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Board of Trustees Approves Pegula Ice Arena Design – Intercollegiate Athletics
More details about The Pegula Ice Arena were released at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. The future home of Penn State Nittany Lions ice hockey will have 6,000 seats, including 1,000 behind the opposition’s net.
The exterior is nothing special, likely the same brick as the [...]

RFK Stadium at age 50: Redskins, baseball and much more – The Post
Happy 50th Birthday, RFK Stadium! – SB Nation DC
THOMAS BOSWELL: RFK Stadium: After 50 years, it’s still personal – The Post
GALLERY: A look back at RFK Stadium – The Post
UPDATED 10.03.2011: When RFK Stadium opened DC Sports Bog, The Post (yay mega nerd)
Last [...]

DICK HELLER: The spirit of Griffith lingers 50 years later – The Wash. Times
On this day in 1961, the Washington Senators era at Griffith Stadium came to a close.
Contrary to the madness of the 1971 finale when rowdy fans caused a forfeit in advance of the Senators leaving to “some jerk town with a single [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following last season’s heartbreaking elimination in round 1, the Washington Capitals from the owner down to the fans shared the same point of view:
the regular season does not matter, only the playoffs do
What nobody counted on was just how frustrating the President’s Trophy to early playoff exit hangover would be. The [...]

Last week, after some Twitter discussion, @tbridge wrote a We Love DC post suggesting that a temporary ice rink be installed on the field at Nationals Park during the winter. The idea was prompted by a Times article about the Cleveland Indians trying that out this winter at Progressive Field nee Jacobs Field. For [...]

WASHINGTON D.C. – Last Friday evening, the Washington Nationals and American Veterans Center hosted a panel discussion Baseball Heroes of World War II. Panelists included:

John “Mule” Miles – Army Air Corps/Tuskegee Airman – Chicago American Giants
Lou Brisse – Army – Phidelphia Athletics/Cleveland Indians
Jerry Coleman – Marine Corps – New York Yankees and the “voice of [...]

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 [...]

I bet that Ted Leonsis did not think one of Abe Pollin’s legacies would be 100% of the Verizon Center concession stands having health code violations in 2009, according to an ESPN Outside the Lines report. From Vendor inspection reports:
Verizon Center
Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals
Vendors with critical violations: 100%
Inspection report excerpt: Mice droppings, a critical [...]

Stephen Strasburg exceeds my expectations.

In which I conclude Nationals Park would host the classic, by default, putting it in Baltimore is stupid and I think visiting fans are a mistake regardless of location.