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Ravens announce minicamp schedule

Stop everything ... there's Ravens news. Sorta.

The team has announced a schedule of minicamps under first-year head coach John Harbaugh. The first is in mid-April (April 17-19). There's another May 1-3 and a mandatory minicamp May 9-11. On May 16 and May 23, there are special teams practices and on May 20-22, a rookie camp. There are three passing camps: May 27-30, June 3-6 and June 9-12. All those will be held at the practice facilities at team headquarters, aka The Castle, in Owings Mills. Dates can change.

Training camp where fans can enjoy languid summer days watching interminable drills with be at McDaniel College in Westminster again and tentative start dates will be either the week of July 20 or July 27, according to a team press release.

Posted by Bill Ordine on March 17, 2008 1:29 PM | Permalink

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Good i am ready for a change i am ready for some football
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TC,
Holy smokes ... the Orioles haven't even lost a game yet.
-- Bill O.

Posted by: tc | March 17, 2008 8:49 PM

Well Bill even the smallest news about the Ravens can brighten the smiles of a Baltimore area that is suffering from over 10 years of Fantastic Orioles Losing Baseball. Its hard to get hyped when the PR machine builds up young guns but come july its football season in Bmore.
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James,
You don't have to tell us. It's pretty easy to take the fans' temperature in these parts.
-- Bill O.

Posted by: Fuzzysportsnut | March 18, 2008 11:38 AM

Mr. Ordine,

I was curious to know exactly how much of a difference this is from the mini-camp schedule once used by Brian Billick?
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Doug,
I'll check on that. I noticed that of the total sessions, 14 were also designated as OTAs .... organized team activities, including the two special teams days and passing camps. Of the three mini-camps, one was specifically designated mandatory, the one on May 9-11.
-- Bill O.

Posted by: Doug | March 18, 2008 1:44 PM

Yeh any football news is nice. even though they had a lousy season, it's still more exciting than orioles baseball as a season. but as baseball seasons go this one will be interesting at least because something will be different. instead of fourth place we'll be in fifth place in the AL east

Posted by: Bryan | March 19, 2008 10:13 PM

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Bill Ordine has been a reporter and editor for more than 25 years and during that time has covered Super Bowls, major murder trials, township zoning board meetings and bat mitzvahs. In his time with The Baltimore Sun, he has been an assistant city editor, pro football writer, poker columnist, enterprise sports reporter and now blogger -- which may indicate his editors have yet to find a job he can get right.