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Dan Snyder Killed Some Trees, And A Park Ranger Paid The Price
Tim Murphy has a great story at Washington Monthly that shows, yet again, that you're justified in holding every idea you have about just what a rotten human being Dan Snyder is. It's a story about trees, egregious abuses of government power, and how easy it is for regular people to have their lives...
The Lesson Of Black Monday: Your NFL Team Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Yesterday was Black Monday in the NFL. My team's coach got fired. Your team's coach got fired. EVERYONE'S coach got fired. If six Fortune 500 CEOs were all shitcanned on the same day, the markets would crash; there'd be barricades in the streets by noon. But it's a telling sign of football cultu...
The Skins Turned Mike Shanahan's Presser Into A Hostage Situation
Or at least that's what it feels like, given some of the tweets that have been coming out of the Skins' facility today. The DC media was called in to cover a 10 a.m. press conference with Mike Shanahan, a thing that's pretty standard procedure when a coach has just been fired, and they arrived to fi...
Report: Mike Shanahan Was Near-Obsessive With RG3's Media Availability
Mike Shanahan is most likely done as Washington's head coach after today's game, which means this is an opportune time to talk anonymously about him. It seems that many people inside the Skins organization took advantage of that....
Girls' Basketball Game Turns Ugly With Some Help From Skylar Diggins
Things got chippy last night at a high school basketball game where Skylar Diggins, the former Notre Dame star now playing for the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, was in attendance to have her jersey retired. One player punched another in the face and got ejected, all while Diggins sniped at her former team's o...
The Redskins' Incompetent PR Guy Is Also A Giant Cry Baby
We've met Tony Wyllie—the Washington Redskins' deeply stupid, duplicitous shitbag of a PR flack—around these parts before. He's the man who once compared Dan Snyder's ridiculous libel suit against Dave McKenna to the plight of Egyptian protestors in Tahrir Square. He's also the guy who threatened to...
D.C. Santa Claus Shot With Pellet Gun In Front Of TV Crew
Here's some horrible footage from Washington, D.C. station WJLA. The ABC affiliate was covering a toy giveaway in the southeast side of the city when somebody shot Santa Claus in the back. ...
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Skins Fan In "Dallas Sucks" Shirt Thrown Down Stairs [UPDATES]
This Skins fan—clad in a "Dallas Sucks" shirt—just gets tossed down the stairs by some kind of security. The reason why is as clear as the reason for the dude in the Peyton Manning jersey at a Cowboys-Skins game....
Colorado State Comes From Behind To Top Washington State
Colorado State was able to battle back from an early deficit to beat Washington State in a wild finish. They needed a Statue of Liberty two-point conversion to tie the game with under a minute remaining and then a Cougar fumble on the ensuing kickoff. The Rams recovered and were able to kick a 41-y...
The NCAA Is Not Going To Tolerate Excess Education
Originally published at Bloomberg View....
Kanye's Latest Tour Freestyle Has Him Lamenting MJ's Bulls Exit
Kanye West was in Chicago on tour a couple days ago, so of course he took time out of his set to sing/rap/talk about Michael Jordan whom he considers to be "one of the most influential people in our civilization." Yes, it was as glorious as it sounds....
Do Native American Mascots Actually Cost Their Teams Money?
The "face of the franchise" debate in sports is always a curious one, because no matter how popular or talented a player might be, his face is not the one on the team's uniforms or merchandise. That is reserved for the mascot—the unnamed, disembodied heads adorning uniforms, as well as the Philly P...
Nene Will Hypnotize You With His Many Facial Expressions
Don't look away. Just sit back, and let your brain go quiet....
75 Years Ago NFL Players Looked Like This
"Pro football is almost a different game from college football," LIFE magazine helpfully informed its readers in October 1938. In those years, the biggest pro sports in America were baseball, boxing and horse racing; professional football barely registered on most fans' radar. But pro ball was makin...
Caps Fan Takes Puck To Face, Waits Until After OT To Get Stitches
Meet the face that launched a thousand fans-just-as-tough-as-the-players quips. Alicia Drummond took a puck to the face during yesterday's Flyers-Caps game and rather than get the medical attention she needed to sew up her head, she stuck it out and watched the rest of the game....
Your Washington Quarterback Family Portrait
Free Rex Grossman! [Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images]...
Mike Shanahan Admits To Lying To The Media All The Time
Mike Shanahan was a little fired up at his press conference earlier today. That's understandable, considering the monumental shit storm that has descended on the Redskins' season. But the best part of the presser came when Shanahan, with one little admission, crystallized everything that is so dysfu...
RGIII Benched For Kirk Cousins
And here we are. According to reports from Pro Football Talk and the NFL Network, Kirk Cousins will start for the Redskins on Sunday, leaving Robert Griffin III to watch from the bench, possibly for the rest of the season....
Alex Ovechkin Scores Four, Is Ridiculous
When watching a Capitals game just as a fan, you never take your eyes off Alex Ovechkin. When an opposing team does it? Carnage....