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

There has been a lot of coverage on Twitter, blogs and even the national media about Prince Fielder joining the Washington Nationals. I have thought it over and still conclude that he’s a DH with looming early on-set “old player skills.” Would he help the 2012 Nats? Yes, but anything longer than a 5 year [...]

Jim Williams: Nationals may be in line for bigger TV deal – The Wash. Examiner
Every five years, the Washington Nationals get to review the deal (*cough* corrupt bargain) they have with MASN, the cable channel that is owned by the Baltimore Orioles/Peter Angelos. My objections to the arrangement both historically and currently are well established, [...]

We don’t know how much change we’ll see in media covering the Washington Nationals in 2012, but there is now an official departure. Ben Goessling will be leaving MASN to go back to his hometown paper, the Pioneer-Press in St. Paul to cover the Minnesota Twins. I haven’t read him regularly since he moved to [...]

I stumbled on this a few days ago, Charlie Rose interviewing Warner Wolf and Glenn Brenner in 1984 on CBS Nightwatch:

After Wolf, the native Washingtonian moved onto New York in the 1970s, Brenner eventually replaced Wolf at Channel 9 (then WDVM, now WUSA). After Brenner died, Wolf was brought back to D.C. where he [...]

The 2011 Washington Nationals season is over and I miss it. Part of what I miss about the near-daily experience of following the Nats is the radio team of Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler. Last Wednesday, I was quite grateful to have them as I got stuck working late before driving up to Pennsylvania. I [...]

I finally got around to blogging about the Dan Snyder vs. CityPaper/Dave McKenna SLAPP suit the other day after several false starts. The fact that Snyder had not even read the whole article showed that the whole thing was intellectually dishonest.
Last night, around 8 p.m., Snyder announced that the suit would be dropped. So, at [...]

This year, rather than just list the beat writers predictions like I did in past years, I figured I’d take it a step farther. I have compiled all the reporters on the Penn State Nittany Lions football beat and linked to their outlet, their blog (if applicable) and their twitter account. I have also included [...]

John Walton, the radio voice of the Hershey Bears got the call-up to the big club this week (Capitals Insider) — he was signed as the new radio voice of the Washington Capitals. Walton has been at the Caps top minor league affiliate for a number of seasons, several of them AHL championships and is [...]

Longtime radio broadcaster Pat Boland dies – CDT
Pat Boland, a name and voice familiar to the Penn State and State College communities succumbed to brain cancer. He was 42. I remember Boland mostly for his radio work with Phil Grosz of Blue White Illustrated and pre- and post-game of Nittany Lions games.
h/t @scrappled

UPDATED 07.06.2011
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There are apparently sports talk radio warz going on (visit DC Sports Bog if you really want to find out more) which has me thinking one thing — I miss Ken Beatrice!
For the uninitiated, Beatrice was a long-time host of a sports call-in show on WMAL (back when it was a real local radio station) [...]