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...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...The Legend of Kevin Man...
For the cooler-than-July print edition of Washington City Paper , I wrote this week about Kevin Manning, the differentest person I ever knew . He died a couple months ago, and the way he died is quite a tale on its own. I’ve been thinking about him non-stop since I learned of his...Update: U.S. v. Roger C...
The U.S. v. Roger Clemens Trial , which is among the few things that would rank below the U.S. v. Iraq War on any list of ” Current Events Americans Care About ,” is underway in U.S. District Court in our fine city. Opening arguments began this morning in the perjury case...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...