Baltimore Ravens Cheerleaders

Members of the Baltimore Ravens' 2014-2015 cheerleading team participate in a swimsuit calendar photo shoot in Jamaica. While there, the team stayed at Jewel Paradise Cove Beach Resort & Spa, a new all-inclusive resort in Runaway Bay.

Browse images of the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders during the 2013 season. ALSO SEE: Ravens cheerleaders section | Pictures: Cheers for cheerleaders

A special Baltimore Sun Advertising publication, The Ravens Cheerleaders Swimsuit Issue is now on sale at Royal Farms, 7-Eleven and other local retail outlets. Photographs from the development of the Swimsuit Issue are part of a pictorial available in the gallery below.

Browse images of the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders during the 2011 season. ALSO SEE: Ravens cheerleaders section | Pictures: Cheers for cheerleaders

See pictures of Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders in Halloween costumes.

Funny how they're almost always -- always -- cut out of pictures. You might see a couple of their thick fingers, perhaps a taped wrist. But the shot is inevitably one of a petite cheerleader sailing through the air. How did she get there, hovering in the stadium air? Thank the discreet human...

We haven’t done a caption contest in a while, but we have a perfect storm for one this Halloween.

I love cheerleaders almost as much as I love football, and Esquire has an ingenious Monday morning football feature where they ask a cheerleader for the skinny on the team she waves her pompoms for every Sunday.

Bel Air High School was overrun with cheerleaders this week for a cheer camp that drew 200 from local high schools as well as a number of instructors, including two associated with the Baltimore Ravens.

Storm clouds are hovering over the NFL, with players and owners negotiating to prevent a labor lockout. But for the Ravens' cheerleading squad -- a perpetual ray of light at M&T Bank Stadium even on rainy, sleety and snowy Sundays -- the high-flying, big-smiling show must go on.

I only do hard-hitting journalism here at Baltimore Sports Blitz, and I have a smashing special report from Ravens cheerleader tryouts on Sunday.