Jimmy Lange has got the boxing game whupped. The Great Falls junior middleweight parlayed the renown he got from the first-wave reality TV show, The Contender, into a smart career headlining cards near his hometown, in which he gets paid well to beat up mostly club fighters. On paper, he looks like an, [...]
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 [...]
This just in: Our Amazin' Nats are a national punchline. First the Wall Street Journal used the team's woes in the lede of its Sonia Sotomayor hearings coverage, comparing the hopelessness of being a Republican senator with the hopelessness of being a Nat.
Then President Barack Obama, in the broadcast booth during the All-Star telecast, told [...]
Some cancellations to report:
First and worst: Boxer Jimmy Lange's scheduled July 25 fight in Greensboro, N.C., is off. A Lange spokesman told me over the weekend that the cancellation, first reported by the great local boxing clearinghouse boxingaroundthebeltway.com, came "out of the blue" after North Carolina authorities refused to sanction Lange's opponent, Jimmy LeBlanc. Lange's [...]
