I wrote a column this week about legendary Maryland trainer King Leatherbury. I realized years ago that there are good stories, and then there are horse racing stories.
Leatherbury's got a horse racing story.
Leatherbury is currently looking for somebody to put up $100,000 so his over-achieving gelding, Ben's Cat, can run against the best-bred [...]
The devaluation of all things Washington Redskins continues.
The latest evidence: "Hail the the Redskins," a new, cheaper scatch ticket coming out of the partnership between the team and the Virginia Lottery.
Hail to the Redskins is the third Redskins scratch game in as many years.
The original Redskins scratcher, Redskins Mania, debuted in 2009. In keeping with [...]
Fox-5 aired its own post-game show following the Redskins loss to Dallas.
As host Dave Feldman spoke in the bowels of Cowboys Stadium, you could see Comcast sportscaster Kelli Johnson over his shoulder interviewing Skins receiver Santana Moss down the hall. Johnson and Moss stood more or less eye to eye just outside an entrance to [...]
Friendship Collegiate strengthened its status as the Nation's Best Football Team That Uses a Storage Bin as a Locker Room by dispensing of St. Leo of Chicago on Friday, 38-17.
The game was played at Anacostia, because along with being locker-roomless, the Knights are also a Football Team Without a Football Field.
The lopsided win leaves Friendship [...]
I wrote lots of words for this week's print edition of Washington City Paper about the sorry hand DC Public Schools football players have been dealt.
The adults who run athletics for DC's high schools do the poorest job of running a league that I've ever seen. Nobody comes close.
Forfeits come in bunches in the city's [...]
The Great Dan Steinberg was on the Lavar and Dukes Show on WJFK-FM on Tuesday afternoon still talking up the Washington Post's poll of area sports fans.
TGDS™ sounded surprised at the number of folks who told the surveyors that they don't like the Washington Redskins more than they don't like other pro franchises in the [...]
Sources close to Dave McKenna say I, or, um, he will be on "The Mike Wise Show" in studio on WJFK-106.7 FM at 11:30 a.m. today. That's in like 15 minutes. Hang up and listen.
The value of a Redskins ticket is apparently continuing to plummet even after the team's thrashing of the New York Giants in Sunday's opener.
In a column published in early June, I observed that, "Supply is kicking demand's ass at FedExField."
The ass-kicking continues, despite the Redskins' fabulous start to the 2011 season.
At the time that [...]
Georgetown Prep's a private school that has an indoor track and golf course on campus and overall athletic facilities so fabulous that professional teams rent 'em. Friendship Collegiate Academy's a public charter school with no home football field and a place where the athletes are forced to use a storage bin as a locker room.
But [...]
The only thing Hunter S. Thompson ever wrote that I got was his suicide note.
He titled it "Football Season Is Over" and began with "No more games." Then he blew his head off.
I'm not in his league, but I look forward to the NFL season to an unhealthy degree, and the illness gets [...]
Isn’t It About Time To Call A Penalty
For Unsportsmanlike Conduct?
The mainstream media didn't cover the racially charged protests against the Washington Redskins in 1961, sparked a half-century ago by outrage over owner George Preston Marshall's refusal to integrate his all-white team.
The black press, however, was all over the story, particularly the Afro-American Newspapers, whose legendary [...]
Friendship Collegiate Academy, which I like to call The Nation's Best Team That Uses a Storage Bin as a Locker Room, once again took a large early lead then held on, beating Baltimore's Mount St. Joseph 18-13 last night in Bowie.
The game, part of some moneymaking prep gridiron extravaganza called the I-95 Classic, was Friendship's [...]
RFK Stadium turns 50 years old this fall. To kick off the golden anniversary celebration, I wrote a column this week about the stadium's first tenant, the 1961 Washington Redskins, which was also the NFL's last segregated team.
Read all about it here.
George Preston Marshall, the Redskins owner, had ignored calls for him to integrate [...]
Bill Veeck would love the way the Harrisburg Senators are promoting tomorrow night's home game.
Here's the email, misspellings and all, that the Senators blasted to fans last night:
"Mark your calenders! Back by popular demand, the cowboy monkeys are at Metro Bank Park on Thursday, Sept. 1 (7:00)! They were so popular the first time around [...]
Yesterday in front of a road crowd and an ESPN audience, Friendship Collegiate Academy made an early lead stand up in defeating one of Cincinnati's top squads, Taft, 12-6.
Yes, big time high school football is now played on Sundays, too, to accommodate national TV.
Closer to home, Friendship's win is huge for one reason: It justifies [...]
