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Bad Bergmann
The Nats are making a real play tonight for worst game of the season. After three innings, the Mets are ahead 10-0. Yes, 10-0.
College football countdown: Nos. 46-50
The first of two countdown segments for the evening
Traveling Colombia: The Hat Vendors
By Francisco Collazo In preparation for the festival of the bulls, also known as “la corraleja,“ an endless number of vendors set up their stands, like members of a circus traveling from one town to another, in search of an opportunity to sell their wares. The festival and its attendant preparation are in the air even though the event has not officially begun. Cumbia music is pumping loud, competing with the sounds of the “pelaos” (a slang term for kids), motorcycle taxis, squeals of pigs strapped to the backs of bicycles, the slap of dominoes on a table, loudspeakers announcing or offering products, and sounds of carts being pulled by different animals or by human strength.
Traveling Columbia: Vendedores de Sombreros
By Francisco Collazo En preparacion para las Fiestas de Toros o “Corralejas,” se reunen un sin fin de vendedores ambulantes, que como el circo viajan de pueb lo en pueb lo en busca de una oportunidad para vender sus product os. La fiesta y preparacion aunque no oficial todavia empiezan temprano o por lo menos asi parece: la Cumbia domina el ambiente compitiendo con el ruidos de los "pel aos" (que es como se le llaman a los ninos), las motos-taxis, los crujidos de los cerdos llevados en "bici" (como se le llama a la bicicleta), los juegos de domino, y alto-parlantes que anuncian o ofrecen una variedad infinita de product os y sonidos de carretas movidas por diferentes animales o por fuerza humana.
Facebook Freezes. World in Peril?
The outage, earlier this week, of Gmail, Google's e-mail service, caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the technorati -- and the rest of us. On Wednesday afternoon, Facebook has a problem, which may account for the moaning and crying you're hearing throughout the metro area.
Before and after
Wondering how some of the everyday Nats players have fared in recent weeks compared to earlier this season? You may be surprised how dramatic the differences have been.
Bush to delay August vacation
President Bush puts off his trip to the ranch to handle the Georgian crisis.
Indiana gets its own anti-McCain ad
Hoosier State didn't get new Obama spot earlier today - it's getting an ad of its own.
Keep your iPod on the ground and keep reaching for the stars
Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Steve Harvey, Casey Kasem and Ryan Secrest -- among others -- is adding a new "Top 40" countdown: the star is Apple's iTunes.
Burning down the house
Safeties Jeff Allen and Jamari McCollough missed practice today. And no, they didn't start the fire.
Today's practice rundown
They're between practices in College Park. Here's a look at today's news and notes.
2 Obama battlegrounds not seeing new ad
New ad not running in Georgia or Indiana, states Team Obama ran ads previously.
Lambeth and gays
The world's Anglican bishops met for three weeks this summer for their once-every-10-years Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, and it's indicative of the low news value of that gathering that not one American newspaper sent over one of its staff writers to cover it.
'Going down the ocean'
I'll be "down the ocean" (as we natives like to call it) later this week for the Maryland Association of Counties conference in Ocean City, Md.
30 Teams in 30 Days -- Anaheim
Here's the grand debut of a segment that could be called "A way to fill the days until training camp"
