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From Hip Hip Hooray to Deadskin
26 days ago by
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You want to see how a fan base changes in one year? Look at the above images. Oh, wait, before you do that, read this. "I think the relentless negative coverage in The Washington Post is a real difference from previous years," Redskins COO David Donovan said, in a quote I...
DeAngelo Hall's W-L record isn't so great
26 days ago by
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(2006 photo by Streeter Lecka - Getty) This is a big week for DeAngelo Hall. He's going to be far more involved in the Redskins' punt-return game. He's debuting a line of t-shirts. He's blogged about how the Redskins are like a wounded animal. And he has promised to...
Flip Saunders pays homage to Bullets past
26 days ago by
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Chatting at 11:30. See here. There are plenty of reasons to like Flip Saunders, among them that he seems to have helped restore the Wizards to a state of competitiveness. Here's another one: take a look at what he did to the Wizards' practice gym. Now, this isn't a new...
Shannon Sharpe wears a bag head for the Skins
26 days ago by
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Sure is tough to go more than a day or so without a Redskins story involving one of the team's supposed potential hires. Monday, it was Mike Holmgren, lashing out at the Redskins' treatment of Jim Zorn. Sunday, it was Bill Cowher, sitting there and grinning while his "...
Behavior Change: Group protest
27 days ago by
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I can't even count the number of e-mails I've gotten with proposals for how to really send a message to the Redskins' front-office, from group walk-outs to group boycotts to group backs-to-the-field to group marches. (Ok, I probably could count the e-mails, since I'...
New look Wiz get ready for Cleveland rivalry
27 days ago by
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(2008 photo by Preston Keres - TWP) Remember when LeBron James said there was no rivalry between the Wizards and the Cavaliers? DeShawn Stevenson was asked about that comment Monday afternoon, on the eve of the rivalry's first 2009-2010 incarnation. "He's the Golden Child...
IMG exec calls Ovechkin a "global icon"
27 days ago by
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IMG Worldwide has a few people you might have heard of in their client portfolio--Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova, Giselle Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Peyton and Eli Manning, for example. Until this week, though, the sports media and entertainment company wasn...
Arenas masks, Snyder costumes, and more
27 days ago by
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It's possible D.C. sports will never have a more fruitful Halloween sports weekend. I was hanging out with a two-and-a-half year old ladybug in Western New York, but I thought I'd pass along a few images. Anyone else, send 'em in. The Wizards played their home opener on...
Snyder gets tarred and feathered
October 29, 2009 by
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When the D.C. Lottery and its ad agency were coming up with its new POWERBALL campaign, the Redskins foment hadn't yet boiled over. It was hardly even warm. This was back during just a regular preseason, filled with optimism and hope and the promise of grilled Tofurkey sausages...
Behavior Change: Fan cards and pumpkins
October 28, 2009 by
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The happy Bog is on a brief vacation. It'll be back in a few days. Please don't give up on it if you're not interested in this stuff. "I think the relentless negative coverage in The Washington Post is a real difference from previous years," Redskins COO David...
WUSA says Skins prohibiting tailgate interviews
October 28, 2009 by
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Since I mentioned this on Twitter, might as well put it here, too. I was watching WUSA-9's 11 pm Tuesday night broadcast, and after a piece about Redskins fan dissatisfaction and the recent ban on signs, the program cut back to anchor Derek McGinty in the studio. "Tonight...
Redskins ban signs at FedEx Field
October 27, 2009 by
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Do you see this sign? I fished this sign out of a garbage can outside FedEx Field. It was in the garbage can because there's a new policy that says no signs of any sort are permitted inside the stadium. Even signs sending best wishes to husbands in Afghanistan. When and why was...
Highway sign calls for Cerrato's firing
October 26, 2009 by
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"I think the relentless negative coverage in The Washington Post is a real difference from previous years," Redskins general counsel David Donovan said, in a quote I'm likely to recycle 7,000 times in the next week or so. "But in terms of the way our actual fans...
Dexter Manley remains optimistic
October 23, 2009 by
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Amid the crush of pessimistic radio transcriptions featuring former Redskins greats, let me present something dramatically different: an optimistic radio transcription featuring a former Redskins great. It's Dexter Manley, appearing on Friday's Sports Fix on ESPN 980, with...
Jaworski: "It's NOT the playcalling"
October 23, 2009 by
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If you're not lucky enough to be going to FedEx Field Monday night, there's a good chance you'll be listening to Ron Jaworski's analysis of Eagles-Redskins, including the current turmoil in Ashburn. For a sneak preview, Jaws appeared on the Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN...
Zorn to remain coach for remainder of season
October 23, 2009 by
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Washington Redskins executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato said on his radio show Friday morning that Jim Zorn will remain the head coach of the team for the remainder of the season. "Let me start by making a few things very perfectly clear: Jim Zorn is...
Riggo compares Snyder to Madoff
October 22, 2009 by
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These are confusing times we're living in. I'm not sure what to make of it all. Increasingly, though, John Riggins feels like the voice of the Revolution. When he finally raises the flag, I'd start looking around for the pitchforks. I don't even know what any of the...
Mark Schlereth compares Skins to "a gigantic rash"
October 22, 2009 by
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Ok, back to transcriptions of radio interviews about the Skins. Did you just blink? Well, then someone who used to work for the Redskins just went on a radio station somewhere to crush Daniel Snyder like a concord grape with the delicious juicy interior squirting out and landing in...
Schefter calls Skins job "desirable"
October 22, 2009 by
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The giant creeping cloud of noxious press that's hovered over Ashburn for several weeks has truly been remarkable. To cite just a few from this week: * Don Banks, SI: "Other than financially, has anyone been better off after going to work for Daniel Snyder and the Redskins...
Sherm Smith discusses the distractions
October 21, 2009 by
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With all the focus on Sherm Lewis--who has thus far been unavailable for media comment since ascending to the playcalling role--the other Sherm, offensive coordinator Sherm Smith, has at times been forgotten. But Comcast SportsNet has a weekly interview with the Original Sherm, and...
Marcus Mason says Skins are Yankees of NFL
October 21, 2009 by
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Forever prospect Marcus Mason, cut for the third time by the Redskins, went on The Junkies Wednesday morning to discuss his former team. He was clearly unhappy to be out of a job, but while he was honest about his experience, he had lots of good things to say about the locker room...
Ochocinco's D.C. United Jersey
October 20, 2009 by
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Chad Ochocinco hasn't been shy about his love of soccer, so when the D.C. United marketing folks were sending out the invites for the friendly with Real Madrid at FedEx Field, Ochocinco was on the list. Somewhat unexpectedly, Ochocinco actually replied to the invite through his...
Rich Gannon tells Snyder Skins are like Raiders
October 20, 2009 by
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As I mentioned Monday, it's hard to know exactly what Daniel Snyder's thinking, due to his lack of in-season interviews, so every little bit helps. This week on Sirius NFL Radio, Rich Gannon helped a lot. Gannon, a former Redskin (and Blue Hen!) who called Sunday's game...
Zorn on the radio gets even more awkward
October 20, 2009 by
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Ok, before I get to the awkwardness, let me get to the greatest part of Jim Zorn's weekly appearance on ESPN 980's The Sports Fix Tuesday afternoon: when he was asked why Albert Haynesworth lumbers off the field in anguish so frequently. Now, obviously Haynesworth is a massive...
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