Sports oriented license plates seem like a really good idea, and a quick way to makes some extra cash:
D.C. officials are paving the way for license plates that promote theWashington Redskins and eight other home teams, a quick-and-easy proposal intended to satisfy sports fans without sliding into a slew of offerings that have roiled political [...]
The Post continues to roll out its polling of area sports fans with a story about black Redskins fans. Apparently, black people have gotten over the whole years-of-segregation thing in order to cheer for the only local football team. In fact, black fans have a far more favorable view of the team than white fans [...]
Donovan the Viking: He arrived from Philadelphia amid so much hope and excitement. And then: A belly flop. Are we talking about Jayson Werth? No, silly—Donovan McNabb! The Redskins appear close to a deal to send last year's franchise savior to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a pair of sixth-round draft picks. We might [...]
Who says the Redskins ain't cool anymore?
Behold "The Chief Tank Top" available through Palace 5ive for $26.
The 14th Street NW shop, which markets boards to skateboarders and garments to folks who want to look like skateboarders, bills its Native-American-in-shades design as a "slightly updated, slightly twisted version of the Redskin's logo."
And there's gotta be at [...]
For this week's in-the-black print platform of Washington City Paper, I played the race card. Anybody who listens to local sports radio, where Kyle Shanahan has been compared to "David Duke Jr.," can tell the racial angle of the Donovan McNabb mess ain't played out yet. Pick up a copy, read the column, love thy [...]
With the players' union disbanded and bargaining turned into litigation, the football lawyers and journalists and Drew Brees-es, who for a few sorta-exciting recent days hung out among us downtown, have gone their separate ways.
That's left the fans here and everywhere time to dwell on basketball, and hockey, and bitterness.
Here's a representative example of the [...]
In an altercation that left Washington Redskins player Brandon Banks with stitches—and his friend Christopher Nixon, with serious stab wounds—the buddy of the football player may have thrown the first punch, according to charging documents.
The court papers for Jason Dacosta Shorter, who has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, also [...]
Congestion Nation: Apparently traffic has gotten so bad that the Weather Channel has started covering it, as if it were a natural phenomenon like fog or a snowstorm. The network has a Thanksgiving travel rating up today, which ranks the southern portion of the Beltway the seventh-worst road in the nation this weekend. Friday, though, [...]
Shootings Linked: When someone fired shots at the Pentagon last week, it seemed like a harmless enough incident; no one was hurt, after all. Now comes word the same weapon was used to shoot up the Marine Corps Museum and, possibly, a Marine recruiting center in Chantilly, and suddenly, what seemed like a prank—albeit a [...]
Welcome to The Daily Show: If you suddenly feel like the air around town is somehow more ironic, it may not just be because of the hipster riding past you on a track bike. Jon Stewart has arrived in D.C., five days ahead of Saturday's Rally to Restore Sanity, to tape this week's Daily Show [...]
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Sam Huff is the best reason to listen to Redskins radio broadcasts. The Hall of Fame linebacker and Redskins/Giant legend, who has been handling Skins games for about 30 years, has seemed wobbly in the booth for a while.
But by now that wobbliness has reached a level of consistency that makes the audience stay tuned so as not to miss whatever [...]
At least Dan Snyder's talking.
But some of Snyder's statements during his binge of recent interviews ring cliched and bogus.
Take, for example, this exchange between the owner and some of his PR staffers about Snyder's most recent big-bang offseason acquisition:
Q:With Donovan McNabb joining the team this year, looking back on your tenure as owner of the [...]
A Georgetown grad student who identifies himself as a Redskins media intern has posted details of, and a visual from, what he says will be the next marketing campaign the team will use to try to unload unsold premium seats for the 2010 season.
"Sales of these seats have been poor and thus we put our [...]
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The Redskins announced their training camp schedule yesterday: "MIKE SHANAHAN AND THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS TO OPEN REDSKINS TRAINING CAMP PRESENTED BY RE/MAX ON JULY 29" is how the press release is headlined.
"Mike Shanahan and the Washington Redskins" are opening camp? And not just "the [...]
