football

For the first time in more than a decade, the Ravens are Super Bowl bound. In a rematch of last year's AFC championship game, the Ravens beat the New England Patriots 28 to 13 last night.

Mark Hyman joins Tom in the studio to talk about the big game; both the one last night and the one in two weeks in the Big Easy.

The college football bowl season is in full swing. None of the players is getting paid to play in the bowl games -- or any other game for that matter. Historian Taylor Branch says we should change that. Tom Hall talks with Branch about the Bowl Championship Series and the state of college sports.

The University of Maryland announced last week that in 2014 it will abandon the Atlantic Coast Conference in which it's athletic teams have competed for the past 60 years. It will move to the Big Ten, a league that actually includes 14 teams, who are largely based in the midwest.

Football is back, and so is the tailgating season. Chefs Henry Hong and John Shields have terrific tailgate recipes, and we invite listeners to tell us what they're cooking on game day. What was the most elaborate tailgate you’ve ever seen? What Maryland fans throw the best tailgates? And forget beer, what’s the best tailgate cocktail?

An independent investigation found that Coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials protected serial predator Jerry Sandusky in order to “avoid the consequences of bad publicity” for the university, its football program and its coach’s reputation. What now for PSU? Our guests: Milton Kent, WYPR Sports-at-Large commentator; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, whose article, "The Shame of College Sports" appeared in The Atlantic last fall; and Joe Ehrmann, former Baltimore Colts player and co-founder of Coach For America

This interview was originally broadcast on March 18, 2011.

How do the homeless youth of Baltimore cope?

Dr. Najmaldin Karim, neurosurgeon from Silver Spring…and Governor of Kirkuk.

Tom Hall talks with Mark Hyman about football.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of a Baltimore production of the 1959 classic by Lorraine Hansberry.