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

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

Ryan Kerrigan: Man On The Street

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

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