Johnny Unitas

Let there be no misunderstanding — Phil Geppi adores the Ravens. But the NFL can be an expensive habit. So the Finksburg software programmer recently made the difficult decision to sell his three permanent seat licenses. "It was either that or...

Is life great or what? For Baltimore Ravens fans — and we're guessing that this newspaper's readership is pretty much birds of a feather in this regard — the last two weeks have been a delight. To beat the Indianapolis Colts in a home...

While Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has won some people with his play the past two weeks, Joe Namath’s mind had long been made up. He didn’t need to see Flacco out-shine Indianapolis Colts phenom Andrew Luck and outplay Denver Broncos future...

Long before linebacker Ray Lewis decided it was his time to walk away from the hard-hitting game he had become the face of, teammate Terrell Suggs started to realize that time was running out. Not just for Lewis, but for himself and many of his...

Having grown up in Annapolis, Bill Belichick remembers watching quarterback Johnny Unitas, one of the NFL's pioneers of the pass, drive the Baltimore Colts up and down the field with their version of the two-minute drill. At the time, no one did it...

With the Ravens 10-point underdogs and facing the better-than-ever Peyton Manning, fans should just start packing up their purple gear and accepting the end of their football season today — or so the experts seem to be saying. To which Bernadette...

Under Armour announced today that the eighth annual Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic will be held Saturday, July 6 at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Stadium. Eighty-eight of the nation’s top male and female high school seniors will...

Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...

Once upon a time, no one around here would have blinked at Deborah Lawler's order for a sheet cake to serve at her football party — a blue horseshoe design with a "Go Colts" inscription. "They refused to write it," she said of the employees at...

There are some people in this town who think that Ray Lewis is washed up ("'My last ride,'" Jan. 3). Some people think he isn't fast enough anymore or that he can't tackle hard enough. These people focus on the fact that his retirement will free up salary...

Jan. 10, 1991: "We're a better team than we were yesterday," Orioles manager Frank Robinson says after the trade that brings slugging Houston Astros first baseman Glenn Davis to Baltimore in exchange for three young players — pitchers Curt Schilling...

As Ray Lewis danced onto his home field Sunday to face the Indianapolis Colts in an opening-round playoff game, the great Ravens linebacker hoped he was saying goodbye to Baltimore but not to the NFL. Not quite yet. After a sloppy start, his teammates...