The value of a Redskins ticket is apparently continuing to plummet even after the team's thrashing of the New York Giants in Sunday's opener.
In a column published in early June, I observed that, "Supply is kicking demand's ass at FedExField."
The ass-kicking continues, despite the Redskins' fabulous start to the 2011 season.
At the time that [...]
Please Remain Terrified: Those warnings about an anniversary bombing yesterday, as the nation marked ten years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, turned out to be a false alarm, as no attack materialized. But that doesn't mean vigilance can come to an end; authorities say they'll keep on high alert, apparently just in case the [...]
Isn’t It About Time To Call A Penalty
For Unsportsmanlike Conduct?
The mainstream media didn't cover the racially charged protests against the Washington Redskins in 1961, sparked a half-century ago by outrage over owner George Preston Marshall's refusal to integrate his all-white team.
The black press, however, was all over the story, particularly the Afro-American Newspapers, whose legendary [...]
You Put Your Weed Application In There: Selling medical marijuana in the District will be risky; applicants have to sign a waiver that seems all but designed to be used as an exhibit by the U.S. Attorney in a future federal narcotics case, after all. But that didn't deter everyone—city officials allowed more than 50 [...]
Oh, You're Still Here: Labor Day weekend would be a great time to get out of town—power's back on at the Delaware and Maryland beaches after Hurricane Irene, there's no work Monday, and the weather's getting humid again after a week of paradise. But travel is expected to fall by 2.3 percent this weekend, thanks [...]
RFK Stadium turns 50 years old this fall. To kick off the golden anniversary celebration, I wrote a column this week about the stadium's first tenant, the 1961 Washington Redskins, which was also the NFL's last segregated team.
Read all about it here.
George Preston Marshall, the Redskins owner, had ignored calls for him to integrate [...]
Power Strictly Optional: The world finally has the answer to the question of "what's more devastating, tropical storms or blizzards?" Irene left hundreds of thousands of people without power by Monday, two days after passing through the mid-Atlantic—more, apparently, than the Snowmageddon did a few years ago. But the weather since the storm has been [...]
Irene, Goodnight: If you're still thinking about Tuesday's earthquake, your anxieties are hopelessly passé. All the cool kids are now worrying about Hurricane Irene, set to blow by the Delaware coast this weekend on its way to turning New York City into an outtake from a disaster movie, tossing a bunch of rain and wind [...]
Geology Rocks: A day after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake generously described by anyone on the West Coast as "moderate," things aren't quite back to normal around here. The Washington Monument was closed, DCPS was closed, and the panic that an impending visit from Hurricane Irene would have ordinarily generated in the local media was entirely [...]
Tourmobile No More: Those blue trolleys trundling around the Mall will officially be a thing of the past next year. National Park Service spokesman Bill Line says Tourmobile's contract to provide transportation (which probably was never as ironclad as NPS officials used to claim in terms of protecting the trolley monopoly) won't be extended after [...]
No Free Parking: These days, municipal governments need to scramble to find every spare dollar they can. Which is why the District is extending its free research program as part of a parking ticket amnesty—the program, which was set to end today, has already brought in nearly $400,000 from scofflaws taking advantage of the chance [...]
Rex Grossman played above his weight class and the Redskins looked adequate in Friday night's exhibition win over the Steelers.
But the biggest news reported by attendees to the preseason opener was that the price of beer has gone up a dollar in the grandstands. Drinkers say the roving beer men now charge $9 a pop.
Apparently [...]
Walk This Way: When a cop in Toronto said young women shouldn't dress "like sluts" if they didn't want to be raped, activists got both mad and even; they launched Slutwalk, a protest/mockery movement, where participants are encouraged to dress like, well, sluts, to send the message that they still have the right not to [...]
More apparent evidence of ticket-selling desperation from the folks in Ashburn: Management appears to have actually started acknowledging that the game-day experience matters!
No, really!
Yesterday over at Extremeskins.com, the Redskins-owned message board, a poster wrote about being solicited to buy premium seats via email and snail mail.
According to the poster, the Redskins latest sales pitch includes [...]
The Great Dan Steinberg is among those who've weighed in on Rex Grossman's current tonnage.
Plainly, Grossman is half the man he was when he took the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl, plus the man he was when he took the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl!
He may have been locked out from the team's weight [...]
