Jayson Werth Is Hitting...

The Jayson Werth Saga ™ is turning tragicomic. Mike Rizzo and the Lerners gifted Werth with the Adam Archuleta Package : A deal nobody could live up to. And, boy, is he ever not living up to it: Werth’s batting .215 at the All-Star Break, and his grounding into a game-ending...

The End of the Souvenir...

The News-of-the-Weird-friendly tragedy in Texas last night, where a fan died going for a baseball during a Rangers/A’s game, will likely mean the end of players tossing balls into the stands. Good riddance. Sure, there’s something sweet about little kids looking for souvenirs...

The Jack Kent Cooke Fou...

For the almost expirational print platform of Washington City Paper , I wrote an update on the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation , and focused on how the group helped out a great kid in my neighborhood. The foundation, founded after the 1997 death of the former Washington Redskins owner, was...

Freddy’s Not Dead! Yo...

I’m no Andres Cantor , but in my lifetime big-game soccer has rarely lived up to the hype. Coaches and refs tend to tense up and leave championship matches of all sorts to be decided by flukes and penalty kicks. But Saturday’s USA/Mexico matchup for the CONCACAF Gold Cup...

A Tense Saturday for th...

On Saturday, gunfire rang out near the corner of Georgia Avenue and Gresham Place NW, according to police, leaving four shot, and one man, Robert Foster , dead. The three other victims are hospitalized. The violence erupted at approximately 5:03 p.m., sometime after the nearby D.C....

Without the Divas, Woul...

Not all this area’s football players are locked out. Players on the Washington Redskins , a team that (Awesome Trivia™ alert!) hasn’t hosted a playoff game in this century, have been forced to get together at some mysterious high schools in parts unknown (the practice...

If McNabb Wouldn’t Fo...

Illustration by Brooke Hatfield The latest chapter in the ruination of Donovan McNabb is playing out on radio and TV outlets all over town . This week’s installment holds that the feud between McNabb and Redskins management kicked into high gear around the time of his benching in...

Washington Freedom Go B...

Fans who hold the departed Washington Freedom dear might like to know the squad is still doing wonderfully on the field. Last weekend, the team, now usually called magicJack and playing its home games in Florida, defeated the Atlanta Beat, 2-0, to stay unbeaten after three games....

Of St. Albans Baseball,...

For the hours-from-obsolete print issue of Washington City Paper , I wrote about St. Albans baseball . I got into the story because of Danny Hultzen , a local boy now pitching for UVa and regarded by many scouts as the best college baseball player in the country. And in looking into...

Capital Classic Goes On...

Years from now, nobody will pad their jock resume by bogusly claiming they played in the 2011 Capital Classic. That’s but one way of saying that the area’s premier high-school all-star basketball game ain’t as premier as it once was. The 38th rendition of the Classic...