What You Need to Know, in Fewer Than 300 Words
In honor of this morning's morning skate trip....Chris Clark says the Caps are 100 percent better this year, Brian Pothier raves about the Caps while calling D.C. a Southern city, the Caps could be scouting someone in Phoenix, Thrashers G Kari Lehtonen might get the night off, hockey bloggers call out Tom Boswell by name, the Barenaked Ladies are coming to tonight's Caps game and PinkSeats finds video of Ovie warming up in his much-discussed crocs.
The Wiz reflect on their opening loss, while Gil beats two feuding teammates at once, Joe Girardi really doesn't want to manage here, Bog friend Brian Straus looks at one of DCU's forgotten pieces, Bruce Arena will provide televised commentary on the team that just ended his season, and NE's Joe Franchino says "this is the year" for the Revs to topple United.
Ralph Friedgen says pro prospect Jared Gaither isn't really improving, Maryland's punter almost got a shot at WR, a different Terps superstar raises her son while aiming for a national championship, JMU kids rally in front of the DOE to protest Title IX, Flip Saunders channels Al Saunders (freaky), Brandon Bowman, Mike Hall and Travis Garrison are all early picks in the D-League draft, and former Wiz Jared Jeffries, apparently now on the Wizznutzz payroll, tells of "following a hobbit in a cotton-candy field, chasing chili dogs," which is only the best quote of all time.
Plus, I guess the Redskins are still playing. (Romomania, btw, has spread to features on the kid's grandparents, and here are your Brett Favre comparisons and your Bill Parcells thoughts.)
By Dan Steinberg |
November 3, 2006; 9:22 AM ET
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Posted by: Reader Glenn | November 3, 2006 10:20 AM
that's because people care about the Redskins
Posted by: Unsilent Majority | November 3, 2006 10:26 AM
A mere technicality!
Posted by: Reader Glenn | November 3, 2006 12:03 PM
In that Washington Times article, Jordan put the blame on this players. Give me a break. He should put it squarely on himself.
Posted by: Colin | November 3, 2006 01:43 PM
in response to unsilent majority, most of us who haved live in the greater DC area for any period of time support all of our local teams. The teams represent our fair city, it is only logical we support them back.
Diversify, watch other sports you might be amazed how talented athletes are in other sports besides pro football. The best all around athlete hands down in DC is Ovechkin, i mean rookie of the year in hockey and gets a hole-in-one first time playing golf, lol...
Posted by: kthhken | November 3, 2006 02:40 PM
I'm quite familiar with the game of hockey and the our own local participants. but the fact remains, the redskins command more coverage because more people care about them. I'm not trying to diminish the Caps, it's just that most people would rather read about the the skins, wiz, and area colleges in their print edition.
Posted by: Unsilent Majority | November 3, 2006 02:57 PM
DC is, at heart, a southern city.
Posted by: Jon, Washington DC, USA | November 3, 2006 04:41 PM
New angle for Monday - why Peter Nowak deserves to be fired.
Seriously - benching the only scoring threat on the United and for what?
Nowak deserves to be kicked back to Poland.
Posted by: Zach | November 5, 2006 11:10 PM
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Blogger pucksandbooks is spot-on when he says that the Caps deserve at least 1 (if not more) column in any of the local newspapers (I'm talking to you, Washington Post). Sure, it's easy to dismiss the Caps decent start because, well, it's just that: the start of the season. But this isn't baseball we're talking about. The Caps are just about 15% into their season and if they keep up their level of play, a playoff spot isn't out of the question. Imagine if the Skins were 2-1 after three games. People would be talking about the Super Bowl.