Word: redskins
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...expeditions, the Times is a colorful alternative to the sometimes staid Post. Hard-driving local news coverage, an award-winning sports section and provocative cultural writing make the paper a fun read. Amid reams of conservative commentary, it delivers scoops on such diverse matters as sewage-plant woes and Redskin-ticket scams. The paper covers the city's black community in greater depth than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard Downie Jr. that...
Washington Redskin Coach Joe Gibbs better check and see if God is still on his side after last Sunday's loss to Philadelphia. Looks like Eagles Coach Buddy Ryan has been making a few extra visits to the chapel...
...happiest memory of junior high school, aside from my Bar Mitzvah, was the Redskin's Super Bowl victory over Miami. When John Riggins broke through the Dolphin line on fourth-and-one, I ran around the house banging the walls and shouting...
...Super Bowl press box, a writer let out a small whoop as the Raiders blocked a Redskin punt in 1984. "I'm sorry, that was really unprofessional," he said sheepishly. "But I've got $2,000 on the Raiders." Win or lose, does the two grand get into the story, affect the quality of the praise, increase the vitriol in the criticism? What...
...quarterback whom Williams understudied, last year's young pro bowler Jay Schroeder, 26, was demoted, reinstated and then finally shelved this season in one of the most dramatic reversals of form in league history. Reports that the Redskin players were muttering for Williams on the sidelines have been denied, but he does say, "I've had a lot of encouragement from the guys on this team, white, black or whatever. They respect me." His completion percentage against the Vikings was ghastly (nine of 26), but as the citizens of Denver will agree, the result is what counts...