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Ted Leonsis Has Had It With The Washington Post "Harboring Criminals" Who Resell Wizards Tickets, The Way The Wizards Do

Dom Cosentino — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:00 EST

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As long as Dan Snyder is around Washington, Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis won't ever be the city's most thin-skinned sports owner. But with his Caps and Wizards turning in disappointing and horrifying seasons, respectively, Leonsis has been showing the strain. More »

Wilbon Leaving The Newspaper You'd Forgotten He Still Worked For

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:18 EST

Mike Wilbon is leaving the Washington Post to devote more time to being a faintly tolerable presence on ESPN. The newspaper's memo is below. More »

Washington Post Editor None Too Happy With Mike Wise's Roethlisberger Stunt

Barry Petchesky — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:05:46 EDT

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Wise made up some news this morning. Just hours later he bragged about how he can get people to print anything, and how he increased his Twitter followers. His bosses sent out a little note, warning him to cut that shit out. More »

Columnist Starts Rumor That No One Believes, In Effort To Prove People Will Believe Anything

Barry Petchesky — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Mike Wise of the Washington Post "broke" the news that Ben Roethlisberger's suspension would be 5 games. After no one took the bait, he went on the radio to explain how he was just trying to show "anybody will print anything." More »

Athlete Wives Are Just Regular Gals, Washington Post Keeps Reporting

Tommy Craggs — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:00:06 EDT

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The Post gives the wives of the Capitals the same incisive treatment it gave the wives of the Nationals last year. Noted: "They're striking, yes! But, in a regular kind of way." [Washington Post] More »

Everyone's Overqualified To Cover The Nats, But Especially This Guy

Barry Petchesky — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:45:00 EST

Because Nationals Park is more hazardous and soul-numbing than Helmand Province, the Washington Post's new beat writer is a Pulitzer Prize winner. I'd rather be that Pulitzer winner who got laid off. [WaPo] More »

Tiger Woods and Mike Wise Cheated on People. Have You?

Katie Baker — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:16:30 EST

"I am Tiger Woods," writes Mike Wise in a bracing column in today's Washington Post, "and I have poked fun at his travails because I use humor as camouflage." Not anymore. More »

Michael Wilbon's Untapped Thoughts Are Now Worldwide

A.J. Daulerio — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:10:23 EDT

Watch as anti-blogivist Michael Wilbon tackles high-minded issues on his new WaPo page (not a blog!). In addition to opining on sports and social issues, he also slips on a cyber velvet robe anddishes dating advice as well. [TheBigLead] More »

Nationals' Unexpected Success Sends Washington Post Into A Fugue State

Tommy Craggs — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:00:03 EDT

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The lede to yesterday's game story: "In the coda of the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, composer Johann Sebastian Bach repeats the same chord sequence over and over again, leading the listener to anticipate one resolution ..." [Washington Post] More »

Washington Post Columnist Mines Deadspin Comments, Finds Comedy Gold

Rick Chandler — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:30:59 EST

From Sally Jenkins' Washington Post column: "A wit named Gourmet Spud posted this sendup of his autobiography on Deadspin: "From Breaststrokes to Breasts-Tokes: How I Spent My Summer Olympics Vacation" by Michael Phelps." [Washington Post] More »

Who's the Next Allison Stokke?

Leitch — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:30:02 EDT

AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think. More »