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The Nats return to RFK today for another exhibition with Balmer. I’m going to miss it in favor of cherry blossoms, but I’m not too broken up about it since I’ll be there for the real thing on Monday. What about you? The RFK Box Office will even be open from 10 a.m. to 5 [...]

Frost venue frozen – The CollegianHappy Valley’s “dry” night club, Frost, is still not open, putting it two years behind schedule. I wonder if it will ever open.
PREVIOUSLY: “Dry” bar coming to Happy Valley
State College, Penn State, nightlife, bars, alcohol-free
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A minor redesign of washingtonpost.com debuted last night. They explain it here.
Overall, it is a pretty good redesign, it comes off softer than before without departing too far from their previous design. Other than some trapped white space around the promo modules in the first scroll and some serif fonts, they did a pretty good [...]

Ball-Wonk has issued The 2007 Nationals Progdown Blognostication Credibility Challenge. Here are my predictions:
1. Nationals season record. 62-99 (What can I say, I am an optimist…)2. Nationals NL East division place and games back (if any). 363. Date on which Nick Johnson first appears in a Nationals game. May 154. Date on which Nick Johnson [...]

Let’s start by looking at the lengthy piece (The Post) about the Nats braintrust, from Mark Lerner to Jim Bowden with Stan Kasten in between. Bowden says there is “tremendous synergy” between the three and that the Lerner family are “great human beings.” Kasten liked that Bowden’s experience with the Reds was one with cheap [...]

I didn’t get around to linking to The Wash. Times Nationals/Baseball preview section this morning. I like it because it doesn’t have PDFs.
Also, check out this column from yesterday’s USA Today about renaming the team to the Washington National Grays and making the new ballpark “the baseball equivalent of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a hallowed [...]

A Museum-Quality Car for a Subway Yet Unbuilt – The TimesAn interesting article about the only remaining 1949 2nd Ave. subway car. The cars got built, but the line did not. One of these centuries…
NYC, subway
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The Nats are finished with the megalopolis that is Viera, Fla. for another 11 months. Spring training was mostly positive (Florida Today) for the young squad. They head to AAA Columbus today for an exhibition against the Orioles. The series continues with a trip to Norfolk on Friday and finally an exhibition at RFK on [...]

Last night the Metro Washington D.C. Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association crushed the local Temple West Pitt chapter in broomball. Final score 6-0 Penn State.
We got off to a good start and before long it was raining goals on Pitt. It was our first blowout victory over them in three tries. We now [...]