Troy Smith wants to be traded from Baltimore. Not the least bit surprising for a former Heisman Trophy winner who has held his own in relief duty from the Ravens. What is weird is that his agent let the world know via Twitter, which I guess is the new press release. “Ravens QB Troy Smith, [...]
Throughout the night, I heard Ravens fans in the stands reacting to the Michael Vick-to-the-Eagles news. It trickled throughout the 140 section and around the stadium, prompting a mixed response when the big screen showed the AP lede on the story. And I found it to be poetic in two ways. One, all of the [...]
Here’s rule number one if you are a professional athlete that is catching onto the Twitter craze. If you aren’t going to keep your on-camera and social networking personas the same, get somebody to Tweet for you. Case in point is Baltimore Ravens quarterback Troy Smith. From profanity to drug references to vulgar thanks extended [...]
He was a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for The Ohio State University, and were it not for an untimely illness, Troy Smith may have been the Baltimore Ravens’ starting quarterback last season. Now? He may be the NFL’s next Slashback, an athlete classically trained at quarterback, but naturally gifted enough to do almost anything else on [...]
The world may never know what would’ve been of Troy Smith. Last year, Kyle Boller was injured and maligned, Joe Flacco was newly drafted and unready for the pressures NFL stardom, and Troy Smith was the second-year player with a Heisman Trophy and some manageable expectations from Ravens faithful. Then he got sick, Flacco stepped [...]
