William World News William F. Yurasko's blog v.14 – Nats, Penn State, Redskins, greater DC , travel, more

This afternoon, the Big Ten Conference revealed their new logo and the names of the divisions. The Leaders division includes Penn State, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State. The Legends division includes Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.
There are a whole lot of new trophies too and they all have hyphenated names. [...]

BERRYVILLE, Va. — While driving to get a Christmas tree, our son fell asleep so we kept going up VA 7 West. After crossing the Shenandoah River, I decided we’d turn around by going through Berryville. I had never been through the little town and figured it’d be slightly more interesting to drive down US [...]

While I debate which was the bigger collapse, the Metrodome roof or the Washington Redskins field goal unit, check out these videos:

Interestingly, the corporate name of the venue, Mall of America Field, is barely being used in coverage, except by me of course. Let me give a big welcome to Web searchers using the correct [...]

POLL: What was the bigger collapse, the Metrodome roof or the Washington Redskins field goal unit in a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

Truth of the matter, I found making fun of the Minnesota Vikings and defending the honor of Snomaggedon much more fun than coming up with prediction for today’s Washington Redskins vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.
In the first half of the season, the Redskins played to the level of their competition most of the time. That [...]

I slam Minnesota for cultural misappropriation of Snowmageddon and post videos of Vikings meltdowns as revenge.

This hasn’t been a quiet week in college football and Penn State may be feeling some aftershocks. Pitt Temple West firing Dave Wannstedt has people like Slow States wondering if defensive coordinator Tom Bradley would be a candidate for that vacancy (you should listen to their podcasts by the way, especially the 23 minute mark [...]

So, I got a text from this week’s guest prognosticator Brad, at 3:06 p.m. yesterday.
“nice job on the prediction”
The Washington Redskins promptly scored a touchdown.
Take that, Brad.
That’s all I have to say about the game, other than they should wear burgundy pants with white jerseys.

The Washington Nationals signed free agent Jayson Werth to a 7 year, $126 million contract today, several days after letting Adam Dunn leave.* Does it surprise you that 31 year old former Philadelphia Phillies outfielder is a Scott Boras client? It strikes me as an irresponsible contract, but since Ted Lerner is worth $3 billion, [...]

The Penn State Nittany Lions will play the Florida Gators in the 2011 Outback Bowl. They last played each other in the 1998 Outback Bowl after a season where both teams were ranked #1 for a time. This season, both teams were not ranked #1 or even close to it.
Should be an interesting matchup, [...]