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Category Archives: Print

The Ruinous Redskins Owner Now Seeks To Silence Free Speech

3 February, 2011

It’s hard to fathom the possibility that Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder could manufacture an even lower regard for himself in Washington these days, but he’s managed to do it: yesterday he had lawyers file a lawsuit against the parent company for Washington’s City Paper, whose Dave McKenna published a tour de force tally of Snyder’s [...]

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Cool Print Treatments of Outdoor Hockey’s Enduring Appeal

1 February, 2011

“The truth is with fickle winter weather and a lack of hockey tradition, real Maryland pond players are as far apart as Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin’s front teeth,” observes Candus Thomson, in her gorgeously written January 30 Baltimore Sun feature on Maryland’s dedicated shinny skaters. We about the region in touques and hockey sweaters [...]

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The Summer of Fat Albert Brings Bad News for the Hockey Beat

25 August, 2010

At the very top of the hockey media hierarchy here there have been ominous departures this summer — Tarik El Bashir is pursuing new beats within the Post’s sports department, ones which won’t require anywhere near the travel commitments the hockey beat does, while Lisa Hillary is bolting to cover the Flyers for Comcast in [...]

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A Lesson in Media Resource Mismanagement

19 April, 2010
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Mike Wise Wants Our Patience, and I Say Let’s Welcome Him to Our Great Puck Party

14 April, 2010

I was halfway through Mike Wise’s Tuesday column in the Post and ready to cross-check him in the throat with my prose, I was that disgusted with his allegations against no small number of Caps’ fans. His charge was fantastic in its conception: that some manner of hostile division, a discernible segregation, had settled in [...]

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Captain My Captain!

11 April, 2010

It’s never a bad week to be Ovi, but this past one was especially special for our captain. He scored his 50th goal on the season, but his most impressive move may have come off the ice. Comcast Sportsnet’s Russ Thaler blogged about a terrific encounter he and his family had with the Gr8 out [...]

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A Capital Morning in the Post

11 April, 2010

Congratulations to Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog (and my fellow University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hen) who this morning snagged some prime real estate on The Washington Post‘s page A1 with his article about the Alex Ovechkin.

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Dare We Think about Shoveling Canal Snow Too?

10 February, 2010

This email arrived from the Montgomery Gazette this afternoon: From: Donaghue, Erin <edonaghue@gazette.net> To: pucksandbooks@onfrozenblog.com Sent: Wed Feb 10 Subject: question from the Gazette Hi pucksandbooks, this is Erin Donaghue writing with the Gazette in Montgomery County. We’re trying to set up a photo for sometime this weekend of hockey along the C&O Canal, and [...]

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All It Takes Is 12 Wins in a Row

5 February, 2010

How do you get your hockey team to be featured prominently on the front page of the Washington Post? Win 12 in a row AND have a player reach 500 career points. We asked the Capitals this morning if they could tally up the number of A1 instances for the team with the Washington Post, [...]

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Chicago’s Burgeoning Suburban Backyard Rink Boom

31 January, 2010

Friday’s Chicago Tribune highlighted our favorite passion-hobby sprouting conspicuously across the suburbs of that great city — families taking to skating outdoors, in this case by erecting rinks in their backyards. “Years ago, backyard ice rinks seemed like a luxury for only the most die-hard hockey fans. But in recent years, it has become the [...]

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