FoxSports just ran the 2010 version of the annual Dan Snyder Finally Gets It Right story.
Snyder does almost no interviews, just one big sitdown per preseason sometimes. And dang if whomever gets granted that audience doesn't write crap. This year, it's Alex Marvez's turn.
Marvez, identified here as "the former president of the Pro Football [...]
City Paper’s Unsolicited Political Advice of the Week
The candidate: Vincent Gray, mayoral hopeful
The challenge: Your opponent is trying to tie you to the early 1990s, one of the most ignominious periods in modern D.C. history, when you served in the failed administration of Mayor Sharon Pratt. Expect this to be a recurring theme [...]
It's that time again, readers. Yep, it's Friday, everybody's favorite day of the week. Let's take a look at what's going on in the world.
In addition to today being Friday, it's also April 23—Shakespeare's birthday. And his deathday, 52 years later. That's right, Shakespeare was born and he died on the same day. Though the [...]
7. Ignore Metro and transportation issues, no matter how many more accidents and track-suicides there are. Why tinker with a long-running and successful strategy?
8. Become the 200,001st sap on the Redskins' ticket waiting list. Dan Snyder claimed this year that the list was "200,000" names long, yet for Sunday's home game against top rival Dallas, [...]
What was it they said about road travel around Christmastime? Something about it being less intense than Thanksgiving, more spread out, less of an issue? That, anyhow, is the conventional wisdom, as parroted by this source, which claims that trips increase by 54 percent around T-giving and just 23 percent around Xmas/New Year's.
Thank you for honoring the tradition of content below the headline, but all I have to say is in the title of this post.
Holy crap! Vinny Cerrato resigned!
After the jump, the morning roundup I was working on before I read that.
It was at the very end of an A1 story in the Washington Post. It would have been just another quote, another sound bite that wouldn't have made a difference. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, after all, tosses out throwaway quotes all the damn time. You know how that goes: We're just trying to do our [...]
Somber morning, City Desk readers, and welcome to what will probably be my last Freedom Friday. Henceforth, I'll be doing the morning roundups on the Arts Desk. In genuinely somber news, Major Nidal M. Hasan, prime suspect in yesterday's shootings at Ft. Hood, was home-grown. WaPo's reporting reveals a rather mundane yet devout religious man [...]
Maybe WaPo is on to something. Maybe Redskins fans are abandoning the team. One Shepherd Park resident is trying to sell some prime seats to the Dallas game. Just a few years ago, this would have been unthinkable!
Shepherd Park resident "Carole" writes on the listserv:
"Great Christmas Gift! Anybody interested in tickets to Redskins vs Dallas [...]
Yesterday I posted a thoughtful piece on the season-opening tilt between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. Commenters loved it, and so I thought I'd dip back into the well with a bit more analysis on a key aspect of the game.
Sunday at 4:15 pm, the Redskins will kick off the season against the New York Giants. Here's all you need to know about the Skins' first opponent:
*Giants DT Jay Alford messed up his knee and is out for the season. This doesn't matter much to the defense, but it'll play a pivotal role in [...]
The Washington Post's Paul Farhi, a great pariah in bloggerville, is just as outraged/bemused as Washington City Paper's own Dave McKenna about the attire of the supposedly independent local broadcasters at Redskins games. Have a look:
Broadcasting from Beaujon Acres this morning, where a cold has laid me out flatter than one of Tim Carman's jokes. But I'm not too sick to link!
Does anyone else find this kinda poignant and sad? Also kinda related: Post computers drive tech writer to cloud.
Ruth Samuelson corner: 1) Now that's "getting" Results! 2) Madness in [...]
