Daniel Snyder Is To Blame for RGIII
Robert Griffin III has been a tremendous disappointment. I vigorously opposed the trade. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t excited when the team went ahead and drafted him. I thought, maybe, just maybe, this might be our time… Read More
Ralph Who? The Basketball Great You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1981, John Thompson was able to convince two of the top high school basketball players in the nation to come to D.C. to play for Georgetown. Landing either recruit would have been a major accomplishment; getting both… Read More
Kennedy Wins Criminal Law Invitational
Congratulations to Paul Kennedy for winning the Fourth Annual Criminal Law Fantasy Football Invitational. Riding a series of late season wins, the “Paulie-Wogs” upset front-runner David Benowitz in the first round of the playoffs. Kennedy then went on… Read More
Hail to the Red Potatoes
Responding to the controversy over the name of the pro football team in the nation’s capitol, the Onion announced that the team has decided to change its name. From here on in, the Onion reported, the team will… Read More
Let RG-III Be RG-III (Or Give Him A Front Line That Can Protect Him)
Tony Dungy has suggested the possibility of benching Robert Griffin III in favor of his promising but still unproven backup, Kirk Cousins. If this had been someone from D.C. making this suggestion, I would have bemoaned the tendency… Read More
McNabb Blows It With Public Advice to RGIII
I have always admired Donovan McNabb. I was present at the 2002 game in Philadelphia in which he threw for three touchdown passes after he broke his leg. I sided with him in the controversy with Terrell Owens. … Read More
One Degree of Separation Between Greatness and Me
Back in the days my children were involved in organized sports, coaches liked to tell the story of how former NBA Superstar Michael Jordan was cut from his 10th grade basketball team. The story tended to come out… Read More
We Should Re-Name D.C.’s Football Team
During my freshman year at college, there was an older guy at my fraternity everyone used to call “Heeb-heimer.” That was a play on his real name, which was Hartheimer. He was Jewish. I used to call him… Read More
Liberty and Justice for Y’all Wins Fantasy Football League
Congratulations to Brandon Barnett of Liberty & Justice for Y’all for taking first place in the 2012 criminal law blogger fantasy football league. Barnett barely squeaked into the playoffs with a 7-7 record. He then beat Tempe Criminal Defense in the first… Read More