Columns by Thom Loverro
Dan Snyder has consumed the Washington football franchise. There is no team. No Commanders. We certainly know the Redskins don't exist anymore. Snyder might as well have changed his organization's name to the Washington Enrons.
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June 27, 2022
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Dan Snyder might want to stay out of the country floating around the world on his yacht.
He may not own the Washington Commanders for much longer. Skipper Dan the Sailor Man didn't own the Commanders on Wednesday. The House Oversight and Reform Committee did.
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June 22, 2022
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There is any number of reasons for the demise of the Orioles franchise that have had far more impact than the presence of the Nationals. The most obvious, of course, is the incompetence of the Baltimore franchise under Angelos ownership.
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June 20, 2022
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Money -- it's why Heinicke has practically zero chance to compete for the job that he had last year, even if, by most accounts, he overachieved in that role.
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June 16, 2022
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The Lerners have a well-earned reputation for driving a steep bargain when it comes to potential business partners. It's a hard-nosed approach to negotiation that has served the family well, considering that Ted Lerner's net worth in 2022, according to Forbes, was $4 billion.
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June 14, 2022
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The stadium was dead already in the city, despite Mayor Muriel Bowser's support. But Voodoo Jack's comments cost those who are still trying to salvage that effort. It cost the Commanders political capital in the city, where they have none.
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June 9, 2022
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If you are a true Wizards fan, well-versed in the missteps that have kept this franchise from climbing out of its grave, it has to be doubly painful to watch Al Horford in a Celtics uniform.
Horford could have been the game-changer for Washington.
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June 7, 2022
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The Virginia proposal for a Commanders stadium could still come up for a vote in the coming weeks, but Dan Snyder never looks better with the passage of time -- only worse.
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June 2, 2022
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"Boxing, I don't know why people call it a sport. It's not a sport. This is like organized crime," the veteran boxer said in 2015. "Where else in the history of sports where you see people around the ring and people beating the crap out of each other?"
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May 25, 2022
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The Washington Black Sox, a sandlot baseball team consisting primarily of Black baseball players, became one of the best on the East Coast.
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May 23, 2022
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When horse-racing fans make their way into Pimlico Race Course on Saturday for the 147th Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, they should be walking by a statue of Spectacular Bid and touching it for luck -- just as Baltimore Ravens fans do when they pass by Johnny Unitas' statue at M&T Bank Stadium.
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May 19, 2022
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When Johnny B. "Dusty" Baker returned to Nationals Park this past weekend as the visiting manager for the Houston Astros, he did so as the winningest manager in Washington Nationals history.
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May 16, 2022
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The ongoing high-stakes fight over millions in television revenue between the Nationals and Mid-Atlantic Sports Network and the Orioles almost surely contributed to the Lerners' decision to potentially part with their team. And it's reason enough for the commissioner of baseball to, once and for all, put an end to the squabble.
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May 12, 2022
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Larry Lucchino will have a place in baseball's Hall of Fame for his legacy as an executive -- a legacy that began here in Washington, as a lawyer working for his mentor, Edward Bennett Williams.
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May 5, 2022
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Lost in the sea of embarrassment that sweeps over this organization seemingly on a daily basis was the fact that in Washington's bid to host 2026 World Cup games, the gangsters at FIFA took one look at Ghost Town Field and said, "How about Baltimore?
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May 2, 2022
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We've let Ovechkin skate too long for his relationship with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.
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April 27, 2022
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Washington Nationals third baseman Lucius Fox took a few steps toward the dugout after Joan Adon's second pitch and threw up. Maybe he had a clue what was to come -- a 15-hit, 12-3 beatdown by the San Francisco Giants, sweeping the Nationals for the first time in Washington since 2008.
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April 24, 2022
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Wizards general manager Tommy Sheppard should feel comfortable -- very comfortable. After all, the deal for Bradley Beal continuing his career with this franchise was done when Beal had surgery in early February to repair a torn ligament in his left wrist, according to sources.
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April 19, 2022
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The Lerners -- basking in the glow of the first Natonals victory of 2022, Sunday's 4-2 win over the New York Mets, attended by some Washington fans -- announced Monday that they are looking for a financial infusion, or, more likely, someone to buy the team.
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April 11, 2022
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The season may yet slip away, perhaps sometime soon. After all, the power and glory quotient when you walk into that Nationals clubhouse now is much dimmer than it has been in the past decade. But it didn't slip away Sunday. Not yet. Not yet. What the Nationals did show was the kind of emotion and execution you see in those teams that beat the odds.
Published
April 10, 2022
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