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- “Yeah, I saw it,” John Harbaugh said of a noncall on the final play of the game. “I think you guys should write what you see. You want us to get up here and criticize the officiating. You saw the officiating all day."
- For Ravens coach John Harbaugh, Cyrus Jones' 70-yard punt return was merely the culmination of Jones’ sound play since he took over the job in Week 6 of this season.
- The Ravens ran away with a 34-17 victory because they recommitted to running.
- Sure, the Ravens have won two consecutive games. But don't print those playoff tickets yet, Baltimore Sun columnist Mike Preston writes.
- Both Cyrus Jones and Anthony Levine Sr. predicted that Jones would reach the end zone moments before his 70-yard punt return for a touchdown in Sunday’s 34-17 victory over the Oakland Raiders.
- With a win, the Ravens could conceivably hold the AFC’s second wild-card spot by the end of Sunday.
- Despite a three-game losing streak, the Ravens remain in the thick of the AFC wild-card race. Here's a look at their competition.
- After collecting a franchise-record 11 sacks against the Tennessee Titans, the defense has managed only two sacks during the team’s three-game losing skid.
- Baltimore Ravens players and coaches say there’s no magic recipe for recovering from a comprehensive failure, such as the road loss to the Panthers.
- After five weeks, three fumbles and two demotions to the practice squad, the Ravens are wary of anything else going wrong on punt returns.
- Harbaugh's news conference Monday offered some of his most extensive and interesting comments yet on the state of the team’s grounded rushing attack.
- Losing games they should have won cost the Ravens the past couple of seasons. If they miss the playoffs again in 2018, they'll look back at Sunday's loss in Cleveland as an unforgivable missed opportunity.
- An uptick in offensive production propelled the Gladiators to a 3-2 non-league victory on Oct. 8, 2018.
- The Patriots released Jones, 24, for the second time this season Saturday.
- In an interview this week on "The Pat McAfee Show,” the Ravens safety said he doesn’t plan to finish his career anywhere but Baltimore.
- Four of the Ravens' next five games are on the road. If they can win three of those games and enter the midseason at 5-3, they would be in pretty good shape to make the playoffs for the first time in four years.
- The Ravens have options on the practice squad, but perhaps not the promotion they would have most preferred for their thin secondary.
- The Ravens are in the same class as the New England Patriots when it comes to cheating. That’s the general perception now after the NFL fined the team $200,000 on Wednesday for a violation of the Coach-To-Player Communications policy.
- The former second-round pick missed all of last year with a knee injury and has struggled to produce since New England drafted him out of Alabama in 2016.
- Ravens coach John Harbaugh says there aren't any good teams in the NFL after two weeks. A look at the rising and falling tides in the AFC North suggests he might have a point.
- These are unsettled times for the NFL as the Ravens prepare to host the Buffalo Bills in their season opener. The climate around the league is politically charged, with fans from the right and the left saying they're no longer comfortable loving professional football.
- The Baltimore Sun staff predicts who will win Sunday's Bills-Ravens season opener.
- The Ravens need to win three or four times in the first five games to keep the excitement from the offseason going.
- This week has been quite a roller coaster ride for Cyrus Jones, a Gilman alumnus signed to the Ravens practice squad this week.
- That leaves the Ravens and Bengals trying to catch Pittsburgh, which has won three of the past four divisional titles.
- Cyrus Jones, the All-Metro Football Offensive Player of the Year in 2011 for the No. 1 Greyhounds, Jones was an All-Southeastern Conference cornerback at Alabama.
- The Ravens might be on the verge of solving one of their biggest problems as the preseason winds down: the pass rush.
- Mike Preston breaks down the second joint practice involving the Rams and Ravens this week.
- The Overseas Elite look for their 25th win and fourth straight title in the TBT tournament. The Eberlein Drive might have the confidence — and the athleticism — to prevent that.
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Just promoted Lt. j.g. Keenan Reynolds, former Navy star and ex-Raven, looking to land with Seahawks
Keenan Reynolds recently became a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy. He'd also like to become a Seattle Seahawk. - The Ravens, like most of the NFL, are embracing a pro-style offense with run-pass-option (RPO) elements.
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- Before the induction ceremony in Canton on Aug. 4, get to know the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018 with a career breakdown of each inductee.
- “Life now, I don’t think it’s about what I did,” Ray Lewis said recently. “I think it’s about where I’m going."
- Eddie George, Jerome Bettis, Rashard Mendenhall and Darren Sproles might not want to read this, but here are 10 games that defined Ray Lewis' career.
- Rookie fullback Christopher Ezeala was assigned to his favorite NFL team, the Ravens, after a tryout of European players.
- A look at each season Ray Lewis played for the Ravens and the five years since he retired, culminating in his selection to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- “You can’t replace him, you just can’t,” Newsome said. "We have not been looking for the next Ray Lewis because there will never be another one.”
- The Ravens were one of eight teams without a single player in the NFLPA's top 50 for player sales from March 1 to May 31.
- Are you ready for some football? Orioles fans will be happy to see the Ravens take center stage around the All-Star break this year.
- Despite a frustrating, playoff-less season hampered by injuries, John Harbaugh ranked high in the annual NFL.com coaches list.
- Of Ravens players, only linebacker C.J. Mosley, at No. 98, made the "NFL Top 100" list of the league's top players.
- After a lackluster season, the Ravens pull a 79 in the leaked "Madden 19" rankings.
- Harbaugh is up to three infractions in his NFL career, but he's still not at Pete Carroll's level.
- "The men and women that wanted to go should’ve been able to go," the wide receiver tweeted. "It’s a cowardly act to cancel the celebration because the majority of the people don’t want to see you. To make it about the anthem is foolish."
- No title-game experience? That was no problem for the No. 9 Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team, which upended No. 3 Salisbury, 8-6, on Sunday for its first NCAA Division III crown.
- Justin Shockey has bounced back Maryland men’s lacrosse, Duke’s John Danowski said he can’t compare Justin Guterding to others, Andy Shay said Yale is the underdog, Salisbury is hoping to lean on its experience, and Wesleyan may feel right at home at Gillette Stadium thanks to a famous alum.
- The absence of Under Armour’s typical celebrity-filled tent didn't stop the stars from showing up to the 143rd Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
- “We’ve admired the Steelers, even though it’s probably hard for me to say that," Ravens assistant general manager Eric DeCosta said in an interview last week.