1958 nfl championship game

Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs played in his 229th career game, passing Ray Lewis for the franchise’s all-time leader in games.

Ravens middle linebacker Ray Lewis was enshrined among the legends Saturday, but few of the inductees in the prestigious Pro Football Hall of Fame could match the pageantry or the charisma he displayed throughout his 17-year career.

Baltimore has ties to three of the top 10. Two will make you happy. One will make you cringe.

A football caught by Colts split end Raymond Berry from quarterback Johnny Unitas in the 1958 NFL championship game at Yankee Stadium sold Thursday night for $62,140 at Huggins & Scott Auctions.

Sean Penn has been in the news lately — not for his acting ability but for his journalism skills. Recently Mr. Penn traveled to Mexico to interview "El Chapo" Guzman, the well known drug lord. Although I am not sure how much Mr. Penn gleaned from the Guzman interview, the publicity caused me to think about some of the so-called legends I've interviewed throughout the years — right here in Baltimore.

Got an extra $50,000? It might buy you the football that Johnny Unitas threw to Raymond Berry for a touchdown in the Baltimore Colts' 1958 NFL championship game. That pigskin goes to auction Monday and is expected to bring big bucks before online bidding ends Feb. 11.

Richard W. Warfield Sr., a former Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. manager who sailed with the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II, died Tuesday of complications from dementia. He was 91.

Charley Winner doesn't take old age lying down. At 90, the former Baltimore Colts coach plays tennis five times a week, for 90 minutes a day.

Arthur Anthony "Art" DeCarlo Sr., a defensive back for the Baltimore Colts who played on the fabled 1958 championship team, died of dementia complications Dec. 21 at his home in Birmingham, Ala. The former Ellicott City resident was 82.

Each week, Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston will answer questions from readers about the Ravens.

Ravens stopped the Niners in the end and that's what it's all about.

But for the Harford Ravens fans who were in Foxboro for the huge win, that puts the Ravens in the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers, being there is a whole different kind of excitement

Doris Mae Hoey Snyder, an Annapolis resident who performed as the head majorette for the Baltimore Colts Marching Band and later formed the Washington Redskins' squad, died Dec. 18 at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center after suffering an aortic dissection. She was 85.

What do all Baltimore football championship seasons have in common? Well, they all started with training camp in the fresh air of Westminster. Should we worry that this one didn't?