The lead sentence of yesterday's press release from the Washington Redskins, dated Jan. 13, 2010, announcing the team won't raise ticket prices: "The Redskins have announced that general admission ticket prices for the 2010 season will be unchanged, remaining at the same price for the fifth season in a row.
The lead sentence of last year's press release [...]

The official announcement won't come until later today, but for those on the edge of their seats: Cheap Seats Daily has learned that Dan Snyder is about to be named Cheap Seats Unsportsman of the Year for 2009.
Snyder wins this dishonor pretty much every year. The second he retires it'll be renamed the Dan Snyder [...]

Did his MCI/Verizon Center revitalize Chinatown?
Did he coddle Wes Unseld for too long?
Did he err in changing the name of the Bullets to the Wizards?
Did he treat Michael Jordan too harshly?
Should he have re-signed an injured Gilbert Arenas?
Should he have sold the Wizards to Ted Leonsis instead of the Capitals?
Did he put Landover [...]

Yellow Line in the direction of Huntington, Oct. 13, 11 p.m.-ish. (Click to enlarge.)

For the barely current issue of City Paper, I wrote about the Georgetown Hoyas' new t-shirt shooter, called the T-Shirt Gatling Gun.
Who cares that the team is slumping? The few seconds it takes for the multi-chambered air rifle to fire a couple dozen shirts into the stratosphere are worth a trip to the Verizon Center.
Before [...]

Now that the Britney Spears of national elections has gone back to Wasilla, we as a culture are back on the real thing. And she knows it. And she's coming to Verizon Center March 24 (via the Examiner).
I admit to sitting through most of Britney's MTV docudrama this week (brought to you commercial-free and sponsored, [...]

Sometimes I hate to admit it, but I love college football. I grew up in Nebraska. It was all we had really. So even though I'm old enough to know better, I still spend way too much time obsessing about the Cornhuskers. This Saturday offered ample proof.
The football team was playing the Kansas Jayhawks in a [...]