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Cheap Seats Daily: Snyder-Funded Group Names Snyder ‘MVP’!

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Dan Snyder talked to the Associated Press about his 10 years as an NFL owner.
We've heard most of it before: Snyder was young when he got the team, which is the only reason he made mistakes (charging for training camp, hiring Steve Spurrier) that everybody else would have made, too. But he's learned and now it's all good.
But the blah-blah-blah ends when Snyder moans that all the good deeds he's done as Skins owner have "been overlooked, absolutely." And we're told he's really a great human being, the proof being that Snyder "received the Community MVP Award at the Washington Football Legends for Charity banquet."
Hmmm. I'd never heard of that award or group before. But with a little surfing, it turns out "Washington Football Legends for Charity"does exist, and that the "Platinum Sponsor" of the organization, meaning a provider in the top tier of funding for the Football Legends' one and only function, the very one where Snyder was confirmed as a local Gandhi, was the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation.
Wait! I know THAT group! It's headed by....Dan Snyder!
AFTER THE JUMP: Guaranteed Win Night II comes in? Will there be a Guaranteed Win Night III? Sure, Michael Vick's rotten, but would he spit on his mom? Thom Loverro crowns the King? DC Armor is looking for a few good women?
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Update: Charity Says All-Star Honoree’s Bogus Bullets Boast Has Been ‘Addressed’
Rob Dixon has at least one thing in common with Gandhi: Gandhi never played for the Bullets, either.
There's one difference between 'em, also: Gandhi never claimed he did.
Now, according to Dixon's charity, he'll stop making such claims.
Dixon was one of the good people featured during pre-game ceremonies at the All Star game. He runs Project Rise, a charity in the Boston area that for years has tried to get kids who otherwise might not go to college into college.
His tale was enough that he was voted via a People Magazine national contest as being among the do-goodingest folks in the country. Dixon and the other winners stood on the field in St. Louis last night as President Obama and all the living ex-presidents talked them up via videotape. Dixon was among a small group that got a personal presidential tribute: George W. Bush talked about Dixon's charity to the stadium crowd and a national TV audience. Bush didn't mention Dixon's basketball experience.
But while successfully campaigning for this People honor, Dixon claimed to have played for the Washington Bullets. That NBA experience was repeated in pretty much every news story about the People awards; he was identified as a "former Washington Bullets guard who left the NBA in 1983" by a publication near his hometown of Dorchester, Mass.
One problem: Dixon's name, according to Abe Pollin's franchise, doesn't appear on any Bullets rosters. The organization has no record that he ever did play for the team. Neither does any other NBA squad.
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