Legislators As Landlords: Congress used to content itself with passing laws to dictate what the District government could or couldn't spend its locally raised money on. Now, apparently, that's not enough. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says D.C. officials need to do something about the fact that the only licensed gun dealer in the city [...]
My friend and hero Craig Brownstein tried to save horse racing, but horse racing didn't listen. He, with friends, tried to get justice for Robert Wone, but the system let everybody but the guilty down.
Now he's out to serve hockey. Brownstein and partner Doug Johnson have just unleashed PuckBuddys, a special kind of hockey blog: [...]
500 Block F Street, NW. © 2010 Matt Dunn
Today's Washington Post has a multi-media package about the street hockey community that has hung out on Pennsylvania Avenue NW since the strip in front of the White House was closed in 1995.
The piece comes out just as President Obama's getting verbally cross-checked by Capitals fans for talking up Alex Ovechkin in Russia despite never [...]
The NHL suspended Sean Avery yesterday for an "indefinite" period.
Allegedly, the penalty was dealt because the Dallas winger slandered his celeb ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert, and her latest flame, Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf, by telling interviewers that "it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy [...]
