Dan Snyder's Six Flags debacle has taken a turn toward the contentious.
We couldn't be happier!
The bankrupt company's creditors are asking the courts to hold up proceedings until they can investigate the relationship between Six Flags and Red Zone LLC, an investment group Snyder formed with a lot of Redskins Park, including team bigwigs Vincent "Vinny" [...]

Brett Favre's gone, so Michael Vick talk dominates.
Vinny Cerrato yesterday told the Washington Post that the Redskins will not pursue Vick, doggedly or otherwise. But Cerrato has fibbed so many times about personnel matters, most blatantly while acquiring Jason Taylor from Miami last summer, that his credibility in these situations is less than zero. So [...]

The typists' gathering spot sportsjournalists.com has been rumoring that the Washington Post will hire a former Baltimore Sun columnist, Rick Maese, to replace Vinny Cerrato nemesis Jason La Canfora on the Redskins beat.
As predicted in this space, the beat wasn't big enough for the Skins' GM/racquetball partner/DJ and the Post's writer/blogger/agitator.
La Canfora left the paper to [...]

Jason La Canfora goes to work for Dan Snyder?
That's essentially what Pro Football Talk is saying. According to the site, La Canfora has been hired away from the Washington Post by the NFL Network, the future cable powerhouse owned by the NFL, which is run by the NFL owners, none brasher than Snyder.
On some levels, [...]

Awesome Capitals trivia from play-by-play man Steve Kolbe: After last night's OT loss in Pittsburgh, Kolbe related that the Caps have never won a Game Three in any best-of-seven playoff series. The team's been around 35 years! How's that possible? (Apparently it's NOT possible!)
Awesome Capitals trivia about play-by-play man Steve Kolbe: The franchise has had [...]

Dan Steinberg posted another clip from "Kindergarten Ninja" today on the Sports Bog.
That's the B-minus movie from 1994 that starred Cerrato as "Sgt. Antonelli," a detective who enlists kids to help him fight drug gangs.
It's amazing viewing.
Fallout from his role in "Kindergarten Ninja" could have legs. Folks over at Extremeskins.com, Dan Snyder's message board, have [...]

So Jason Taylor gets cut or otherwise dances out of town after a partial season with the Redskins.
Vinny Cerrato traded two draft picks for Taylor last year.
Now there's a big whole hole at defensive end. Again.
But which was the worse move: Trading for Taylor, or cutting him?

The great Dan Steinberg today posted some footage of Vinny Cerrato from his other acting job, as a character in a shoestring-budget 1993 feature film called Kindergarten Ninja.
According to the cast roster, Cerrato, who once accused Washington Post columnist/Vinny tormentor Jason La Canfora of playing up Italian stereotypes when mentioning Cerrato on his Post blog, [...]

Vinny Cerrato and the Boomtown Rats don't like Mondays.
At least, Cerrato's been AWOL from his radio show on Dan Snyder's radio station, WTEM, on mornings after recent games, as the Redskins fell from overachieving underdogs to just plain dogs.
But the Skins won yesterday, and Cerrato was back as host this morning.
The Redskins' chronically maligned personnel [...]

Today on his irregular radio show on Dan Snyder's sports station, WTEM, Vinny Cerrato was asked point blank if he wanted Redskins head coach Jim Zorn to come back next season.
"Um, yes," Cerrato responded, before the Redskins top personnel man and major market radio host blamed the media for making Zorn's return an issue.
At [...]

This morning on WTEM-AM, Steve Czaban announced that he was so upset with the Redskins performance in Cincinnati that he would be organizing a "Give Your Tickets to an Eagles Fan" promotion, or antimotion, for the Skins' last home game of the season.
Whether sincere or not, Czaban's bit was as gutsy as sports radio gets.
For [...]

Vinny Cerrato showed up for his radio show today on Dan Snyder's WTEM. Sort of.
Cerrato skipped Monday's broadcast of "Inside the Red Zone with Vinny Cerrato," so this program should have provided fans their first shot at the Redskins executive vice president, football operations since the team's latest crap-like performance in Baltimore and subsequent Portis/Zorn [...]

Vinny Cerrato, the Redskins executive vice president—football operations and house DJ, did not show up for his semi-weekly radio show this morning on Dan Snyder's sports station, WTEM-AM.
Cerrato took a Jason Campbellesque pounding during last Monday's show after the Skins went down so meekly to the New York Giants.
One caller, speaking for legions of fans, [...]