“Friday Night Knights...

Photo by Darrow Montgomery   Georgetown Prep ‘s a private school that has an indoor track and golf course on campus and overall athletic facilities so fabulous that professional teams rent ‘em . Friendship Collegiate Academy ‘s a public charter school with no home...
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Only the Ball Was Brown...

RFK Stadium turns 50 years old this fall. To kick off the golden anniversary celebration, I wrote a column this week about the stadium’s first tenant, the 1961 Washington Redskins , which was also the NFL’s last segregated team. Read all about it here . George Preston...
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Friendship Collegiate O...

Here’s a photo of the “locker room” used every day by Friendship Collegiate’s highly rated football team. It wasn’t built as a locker room, obviously. It’s intended to be an industrial storage bin. But this bin, plopped on the grounds of Fort Mahan...
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Kung POW! Diplomacy: Ge...

The basketball team representing Georgetown, home of the most respected foreign service teaching in the land, went all Bruce Lee on the players of Bayi, a Chinese professional team , during the school’s, um, goodwill tour of China. We all hoped the Hoyas would break a leg in the...
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The $9 Beer Has Arrived...

Rex Grossman played above his weight class and the Redskins looked adequate in Friday night’s exhibition win over the Steelers. But the biggest news reported by attendees to the preseason opener was that the price of beer has gone up a dollar in the grandstands . Drinkers say the...
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Gary Mays Gets a Song...

Folk heroes deserve folk songs! And Gary Mays deserves folk hero status more than anybody I’ve ever met. So now we have ” The Amazing Gary Mays ,” a tune based on the amazing life story of Mays, my hero and friend and one of the greatest athletes this city ever...
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Faux Gun Control...

For playful print platform of Washington City Paper , I wrote about the government’s War on Toy Guns . I knew D.C’s laws controlling real guns are going lax. But until recently I wasn’t aware that federal and local statutes and various regulatory pressures have made it...
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Handicapped By Andrew B...

Andrew Beyer’s column over the weekend on dying gambler Sheldon Finkelstein gave readers plenty to be sad about. There was Finkelstein’s own lot, for starters. He’s been given a death sentence by doctors for pancreatic cancer. He has chosen to go out doing much the same...
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Jayson Werth Headed Sou...

The two story lines I’m watching in Nats Land right now: The team’s dance with a .500 record, and Jayson Werth’ s journey to a sub-.200 batting average, beneath baseball’s fabled Mendoza Line. After last night’s 1-3 performance at the plate in Houston, Werth...
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Everything Used to Be B...

A column in the Philadelphia Daily News today lamented how 15 of the players picked for tonight’s All-Star game, including Derek Jeter , the five-hit-gamer and 3000-hit-clubber and sudden It Boy of Summer, won’t show up in Arizona for the event. On paper, the All-Star Game...
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