I coached at Roosevelt High in DC for three years. We had to teach kids to catch every year. With the way the DC school lottery works, the kids who play baseball get themselves into Wilson and SWW. Read more

I played under Eddie Smith, and damn the attitude of “we won but it’s not a victory” was so prevalent. Wilson is the only one of the public schools playing any games against the private schools, and as far as the players were concerned those were the only ones that mattered; if we’d grown up playing Little League in… Read more

To give some perspective to it, my private high school in dc of about 350 kids, grades 6-12 (we were more of an artsy school), would get 10 run ruled by wilson every year while I played in the late 2000s, and we would turn around and 10 run rule dunbar and cardozo, depending on which one we played that year. Dc is a… Read more

Say what you want about RGIII, he was ruined by the NFL. Dude was insanely talented and got caught up in the NFL meat-grinder. He should’ve done what Kawhi Leonard did and sit, he didn’t and now he is a joke. Watching his knee buckle during a lame ass playoff run was heartbreaking. Read more

I lucked into tickets to that playoff game against the Seahawks. I’ll never forget the sound the stadium made when he went down with that final knee injury: a kind of “hubumpumphthgnahhhhhhh” exhalation of despair. We all knew, instantly, what it meant. Read more

I remember after his very first game he beat the Saints in a shootout, and everyone was talking about how he was adding to his legacy. What legacy? He hadn’t done anything yet. Read more

I know it was only 1% of the article, but that game proved that Shanahan had no business coaching.

Early in the game, RG3 appeared injured limping around, barely a factor so much so that you could see the Seahawks barely concerned with run plays and focusing on locking down receivers. Then, on one fateful play, you see… Read more

I’m still not giving up on my username. Read more

If you read those trademarks in order, it actually makes for an aggressively mediocre chorus to a song you’d likely be annoyed by. Read more

What I remember most about the RGIII era is the creepy “team doctor” in the pea coat, and the weird little medical “closet” under the stands. He ducked in and deemed RGIII fit to play, which proved to be categorically false. Read more

I mean it’s sort of forgotten that his rookie year, although he ran for 815 yards, more importantly his passer rating was 102.4. That year, pre-injury, he actually had the third best passer rating in the NFL, behind only Rodgers and Peyton Manning.

I’ve always wondered if Shannahan or whomever had been intelligent… Read more

He’s so down on his luck that I heard he’s wearing plain white socks, for everything! Read more

OK Go... (Really long intro, with the song starting around :53)
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Nils Lofgren, of Bullets Fever fame, you mean!

those commercials were part of my childhood. his studio was only a few miles from my grandparents house in wheaton. RIP Mr. Rhee. Read more

Rhee told me in 2000, at the age of 68, that to stay in top shape he did 1,000 pushups a day and would hold one leg over his head whenever he watched television. His goal, he said then, was to “live to be 136.” Read more

I recall during the days of paleo-Facebook, when it was still a college only thing (and not a Russian Troll hangout), I had a thing on there called something like “Daily Hibachi,” with a new quote from Gilbert Arenas every day. It was my favorite part of Facebook. Read more

Ahhh the Knucklehead era.
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Steve Kerr was watching that squad and had an inspired thought. “What if Nick Young and JaVale McGee got serious minutes on the greatest basketball team of all time?” Read more

i was banned for life from the verizon center when the wizards hosted the magic after thanksgiving 2010. the last time i was there for a game, i snuck in and got into a screaming match with Pam McGee. Javale was traded the next day. True story. Read more