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The NFL Network announced Tuesday that it will re-broadcast the Ravens' 31-24 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals as part of the channel's “NFL Replay” series Wednesday night. The network will condense the game into a 90-minute segment beginning at 8 p.m. The re-airing will include use of bonus NFL Films and NFL Network footage, including never-before-seen camera angles and coaches' commentary, combined with exclusive wired sound from the field, locker rooms and sidelines.

It was deja vu all over again for viewers of WJZ-TV's 11 p.m. news who had watched the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" earlier Tuesday. Instead of seeing the Baltimore faces of Denise Koch and Vic Carter at 11 p.m. after a night of CBS new-season programming Tuesday, viewers found the station running seven minutes of Pelley's network broadcast that had aired at 7 p.m. How does that happen at a network-owned station? Here is the explanation from K.C. Robertson, WJZ spokesperson: “The station's main production switcher experienced a critical failure late Tuesday evening," Robertson said in an email response to the Sun. "The equipment failure prevented the news broadcast from starting on time at 11p.m.  Between 11p.m.

Repair relationships Dave van Dyck Chicago Tribune Anyone who survived and thrived more than a decade working for George Steinbrenner is more than qualified to work any job. And make no doubt about it, Joe Torre's new duties as MLB's executive vice president of baseball operations will include more than those in the public job description. But his top priority is repairing and rebuilding the sometimes-fractured relationship between those who sit in Park Avenue offices in New York and those who sit in dugouts in San Diego and Seattle.

This weekend two vastly different rap duos will perform in Baltimore. The first one, Salt-n-Pepa, formed in New York and are icons of the genre. The second one, AK Slaughter, are homegrown, and barely five years old. Cheryl James and Sandy Denton — Salt and Pepa, respectively — have been performing together since the 80s. They regularly bill themselves as the first ever female rap crew. Though that claim is debatable — South Carolina trio The Sequence came before them, for instance — they achieved mainstream success early on with the risqué classic "Push it. " Later, the cemented their reputation with "Let's Talk about Sex" and in the 90s, "Whatta Man" and "Shoop.

In a span of a year, the Ravens' troubles have shifted from yellow penalty flags to the red ones. The Ravens have the second-worst success rate on replay challenges, only a season after they had been among the best. This season, only one of coach John Harbaugh's nine challenges has been reversed. That one successful challenge came on a pass that was initially ruled incomplete to Derrick Mason at New England (Oct. 17). Only the Cleveland Browns, who failed on all four of their challenges, rank below the Ravens.

SAN FRANCISCO — The refrain is a familiar one. After television replays expose a blown call, Commissioner Bud Selig insists there is no great outcry among players and club officials for increased use of instant replay to review calls. And, on the day after a blown call heavily influenced the National League Division Series opener between the Giants and Braves, there was no great outcry. "You're taking everything that's great out of baseball — the human element," Giants first baseman Aubrey Huff said before Friday night's game.

DURBAN, South Africa — The World Cup semifinal Wednesday between Spain and Germany is a rematch of the last European Championship title game. But that's where the similarities end — at least on the German side. "Two years later for us there are many changes while the Spaniards are similar," German coach Joachim Loew said Tuesday. Loew took over the German team after the last World Cup, where Germany finished third. "We have made progress in the style of football we play and the results we get," he said.

It must be limited Peter Schmuck Baltimore Sun If ever there was a convenient argument for expanding baseball's limited instant replay system, the blown call by umpire Jim Joyce that prevented Armando Galarraga's perfect game is it. But you have to look beyond one gross miscarriage of umpiring justice to make a decision of such scope. Making video replay available regardless of the situation would slow down a sport that already is losing young fans because it moves too slowly.

ACC replay system to be HD starting in 2010 season ACC instant replay system to be HD starting in 2010 season The Atlantic Coast Conference has chosen DVSport Inc. to upgrade its football instant replay systems from standard definition to high definition. The new system will provide ACC replay officials with the improved clarity of an HD picture and an enhanced tool set to review each play. The system will be installed in time for the start of the 2010 season. College baseball Eight Johns Hopkins players named to All-Region team Division III World Series-bound Johns Hopkins had eight players named to the American Baseball Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team.

When Jermaine Dixon's friends back home in Maryland would replay video of Pitt's 78-76 loss to Scottie Reynolds and Villanova in last year's Elite Eight, a pained Dixon would avert his eyes or leave the room. "I played in it," he said. "I know how it went." No. 19 Pitt (20-6, 9-4 Big East) will play No. 3 Villanova (22-3, 11-2) for the first time since that fateful March night in Boston, as the two teams meet at noon Sunday at Pitt's Petersen Events Center. Two of the Pitt players looking for a small, if not measurable, chance for redemption include Dixon, who made two critical mistakes in the final minutes, and forward Gilbert Brown, who was the last line of defense when Reynolds made his game-winner in the lane with 0.5 seconds to play for one of the NCAA Tournament's most dramatic shots.