It's not clear to me which is the bigger travesty: Vinny Cerrato keeping his job so long after running the Redskins into the ground, or Dan Snyder staying atop Six Flags despite making all the wrong moves since taking over the now-bankrupt theme park chain in 2005.
Six Flags' reorganization is nowhere near complete, and god [...]

Another day, another update on Dan Snyder's Cheerleader Car Wash Sweepstakes. Another chance to run that fab/yucky photo from Snyder's WTEM promotion, the one that's sucked in some of the most brilliant minds in new media to our humble comments section.
Seems Snyder doesn't really care who he jumps in bed with these days. His partner [...]

Dan Snyder's detestability rating enjoyed another spike yesterday: Reports out of FedExField for the Tampa Bay game have Snyder confiscating paper bags at the entrance to his stadium, so fans couldn't put them on their heads for the TV cameras.
Sportstalk radio station WJFK this morning put on callers who said they got bags past the [...]

The NFL season starts tonight. The only must-read of all the pre-kickoff previews: Erik Wemple's take on Sunday's Redskins/Giants game. His post attracted a group of meatheads to the comments section the way a roach motel does roaches. It's a meathead motel, is what I'm sayin'. Don't miss it.
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A near-miss must-read: "A Decade of Snyder [...]

FanZoneGate™ Update: Redskins spokesman Karl Swanson says WJFK, a new sportsradio station and rival to Dan Snyder's WTEM, had no business selling passes to the FanZone, a new private parking lot near FedExField that was set to compete with the Snyder-owned lots on Redskins game days.
Folks who bought FanZone parking passes on WJFK's web site [...]

I wrote a column this week about one of the bizarrest happenings in local prep ball history, and a game I'd been hearing about for years: The 1970 summer league matchup between John Thompson's St. Anthony's squad and the Morgan Wootten-coached DeMatha.
They were the two best teams in the city back then, and played before [...]

The roto-baseball world is talking up one of our own: Brett Cecil of the Toronto Blue Jays is the pitcher of the moment.
Cecil, a 22-year-old lefty, DeMatha grad (class of '04) and brief Maryland Terrapin reliever, was called up at the end of April and put in as a starter. He got his first win [...]

One from the Where Were They Then? file: Steve Napper, the embalmer who dropped the dime on a Virginia funeral home for treating dead bodies like sacks of potatoes, was a star athlete around here in a former life.
First, from the Washington Post's front-page account of sordidness witnessed by Napper while employed by National Funeral [...]

Authorities in Athens, Greece, have identified the victim of a fatal drunk-driving accident as Jeff Komlo.
Komlo grew up in Cheverly and played quarterback for DeMatha (class of ’74), the University of Delaware, and the Detroit Lions.
But life after football got pretty tough for Komlo. He has been a fugitive from the law for several years, [...]

The Washington Post yesterday posted a transcript of reporter Eric Prisbell's interview with Gary Williams.
It's a fabulous conversation, and both Prisbell and Williams seem at the top of their games.
Williams comes off better here than he did in the Post's three-part, more-words-than-Chandra-Levy-got series on the Maryland coach and his recruiting tools.
Here, he's defiant throughout and [...]

I wrote this week that Gary Williams doesn't recruit real good. (That's allegedly him in red on a recent recruiting trip to DeMatha in the fuzzy photo.)
The Washington Post ran a story today on the front of the sports section that says Gary Williams doesn't recruit real good.