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Suggs' absence prompts changes
BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens fans have been asking for rookie defensive end Paul Kruger, and now they just might get him. Ravens coaches are weighing their options in the wake of a knee injury that will sideline Pro Bowl defensive end/outside...
Offense improves, but sputters lately
Coach pleased with Flacco’s progress The buzz about Baltimore at the beginning of the NFL season centered on how these Ravens could score. They opened with three consecutive games of 30-plus points and have had two more since. Always associated...
Star reporters predict the outcome of Sunday's game
Mike Chappell: Colts 33, Ravens 24 If I’m not mistaken, Peyton Manning has won more games in Baltimore than John Unitas ever did. OK, not quite. But including the playoffs, the Manning-led Colts are working on a six-game winning streak against...
Rushing's stumble wound up costing his team a playoff win
Turf monster 1, T.J. Rushing 0. Ouch. “To this day, I don’t know what happened,” the Indianapolis Colts cornerback/punt returner said. “I still can’t explain it.” Late in the fourth quarter of a semifinal game in...
Here's what Colts are missing
Saints, Vikings are among teams that have players who strike fear in return game The Indianapolis Colts’ excellent run in special teams coverage suffered a setback when New England’s Wes Welker broke a 67-yard punt return last week....
Subject of movie hasn't seen it yet
BALTIMORE — The movie based on his life story premiered in New York on Tuesday night and nationwide today, but Baltimore Ravens rookie offensive lineman Michael Oher has yet to see it. Given that he is in the midst of his first NFL season, that...
Sayers was Colts coach's first boss
Jim Caldwell was so new he squeaked. He was a year out of the University of Iowa, a rookie assistant coach at Southern Illinois. “My first job as a full-time assistant,” the Indianapolis Colts coach said. "I was a 22-year-old sitting...
Familiar Gonzalez report: He's still 'close' to returning
As Anthony Gonzalez has discovered, being “close” to returning from a knee injury isn’t close enough. The Indianapolis Colts receiver insisted Thursday afternoon that he’s on track and close to rejoining the offense after...
Colts players are idolized now, but they were fans as kids
Kelvin Hayden was well-grounded as a south-side Chicago youngster. He knew who he was: Walter Payton. He knew where he was going: the NFL. Hayden wasn’t going to grow up to be like Payton. He was going to grow up to be Payton. He had the little...
Surpassing Mackey humbles Colts' Clark
Dallas Clark is in position to one-up the man who helped revolutionize the tight end position, appropriately enough in the city where John Mackey became a Hall of Famer and remains a legend. With one reception Sunday afternoon in Baltimore, the...
Brackett knows all about Rice
There was a time Indianapolis Colts middle linebacker Gary Brackett considered Ray Rice a protg. Come Sunday, Brackett will treat him as a threat. Rice is the Baltimore Ravens’ do-everything running back. He is a 5-8, 210-pound blur who has...
Ravens' Suggs won't face Colts
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs will miss Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts because of a knee injury. Suggs has a sprained ligament in his right knee, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday....
Dungy to head NFL panel on player life
NEW YORK — Tony Dungy will lead a new NFL player advisory forum that will meet with players about league policies, programs and issues that affect their lives on and off the field. Those subjects will include player health and safety, personal...
AFC names Manning offensive player of week
Peyton Manning’s latest fourth-quarter dramatics have resulted in the Indianapolis Colts quarterback being named the AFC’s Offensive Player of the Week. Manning passed for 327 yards and four touchdowns as the Colts remained unbeaten with a 35-34 win...
NFL probes cameraman's fall at end of Colts-Patriots game
The NFL is reviewing an incident at the end of the Indianapolis Colts-New England Patriots game when an NBC cameraman ended up on the ground after brushing against a member of the Patriots security detail. An NFL spokesman told The Star the league is...
Colts teammates say Charlie Johnson's effort to 'improve' overblown
As the protector of Peyton Manning’s blind side, Indianapolis Colts left tackle Charlie Johnson entered this season blanketed in question marks. Media and fans wondered if the fourth-year pro could keep the three-time NFL MVP quarterback...
Pats shut down Colts Dwight Freeney
Defensive end’s sack streak misses record by 1 game * Dwight Freeney * arrived at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday expecting just about anything from the New England Patriots. They didn’t disappoint, frequently bringing in a third tackle, Mark...
Indianapolis Colts have shown they're masters of the great escape
A franchise-record crowd was on hand for the Indianapolis Colts’ latest Houdini act Sunday evening at Lucas Oil Stadium. The vast majority of the 67,476 were there till the end: Colts 35, New England Patriots 34. Empty seats were as rare as...
Bob Kravitz's Colts report card
Run Offense: B In the long history of Dopey Report Cards, this is the toughest, not to mention the strangest. I really should give one grade for the first 46 minutes and another for the last 14. For roughly 46 minutes, the Colts were across-the-board...
Opinions vary on Bill Belichick's decision
IU computer agrees with going for it on 4th down, most others simply do not Zeus would have gone for it, too. A sophisticated NFL decision-making computer program designed by Indiana University physics researcher Chuck Bower, Zeus determined New...
Colts schedule doesn't get any easier
They travel to Baltimore, then have games against all their AFC South foes Stirring as it was, the Indianapolis Colts’ 14-point charge over the final 2:23 Sunday night at Lucas Oil Stadium won nothing more than a game, even though the...
Caldwell: Win helps young Colts
The day after felt almost as good as the night before, but already Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Caldwell was moving on. His team’s 35-34 victory on Sunday night against New England at Lucas Oil Stadium was transitioning from celebration to...
17 down, Colts rally to beat Patriots
The largest home crowd in the Indianapolis Colts’ 57 seasons of NFL membership witnessed one of the club’s most improbable victories Sunday night at Lucas Oil Stadium. What Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne had characterized as “the...
Bullitt's tackle of Faulk on 4th down turns game
With the New England Patriots facing a fourth-and-2 at their 28-yard line with 2:08 remaining and leading by six points, safety Melvin Bullitt and the Indianapolis Colts defense headed to the sideline. It had done its job, forcing a late punt. Not so...
Bill Belichick's shot backfires on Patriots
Coach elects to go for it on 4th-and-2 with 2:08 to play, but is stopped Strange, without question. Unconventional, to say the least. But New England coach Bill Belichick thought his team could win Sunday night with one more play. The Patriots needed...
Francisco, Pollak out for Colts
Special teams standout Aaron Francisco and backup guard Mike Pollak are among the Indianapolis Colts’ inactives for tonight’s game against the New England Patriots in Lucas Oil Stadium. Also, rookie Curtis Painter will be quarterback...
Stadium roof to be closed for game
The Lucas Lid will be closed for tonight’s Colts-Patriots game at Lucas Oil Stadium. That’s the word on the retractable roof covering the Colts’ home field, according to a newsletter blast from Colts.com. Kickoff is set for 8:20 p.m. Some fans might...
Colts TE Clark a marked man
After huge game vs. Texans, expect the Patriots to bring something special Dallas Clark is coming off one of the best games by a tight end in NFL history. The Colts veteran had a career-high 14 receptions in last Sunday’s victory over Houston,...
At stake? Home field in playoffs
Here’s theory No. 1 regarding the latest installment of Indianapolis Colts vs. New England Patriots, which unfolds this evening at Lucas Oil Stadium: It’s just another game . “Just (number) nine of 16,’’ Colts linebacker...
Powers crams for biggest test yet
Jerraud Powers always has been a step or two ahead of the pack. After his first season at Auburn University, he was named to the coaches’ Southeastern Conference all-freshman team. As a sophomore, he was the Tigers’ Defensive Player of...
