Archive for December, 2008
Chuck Norris, Plaxico, MMA and Politics
Chuck Norris, Plaxico, MMA and Politics
Local Poll Week IV: Big South Rising
Local Poll Week IV: Big South Rising
A Classic Snyder Jersey
A Classic Snyder Jersey
Far be it for me to tell outraged fans what to think, but I will say that the grievous front-office faults that are so obvious to fans in recent weeks seemed somehow to have slipped into the mist about a month ago. Now, though, they’re back, and so I quite wish [...]
Morning Look: Portis’s Practice Style
Morning Look: Portis’s Practice Style
“Redskins Deal With Disgruntled Portis.” Seriously? I mean, it’s been what, five weeks since ESPN The Mag columnists were campaigning for Clinton Portis for MVP? And now he’s benched and disgruntled, with PR guys leading him out of the locker room before the press is allowed in?
Plus, he kept [...]
Morning Look: That Was a Good Weekend
Morning Look: That Was a Good Weekend
(AP Photos by, from top, Rob Carr, Nam Y. Huh and Gerry Broome)
Here’s a 100 percent true story: this weekend, I returned home from a week’s vacation in Miami Beach, leaving Florida on a day that was 80 degrees and perfectly sunny, with clouds banished to some less [...]
Some Purple Prose
Some Purple Prose
Plax as a Redskin: So Crazy, it Just Might Definitely Won’t Happen
Plax as a Redskin: So Crazy, it Just Might Definitely Won’t Happen
Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium?
Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium?
It’s Lindsay Applebaum, filling in as a guest bogger again. Yes, I’m still here. Your beloved Steinberg will be back soon, I promise. Until then, I will continue to torture you with my lack of cheese references and quirky Jim Zorn stories.
The economy is crumbling faster than the Redskins’ playoff [...]
The Zorn Vocab: “Mr. Official”
The Zorn Vocab: “Mr. Official”
Um, Mr. Official? (By John McDonnell - TWP)
I can find only three published instances in the past 12 months where a head coach in any sport has used the phrase “Mr. Official.” Oh sure, you can find lots of humorous-type writers dropping in that phrase during fake dialog between [...]
Local Poll Week III: This Thing’s Over
Local Poll Week III: This Thing’s Over
(By John Hawkes - Atlantic 11 Media Inc.)
It’s Week III, and the third annual Atlantic 11 champion has already been decided. Barring some major meltdown or an unforeseen late-season game with Liberty, Georgetown will once again finish on top of this thing. Not only that, but my specially [...]