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Arlington abuzz over low-flying helicopters – WTOP
Some Arlington County residents are unhappy about the helicopter traffic throughout the county. Wait a minute, I thought the helicopters were a perk of living in Arlington!
I lived in Pentagon City for 6½ years, in a building (The Potomac at Riverhouse) which is a block away from the Mixing [...]

Penn State’s men’s basketball team just did something they had not done since 1954 — beat two top 25 teams in a row. I like how my friend PSUGirl put it: Birds fall out of sky; Millions of dead fish found; Penn State MBB beats 2 ranked opponents.
First, the Nittany Lions beat Michigan State on [...]

Tuesday, Washington Post Live presented Business of Sports – Q and A with panelists Ted Leonsis, owner the Washington Capitals, Wizards and Mystics (Monumental Sports), Robert Tanenbaum, principal owner of the Washington Nationals and Marla Lerner Tanenbaum, chairperson of the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation, Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins and Will Chang, [...]

Here is what my friend David, a Washingtonian living in the city of San Francisco, had to say about new Washington Nationals color commentator F.P. Santangelo:
He’s pretty good. I don’t know when he started at KNBR (Giants AM station), but I listened to his show a fair amount at night when driving home. I think [...]

Washington Post Live is hosting a panel discussion, the Business of Sports Q&A, featuring ownership from all the D.C. pro teams at 8:45 a.m. today The panelists include:
Ted Leonsis, owner the Washington Capitals, Wizards and Mystics (Monumental Sports)
Robert Tanenbaum, principal owner of the Washington Nationals and Marla Lerner Tanenbaum, chairperson of the Washington Nationals Dream [...]

Beer: Six microbreweries race to open – The Post
I’ve already mentioned that Port City Brewing will be opening in my city, Alexandria, soon. They are going to start with a Belgian-style witbier with pale ale, Indian Pale Ale (IPA) and porter coming later. Port City will joined by 5 other microbreweries in BeltwayLand:
Fort Washington’s [...]

Santangelo is new MASN analyst – Nats Insider
Santangelo set to join Nats’ TV team – nationals.com
F.P. Santangelo, a journeyman utility infielder has been hired to be the 5th regular color commentator of Washington Nationals games on MASN. His previously worked as a fill-in for San Francisco Giants. He replaces Rob Dibble, who was fired for [...]

Rob Bolden responds: QB ‘upset’ about JoePa denying transfer release – Altoona Mirror
Rob Bolden and his father Robert Bolden Sr. met with Joe Paterno yesterday with the hope and expectation that Paterno would release the freshmen from his scholarship. Bolden, upset that he was removed from the starting quarterback job and not given a chance [...]

 
(I grabbed this photo from Nationals Enquirer (with love!) who grabbed it frin BuckCommander.com.)
The Washington Nationals signed free agent 1B Adam LaRoche to a 2 year contract that will pay him at $16 million. They probably overpaid, which Thomas Boswell says is the cost of being cheap in the past. Whatever. As Nationals Enquirer notes, [...]

I watched a little more than half of the Winter Classic, the last half and enjoyed the tough, well fought hockey game. I especially enjoyed it because Eric Fehr and Semyon Varlamov led the Washington Capitals over the hated Pittsburgh Penguins. The Caps played appropriately for the conditions instead of getting too cute. The 3-1 [...]