In the end, nobody ponied up.
The Maryland Jockey Club announced today that King Leatherbury did not find an investor/gambler to pay the $100,000 supplemental fee to enter his horse, Ben's Cat, in this year's Breeders' Cup. The deadline for payment was yesterday.
Official entries for the Turf Sprint will be announced tomorrow.
So Ben's Cat, a homebred [...]
For the carbon footprinting press that is the paper version of Washington City Paper, I compared the pollution reductions offered by the much-hyped solar energy installation at Dan Snyder's FedEx Field with the pollution contributions of the new-to-him $70 million toy, the mega-yacht Lady Anne.
After converting litres to gallons and metric tons to pounds, [...]
Elgin Baylor, likely the greatest athlete this city ever produced, has no presence in his hometown.
When he left for Idaho in 1954, he really left. The NBA All-Timer, Spingarn hero and D.C. playground legend almost never makes appearances in a place where men of a certain age and race regard him as a superhero.
So I [...]
Who says the Redskins aren't on top of things?
After reading in this space yesterday that Donovan McNabb is no longer on the team, somebody removed the deposed QB from the home page of MyRedskinsSearch.com, the search engine touted on the Washington Redskins official web site.
Alas, the same genius who kept McNabb on the home page [...]
If you're looking to find all the news about yesterday's Donovan McNabb demotion by the Vikings, what better search engine to use than MyRedskinsSearch, found on the Washington Redskins home page and endorsed by the team that, well, demoted McNabb a year ago.
McNabb, of course, was shipped outta town after his benching here.
But apparently somebody [...]
Just as we hoped they would for the purpose of continuing this blog serial, the Knights of Friendship Collegiate have quickly rebounded from their first loss of the year to ecclesiastical New Jersey football factory Bergen Catholic.
Regular readers will remember that Friendship couldn't overcome Bergen Catholic's passing game and unfair Constitutional advantage over our Knights [...]
For the black and white and read all over print edition of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about the 1962 City Title game and riot. It's among the more amazing and ugly chapters in D.C.'s athletic and anthropological histories. Pick up a copy. Read the story. Love thy brother.
Essentially, at the end of [...]
Have you heard about the new skatepark at RFK already being torn down? Yeah, us too.
Strictly a rumor, say the stadium folks.
"No, no, no," says Teri Washington, spokesperson for DC Events, which controls the stadium and its grounds. "Not true."
Washington was responding to an inquiry from Washington City Paper inspired by an anonymous tipster who [...]
Around 2007, I predicted the end was near for Sam Huff's media career. I was nowhere near right.
Huff, who turned 77 last week, was only getting started. He's branched into newspapering.
My dire prognosis came after I noticed how Huff, a Hall of Fame linebacker and member of the Washington Redskins radio broadcasting crew that I've [...]
Dang if "Crusader Crazy" wasn't right!
Friendship Collegiate Academy indeed entered a "world of hurt"up North over the weekend, suffering through a come-from-ahead loss on the road to Bergen Catholic.
Crusader C. instructed readers and the author of the last installment of "Friday Night Knights" that Bergen Catholic was a whole lot better than its 2-2 record, [...]
For the flamboyantly fabulous print edition of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about the 2013 Gay Softball World Series just being awarded to our city.
I was impressed, in a "We've-Come-a-Long-Way-Baby!" sort of way, by the mundanity of the announcement, that the awarding was a business matter and not a gay business matter. The [...]
I first met Lamont Peterson about a decade ago. He and his younger brother Anthony were pounding the crap out of each other in the furnace room of a school in Columbia Heights.
They had boxing gloves on. The Petersons were both teenagers at the time and the star pugs of the Headbangers, a fight club [...]
The unquestioned star of today's press conference to announce various commemorations of the 50th Birthday of RFK Stadium was a football player, but not a Redskin.
No, the real ear-turner of the many speakers to take the podium on the field and share memories of the old building was Norm Neverson, a kid from Roosevelt High [...]
Ben's Cat, an under-bred five-year-old gelding, won the Maryland Million Turf Sprint on Saturday at Laurel Park.
That leaves King Leatherbury, his under-appreciated 78-year-old trainer, with 6,326 career wins, third most of any trainer in the history of horse racing, but still no Hall of Fame induction.
Ben's Cat, shown above in orange, broke a pelvis as [...]
Friendship Collegiate's done with the nail-biters. After winning their first three games on the last possession, the Knights went the suspenseless route for the second week in a row with a 26-6 rout of P.G. County's Gwynn Park Yellow Jackets.
The win leaves Friendship undefeated at 5-0, and only enhances the Knights' rep as not only [...]
