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Twitter race: Lannan vs. Balester
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(Via @ballystar40) Remember this summer, when Charlie Villanueva and Chris Bosh had a race to 50,000 followers on Twitter, with the loser doing something embarrassing on YouTube of the winner's choosing? Watching those guys talk up their contest on ESPN back then made me think...
Battle of the Orange Line?
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If you haven't been following it closely, you might have missed the massive amount of hype surrounding Wednesday's GW-George Mason game, which some GW fans have dubbed "The Battle of the Orange Line," possibly marking the first Metro-themed all-local basketball matchup...
Mike Wise meets Obama, Part II
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If I'm not mistaken, Barack Obama has attended two D.C. sporting events in his time as president. What do they have in common? Well, sure, they were both basketball games. But beyond that, at both sporting events, the president was granted a brief audience with Washington Post...
Rating the Redskins' national popularity
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(By Erik S. Lesser - AP) There have been countless stories this year suggesting that Redskins' fans are tuning out on their team, and that the owner is losing his fan base. I've sort of been a part of all this, as has my paper, athough my point has always been that fans are...
Local Poll Week II: The Obama effect
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(Photo by John McDonnell, editing by Ian Oland. Follow his twitter feed.) Not a bad week for the locals. Georgetown remained unbeaten. William & Mary took down Wake Forest. Richmond felled Mississippi State and Missouri. Morgan State toppled Arkansas. GW hosted a sitting president...
Some final images from Skins-Eagles
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A few lasting images from the loss in Philadelphia. Okay, so I appreciate it was a sunny day. Still, I'm just trying to imagine Lombardi in these. I'm trying to imagine Landry or Gibbs in these. I'm also trying to imagine the Secretary General of the UN addressing the world...
I interviewed the White House party crashers
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I don't want to oversell things, but there's a chance the above video might be the only one in the world featuring a member of Journey, John Walsh, the White House party crashers and former Skins offensive coordinator Al Saunders. It has something to do with polo. All I remember...
The play-calling trapezoid's finest hour
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Look, I'll grant you that the Redskins' play-calling trapezoid is bizarre as hell, with Jim Zorn not calling plays except for the times he does, and Chris Meidt helping Sherm Lewis call plays from the booth, unless he wants to run, in case Sherm-on-Sherm communication leads...
Jurgensen would let next coach choose his QB
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More transcribed Redskins quotes! But only good ones! The playcalling Sure, the offense seemed better Sunday, but Joe Theismann still assassinated the playcalling system on his ESPN 980 show Monday morning. "You know what we ought to do?" he said at one point. "Really...
Cooley defends Haynesworth
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I wrote on Sunday about Marshall Faulk calling out Albert Haynesworth during the NFL Network's pre-game show, telling the tackle to "tape it up and go" against an NFC East rival. Well, coincidentally, DC101's Elliot in the Morning was also watching that segment, and...
Vinny Cerrato's keys to the games
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Cerrato's last press conference, in October. (By John McDonnell - TWP) Because Vinny Cerrato refuses The Post's interview requests, we really only hear from him during his Friday journeys "Inside the Red Zone" on ESPN 980. Unfortunately, the Thanksgiving holiday meant...
Jim Zorn seems to have aged a bit
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At his hiring, and after Sunday's game. (Real photo by John McDonnell - TWP) Now, I should say that the above images aren't an entirely fair comparison. The one on the left was taken by a professional photographer, on a day Jim Zorn had time to gather himself, inside an auditorium...
Campbell says everything "blacked out"
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After the game. (By Matt Slocum - AP) On the Redskins' final fourth-down play Sunday, Eagles defensive end Juqua Parker flung Jason Campbell to the ground after Campbell threw incomplete to Santana Moss. The quarterback remained there for several long moments, face down. It seemed...
Marshall Faulk calls out Albert Haynesworth
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Suppose it wouldn't be a week of the NFL season if there weren't some NFL talking head type calling out Albert Haynesworth. Today's contestants: Marshall Faulk and Warren Sapp, on the NFL Network pre-game show. "The thing is, any time that you're the Washington...
Obama casts his A-11 vote for GW
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(By Mitchell Layton - GW Athletics) Look, I know the president likes basketball, and I understand he has a thing for the Bulls--whom he watched lose to the Wizards last year--and the Oregon State Beavers--who are coached by his brother-in-law, and whom Obama watched beat GW on Saturday...
Ben Olsen with his fans
6 days ago by
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Ben Olsen was going to be honored after the third quarter of Tuesday night's Wizards game; a nice gesture for a local icon on the day he retired. Then, of course, Abe Pollin died, and neither Olsen nor the Wizards thought this was the right night for a tribute to somebody else...
Snyder recalls growing up a Bullets fan
7 days ago by
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Daniel M. Snyder stood in a FedEx Field concourse Tuesday afternoon, wearing casual slacks, a Redskins parka and football gloves, and helping distribute around 3,500 turkeys to Prince George's County residents. It's the sort of event that can help humanize an owner, and I suppose...
Wall Street Journal covers the Burgundy Revolution
7 days ago by
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The big national media folks are covering my favorite little indie band, and so I'm going to react with the usual mix of prideful satisfaction over the validation and immature resentment over them not totally getting it. The Wall Street Journal sank its teeth into the Burgundy...
Theismann calls Skins' system "horrific"
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I'm having a hard time figuring out whether Joe Theismann thinks the Redskins' play-calling system is good, bad or medium. I guess the system has its positives and its negatives, its supporters and its detractors, its highlights and its lowlights. And sometimes you just never...
Fletcher: Dallas "didn't deserve to win"
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(By Jonathan Newton - TWP) After Sunday's 7-6 thriller, the Cowboys are now 5-1 all-time against the Redskins in one-point games. (The teams have also tied twice.) The "1," though, is fairly well-remembered, and makes lots of Washingtonians' lists of the greatest...
Zorn: "It is bleak"
9 days ago by
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That was kind of unfortunate. Leading and shutting out Dallas in the Cowboys' ridiculous home stadium for most of the game, then losing by one at very end after two missed field goals feels more nauseating than losing to Detroit, I think. "There's no loss tougher than...
Redskins still hate Dallas
9 days ago by
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This was predictable, but when I posted the other day how Dexter Manley and Darryl Grant still hate Dallas, out came the comments about how those were the good old days when real men knew how to hate The Star, when winning was more important than making a few bucks, when various organs...
Earl Boykins bench presses more than you
12 days ago by
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Earl Boykins man is listed at 5-foot-5, 139. His max bench press is 315 pounds. This makes him the Wizards' strongest pound-for-pound player. And a lot of people, I told him, are surprised by that number. "I think they should be," he said. "I think they should be...
Matt Bradley on blood, fights and stitches
12 days ago by
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(By Frank Franklin II) Since this has obviously been declared Matt Bradley Week, I'm gonna take another crack at this thing. Bradley was on Mike Wise's 106.7 radio show earlier this week, and since Wise is never shy about asking exactly what he wants to ask, the interview turned...
Teammates respond to Gilbert's Twitter quest
12 days ago by
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Gilbert Arenas's quest for one million Twitter followers has now been going on for about two days. He's got about 2,300 followers. If he can maintain this pace, he'll reach a million followers in about two-and-a-half years, by which point no one will be using Twitter any...
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