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Aaron Wilson is well recognized by Ravens fans throughout the area for his well-informed insight, attention to detail, knowledge of the game as well as his thoroughness and high level of credibility. He is respected by his peers both in and outside of Baltimore for his solid work ethic and his accountability. Aaron previously covered the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans and has covered the NFL since 1997. He has won several regional writing awards, including, most recently, Best Sports News Story this year for the state of Maryland in voting conducted by the Associated Press managing editors.
Aaron will be providing his usual insightful stories regarding the Ravens and the NFL and he will also be hosting his own blog and weekly chat sessions here on 24x7. Get inside the Ravens with contributing writer Aaron Wilson, Ravens beat writer for the Carroll County Times.
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John Gehrig split his formidable years between NE Baltimore and Westminster. He is a former tight end out of Lehigh University and even knocked heads with 24x7's own Bill Pisano who played LB for Bucknell. John is our resident "Web Guy" who brings 12 years of experience in cyber space to 24x7. That experience coupled with his passion for the Ravens has fueled a determination that John vows will result in the best spot on the net for anything Ravens. This new site is just the opening kick off and he swears the best has yet to come!
John now resides in Ocean City and hosts GAMETIME'S sister program, Ravens Rap along with Bruce Laird.
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Bill has been 24x7's football analyst since 2003 contributing columns and commentary about fundamentals, strategy and techniques involved in playing and coaching the game. Bill also is an in-season contributor to GAMETIME providing analysis and insight with a focus on the previous week's Ravens game. Bill is a former collegiate linebacker from Bucknell University where he was an All Patriot League Linebacker. After his playing days ended, Bill coached defensive line and special teams at Division III Wesley College for three years then Linebackers for two years at Bucknell University.
Although he is no longer involved in the game as a player or coach, Bill's passion for the game is reflective in his desire to educate the average fan. He continues to teach and professes that an educated fan enjoys the game more if he/she has a deeper understanding of the demands the sport has on athletes and coaches. A team has a responsibility to its fans and the fans have a responsibility to the team. A more educated fan earns the right to demand more from his or her team. With Bill's guiding hand, 24x7 vows to do its best to help in that regard.
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Known on Ravens Message Boards as "B-more Ravor", Brian is a life-long Baltimorean and an avid fan of the Ravens and all Baltimore sports (yes, even the Orioles still). A PSL holder since 1998, Brian has garnered a reputation as a cap-guru on Ravens' message boards because of his strange desire to wade through the intricacies of the salary cap as it relates to the Ravens.
Brian, who hails from Catonsville and still resides there, is married and has two young children. |
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Kurt Backert is our resident fantasy football expert. His articles are carefully crafted with unparalleled detail. Kurt's work can be found in the Fantasy Forum and his flair for nostalgia also finds its way to other areas of ProFootball24x7. During the season on GAMETIME, Kurt boldly and accurately forecasts the upcoming weekend's action and what it will mean to GAMETIME listeners who play fantasy football.
Kurt's passion for the game began in the 60's watching the Colts on TV and at Memorial Stadium. He began following the statistics of not only his beloved Colts but also those of the Colts opponents, with a keen eye on Vince Lombardi's Packers. His passion for and attention to statistical detail would eventually lead Kurt on a journey to the world of fantasy football in the late 1980's where he's captured more titles than John Wooden's UCLA Bruins
Kurt carries a distinction that no other fan of the NFL can boast about. He is the reigning NFL National Trivia Champion and he credits his Dad for passing on such passion for the game, something Kurt also hopes to pass along to his 9-year-old son.
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Dev Panchwagh is a versatile analyst who breaks down the Xs and Os of the game. He also evaluates player movement, the salary cap and the NFL draft. Dev has been a columnist/analyst for ProFootball24x7.com since the summer of 2004. In his regular season column Dev highlights the Ravens' keys to success against each opponent they face. He also gives detailed analysis on the other teams around the league.
Dev's start as a sports journalist started modestly, when his contributions to sports talk radio were noticed, leading to duties as a regular columnist for the Scouts.com network before joining ProFootball24x7.com. It would be very difficult to find his rare combination of youthfulness, knowledge and insight in all facets of football anywhere else. Fortunately, Dev brings it here each and every week.
In addition to writing for ProFootball24x7.com, Dev is a regular on GAMETIME. Aside from working on the website, Dev is currently completing his B.A. degree for English and Political Science at UMBC and he is considering a law degree.
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Rick Johnson is a native of Baltimore who has followed the local sports scene since the early sixties. Rick has been a regular contributor to the website since November, 2005. His contributions to ProFootball24x7.com range from the business of the NFL (CBA, retired players pensions) to nostalgic retrospectives; from topical Baltimore sports issues to an occasional book review.
Rick has also lived in Rockville (when the Senators were still losing), Chicago, and Jacksonville, Florida. Rick and his family became overnight celebrities in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale after they sold their home to Blackhawks star right-winger Dennis Hull in 1972 before moving back to Baltimore.
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Sabina has been working behind the lens to bring the best in game action photos to the fans and readers of PRoFootball24x7 since the summer of 2005. Continually striving to see the game from many different perspectives, Sabina's dedication allows the fans a fresh and unique vantage point.
Specializing in sports action photography, Sabina started SKM Photography in June 2004 to market her artistic skills. Sabina has done freelance photography work for a community paper in Carroll County since December 2005, as well as having her photographs featured in Baltimore?s new weekly all sports publication Press Box.
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Scot is a Baltimore native, a Towson University graduate, and has followed sports since the early 1980's. Scot likes to go inside the numbers and get the real "411" on the wins and losses, hence his Behind The Numbers column.
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Eric Buckner is a native of Baltimore and has lived in the area his entire life. A graduate of Towson University , Eric has been a student of professional football since the day he wept in his grandfather's bedroom after the Baltimore Colts were upset by the New York Jets in Super Bowl III. A loyal fan of the Colts and subsequently the Ravens, Eric's passion for the NFL is unwavering as evidenced by his near flawless attendance record at Ravens' games. He's missed only one preseason game -- back in 2005. We'll cut him some slack since he was on his honeymoon. You won't find Eric slacking when it comes to covering the AFC North for ProFootball24x7.com. |
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That strange, sad scene was repeated for the next eleven summers until the Ravens brought football back home, an ironic twist that left his old friends back in Ohio finally relating to his 13 year old wound. By that time Steve was married, with two kids who are now in middle school. He, his wife, and kids reside in
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Ken comes to us via area message boards where he has consistently posted some of the most insightful and memorable posts that you'll find anywhere. Known as "Filmstudy", Ken is a lifelong Baltimorean and rabid fan of Baltimore sports who grew up about 1 mile from Memorial Stadium. He attended all but a handful of Orioles home games from 1979 through 2001.
Ken bleeds orange in more ways than one. He's a graduate of Syracuse University where he earned degrees in both Broadcast Journalism and Math and now works locally as an actuary. The message board member name "Filmstudy" comes from his collection of video from every Ravens game ever played and his player-participation-by-play tracking system for defense that he developed in 2006. This system is the cornerstone of his thoughtful and one-of-a-kind analysis of the complex Ravens defense. |
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Matt Zenitz is the co-host of Pressbox Live, which airs Sundays from 10-11 a.m. on ESPN Radio 1300-AM. Matt is also Pressbox's beat writer for Maryland football as well as the paper's NFL Draft Expert.
Matt closely follows high school football recruiting and college football, so a lot of the players you see on Sundays, Matt has been tracking since before they could get into an rated-R movie.
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Mark Eckel is an accomplished writer and columnist. He is on the WIP airwaves at night from 10p-2am, various times on the weekends and frequently makes special contributions to the WIP Morning Team (especially during the football season). If you ever listened to me, you know I don't enjoy much of anything. I think my greatest accomplishment is that I actually get along with both Angelo [Cataldi] and Howard [Eskin]. Who else can say that?"
Good point Mark, good point.
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Mark is a long-time visitor to 24x7 and shares a passion with this staff for all things purple. Since the Ravens Super Bowl victory, watching a Ravens' game once is hardly enough. Mark puts his TiVo unit through its paces regularly. He'll bring that passion here from time to time as a guest columnist.
Mark hails from Towson, the same neighborhood the old Colts lived in (Johnny U, Marchetti, Shula, etc.) and used to watch the Bert Jones' Colts at training camp at Goucher College. Mark is a graduate of Calvert Hall and Towson University. His oldest brother is a well known music critic (J.D. Considine), who's written for Rolling Stone, Musician, Revolver, Maxim, City Paper, News American, The Sun, and had a television show on VH1 for over a year. While Mark claims that he is not as eloquent and articulate as his more famous brother is, said brother can't throw a football like 24x7's Considine.
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Born and raised in Woodlawn (later Lutherville)--Raven Mike has been a Raven fan since they came to town in 1996. Raven Mike attended Calvert Hall College High School and played Quarterback for the football team from 94-97. While attending Loyola College he went back and coached QBs and was Asst. Offensive Coordinator from 1998-2000 under Lou Eckerl and Jay Robinson.
While at Loyola College he hosted his own sports talk show on WLOY. He also was on the scout basketball team and was a student assistant for the Loyola Women's basketball team in addition to doing some work for the sports information department. He later dabbled in radio while working in finance out of college in Easton. Raven Mike was the sideline reporter for Easton High School football games on WEMD for two years.
In 2005, Mike made the transition to radio full-time from finance and has worked on the Eastern Shore ever since minus a year where he hosted his own nightly sports talk show in Baltimore on one of the all-sport stations in town. Mike is back on the Eastern Shore working at Great Scott Broadcasting once again where he is Sports Director in addition to his other on and off air reposnibilities. Mike hosts the 'Ravens Rap Show' every Thursday from 7-8:30pm from the Greene Turtle in Ocean City with Tony Lombardi, John Gehrig and former Baltimore Colt Bruce Laird. The show can be heard on-line at www.wzbhrocks.com Mike also is the color commentator for Stephen Decatur High School Football games.
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Liz is athletically coordinated but still can't manage to make it through a day without walking into something or tripping at least 5 or 6 times. It worked until college....
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Fran Vojik has been a regular contributor to the ProFootball24X7 "Letters to T.L." page since 2005. A huge football fan and a former season ticket holder of the Baltimore Colts, he now roots on the Ravens from his corner end zone seat in section 134. A regular traveler to various pro football cities and football web sites, he brings an analytical and humorous perspective to the world of professional football.
Born in Highlandtown and a graduate of Calvert Hall College and the University of Maryland, he now lives in Anne Arundel County with his wife Rosemarie. Their den room has been renamed "The Sports Palace" and contains many mementos from the Colts and Ravens eras.
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Terry Ford bio coming soon!
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Coming soon!
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Will Spencer, the founder and lead content writer for Draft Breakdown has been scouting draft prospects since 2002. From Baltimore, he’s had draft related articles published on the Baltimore Ravens official website, Scout.com’s Orange and Brown Report as well as Ravens Insider. Will is also a member of the Football Writers Association of America. Will graduated from the Sports Management Worldwide Scouting and General Manager class in 2009. Click here to see links to articles written by Will and hear audio of Will on various radio programs and podcasts.
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I am 22 years old, and Married with a 2 year old son, who I am a stay at home mom to! I live in Aberdeen, MD, graduated from Dulaney High and grew up in Timonium MD my whole life! I love the Baltimore area and of course my Ravens!!!!
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Mike Strzelecki is a technical writer by trade and travel writer by avocation. He's author of such guidebooks as Urban Hikes In and Around Baltimore and Baltimore With Children. He writes for several other local and regional publications as well. He migrated to Baltimore from the Pennsylvania cornfields soon after the the Colts left town, and was among the first in attendance at the press conference announcing that football was returning to Baltimore.
A rabid fan of the sport, he haunts local message boards under the name "strez," often donning purple-shaded glasses (or so he's been told). A long-time Federal Hill denizen, he now resides in Catonsville with two hyper-kinetic children and a pacifistic wife who thinks football is too violent.
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I was born in Baltimore, spent my childhood in Glen Burnie, and move to the eastern shore as a teen. As an adult, I lived in NYC, until two years ago.
I've always been a huge sports fanatic. And a Ravens fan since day 1. Our bedroom is even done out in an-all Baltimore-football theme. With purple paint and memoriable from the Colts straight on to the Ravens and every team in between.
I currently live on the eastern shore with my husband, 3 children, Zachary who is 7, Blake who is 20months, and Dylan who is 10 months, and our dog Rudy.
I work part-time teaching after-school programs at our county middle schools.
My hobbies include reading about sports, watching sports, listening to sports talk radio, changing diapers, and shopping! :) |
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Daniel Wilcox delivers 83 degrees of NFL life both on and off the field.
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Chris is a Richmond resident with strong family ties to the Baltimore area. As an analyst by trade, he focuses on statistics and trends to tell the story. He writes columns for 24x7, is a regular contributor on 24x7’s Ravens board as psuasskicker, and blogs at oblongspheroid.com.
Chris grew up watching Orioles and Colts games, and has been a football fan since elementary school. He’s a Ravens season ticket holder and gets to as many games as he can – no easy chore with a young family and living three hours away. He participates in several fantasy football leagues, and is studying sports betting and in particular football betting strategies. He looks forward to some day working in football, as an analyst, writer, or in some other fashion.
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Bio and Picture coming soon!
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Paul is a Northeast Baltimore native born and bred, you can usually find him lurking on various message boards under the name of “52decleetzu”, as long as Steeler fans aren't in the vicinity. A fan of pretty much anything that involves a ball and stick (except hockey) his true passion is Baltimore sports with the Ravens at the top of the list. You can find Paul out at the local bar knocking a few back, making your neighbors grass look like the field turf at M and T bank stadium, or on any one of the local golf courses where he sports a respectable 6 handicap. Paul was in the mortgage business for a while after high school, but now runs his landscaping and property management company when he isn't living and breathing Ravens football. One of Paul's biggest loves stemming from professional football is the annual NFL Draft, and he enjoys researching and analyzing just about anything related to the biggest day in a young football players career. Paul will go the extra mile to find that next Lewis,Ogden or Reed and keep the Ravens fans in the loop for who to look out for when that day in late April rolls around every spring. |
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Ken is the owner and editor for www.FansFantasyFootball.com and is a member of FSWA (Fantasy Sports Writers Association). He can be heard every Monday and Friday from 9 AM until Noon on the Rob Long Show at 1370 am or at www.ROBLONGSHOW.com. Ken attended the "U" (Miami) and UMBC. He is an NFL DRAFT expert. A true sports junkie from Wrestling (WWE) to Woman's Basketball...he covers it all.
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You've heard him on the airwaves, you've seen him entertaining at parties and bull roasts and you've likely encountered him at a Ravens game. His streak of consecutive games is the fan equivalent of 2131. On these pages you will find Bobby Nyk's account of what happened on and off the field through the eyes of a Ravens' diehard fan.
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Mr. Mojo Rizon is 24x7’s answer to The Sporting News’ “Fly” and The Sun’s exiled “Mr. Flip.” If you are familiar with those columns, you’ll get it. If not, sit back, brace yourself and enjoy. |
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A message board maestro, Galen brings it with insightful and thoughtful analysis
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Rich's site NFLRaven.com has been the gracious host of our GAMETIME recordings and he is our techno wizard who edits those recording for your enjoyment. He also serves up other fun things on NFLRaven and despite our attempts to coerce that domain name from him, Rich says he won't give it up for anything. Well, almost anything...
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Ravens press releases as distributed by the team's PR Staff.
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Matt Katula was signed by the Ravens on April 29, 2005 as an undrafted free agent. As a Wisconsin Badger, Katula played in 48 of 51 possible games where he was a big contributor on special teams, particularly as the long snapper in his final three seasons.
Entering camp in 2005, it was considered quite a challenge for Katula to unseat the incumbent long snapper Joe Maese yet he managed to overcome the odds and do exactly that. For our benefit, Matt to chronicled his experiences with the club while he sought to fulfill a dream to play in the National Football League. |
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Sy Saulynas teaches Computer Science at a well respected crucible of higher learning in the Baltimore area. He is also a long-time member of Ravens Nest 1 - Harford County, where he runs rampant, forcing football pools, trivia contests and pickems on the unsuspecting membership. So much in fact that said membership raised him to the lofty level of Vice President. He hails from Bel Air via Catonsville and has a lifelong devotion to all Baltimore sports teams with an almost spiritual zeal for Baltimore football.
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Craig Chasis or "Quaz" as he is known, has been a columnist for Profootball24x7.com for two years. Craig has been involved in various sports throughout his life, rugby being the most prominent. Craig has even competed on an international level in rugby. An avid traveler, Quaz has a unique perspective on the world around him, and this is reflected in his writing which is often light hearted and a bit quirky. Although knowledgeable he prefers to keep his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, and leave the hard hitting articles to others.
Craig sights his parents, Mike Curtis and Eddie Murray as driving influences. In his spare time, he has embarked on several unfinished novels and will find any excuse to go swimming.
Craig is a Baltimore resident who resides in the Canton area and can be found frequenting many of the fine establishments in the area (hey he loves to support our sponsors.) One of Craig's claims to fame is that he has amassed more concussions than both Troy Aikman and Steve Young combined. Craig is the one 24x7 staff member most likely to appear on Jeopardy and America's Most Wanted in the same week. "World Cup Soccer for $100 please?"
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The Raven Guru has been handicapping sports for over 25 years and studying the racing form as a mathematician/numbers cruncher since the early 1980's. He was a charter member of the high school "track team" which held all their meetings at Old Hilltop. The Guru is an expert on sports handicapping with regional contacts throughout the country who help provide him with key, late breaking information which helps him make the best and most informed decisions.
The Raven Guru prides himself on discipline and timed aggression and will always provide detailed write-ups with sound reasoning, statistical information, and noteworthy trends. Nothing makes the Raven Guru happier than when everyone WINS! (except you know who) He is now excited to bring his information to the local radio and Internet web streaming audience – a must listen for the not so feint of heart. |
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Cole Rubin and I am the owner and operator of RavensTrips.com, a company that specializes in providing all-inclusive packages for Baltimore Ravens Away Games.
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