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October 25, 2009
Mixed martial arts competition makes its debut in the state of Maryland as more than 5,000 fans turn out to watch the Shogun Fights event at 1st Mariner Arena. Blood and bruises were in plain view during the 11 fights on the card, but there were no serious injuries, and the promotion ran relatively smoothly. Local celebrities who attended the event included Ravens running back Ray Rice, Dunbar graduate and current Washington Wizards assistant coach Sam Cassell, and former Colts running back Lenny Moore.
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October 9, 2009
WNBA Finals, Game 5 Fever@Mercury 8 p.m. [ESPN2] Indiana missed a chance Wednesday night to clinch in front of Colts stars Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne. Let's see if the Cardinals' Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald show up tonight in Phoenix for the decisive fifth game. What would they see? Maybe a Hail Mary basket put up by the Fever's Katie Douglas, near left, or the Mercury's Diana Taurasi.
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By Mike Klingaman | September 30, 2009
Forty-four years later, Gary Cuozzo recalls every nuance of his first NFL start. Who wouldn't, having replaced John Unitas in the lineup and passed for five touchdowns? It was the game of a lifetime for Cuozzo, then the Baltimore Colts' understudy who made pro football history on a brisk November day in 1965. No quarterback, before or since, has done what Cuozzo did in his first full game. Subbing for an injured Unitas, he led the Colts to a 41-21 victory in Minnesota, the seventh straight win for the playoff-bound club.
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By Chris Kaltenbach | September 25, 2009
"The Band That Wouldn't Die," Barry Levinson's documentary on his native city's astonishingly resilient Colts-cum- Ravens marching band, will get its U.S. premiere Oct. 6 at M&T Bank Stadium. "We were very touched and honored that world-famous producer and director Barry Levinson would produce something like this about the Marching Ravens," said band president John Ziemann. "It not only represents Baltimore and Maryland, but it represents every person who is a professional football fan in this city and state."
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September 18, 2009
Week 1 CHIEFS Result: W, 38-24 Week 2 AT CHARGERS Sunday, Sept. 20 4:15 p.m. Week 3 BROWNS Sunday, Sept. 27 1 p.m Week 4 AT PATRIOTS Sunday, Oct. 4 1 p.m. Week 5 BENGALS Sunday, Oct. 11 1 p.m. Week 6 AT VIKINGS Sunday, Oct. 18 1 p.m. Week 7 BYE WEEK Week 8 BRONCOS Sunday, Nov. 1 1 p.m. Week 9 AT BENGALS Sunday, Nov 8 1 p.m. Week 10 AT BROWNS Monday, Nov. 16 8:30 p.m. Week 11 COLTS Sunday, Nov. 22 1 p.m. Week 12 STEELERS Sunday, Nov. 29 8:20...
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By Mike Klingaman | September 16, 2009
Leafing through his mail Monday, Jim Mutscheller assumed it was just another autograph request - until he examined the postmark. The letter was from the Czech Republic. In his best English, the writer asked Mutscheller, 79, to sign two bubble-gum cards of the Baltimore Colts tight end in his heyday. Mutscheller complied and sent the football cards back. "In all these years, this is the first time I ever got [fan mail] from a foreign country," he said. "I thought, 'Man, I'm really getting popular.
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By Mike Klingaman | September 9, 2009
He lives in Upperco, in a weathered old farmhouse on 46 acres that he bought for a song when he retired from football. There's a sweet spring-fed pond out back full of catfish and bass, a vegetable patch stuffed with sweet corn and beans, and a woodpile large enough to keep the home fires burning all winter. Fred Miller doesn't want for much. And if he did, you wouldn't hear a peep from the 69-year-old tackle, a mainstay of the Baltimore Colts' defensive line in their heyday. A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Miller spent a decade here (1963-1972)
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By Mike Klingaman | September 2, 2009
He was the smallest offensive tackle of his day, and maybe the smartest. It wasn't size but savvy that made Bob Vogel one of football's top linemen and a pillar of the Baltimore Colts' storied front wall. Vogel, the team's top draft choice in 1963, spent the next decade taming sack packs and clearing paths for Colts' runners despite a 240-pound frame that even then was underwhelming. "I wasn't one of those guys who could lift the stadium," said Vogel, who attended Ohio State. "I was purely a technician.
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By Jamison Hensley | August 16, 2009
For nearly a month each summer, Ravens players move from their luxurious homes to a two-story hotel, where they share a room that is smaller than some of their man caves. Instead of fancy dinners with significant others, they eat in a cafeteria with 80 of their closest (and largest) friends. Nighttime trips to clubs are replaced by evening meetings. As a result, their thoughts are squarely on football. Their circle of friends during training camp is composed of teammates. It's the ultimate in team-building.
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By Mike Klingaman | August 5, 2009
They called it Orrsville, that patch of pay dirt in the Baltimore Colts' end zone where No. 28 plied his trade. How many teams were buried there, in the closed end of Memorial Stadium, beaten by a scoring pass to the elusive Jimmy Orr? "I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner," said Orr, a favorite Colts receiver in the 1960s. "It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me, speed-wise. I wasn't all that fast." But Orr had sure hands and he ran smart routes, which made him All-Pro - and the club's deep threat for much of his 10 years with the Colts.