Steadman's writing and Chuck Thompson's voice. Those influences led the Mt. St. Joe and Loyola College grad to a sports media relations and new media career. He worked in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints (2000-05) as the club's Manager of Media & PR, and later, Director of New Media, and with the Atlanta Falcons (2006) as New Media Producer. Prior to the NFL, he worked on the sports information staffs at UAB, George Washington and Loyola. In between a pair of stints at UAB, he was the Class-AA Birmingham Barons' Director of Media Relations, including the 1994 season when hoops star Michael Jordan played for the club. A veteran of media relations work at major sports events, he has been part of the NFL's staff at eight Super Bowls and assisted at other events including the BCS National Championship Game, NCAA Men’s and Women's Final Four, MLB All-Star Game and the Goodwill Games. He brings his insight on the NFL's inner workings as an analyst each week on WNST and through his "Blog And Tackle" on WNST.net.
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The 2010 NFL free agency period began March 5 with 531 players who can negotiate ...
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All eyes will certainly be on wide receiver Donte' Stallworth and the Baltimore Ravens after the club signed him Wednesday - a second chance for a man whose horrible personal decision cost another man his life less than a year ago. ... Read More »
It’s Opening Day for the Orioles and major-league baseball today, not to be confused with Opening Night, the made-for-TV event that gets an ESPN2 slot behind the Women’s Final Four on the big channel. We all have our predictions on how the season with go for the Orioles (mine is 75 wins), but today is a ... Read More »
It wasn’t to be for the Ravens in the AFC Championship game against the Steelers. Baltimore gave 60 minutes of effort, but costly mistakes were the difference. Before we all break down the result and what caused it, everyone should take a moment and cheer what the Ravens accomplished this season with the lack of expectations ... Read More »
It’s appropriate that fifty seasons after the “Greatest Game,” the Ravens beat Tennessee in the “Toughest Game Ever Played” in NFL playoff history to advance to the AFC Championship Game next Sunday. The bodies were stacked up like cordwood on both sidelines, the temperature was dropping along with the rain, and Baltimore imposed its collective will ... Read More »
Four games, four opinions: Here is a quick look at this weekend’s NFL Wild Card round games with my gut feel for how each will go. Three of the four games will be competitive, with the Atlanta at Arizona game the lone exception. In order of play: Atlanta at Arizona (Saturday, 4:30 pm): Arizona was absolutely putrid ... Read More »
The loss to the Steelers on Sunday was tough for the Ravens and their fans to take, especially in light of the replay-contested touchdown in the final minute. But in the NFL, teams must forget the game just played and focus on the one coming up. Fans can look at the replay of the “touchdown” catch ... Read More »
On a day when the weather was gloomy and the energy level in Paul Brown Stadium was non-existent in a place where the Ravens hadn’t won in three previous tries, Baltimore took Cincinnati, and specifically defensive back Leon Hall, to the woodshed in a 34-3 victory over the Bengals. Wide receiver Mark Clayton had a huge ... Read More »
Fresh off a bounce-back victory over Philadelphia that gave John Harbaugh a win over his former employer, the 7-4 Ravens see that not much has changed in the race for the AFC playoffs. Pittsburgh is still one game ahead in the AFC North standings. Indianapolis has used a four-game win streak, and a last-second victory at ... Read More »
We’ll get a better idea about this over the next couple of weeks, but the 6-4 Ravens seem to be playing to a form that says they are good enough to beat the bottom half of the league, but not good enough to beat the best clubs just yet. Victories over 1-8-1 Cincinnati, 4-6 Cleveland (twice), ... Read More »
An interesting Week 11 is almost in the books, outside of a Buffalo-Cleveland game tonight that Bills need to win to join a pack of five other teams with a 6-4 record in the tightly jammed AFC. The Ravens had a chance to get their first impressive victory over a definite playoff-bound team but were exposed ... Read More »
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