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-- Ravens Sign Chad Slaughter; Release Robert McCune -- Thu Nov 20, 2008 --from FFMastermind.com The Carroll County Times reports the Baltimore Ravens have signed OT Chad Slaughter and released LB Robert McCune. ____________________________________________ Things aren't good when you have to re-sign this guy.

NOTES TEXANS: Team is averaging 25.8 points per game in past 9…QB SAGE ROSENFELS posted season-high 72.2 completion pct. as starter last week (13 of 18)…Rookie RB STEVE SLATON (3rd round, No. 89) ranks 3rd in AFC with 701 rush yards (5.1 avg.) on 138 att. & 6 TDs. Slaton set franchise record with 11.1 yards per carry (min. 10 att.) on 14 carries for career-high 156 yards last week. RB AHMAN GREEN had season-high 2 rush TDs last week…WR ANDRE JOHNSON is averaging 110.9 receiving yards in past 7 (776 total). Johnson (955) needs 45 receiving yards to reach 1,000 for 3rd time in career. WR KEVIN WALTER leads team with 6 TD receptions…TE OWEN DANIELS ranks 2nd in AFC among TEs in receptions (45) & yards (555)…Since ’07, DE MARIO WILLIAMS ranks 3rd in NFL with 22 sacks (DE MARCUS WARE, 25; JARED ALLEN, 23.5). Williams has 6 sacks in past 7 games. Williams posted 1 sack & 1 FF in last meeting against Browns…PR-WR JACOBY JONES is tied for 2nd in AFC with 14.4 PR avg…BROWNS: In 2 career starts, QB BRADY QUINN has completed 37 of 71 passes (52.1 pct.) for 424 yards with 2 TDs vs. 0 INTs & 79.8 passer rating…Browns are 5-0 when RB JAMAL LEWIS has 25+ carries. Lewis posted 29 att. for 134 yards (4.6 avg.) with 1 TD in last meeting against Hou. For career, RB JEROME HARRISON averages 6.5 yards per carry (63 att., 409 yards)…WR BRAYLON EDWARDS posted 2nd 100-yard receiving game of season last week (154, 104). In last meeting against Texans (w/Phi. on 9/10/06), WR DONTE’ STALLWORTH totaled 6 receptions for 141 yards (23.5 avg.) with 1 TD…TE KELLEN WINSLOW is averaging 87.5 receiving yards per game in past 2 at home (175 total). In 2 career games vs. Texans, Winslow is averaging 10.5 catches per game & 100 receiving yards per game (21 receptions, 200 yards)…Club posted 3 INTs last week…LBs ANDRA DAVIS & KAMERION WIMBLEY registered 1st INTs of season last week…Rookie LB ALEX HALL (7th round, No. 231) is tied for 1st among AFC rookies with 3 sacks.

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NOTES BENGALS: Club has won 5 of past 7 vs. AFC in Nov…QB RYAN FITZPATRICK has 60+ completion percentage in all 6 starts this season. In past 2, Fitzpatrick has 3 TDs vs. 1 INT & 88.9 passer rating. In last start against Pit., Fitzpatrick completed 21 of 35 (60.0 pct.) for 164 yards with 1 TD vs. 0 INTs & 81.1 passer rating. Fitzpatrick has 103 rush yards in past 3…For career, RB CEDRIC BENSON averages 76.6 rush yards per game when he has 20+ carries…WR T.J. HOUSHMANDZADEH aims for 9th consecutive game with 6+ rec. Since ’07, Houshmandzadeh leads NFL with 185 receptions. WR CHAD JOHNSON has 3 TD rec. in past 4. Aims for 103rd consecutive game with rec…Since ’03, team is 22-6-1 (.776) when defense has 2+ INTs…LB DHANI JONES leads team with 96 tackles…KR GLENN HOLT is 1st in AFC with 933 KR yards… STEELERS: Team aims for 5th consecutive win against Bengals for 1st time since 9/19/93…Club is 6-1 (.857) against AFC in ’08…For career, QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER is 25-8 (.757) at home & has completed 551 of 869 passes (63.4 pct.) for 6,998 yards with 47 TDs vs. 33 INTs & 90.7 passer rating. Incl. playoffs, team is 29-2 (.935), when Roethlisberger has 100+ passer rating…RB WILLIE PARKER aims for 3rd consecutive game with 100+ yards at home (138, 115). Parker averages 113.7 rush yards per game against Cin. as starter (682 total)…WR HINES WARD averages 118 receiving yards per game in past 2 & aims for 3rd consecutive 100-yard receiving game for 1st time since 11/24/02. Ward has 5 TD receptions in past 3 against Bengals. In past 3 against Cin., WR SANTONIO HOLMES averages 100 receiving yards per game (300 total)…Club leads AFC with 36 sacks…LB LA MARR WOODLEY has 8.5 sacks in past 7 games…LB JAMES HARRISON has 9 sacks in past 7 & ranks 2nd in NFL with 12 sacks.

STRASBOURG, France (AP)—Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre will be going head-to-head with Lance Armstrong at the Giro d’Italia next year. With Armstrong still undecided on competing in the Tour, the Giro guarantees at least one major race featuring both the reigning Tour champion and the seven-time winner. Sastre had previously been uncommitted on the Giro. “The Giro d’Italia will be my first important goal. I will be ready for the start,” the Spaniard said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. Sastre said he would use the Giro as more than just a warmup for the defense of his Tour title. “If I go to the Giro it is not just for training,” he said. http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news;_ylt=AuDrn...p&type=lgns

When NBA owners chose the Minnesota Timberwolves Glen Taylor as the chairman of their Board of Governors, the hypocrisy inspired no public outcry. No notice that a mastermind of what the commissioner had called “one of the farthest-reaching frauds I’ve ever seen” had gone from betraying his peers to presiding over them. Taylor had sanctioned free agent Joe Smith’s secret side deal eight years ago, a clandestine contract that would cost the Wolves three future first-round draft picks and a $3.5 million fine. Taylor didn’t just show his dishonesty by cheating on the salary cap, but his incompetence for doing so with a player whose talent never justified the risk. The owners cheered David Stern’s harsh punishment. They condemned Taylor as a crook. And then, three weeks ago, Stern would celebrate Taylor’s choice as chairman with a you-have-to-be-kidding declaration that his selection would “ensure the same high standards” of his predecessor. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Aj8V...o&type=lgns

Crab Bowl All-Star Game kickoff event Mark Clem TerrapinTimes.com Sixty of the best senior high school football players, including nearly a dozen future Terps, gathered at River Hill on Sunday to kick off the inaugural Crab Bowl. Maryland's new high school football all-star game will make its debut on December 20 at Johnny Unitas Stadium at Towson University. To purchase tickets call Chuck Harmon at 443-813-1228 or visit TicketMaster.com http://maryland.rivals.com/barrier_noentry...p;mid=&rid=

28. Baltimore Ravens: Jeremy Maclin, WR, Missouri What happened to Mark Clayton? Why is 34-year-old Derrick Mason the only dependable receiver on Baltimore's roster? Joe Flacco has played extremely well since getting debacled at Indianapolis. Flacco will continue to mature, but he'll need another dependable wideout by his side. http://www.walterfootball.com/draft2009.php

CINCINNATI BENGALS (1-8-1) at PITTSBURGH STEELERS (7-3) (Thursday night, NFL Network, 8:00 PM ET) STORYLINE: Throw out the records – it’s “Bengals-Steelers”! “Hey, we’re a good team, regardless of the record,” says Cincinnati S CHRIS CROCKER. And no better time to prove it than Thursday night in the lair of the hated AFC North-rival Steelers, who defeated the Bengals a month ago 38-10. It won’t be easy. Although they just edged San Diego 11-10 on Sunday, the Steelers seem to be solidifying things as the Thanksgiving turn approaches. QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER didn’t throw an interception against the Chargers, RB WILLIE PARKER ran for 115 yards and WR HINES WARD produced 124 yards. In Ward’s last three games against Cincinnati, he has had 15 catches for 238 yards and five touchdowns. It will be a top-this showdown between Ward and the Bengals’ T.J. HOUSHMANDZADEH, who leads the NFL in receptions with 73 and comes off a 12-catch, 149-yard, one-TD day against Philadelphia. Houshmandzadeh’s specialty is going underneath and turning the short catch into long gains. Congrats, Coach: Steelers defensive coordinator DICK LE BEAU, the Bengals’ head coach from 2000-02, will be honored by the NFL in pregame for his 50 years of service to the league as a player and coach.

PLAYOFF BERTHS POSSIBLE FOR TITANS & CARDS; FOUR DIVISION LEADERS CLASH: GIANTS-CARDS & JETS-TITANS Tiebreakers? It’s not even Thanksgiving! But that’s what you get when you’ve had a great season – a possible playoff berth before that mad NFL holiday rush. That’s where the Arizona Cardinals and undefeated Tennessee Titans find themselves this week – on the cusp of clinching a postseason spot. That’s great. But the real assignment this week? Just beat the next opponent. The rest will take care of itself. “We’re in a good position, but it’s not a done deal yet,” says Arizona head coach KEN WHISENHUNT. “The players are only talking about playing the Jets on Sunday,” says Tennessee coach JEFF FISHER. “That’s the challenge right now.” The Cardinals (vs. the Giants) and Titans (vs. the Jets) play the two Week 12 games that pit division leaders against each other. Group these four teams together and you get an .825 winning percentage. But, says Giants head coach TOM COUGHLIN, “There are many, many big games to go.” NEW YORK JETS (7-3) at TENNESSEE TITANS (10-0) STORYLINE: Mississippi vs. Tennessee! In other words, the Jets’ BRETT FAVRE, from Kiln, Mississippi, against KERRY COLLINS and the Titans. Two of the oldest QB starters in the league (Favre, 39; Collins, 35) have shown this year that experience tops age by taking their teams to two of the three best records in the AFC (Pittsburgh, 7-3). They will be tested. Favre, who has not thrown an interception in two games, will confront a pass defense that will continuously change during the game, from man-to-man to zone coupled with mixtures of each. The Titans with 15 tie Baltimore for second in the league in interceptions to Green Bay’s 16. And Favre – sacked only four times in the past four games – will face a defensive tackle that has DE/LB quickness in ALBERT HAYNESWORTH and his seven sacks. The Titans lead the league in turnover differential (plus-10), with a lot of credit for that going to Collins, who has been picked off only four times this season. He gets plenty of protection, being sacked the fewest times (5) among the league’s top-20 passers. Matchup to watch: Jets marauding DT KRIS JENKINS has told FOX analyst TONY SIRAGUSA that he is definitely looking forward to going against former Jets C KEVIN MAWAE. NEW YORK GIANTS (9-1) at ARIZONA CARDINALS (7-3) STORYLINE: Hey, Eli -- it’s Kurt! The two starting QBs know each other well. As a matter of fact, Arizona’s KURT WARNER played the Giants’ first nine games of ELI MANNING’s rookie year (2004) before Eli finished the season’s final seven. Both Super Bowl-winning QBs and MVPs, the two have excelled this year. Warner leads the NFL in passer rating (105.5), has posted a club-record four consecutive 300-yard games and has taken the Cards to a four-game division lead. Manning has led the Giants to their best start since their Super Bowl XXV season of 1990 (10-0), to 30-or-more points in their past three games, and the No. 1 rank in points scored, 292 (Arizona ties the Jets for second-most, 289). Even with those strong arms, the real battle could come on – where else? -- the ground. The Giants, with their three-pronged rushing attack of BRANDON JACOBS, DERRICK WARD and AHMAD BRADSHAW, lead the league in rushing and come off their third 200-yard rush game in a row, giving them a team-record five such games in a season. They go against the NFL’s No. 7 rush defense. Home in domes: The Giants have won six consecutive games in domes, including at the site of this Sunday’s game in University of Phoenix Stadium when its roof was closed for Super Bowl XLII.

NOTES EAGLES: QB DONOVAN MC NABB is 13-4-1 (.750) in past 18 starts vs. AFC & has not lost in past 5 (4-0-1). When McNabb has 100+ rating (incl. playoffs), team is 37-1 (.974)…Since start of ’04, RB BRIAN WESTBROOK has 7,494 scrimmage yards (4,487 rush, 3,007 rec.), 2nd most in NFL. Is only player in that span with 4,000+ rush & 3,000+ rec. yards. Is 1 of 7 players in NFL history with 25+ rush (33) & rec. (25) TDs…WR DE SEAN JACKSON leads NFC rookies with 652 rec. yards & is 2nd with 42 catches. WR REGGIE BROWN has 17 career TD catches & 10 have been 20+ yards. TE L.J. SMITH had TD last week. Has 3 rec. TDs this year, tied with WR HANK BASKETT for team lead…Club had 8 sacks last week, incl. 2.0 each by DEs DARREN HOWARD & TRENT COLE. Howard has 5.5 sacks in past 5. Cole has 18.5 sacks in past 26. CB ASANTE SAMUEL has 19 INTs since ’06, most in NFL. DE JUQUA PARKER has 5.0 sacks in past 8. S BRIAN DAWKINS had FF in last meeting…K DAVID AKERS needs 7 points to reach 1,000… RAVENS: Club has won 3 of past 4 at home…JOHN HARBAUGH spent 10 years (1998-2007) as asst. coach w/Phi…In past 5, rookie QB JOE FLACCO (1st round, No. 18) has completed 81 of 132 passes (61.4 pct.) for 969 yards with 7 TDs vs. 2 INTs & 95.2 passer rating. Flacco aims for 6th game in row with TD pass. RB WILLIS MC GAHEE has 4 rush TDs in past 4. RB LE’ RON MC CLAIN leads team with 6 TDs (5 rush, 1 rec.)…Since ’03, WR DERRICK MASON ranks 3rd in NFL with 501 rec. (TORRY HOLT, 537; CHAD JOHNSON, 503). Mason averages 86.3 rec. yds per game in past 3. Aims for 3rd straight with 7 rec. vs. Phi. & averages 101 rec. yds per game in past 2 vs. Phi…Since ’03, team is 33-10 (.767) when defense posts 3+ sacks…LB RAY LEWIS has 3 INTs in past 2 & aims for 3rd game in row w/INT…Since ’02, S ED REED leads NFL with 35 INTs…Bal. has not allowed 100-yard rusher in 29 games (longest current streak in NFL). LAST GAME AT SITE 11/16/97: Ravens 10, Eagles 10 (OT). Philadelphia RB Charlie Garner forces OT with 2-yard TD run with 1:25 left in 4th quarter. Each team misses FG in OT as game ends in tie.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES Practice Report OUT (DEFINITELY WILL NOT PLAY) Wednesday G Shawn Andrews (back) DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN PRACTICE Wednesday RB Brian Westbrook (knee, ankle) FULL PARTICIPATION IN PRACTICE Wednesday S Sean Considine (rib), LS Jon Dorenbos (shoulder), T Jon Runyan (knee) BALTIMORE RAVENS Practice Report OUT (DEFINITELY WILL NOT PLAY) Wednesday WR Terrance Copper (neck) DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN PRACTICE Wednesday T Jared Gaither (shoulder), WR Derrick Mason (shoulder), S Ed Reed (neck), CB Samari Rolle (shoulder) LIMITED PARTICIPATION IN PRACTICE Wednesday T Willie Anderson (ankle), TE Daniel Wilcox (thigh), S Tom Zbikowski (thumb, thigh)

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