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 [...]
A group of laid-off ESPNZone workers will file a class-action lawsuit against Disney, the parent company of the sports and entertainment and bar food empire. The suit will allege that Disney did not provide legal notice to the employees at its Baltimore restaurant before canning them.
Disney closed the Inner Harbor and Downtown D.C. outposts in June, as part of [...]
John Feinstein doesn't like the way the Redskins complied with the NFL mandate to interview minority candidates before hiring a coach. Feinstein doesn't believe that Dan Snyder ever really thought Jerry Gray, a black defensive coach who reportedly has interviewed for Jim Zorn's job while Zorn still has it, could be a head coach for [...]
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news that Len Bias had died. All I can remember being told was that Bias had died after using cocaine. And that it had been his first time. It was a scary story. And it worked as a scary story. I never tried cocaine; I [...]
Redskins training camp opened yesterday without Stephen Strasburg Brian Orakpo or Michael Vick. There was, however, a group of fans calling for the team to bring Vick in. Spurned ex-Redskin LaVar Arrington wondered on his WJFK radio show whether the Vick clique was hired by Dan Snyder as a "guerilla marketing campaign" to prepare the [...]
Earlier today the Bowie Baysox announced Scott Van Pelt Bobblehead Night.
However, apparently not anticipating the rush of bobblehead freaks that tarnished Lindsay Czarniak Bobblehead Night last year, club management will not take away fans' civil liberties on Van Pelt's big night, as they had earlier this season for Matt Wieters Collectible Figurine Night.
This disappoints us. [...]
