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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Chris's Archive
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Here are the AFC clinching scenarios coming into the final week of play, courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau and NFL.com. ... Read More »
Many Ravens fans are of the opinion that the officials are targeting the Ravens, either for reputation, or for earlier comments after the New England game that went unpunished by the NFL league office. Now, based on my time in the league, I believe that NFL offiicials are the best in the four major sports. How ... Read More »
Now that everyone has had a chance to remember what it was like to be outside, do the laundry or actually acknowledge their children/spouse/significant other on Sundays for the first time since August, the Ravens are back on the clock this and every week until January (and beyond?). Bye week in the NFL is almost like ... Read More »
An interesting Week 1 in the NFL had its share of big moments, surprises and injury news. Let’s take a spin around the league’s opening Sunday. Atlanta 19, Miami 7: Not the start Miami was hoping for, by far. Several experts picked the Fins in an upset, but the Falcons took advantage of four Miami turnovers ... 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 »
At the urging of Nestor Aparicio, I have gone back in time when I would regularly bother the Elias Sports Bureau in New York for help in determining the scenarios in which the team I was working for (New Orleans, Atlanta) at the time needed to make the playoffs. Yes, I know, “What’s Important Now” is ... 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 »
Here are some quick observations on the NFL at the league’s halfway point before getting into a longer look at the Ravens later this week. The best team in the NFL: New York Giants. Despite losing Michael Strahan, having strained relations with Plaxico Burress and managing the post-Super Bowl hangover, Tom Coughlin has done a remarkable ... Read More »
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