No town on the planet has produced more basketball stars. Yet when it comes to basketball bars, DC is Nowheresville. The only Bullets/Wizards spot with a pulse, in fact, is Grevey's. The former sharpshooter from Kentucky played for the Bullets from 1975 to 1983. He was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks and played for two [...]
Of all the burgundy-and-gold-themed restaurants and bars that have served us over the years Joe Theismann's remains the cock of the block. Good golly, there have been a bunch of these places. From the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, when even in off seasons George Allen and Joe Gibbs’ teams were in the playoff contention, [...]
Maybe this is a sign that, as that damn Peter Angelos said, DC isn't a baseball town: We've never been big on baseball bars and restaurants around here. Mickey Grasso, a mostly backup catcher with the original Washington Senators from 1951 to 1953, had an Italian restaurant at 732 14th Street NW before Grosso was [...]
Sorry, Tom Petty, but: Even the losers get restaurants some times. Hence, Buggsy's Pizza, a restaurant/sports bar in Old Town Alexandria. Hockey's never been bigger in DC. The Capitals had a great (regular) season and people paid attention. In other words: totally opposite what Bryan "Bugsy" Watson experienced during his three years with the Washington [...]
Time was around here when if you wore a jersey on job, you could have a restaurant or bar. It helped if you were a star, but, particularly if your work shirt was burgundy and gold, that wasn't mandatory –the Redskins' offensive coordinator, third-string quarterback and punter all had local chains (chains!) of restaurants back [...]
