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Ryan Glasspiegel has a long, interesting history of the Washington Post sports section under editor George Solomon—from 1975 to 2003—where sportswriting stars like Tony Kornheiser, Mike Wilbon, Rachel Nichols, David Aldridge, Sally Jenkins, and John Feinstein came to prominence. [The Big Lead]...

How Dan Snyder Bought Off The D.C. Media In 2000, then-editor Wes Pruden of the Washington Times blasted Dan Snyder's efforts to control the flow of information about the Redskins as "chickenshit" tactics....

How Can We Live In A Sports World Without George Solomon?After 21 months of gentle tsk-tsking and slight, bemused wags of the finger, ESPN ombudsman George Solomon said goodbye in his last column yesterday. Surely, he dramatically changed the landscape of ESPN and ... uh ... well ... all right, maybe it was a mostly inconsequential and tame column that ne...

George Solomon's Blind Rage

ESPN "ombudsman" George Solomon announced yesterday that he's leaving his "post" at ESPN at the end of this month. No word yet on who will replace him — our suggestions are Harold Reynolds, George Grande and A.J. Daulerio — but the fine folks at Hurricanes Are For Drinking take a look back at some o...

Blogdome: An Open Letter To George Solomon

• We thought the most recent column from ESPN ombudsman George Solomon was among the more critical and reasonable ones he's written. Here's a dissenting (and somewhat convincing) view. [Fan's Attic] • How this year's baseball season is like the 2001-02 NBA season, and how the Mets are like the Nets....

Fun With ESPN's Ombudsman

We repeat: We find it hysterical that ESPN has hired an ombudsman — former Washington Post editor George Solomon — to tell it when it's operating outside the boundaries of journalistic ethics. We mean, it's ESPN: Duh. Anyway, Solomon does his monthly tilting at windmills this morning, and as alway...