Super Bowl:

A lights-out performance: With 3 TD passes, Flacco leads Ravens back to the top

By Barry Wilner, Associated Press

Published Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 | 8:18 p.m.

Updated Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 | 8:59 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS — From blowout to blackout to shootout, Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens had just enough power to survive one of the most electric Super Bowls ever. The outage flipped a switch for the San Francisco 49ers, but the Ravens used a last-gasp defensive stand to hold on Sunday night, 34-31. America's biggest sporting event came to a half-hour standstill in the third quarter when most of the Superdome lights and the scoreboards went dark. By then, the Ravens had a 22-point lead. Everything changed after that, though, and the 49ers staged a sensational rally before Ray Lewis ...

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By Orley (Jim Wooton)

Feb. 3, 2013

9:34 p.m.

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A great Super Bowl, won by a great Baltimore Ravens team. Congratulations Ravens.
By lvfacts101 (Jerry Fink)

Feb. 4, 2013

5:01 a.m.

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Fun game to watch, but the writer gave too much credit to Flacco and and not enough to the receivers. Flacco was throwing up "Hail Mary" passes the entire game and his receivers made great, if not spectacular, catches to bail him out. However, this was a game in which I had hoped both sides would lose. The 49s because their coach is a poor "winner." The Ravens because of the murdering SOB Lewis.