Archive for May, 2009

Marc Fisher’s final column

MARC FISHER: After 1,250 Columns, the End – The PostFisher is moving on to an Metro editor position:
There are a million stories in the naked city, someone once said, and I told 1,250 of them here, and another 1,200 on the blog. I heard from readers 250,000 times and I tried to respond to all [...]

Gov. Rendell still pushing for tolls on I-80 in Pennsylvania

Rendell: Congress should remove restrictions on tolling of interstates – Post-GazetteThere he goes again — Gov. Ed Rendell wants Congress to give Pennsylvania and other states the ability to establish tolls along highways. Interstate 80 which runs through the northern half of the state has heavy out-of-state traffic. This leads to people with no familiarity [...]

Athlon: Penn State #7

No. 7 Penn State Nittany Lions – Athlon College FootballWe are 99 days away from kickoff, but Athlon has had their Penn State preview up for a little while now. They rank Penn State #7, but have concerns about the offensive line, wide receivers and the secondary. Of those, the wideouts concern me the most, [...]

Nats Manny Acta might be a better manager if he wanted to keep his job

Acta Sees No Need for Alarm – The PostBy all accounts, Manny Acta is pretty good human being and this article does nothing to dissuade me of that notion. However, as great a guy as he is, I believe he is just too laid back about the way things are going. This is a team [...]

Jay Paterno blogs and is on Twitter

Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno may not be able to “download a jar of peanut butter,” but his quarterbacks coach and son, Jay Paterno is so Web 2.0. The younger occasionally blogs at The HD Journal and is on Twitter pretty regularly. Today’s tweet is how I knew it was 100 days until [...]

Update on the Nats, Caps steroids allegations

On steroids and D.C. – Sports Biz, The Wash. TimesEverybody is looking into it, denying any knowledge of Richard and Sandra Thomas and their allegations of selling steroids to the Washington Nationals and Washington Capitals. Both the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, working with U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement were surprised by the claims made by the [...]

Paterno wants Big Ten to expand, but not with Notre Dame

JoePa wants expansion – The Morning Call (Allentown, Penna.)At a Lehigh Valley alumni function, Joe Paterno again called for the Big Ten to expand, citing Pitt, Syracuse or Rutgers as candidates. He specifically said he would not be happy with Notre Dame being added because “they had their chance.” Yes, they did and the did [...]

Thomas Boswell chat 05.28.2009

Ask Boswell: Nats, Wizards and Orioles – The Post“Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell will be online Thursday, May 28, at 11 a.m. ET to take your questions about the the Nats, Wizards, censored, the latest sports news and his columns.”
Do you get the feeling they just pick a random grab-bag of teams to list? [...]

I’m not happy the Mets swept the Nats…

…but don’t worry, they meet several more times, including six times in September. We know how Nats and Mets series go in September…
Washington Nationals, Nats, Mets, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
©MMX William F. Yurasko

Nats fall to Mets again as video review goes against them again

Second Look Doesn’t Help As Nationals Fall to Mets – The Post
But this latest loss — a 7-4 defeat against the Mets at Citi Field — played out like a bad sequel for reasons beyond that. By now, 33 losses into their season, the Nationals have proved themselves capable of replicating not just the results, [...]

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