Posts Tagged ‘gary bettman’

In Praise of Gary Bettman and the NHL

For the first time in my adult life, I do not care about a single New Year's Day bowl game.
Actually, I cannot even name any Jan. 1 football matchup.
I heard the Rose Bowl won't have a PAC 10 representative.  And the Cotton Bowl won't even be played on New Year's Day.
The only athletic contest scheduled [...]

Cheap Seats Daily: Caps Announcer Blows Off High School Reunion to Be With the Fans!

For the print edition of City Paper, I wrote yet another column about Charles Mann and Art Monk's debacle in Anacostia. The former Redskins spent a decade promising that community a job training center, and then sold the proposed site for more than 10 times what they paid the city to obtain it.
One fascinating (to [...]