John Madden

'A day for the ages,' as Orb rises to a dominating Kentucky Derby win

2013-05-06 06:18:00

"Amazing! A day for the ages," was the way Mike Pons put it about an hour after Orb, the son of the onetime Harford County based stallion Malibu Moon, stayed off a blistering early pace and out of trouble on a sloppy track and then blew away the rest of...

49ers' Patrick Willis poised to replace Ray Lewis as NFL's 'Lion King'

2013-02-01 18:24:00

NEW ORLEANS -- The old lion is about to stalk into the football jungle one last time Sunday night before retracting his claws for good. And the young lion is eager to pounce on the throne that retiring Ravens inside linebacker Ray Lewis has owned for 17...

Super Bowl showdowns: Strength vs. strength when Haloti Ngata collides with the 49ers offensive line

2013-02-01 04:00:00

Each day this week, Baltimore Sun reporter and blogger Matt Vensel will break down a key matchup from Sunday’s Super Bowl. Today, he looks at how Haloti Ngata could blast a big hole in the 49ers offensive line. In today’s NFL, with...

49ers coach Jim Harbaugh gets advice from John Madden

2013-01-25 19:16:00

SANTA CLARA -- Jim Harbaugh's preparations for Super Bowl XLVII took an unexpected turn Friday morning when he called into a sports-talk radio show. Not just any show, however. Harbaugh took notes while listening to sage advice from Pro Football Hall of...

Coffee Companion (1/4): your daily Ravens fix

2013-01-04 05:00:00

Every morning, Monday through Friday, blogger Matt Vensel will hook you up with reading material -- mostly on the Ravens but with some other Baltimore sports stuff, too -- to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday....

Al Michaels in a league by himself on NBC Sunday Night Football

2012-09-21 12:12:00

If there is one television sportscaster to whom the adjective “legendary” can honestly be applied, it is Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer of NBC's “Sunday Night Football.” From almost two decades in the booth at ABC's “...

'Madden,' concussions and the looming NFL player safety issue

2012-05-10 12:32:00

UPDATE: I just received an email response from Cam Weber, GM of American Football for EA Sports. He writes: “In order to depict the seriousness of concussions, when a player is injured in a Madden NFL game, they will be tended to by the medical...

Flacco: I'm the best quarterback in NFL; People: Hahahahahhahaaha

2012-04-04 08:41:00

Oh Joe. This isn't good. You made a big, big statement on Tuesday and folks, well, they're kinda laughing themselves silly at you. You're the BEST quarterback in the NFL? Says you? "I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback," Flacco told...

Aikman talks a great game

2011-09-07 19:55:06

Troy Aikman has spent a lifetime in the crosshairs of finger-pointers. At Oklahoma, UCLA and with the Cowboys, the quarterback always seemed to be in people's sights. In the wake of three Super Bowl championships and induction into the Pro Football Hall...

Finding work as role players

2011-08-06 00:00:00

Upon learning of Bubba Smith's death at age 66 this week, football fans may have remembered him as one of most fearsome defensive players of the 1960s, a stalwart in college at Michigan State and a key player in leading the Baltimore Colts to a victory in...

Meissner jumps to silver

2006-10-29 00:00:00

HARTFORD, Conn. // One night after a sublime performance at Skate America that brought the house down and vaulted her into first place, Japanese teen figure skating sensation Mao Asada proved beatable. Minutes after landing a triple axel in warm-ups,...

Baugh, perhaps greatest ever, dies at 94

2008-12-18 16:22:11

Sports fans love to talk in superlatives, especially who was the greatest in a given sport. Ruth in baseball. Gretzky in hockey. And then there are the debates. Jordan or Chamberlain? Bobby Jones or Tiger Woods? The differences in eras......

The Rose Hotel is an elegant beauty owned by the Madden family (John Madden, the former Raiders coach, raised his kids in Pleasanton). The old-world lobby has a marble fireplace, hand-painted murals and a dramatic staircase.

2013-04-11 12:17:32

Legendary NFL broadcaster John Madden turns 74 today.

2013-02-25 18:38:00

Comedian Frank Caliendo's impersonations are so precise, that he has been booked for many sports shows and commercials as the legendary voices he imitates. The man with the many voices is back on the road after a Vegas residency, and he's bringing some friends (their voices at least) with him.

2011-10-06 12:31:31