So...Mike Shanahan!

Chris Dodd!

Guantanamo inmates from Yemen!

The Post's Michael Wilbon gives the Rev. Al Sharpton a big thumbs up this morning for taking to task the gun-toting Gilbert Arenas, one of the sports world's "misbehaving black athletes."

Sharpton can change the news cycle all by himself, and did when he called on black leaders and Commissioner David Stern to come down hard on Arenas. Sharpton has already spoken with Stern and told the New York Daily News, "The NBA needs to stand up and send a strong message by dealing with this situation." Sharpton says his concern is a "culture of violence being perpetuated in professional sports."

It's a jolt to hear Sharpton be this critical of Arenas and a subculture of black athletes that has been involved in so many incidents of lawlessness for years and years. It's nice of Sharpton to finally join this particular debate so long in progress.

Arenas, for his part, thinks it's not so nice. He gives the good reverend a thumbs down. (Yes, Arenas hired that lawyer, but thank God for us, he's still tweeting.)

A look at his feed from the past few hours:

- Al Sharpton comments ill try to be as nice as he was too me on my next tweet

- For a kid who does a lot of work for the black community I didn't get the memo u were still one of our black leaders becuz if u was

- U wouldn't have made a comment like that befor gettin all the fax str8..I hav black leaders tattooed on my leg I call it black rush more

- That's Martin,Obama,Mr X,and Mandela..so next time before u wash ur hands of something pls hear the real story..God bless the black C

- @KevinJohnEllis yes I hav jesus tattooed on my ribs becuz he's on my side

Oh, one more thing: Today's Arenas' birthday! I know this because he happened to mention it on Twitter, and because his Web site features a Happy Birthday Gilbert rap video ("Go GA/Cuz it's your B-day/and tell the DJ/To put this thing on replay").

Again, from his Twitter feed:

- Happy b-day to myself..gonna celebrate by ordering rm service..and sum hot chocolate..I sound borin to myself ..

If only, Gilbert...

Photograph by Freedom to Marry, Creative Commons Attribution License

Michael Wilbon says Tiger's a better sportsman for getting caught with his pants down.

But that ain't the brainlessest thing written about Tiger lately. No, Wilbon's thesis reads like Malcolm Gladwell next to the efforts of CNBC's Larry Kudlow and FoxSports' Robert Lusetich. And the Denver Examiner's Rose Conley. And Rev. Ziegler over at TigerWoodsIsGod.com.

All have penned "open letters" to Tiger Woods.

They're all dumb as hell. Kudkow's and Lusetich's take the booby prizes, though. In his memo, Kudlow really just wants to confess to being an alcoholic; Lusetich, who is ID'd as having an "insider's look" book about the gofler ready for an April release, really just wants to confess to having a dad who's a better man than Tiger. Kudlow's is just sad and stupid. Lusetich is just mean, sad and stupid. Sounds to me like the Tiger revelations showed what a sham Lusetich's "insider's look" book pitch really was.

A representative passage from Lusetich's, um, open letter:

I've never looked at you as a role model.

You're a good guy — most people if they got to know you I feel sure would like you — and without question you're the greatest golfer I've ever seen and maybe even the greatest athlete, but I'm mature enough to set my own moral compass.

If I'm going to look to anyone, I'll choose my father, who was a good man, worked hard to provide for his family and, not to rub it in but here's the kicker, loved my mother dearly and would never have done a thing to hurt her.

Good god. How silly in the head do you have to be to write an unironic "open letter" to Tiger this week? Or ever?

I can't wait to see how righteous Lusetich feels when he finds out about that crazy lost weekend in Vegas back in '69 that his dad -- a guy still remembered on The Strip as "Three-Legs Lusetich" -- spent with...well, I'll leave the rest of the details for my open letter to Lusetich.

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(AFTER THE JUMP: More about that 1954 All-Star game? You tell readers again that it's the first integrated sporting event in DC Schoolboy history? You tell readers again that it deserves more attention? Dan Snyder, still near the top of the charts of NFL owners? The 2009 Redskins, playoff contenders? Too early to say next year's Skins will be loaded with talent?)

This Sunday, a party to bring together the public school stars of the 1954 City Championship football game will be held in District Heights, Md.

That was the first integrated schoolboy sporting event ever held in D.C., coming just months after the Supreme Court's Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling outlawed segregation. For all its groundbreaking attributes, that game has gotten almost no recognition until recently.

Called "Salute to the Trail Blazers," the District Heights gathering will feature Dan Droze and Dave Harris, the white passer and black receiver, respectively, of the first integrated touchdown pass ever thrown in DC schoolboy history. That fourth-quarter score won the game for the D.C. Public School all-stars, over undefeated and mighty and all-white St. John's at Griffith Stadium.

While in high school, Droze, who attended Anacostia, and Cardozo's Harris, were superstars in either the white or black community, but not both. Neither even knew of the other until the public schools' all-star team started practicing. But they have only recently become friends, and will also appear together on WPFW Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. to talk about the game, and about their reunion after 55 years.

If there's a better sports story out there right now, I haven't heard it.

The party and radio spots were put together by Harold Bell, longtime WOL sports-radio host and a man who knows more about vintage DC high school sports than anybody alive.

Dave Kane, the guy who brought Droze and Harris together last month as part of an ongoing effort to get people to pay attention to the 1954 game, will not be able to attend. Kane, a fine high school athlete on his own at DeMatha (Class of '60), was at Griffith Stadium all those years ago to cheer on his brother, St. John's star Jim Kane, now deceased. Dave Kane currently lives in Arizona, and tells me his many recent D.C. trips to get momentum going for some sort of documentary or memorial for that game have taken a physical and financial toll. He pledges to keep working on getting the game its due from out West.

"I'll get back there as soon as I can," Kane says.

Sunday's party in District Heights will also be used to raise money for Bell's youth charity. For more information, call 301-817-3180.

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The 2009 All City Bowl, with public school all-stars matched up against a select team made up of private and charter school players, will be held Saturday at Eastern Senior High School. This is the second year of the showcase, which was set up as a building block toward resurrecting the City Title game that was once the biggest event on DC's annual sporting calendar. (Yup, high school football used to be bigger than the Redskins around here. You can look it up.)

The City Title games were canceled after a race-riot broke out during a 1962 Eastern/St. John's matchup at D.C. Stadium.

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In today's Washington Post, Paul Farhi, still glowing from his first-ever profile of Dan Snyder's "henchman" Karl Swanson, stays on the Skins and hits more paydirt. Farhi talks to real ex-Redskins cheerleaders about Michaele (or is it "Michelle Ann") Salahi's stint as a fake ex-Redskins cheerleader.

This "Real Wives of DC" is quickly turning into "Borat."

I don't know if she should be able to dance or not, but if Michaele really had Redskins cheerleading experience, wouldn't she be real good at washing cars?

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Yesterday I came across and oldie but a goodie: Michael Silver at Yahoo Sports ranked Dan Snyder as the 3rd Best owner in the NFL.

Let's revisit Silver's, um, observations.

3. Washington Redskins – Daniel Snyder: When most fans hear Snyder’s name, they blurt out words to describe him that might not be suitable for network television. Here’s the first one that comes to my mind: Awesome. Snyder generates revenue like a money-printing machine (his team ranks first in the NFL, at a reported $312 million, and is also atop the league in sponsorship dollars), happily spends it to improve his franchise and makes his players – you know, the ones who destroy their bodies on Sundays for the pleasure of the masses – feel pampered and appreciated. He is the closest thing to former 49ers boss Eddie DeBartolo, and eventually he’ll get the rings to prove it.

What went down Sunday at Redskins Park tells you all you need to know about Snyder’s ownership style. While attending the Skins’ first practice of training camp, Snyder and executive vice president Vinny Cerrato winced as veteran defensive Phillip Daniels went down with a knee injury. On their way to lunch in the cafeteria, they learned that Daniels had suffered a season-ending torn ACL. After sitting down with coach Jim Zorn and defensive coordinator Greg Blache, they began discussing their options. “I want to win,” Snyder told the group. “Let’s do what we have to do to win.” Concluding that disgruntled Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor was by far the best player they’d have a chance to acquire, Snyder gave the go-ahead to make a trade. Before finishing his meal Cerrato was on the phone with Parcells, Miami’s executive vice president of football operations, discussing a trade for the 2006 NFL defensive player of the year. By that evening the deal was done, with Washington giving up second- and sixth-round draft picks, and Snyder agreeing to shell out $16 million over two years, the remaining money on Taylor’s contract. Because of Snyder’s aggressive approach, the ‘Skins were able to acquire Taylor before their NFC East rivals, the Giants, could work out a three-way trade with the Dolphins and Saints that would have sent Taylor to New Orleans for second- and fifth-round picks, followed by a swap of Taylor for tight end Jeremy Shockey...When Snyder finally hoists the Lombardi Trophy one of these years, it might be worth biting your tongue – at least in front of the kids.

This summer, Silver was still full of silver linings when he looked to Redskins Park. Here's what Silver forecast for the 2009 Skins:

These guys have a postseason push in them, and with Jason Campbell giving off that you-shouldn’t-have-underestimated-me vibe, I’m sensing another fast start and a second-place finish behind the 'Boys.

In his latest column, after saying that Jim Zorn's a goner, Silver observes "there’s still a lot of talent here for the next regime to build around."

I smell another wayward prediction in Silver's future for 2010! I mean, it's brave for any writer to take Nostrodamusesque shots -- other than dropping the occasional Guaranteed Win Night™, I'm afraid to predict the sun will come up in print. But Dick Cheney's got better aim than Silver. Though maybe Silver's angling for Larry Weisman's job...

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Bill Walsh, the "genius" football coach of the San Francisco 49ers, died in July 2007. He'd had an amazing career, turning the 49ers from the worst record in the NFL to the best in just three seasons (1979-1981). That, plus numerous other accomplishments immortalized Walsh as one of the game's greats.

Yet not quite as immortal as a photo caption in today's Washington Post suggests. Sitting under a photo accompanying a column by Michael Wilbon on the merits of new Redskins play caller Sherm Lewis, the caption reads:

"Top coaches like Bill Walsh and Mike Holmgren respect the Redskins' Sherman Lewis, who was a successful offensive assistant with them." (Emphasis added.)

Creative Commons photo courtesy of Kevin Severud

Background: A week back from Sunday, Wilbon had written an apologia for Michael Jordan on the occasion of Jordan's acceptance speech for his Basketball Hall of Fame induction. By many accounts, Jordan's remarks on that occasion were childish and small: He used the podium to belittle everyone who'd ever doubted him. He never came close to the high road. He invited to the speech an old schoolmate who was chosen over him for the varsity squad. He took to task people who'd slighted him over his career.

In comes Wilbon to---surprise!---defend Jordan. "Jordan said himself toward the end of his speech that he took all these perceived slights as challenges and turned them into wood that made the fire rage. Michael Jordan has always known who he is and what he needed to be Michael Jordan. It's just that few people knew this particular side until Friday night and almost nobody knew he was going to let the wall down when he did."

Anthony on this matter: "As someone who has had his own sports idols throughout his life, I understand how Wilbon continues to breathe the rarefied air of Jordan's greatness, but only a small measure of objectivity is required to see that what Jordan revealed with his self-absorbed, unkind comments during his Hall of Fame induction ceremony was the nasty, selfish side that accompanies many elite athletes' competitiveness."

The retirement of Jordan has saved the world from the frequent Wilbon paeans to the greatest basketball player ever. This is a columnist who'll excuse just about anything from the 6-foot-6 swingman. And in this column, Wilbon suggested why: "It wasn't a speech so much as it was an entertaining rant, something you saw pretty often if you were one of Jordan's golf partners or card-playing friends or, to be honest, a sportswriter with an off-the-record relationship with him." Gotta protect your sources.

Elsewhere, Post columnist Colbert I. King goes up strong against Peacoholics and Michelle Rhee over the Barry Harrison conviction. King sounds outraged that a ex-con should be bale to get access to a D.C. school, where he could prey on schoolgirls.

Must-read of the weekend, which comes via the New York Times. Here's an abstract:

*Egypt hears about swine flu, freaks out;

*Egypt decides it must take action;

*Egypt decides swine are responsible for spreading swine flu;

*Egypt's decision that swine are spreading swine flu is not endorsed by professionals;

*Egypt, freaked out about swine flu and convinced that swine are spreading it, kills all---or a least a great deal of---swine in Cairo;

*Egypt thinks it has done something positive;

*Egypt hasn't, in fact, done something positive;

*Egypt has done something dumb;

*Egypt watches helplessly as ancient system for handling trash crumbles, as a direct result of its swine slaughter. The entrepreneurs who handle a great deal of trash collection in Cairo, you see, had fed much of their organic rubbish to pigs, whom they later slaughtered for food; now that there are no pigs to eat that rubbish, it's all piling up in the streets;

*Egypt wishes that the goats would eat more of the quickly accumulating garbage, but that's not happening.

Author Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies, in a Saturday Times article on the recession's racial divide: "What do you get when you combine the worst economic downturn since the Depression with the first black president? A surge of white racial resentment, loosely disguised as a populist revolt. An article on the Fox News Web site has put forth the theory that health reform is a stealth version of reparations for slavery: whites will foot the bill and, by some undisclosed mechanism, blacks will get all the care."

A sign spotted at the weekend "Tea Party" event, where protesters - carrying pictures of Obama defaced to look like Hitler or the devil - insist there are no racial undertones to their vitriol: "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THIS SIGN SAYS YOU'LL CALL IT RACISM ANYWAY!"

Washington Post readers, responding to columnist Michael Wilbon, who said yesterday's Serena Williams foot fault call was a really bad one (even if her reaction was too): "Youtube clearly shows Serena stepping on the baseline. Is that a foot fault? Or are rules determined by race. Is Serena allowed to break the rules of tennis because she is African American, a woman, a champion and American or whatever?"

And: "Wilbon, you lie or don't know the rules. Don't play the race card! Find another job!"

Keli Goff, weighing in on the same subject at the Huffington Post, saying one "can't simply blame race." Throw class in there too.

With the Williams sisters it has always been less about what color they are and more about who they are: from Compton, not from Connecticut; wearing wildly colored fashion combos, instead of pristine tennis whites; talking loud and proud of their roots, instead of quietly trying to blend in; rocking braids and cornrows in the early days, instead of joining the ranks of Beyonce and (some of the rest of us) by getting a more socially acceptable, "lady-like" weave....

Yes Serena was wrong.

But so was the lineswoman.

And so is every tennis fan who isn't willing to honestly admit that Saturday's call never would have happened, nor been deemed acceptable for any other player under those circumstances.

But other players are not named Williams.

Who wants to go there on Kanye West and Taylor Swift?

Image via brinux on Twitpic

Here's the opening:

Sonny Jurgensen: You had one offensive touchdown...

Jim Zorn: Thank you.

Sonny Jurgensen: You've got to get into the end zone...

Jim Zorn: Yes.

Uh oh.

Dan Snyder and Jurgensen are cigar smoking buddies. Jurgensen wanted Jeff George. So it's a good bet that in private Snyder's getting everything the Redskins listening audience got from Jurgensen and then some.

(AFTER THE BREAK: Albert Haynesworth don't play that? Folks want to trade in Jim Zorn et al on something with less mileage? Even the all-news station is piling on? Snyder's dastardly deeds have trickled down to 'Bama? Everybody but the Washington Post thinks Michael Jordan's a jerk? ANOTHER blonde DC sportscaster?)

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Watching Albert Haynesworth take a knee or lying down on the job for no obvious reason, I was reminded about what my hero Boudreaux said in 1999 about Dana Stubblefield, a defensive lineman who went from all-pro to narcoleptic bum after taking Haynesworth-like money from Snyder to come here from San Francisco. Boudreaux's words: “I can hear him saying [to Dan Snyder], ‘Football? You pay me $47 million…and you want me to play football? Mister, a man with that kind of money don’t play football!’"

Boudreaux is a genius.

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Knowing what we now know, it's time to re-read Erik Wemple's pre-game insider analysis of what was going to take place in the Meadowlands. He nailed it.

Right?

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The fans around here aren't happy with what they saw. Over at Dan Snyder's web site, extremeskins.com, one of the smarties proposed a "Coach for Clunkers" program, to trade in the same ol' coaches and players and give newbies a shot.

WTOP this morning offered listeners a chance to join the mob. "If you'd like to jump on the pile, call us!"

The only thing boring about the Redskins are the games!

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What kind of flash point is Dan Snyder? Well, the Birmingham News ran a column about him as a pariah and a symbol of everything that's wrong with everything over the weekend.

The Birmingham News!

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So Michael Jordan's still getting coddled by the Washington Post? Well, check out the write-up of Jordan's Hall of Fame speech that ran in Saturday's Post, and the write-up in Yahoo Sports.

The commenters to Michael Lee's Post story all echo the Yahoo version, which was basically that Jordan is a troubled meanie.

It got so bad that Michael Wilbon came in to try to soften the damage from the Yahoo piece a day later, with a column praising Jordan's bizarre bullying -- he flew in a high school classmate to help make the old varsity coach look bad -- for its "unvarnished" qualities.

Ok. In any case, after reading elsewhere about what a jerk he was, go watch this Jordan dunk over Patrick Ewing from back in the day. Still chilling after all these years. He wasn't human on the court, so why expect him to be humane off it?

And, Jordan ain't the only one holding grudges: Abe Pollin has never let go of the bitterness from his alliance with Jordan.

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This is what diversity looks like: Former George Michael intern Lindsay Murphy joins Fox-5's Redskins wrap-up show, joining former George Michael protege Lindsay Czarniak on WRC and Sara Walsh at WUSA in DC's blonde sportscaster corps.

Get with the program, WJLA!

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The Washington Post ran three photos of Woodson's win over Lake Braddock in the sports page on Saturday. The section named a Woodson player its star of the day. That's fine. As long as sports sections name high school stars of the day, there'll be a market for newspapers. (Really!)

But the other two shots had caption writers humiliating specific Lake Braddock players. One caption had the Lake Braddock QB throwing "an incompletion" and another photo of a Woodson running back as he "runs over" a Lake Braddock defender. Both Lake Braddock players were named in the captions for no good reason.

Whoever wrote these captions went out of his or her way to embarrass kids. This is the sports journalism equivalent of child abuse. Not nice!

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The most interesting reading in the 14-page pullout comes in one of its few advertisements. Main Line Animal Rescue, a Philadelphia group that apparently specializes in saving "Bully Breeds" of dogs, bought space in the section.

The ad copy, placed alongside a photo of what I assume is a pit bull:

Attention Football Fans: Philadelphia is playing Washington on October 26.

Every time Michael Vick is tackled during the game, Main Line Animal Rescue will donate 5 bags of dog food to your local animal shelter.

"Because there are no second chances on an empty stomach."

Consider volunteering at your local shelter on the day of the game. Spend some time walking, or brushing, or bathing, or hugging a homeless Pit Bull.

Not exactly the bounty on players' heads that led to the famous "Body Bag Game" between the Skins and Eagles in 1990, but, still.

My sense is the outrage against Vick has waned so much and so fast that by the time the Eagles get to DC, there'll be a lot more talk about the wildcat offense than dog killing.

(By the way: The other ads in the Post's football section are: four small spots for imported car dealers, one for a job fair, and a half-pager, the biggest in the section) announcing a blowout chain saw sale. Men! Men! Men!)

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(AFTER THE JUMP: Wilbon already blames Snyder for lousy season? Kornheiser speaks no Snyder? Unseld whupped Yao's dad? The Asian Bias™ in golf affects White House visit? The Nats Countdown to 100 Losses starts now? Pedro Martinez already has more wins than most Nats?)

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Back in the regular sports section, the Post runs a column, headlined "Hot Topic," that has  Michael Wilbon downgrading his record forecast for the 2009 Skins from 11-5 to 8-8. Wilbon says he ordered the recount because of his paper's fabulous series on the Redskins selling tickets to scalpers and suing down-on-their-luck grannies.

But where the heck did 11-5 come from in the first place?

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Wilbon's PTI partner Tony Kornheiser restarted his radio show yesterday. I listened to most of the two-hour broadcast, but didn't hear any discussion of Dan Snyder's ticket issues. Far as I and Wilbon can tell, those are still the hottest topics in town. Kornheiser now works at WTEM-AM, owned by Snyder.

After Kornheiser's show, I flipped to rival sportstalker WJFK-FM, for Washington Post columnist Mike Wise's program, in time to hear Wise's sidekick say, "Call us if you hate the owner!"

WJFK isn't owned by Snyder.

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The Bullets/Wizards are in China again. A delegation led by Wes Unseld, Gheorghe Muresan, Caron Butler and Randy Foye (a newcomer who is only less familiar in the provinces than in DC) showed up in Beijing to remember a pioneering barnstorming tour of the Far East arranged 30 years ago by Abe Pollin.

No team had ever been to China before the Bullets. Awesome trivia from Unseld: The former Great Wall of the Bullets' front line remembers playing all those years ago in Shanghai against Yao Ming's dad, a year before the future Houston Rockets center was born.

Pollin helped make the world a lot smaller than it was back then.

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Which makes this a perfect time for an update on...the Asian Bias™ in Golf! Greg Norman, who was in town for a White House visit yesterday, sees that golf's future is in the East. The Australian legend is captaining the "International" squad in the upcoming (and always bogus) President's Cup, a silly nationalistic links exercise that was founded in Northern Virginia at the Lansdowne resort but will be held next month at Harding Park in San Francisco. While meeting with the president, Norman was taking a lot of stuff from golf fans for using his captain's choice to put Ryo Ishikawa, a 17-year-old from Japan, on the un-American President's Cup team. Ishikawa will join Y.E. Yang of Korea.

The USA squad's proof of the Asian Bias™ comes with Anthony Kim and, of course, Woods.

Last week, 17-year-old Byeong-Hun An of Seoul, South Korea, became the youngest golfer ever to win the 2009 U.S. Amateur championship. The tournament record for youth was previously held by Danny Lee, also a South Korean native, who was just 18 when he won the 2008  U.S. Amateur. Lee broke the record set by the Godfather of the Asian Bias™ in golf: Tiger Woods.

The 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship was won recently by Jennifer Song of Daejon, Korea.

Cheap Seats Daily, intrigued as all get out by the Eastern dominance of what just yesterday was the lily-whitest sport in the history of man, promises to continue to hype the Asian Bias™ until Lou Dobbs treats our reports like real news.

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The Nats lost to the Phils, 5-3.

Let the Countdown to 100 Losses begin! Washington is now 47-91, and would have to go 16-8 to avoid a third season in a row with triple-figure losses.

That ain't gonna happen: 18 of the remaining games are against teams above .500, including nine vs. either the Phillies or Dodgers.

Pedro Martinez got the win for Philadelphia. If memory serves, Martinez hadn't thrown a pitch this season before last week. But he now has a 4-0 record. Before yesterday's September call-ups, which included Shairon Martis (5-3 with the Nats prior to being sent to the minors), Washington had only one pitcher on the roster with more wins in 2009 than Martinez -- John Lannan, now at 8-10. Amazing...

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*Acknowledging that pot smoking is not such a great thing: "No matter how many people defend marijuana and extol decriminalization for using it, there are studies that say the stuff is bad for important functions like reasoning, and can lead to worse abuses."

*Not scolding the ace swimmer for screwing up: "At any rate, Phelps was probably making way too much money. He’s lucky his fingertips had better mojo than the fingertips of that Serbian-American swimmer who finished second in the 100-meter butterfly. Wonder if what’s-his-name has been to any good parties at the University of South Carolina lately?"

*And coming up with a better solution than USA Swimming's three-month competition ban for Phelps: "What USA Swimming, the national federation, should have done was make him perform community service by competing in swim meets every day of the week and give him obligatory practices, since this is a lad who obviously functions better in chlorinated water than on terra firma."

If ever there's another episode in which a famous and rich athlete is caught with a bong, I'm going straight to Vecsey.

Wilbon's piece attempts to slam the bong-sucking swimmer.

Wilbon's been the hardest-working superstar in sports newspapering for a while now. But if his latest column were a Goofus and Gallant panel, Wilbon would own the Goofus role the way Olivier did Hamlet.

Wilbon compares pot smokers to dog killers and stop-sign running drunks.

Even with the occasional caveats Wilbon throws into his paragraphs, his argument is beyond laughable. Given Wilbon's profile and credibility, his argument's downright dangerous, since it's based on the same insincerity and/or stupidity that allows SWAT teams to go unpunished for terrorizing innocent families.