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Despite taking part in a walkthrough Monday afternoon, the Ravens released their first injury report of the week leading up to Thursday night's AFC North showdown with the Cleveland Browns. The list was quite sparse. Inside linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo did not practice because of a knee injury, and offensive tackle Jah Reid was limited by a strained right calf. The Browns did not have the services of starting wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi, who has been bothered by an injured hamstring.

BOSTON - If you're trying to make sense of the Orioles' otherworldly string of 16 straight extra-inning victories, don't even bother. "You don't question the things you don't understand," manager Buck Showalter said moments after the Orioles shook off a late-inning comeback by the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon and scored three runs in the 12th for a 9-6 victory at Fenway Park. "You just sit back and watch it happen. " If you want to put it into some kind of perspective, consider the fact that a game that goes into extra innings is, by its very nature as a tied game in regulation, a pretty even proposition.

The Baltimore design firm that helped ferry a Caesars-led proposal for a casino on Russell Street through the state approval process has been dropped from the project and replaced with an out-of-state company. Ayers Saint Gross, headquartered in Locust Point, drew up the preliminary designs for the Harrah's casino that were used by Caesars as an enticement for the Maryland Video Lottery Facilities Location Commission to green light the construction of a casino near M&T Bank Stadium.

As a devoted Cleveland Browns fan, it's really hard to listen to the accolades about Art Modell and what a super guy he was ("NFL will have a moment of silence for Art Modell at all stadiums this weekend," Sept. 7). Conveniently, Mr. Modell always blamed his moving the team from Cleveland to Baltimore on "the politicians and bureaucrats who covered their own rear end. " Really? Art could have sold the team and kept it in Cleveland. He would have solved his money problems and not needed to hire armed bodyguards.

Matt Wood cannot understand it when Baltimore fans shrug off Cleveland's bitterness toward the late Art Modell . "It's bewildering to me when Baltimore fans say, 'Big deal, he moved the team,'" said Wood, who writes for the Cleveland Browns fan website Dawgs by Nature. "It's like, dude, you're in bed with our Irsay. " There it is right there. If you grew up in Baltimore and want to know how Cleveland fans felt Thursday when Modell died, think back to how you felt about the death of Robert Irsay.

Matt Wood cannot understand it when Baltimore fans shrug off Cleveland's bitterness toward the late Art Modell . "It's bewildering to me when Baltimore fans say, 'Big deal, he moved the team,'" said Wood, who writes for the Cleveland Browns fan web site Dawgs by Nature. "It's like dude, you're in bed with our Irsay. " There it is right there. If you grew up in Baltimore and want to know how Cleveland fans felt on Thursday when Modell died, think back to how you felt about the death of Robert Irsay.

The death of former Ravens owner Art Modell has unleashed a flood of warm memories in Baltimore, but Modell is a more complicated figure for many people, who struggle to forgive him for moving his franchise from Cleveland. That conflicted sensibility lies at the heart of Modell's inability to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite his 43-year legacy as an owner and shaper of the league's television dynasty. And voters say it's not at all clear that his death will improve his chances.

Art Modell may have returned football to Baltimore, but in the eyes of the silver-haired owner, the Ravens were clearly a team of the people. Eleven years ago, amid a swirl of confetti following the Ravens' Super Bowl victory in Tampa, a tearful Mr. Modell hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy aloft and declared, “To the people in Baltimore City, to the people in Baltimore County and to the state of Maryland, this belongs to you.” And following the...

Art Modell forever will be known as the man who took the Browns out of Cleveland, but his legacy as one of the NFL's most influential personalities extends far beyond state lines. As an old-guard owner, he helped pour the foundation for today's game and presided over a host of landmark events. The league's golden era was launched soon after he purchased the Browns franchise for a then-record price of just under $4 million in 1961. Among Modell's cornerstone moments:  ** Because of a television background, he was named chairman of the broadcast committee in only his second year in the league.

Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar will celebrate its fifth anniversary on Aug. 23 with parties at its Cleveland and Annapolis locations. There will be free guacamole for everybody -- one serving for every two customers -- half-off mojitos and free branded rum snifters with rum orders, neat and on the rocks, while supplies last. It all started in Cleveland five years ago. In 2010, the second Paladar opened in Annapolis. And Paladars three and four will be opening within the next eight months in Hallandale Beach, Fla. and North Bethesda.