The Allen kids have something in common: Neither of 'em pick the Redskins!
Bruce, the ostensible general manager, doesn't pick the players on the roster.
And brother George, the former and possibly future U.S. Senator and oldest of former Redskins Coach George Allen's brood, doesn't pick the Skins in his betting pool.
Over the holiday the Washington Post [...]
Bruce Allen was ostensibly hired to be the general manager of the Washington Redskins.
But since taking over the back of the shop late in the 2009 season, Allen has never gotten any credit for doing basic general managerial tasks, the basicest being putting together a team's roster.
Instead, he's been seen doing PR tasks, like glad-handing [...]
Graham Gano is among the easier scapegoats for the debacle that is the 2011 Redskins.
Gano, who-last season was the worst kicker in the NFL statistically and has had more kicks blocked or shanked this season than anybody else with his job, missed a 52-yarder with the game on the line against Dallas.
Mike Shanahan, the [...]
The highlight of RFK Stadium's season-long 50th Anniversary celebration comes tomorrow night with a dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Earlier today, Events DC, the quasi-governmental body that which now operates the stadium and is putting on the anniversary shindig, released a list of featured guests and expected attendees.
The roster's full of vintage local [...]
Sometimes rumors are just rumors.
For the last few days there's been scads of internet r-mongering regarding DeMatha football coaching legend Bill McGregor allegedly talking with various Catholic schools about making a coaching comeback at a rival school.
The noise started on the message board over at the fab DCSportsfan.com, where the most knowledgable and wackiest prep [...]
Sign of the times: The city's public schools championship game is no longer just the Turkey Bowl. It's the 42nd Annual Safeway Turkey Bowl.
This year's game, featuring Coolidge and Dunbar, will be the first Bowl held since Mayor Vincent Gray sold the naming rights of the biggest event on D.C.'s scholastic sports [...]
For the imminently passe print issue of Washington City Paper, I wrote a column on Montrose Christian basketball coach Stu Vetter. Pick up a copy if you can still find one. Pick up two if you can find two. Read the story. Get a D1 hoops scholarship.
I've been aware of Vetter since I was in high [...]
Stephanie Evans will be the next athletic director of D.C. Public Schools. Mayor Vince Gray is scheduled to announce Evans' hiring this morning.
Not counting interim directors, she is the fourth person to hold the job in the last four years.
Unless I've missed somebody, Evans is also the first female athletic director in the school system's [...]
The editors and readers at DC Sports Fan have been way ahead of the curve in essentially every big personnel move on the prep athletics scene for a while now.
Posters there, for example, were predicting Bill McGregor's odd departure last season from DeMatha, where he'd built up one of the premier prep football programs in [...]
Yesterday afternoon on WJFK-FM's "LaVar and Dukes Show," the hosts took a short break in between LaVar Arrington's JoePa-enabling monologues (seriously, the Penn State Board of Trustees would have removed Arrington from the airwaves if he said "He followed protocol!" one more damn time) to bring on the Washington Post's Jason Reid.
Awesome radio ensued.
Reid [...]
It's pretty clear that, barring some miracle performance from Joe Paterno, the pope of State College, at today's scheduled press conference, everybody involved in Penn State football, from the ballboy on up, will soon be gone. Everybody. UPDATE: The press conference has been canceled.
The core allegation to come out of investigations so far is that [...]
Friendship Collegiate faces H.D. Woodson tonight in what's being billed as The Real Turkey Bowl.
The game has scads of story lines. The most dramatic: Woodson is the past; Friendship is the future.
Woodson is the defending public schools champion. They've got a new state of the art stadium and new state of the art school building [...]
Who says the Brits are stiff?
It was announced today that tickets for the title bout between English light welterweight Amir Khan and D.C.'s own Lamont Peterson will go on sale Friday.
Khan will put his WBA and IBF belts up for grabs in the fight, which will take place Dec. 10 downtown at the Walter E. Washington [...]
In the end, nobody ponied up.
The Maryland Jockey Club announced today that King Leatherbury did not find an investor/gambler to pay the $100,000 supplemental fee to enter his horse, Ben's Cat, in this year's Breeders' Cup. The deadline for payment was yesterday.
Official entries for the Turf Sprint will be announced tomorrow.
So Ben's Cat, a homebred [...]
For the carbon footprinting press that is the paper version of Washington City Paper, I compared the pollution reductions offered by the much-hyped solar energy installation at Dan Snyder's FedEx Field with the pollution contributions of the new-to-him $70 million toy, the mega-yacht Lady Anne.
After converting litres to gallons and metric tons to pounds, [...]
