The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union told a D.C. Superior Court judge last night that Dan Snyder's lawsuit against Washington City Paper and staff writer Dave McKenna is a nuisance that must be thrown out because it violates a new law that keeps powerful public figures from harassing people—or newspapers—that write about [...]

Dan Snyder built a reputation as an anti-environmentalist. Can he build his way out of it?
The Redskins announced yesterday that a big chunk of the FedExField parking lots will soon be covered by 8,000 solar panels. Based on an artist's rendering released by the team, the result will be a futuristic and figuratively green carport in [...]

The Great Dan Steinberg had a D.C. Sports Bog post today about teams incentivizing fans to become salespersons for the organization.
The Redskins, TGDS writes, are currently offering a big discount on premium seats to any ticketholder who brings more premium ticketbuyers to the organization.
Here's some copy from the team's promotion of its referral program posted on the [...]

For the almost expirational print platform of Washington City Paper, I wrote an update on the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and focused on how the group helped out a great kid in my neighborhood.
The foundation, founded after the 1997 death of the former Washington Redskins owner, was funded from the start with money that Cooke's estate [...]

Who says the Redskins ain't cool anymore?
Behold "The Chief Tank Top" available through Palace 5ive for $26.
The 14th Street NW shop, which markets boards to skateboarders and garments to folks who want to look like skateboarders, bills its  Native-American-in-shades design as a "slightly updated, slightly twisted version of the Redskin's logo."
And there's gotta be at [...]

When Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder sued Washington City Paper's parent companies in February in New York courts over "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," we said the suit had no merit. When Snyder dropped the New York case and moved it to D.C. courts in April, suing City Paper and staff writer Dave [...]

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder says he loves the media. He is, as he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last month, "the son of a University of Missouri School of Journalism graduate whose professional pedigree includes working at United Press International and National Geographic. I am proud of that legacy from my dad and [...]

On May 25, 1999, Dan Snyder won unanimous approval from the National Football League to buy the Washington Redskins from the estate of Jack Kent Cooke. The purchase cost $800 million.
"Persistence pays off," Snyder told WUSA-TV after the sale was approved. "We're going to be that persistent when it comes to winning on the field."
The [...]

Last year at this time, the Redskins solved problems related to the inability to sell out the Club Level by ripping out several sections of the pricey yellow seats and adding a standing room section/"party deck" that was briefly called the RFK Standing Stomping Zone.
Well, the woes posed by an inability to sell out have apparently [...]

There's no dealing like self-dealing.
Earlier this week, the Washington Redskins and Red Zebra Broadcasting jointly trumpeted a new deal that will keep the team's game broadcasts on WTEM-AM "through the 2015 season."
In announcing the alliance, Chuck Sapienza, director of programming for WTEM's parent company Red Zebra, said, "We are very excited to continue our [...]

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, as promised, has re-filed his lawsuit over Washington City Paper's "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder" in D.C. Superior Court.
Read the complaint, against City Paper, the paper's parent company Creative Loafing, Inc., and writer Dave McKenna here:
And catch up on anything else you might have missed in the case [...]

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Dan Snyder famously went all Paul Bunyan on a big swath of environmentally protected land behind his Potomac residence in 2004.
The National Park Service’s inspector general issued a report in 2006 that said the whole charade started when Snyder decided to add another floor to his already massive abode to house a ballroom. A [...]

With the players' union disbanded and bargaining turned into litigation, the football lawyers and journalists and Drew Brees-es, who for a few sorta-exciting recent days hung out among us downtown, have gone their separate ways.
That's left the fans here and everywhere time to dwell on basketball, and hockey, and bitterness.
Here's a representative example of the [...]

Great article by Paul Farhi in today's Washington Post about sports teams and even leagues trying to control the message. Farhi gives examples of the control-freakishness from across the country, but locals will be most enthralled, if not surprised, by Farhi's lengthy passages on Dan Snyder.
Turns out Snyder's team, apparently in the interest of maintaining [...]

The Daily Oklahoman reported this month that Kieran Burke will be running Frontier City and White Water Bay, a pair of Oklahoma City theme parks.
Burke's the guy Dan Snyder waged war against beginning in 2004 on the way to taking over Six Flags.
Frontier City and White Water Bay were Six Flags properties during Snyder's fiscally [...]