Archive for September, 2010

New Yorkers don’t like Clearview street signs

New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign – NY Daily News
$27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps – NY Post
All street signs in New York City need to be converted to mixed-case Clearview font by 2018. Steve Anderson of NYCRoads.com summed it up by saying “the [...]

Penn State vs. Iowa: Beat-writer preview videos

Cory Giger & Neil Rudel of the Altoona Mirror

Bob Flounders & Dustin Hockensmith of the Patriot-News

Penn State at Iowa preview

David Jones (from his house) of the Patriot-News with Andrew Logue of Des Moines Register on a cell phone. Really.

Iowa preview

Boswell, others: Time to open up the wallet, Nats

The Washington Nationals, having improved by 9-12 games this season have an important offseason ahead of them. Some might say, the future is now, but they’d probably be making an ironic statement given the Redskins use of that term and stockpiling aged veterans. The Nats though, may have a core of young players that are [...]

Phillies rough up Detwiler in Nats home finale

Washington Nationals lose to Philadelphia Phillies, 7-1, in 2010 home finale – The Post
Washington Nationals starter Ross Detwiler gave up Philadelphia Phillies four home runs last night, ending his lost season and the Nats home schedule.
Adam Dunn struck out four times last night. He admitted he was trying to smash another ball into the stands [...]

Joe Paterno press conference transcript 09.28.2010

Joe Paterno Press Conference: Coach Paterno meets with media Prior to Big Ten opener at Iowa – Intercollegiate Athletics
The coach talks about the Iowa game and reminds us that Temple didn’t have any fat kids.

Nats: Strasburg speaks about his recovery from Tommy John surgery

Last week, Dave Shenin wrote in The Post that Stephen Strasburg was “grumpy” following Tommy John Surgery. He was, among other things, playing phone tag with team officials like manager Jim Riggleman. His calls were generally during games which is kind of funny, I think. I was also pleased to hear he was giving up [...]

Filling in for Mr. Walkoff: Adam Dunn

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night the Washington Nationals gave out t-shirts that had my nickname for Ryan Zimmerman — Mr. Walkoff. By the end of the night, one of them in the clubhouse had DONKEY written in place of Zimmerman on the left sleeve. The Big Donkey, Adam Dunn, had taken the role from the [...]

Music Tuesday: Gone, Gone, Gone

Keeping the theme of songs dealing with Penn State opponents for Music Tuesday this football season can be a little tricky. For example, I was unaware of any Iowa musicians, so I had to look at Wikipedia. The Everly Brothers came up, so I figured they’d be as good as anyone. The Nittany Lions play [...]

A purple Redskins cap?

TYSONS CORNER, Va. – Team apparel in colors other than the official ones is kind of stupid. A purple Washington Redskins cap, like the one I saw at Harris Teeter in Tysons, is really stupid. It makes as much sense as a green New York Giants cap or red Dallas Cowboys cap. Who thinks of [...]

Cooking with William & Erica vol. 9: Capitol Half-Smokes Sausages

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – I was at the Kenmore Ave. Magruder’s on Saturday morning to get a few items for brunch when I noticed a package of Capitol Half-Smokes Sausages. I mentioned it to the Ombudsman, who was down from greater Boston, and a store employee interjected that they had just been stocked. I was not [...]

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