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

It is halftime up in Beaver Stadium with #20 Penn State Nittany Lions down 17-3 to #2 Alabama Crimson Tide. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about that after the game, but in the meantime, I noticed a glaring omission in the AFLAC Trivia Question. It was something along the lines of “how many [...]

How much rain has there been this week?

If my memory serves, that is US 29/50 Fairfax Boulevard (nee Lee Highway) just east of University Drive.
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Now, I don’t think that quite reaches the level of a Darwin Award; I certainly would not do it, but I’m amused someone else did.

Vacation is over for me and I am getting caught up with the Washington Nationals. It seems they pretty much won every other game after that dreadful series with the Florida Marlins. I caught the finale of that series by bicycling to Nationals Park from Alexandria. It was camp day, I saw my cousin and [...]

Washington Nationals baseball returns tonight, but possibly after your bedtime. First pitch from Los Angeles is 10:05 p.m. EDT. You have special dispensation to listen to the Dodgers feed for the first three innings when Vin Scully is calling the game. I know I will at some point this weekend and then, hopefully, back [...]

Once again, a Washington Nationals player, this year its Michael Morse, is a candidate to be the last National League player voted into the All-Star game by fans. Last year it Ryan Zimmerman. MLB is doing a promotion (which I won’t bother linking to because I disagree with it) to link a fanbase from each [...]

Yesterday, Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog posted about DC’s place in ESPN The Magazine’s Ultimate Standings. Here’s the upshot:
Washington Capitals (27th), Washington Nationals (78th), Washington Wizards (110th) and Washington Redskins (121st). Last year, the Caps were 11th, followed by the Nats (94th), Redskins (102nd) and Wizards (120th).

I would have had more to say, but [...]

So, my son picked a heck of a morning to want to wear his Washington Capitals t-shirt…
Once again, the Caps underachieved, this time getting completely embarrassed by the Tampa Bay Lightning in a sweep.
One way of looking at it — Washington lost to an estuary.
There is going to be a a lot written over the [...]

Apparently, Guido D’Elia did not like Penn State having the most elegant and finest uniforms in college football, so he made a change just so he could say that he did.

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 [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Driving through Tenleytown the other day, we noted that Boy Scout Troop 666 has a Christmas tree stand on Nebraska Ave NW. I think if you bought your tree there, you couldn’t use an angel on top because it would keep falling off.
We got our tree the same place we’ve been going [...]