Facebook Is an Amazing Tool

Or notDemonstrating once again the double edged nature of modern communications, an NFL player has gotten in trouble for Facebooking. Atlanta Falcons rising fourth year reserve offensive tackle Quinn Ojinnaka was arrested Friday after a domestic altercation with his wife who had confronted him over contact with another woman via the monster social network Facebook. He says she started it when she tried to stab him with a pen, Quinn in turn did...

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Naming Names

Call them whatever you wantThis week I had the opportunity to engage with a prominent non sports blogger at a meet and greet for a political candidate hosted by a mutual friend. As subject matter experts are wont to do when they have an audience, this gentleman held forth and held forth and held forth some more. When he got into the mechanics and logistics of running an active blog community he began to quantify the time commitment over and above...

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Good Move Jason

Getting out at a good time to get outWord on the street is Washington Post Redskins beat reporter Jason La Canfora is leaving the paper and moving to the NFL Network, which around here we lovingly refer to as the NFL (Network) since it is owned by the league and is as much a state controlled entity of the NFL as ESPravda 980 is of the Redskins.Over his time at the Post Jason became a flash point for the Redskins community, as the paper and I use...

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Jon Jansen Released

UnfortunateIn a story breaking this hour, the Redskins have released ten year veteran right tackle Jon Jansen, a move that frankly surprises. I first heard of this move from Matt Terl's ORB (Official Redskins Blog) Twitter feed, and then found John Keim with a breaking news blurb at Washington Examiner.After last season I presumed there would be a competition for right tackle, with Washington's signing of 400 pound Mike Williams it was looking like...

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I Have Some Questions for Steve Jackson Too

An OBHR case studyMatt Terl over at the ORB (Official Redskins Blog) continues to use his immense powers for good, nabbing interview after interview with Redskins players and coaches and providing critical insight into how the team is run and what the day to day is like inside Redskins Park.  It is like nothing Redskins fans have ever had before.Tuesday Matt published an interview with Redskins safeties coach Steve Jackson, a former NFL player,...

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Story Update: Jack Pardee

Did just about everythingWhile the staff here at worldwide headquarters is heads down preparing a slew of offseason wrap up pieces, I have an update to a previously run Curly R story.Two years ago The Curly R ran a multi part summer tent pole series on the career of former Redskins player and coach Jack Pardee, a story told through the lens of the game played between Jack's Oilers and Joe Gibbs' Redskins in November 1991 when both teams were Super...

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Today We Are a Virginia Lacrosse Blog

glad-ing. n. The feeling of euphoria that comes from having Danny Glading on your teamLast week I was fortunate enough to attend the NCAA May Madness men's lacrosse quarterfinals day two in Annapolis Maryland, the University of Virginia slaughtered Johns Hopkins University 19-8, then I saw Duke win a squeaker against the University of North Carolina. It was all truly awe inspiring lacrosse to watch.Right now I am watching 2008 NCAA champion Syracuse...

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Redskins 2008 Coaching Search - One Year Later

Threading the needle to an NFL head coaching jobSet aside in your mind for one moment how sloppily and how haphazard the search for a successor to Joe Gibbs seemed a year ago.  Forget the Joe Gibbs victory lap, the hatchet job on Gregg Williams and the leadership silence over 32 days in January and Febraury 2008 as Dan Snyder rooted around for a better candidate, one that never materialized so he promoted the offensive coordinator that had never...

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How Can You Even Argue with This?

Cool, I've still got five minutes til my next bad decisionOnce again Sports Illustrated has rated the NFL owners, giving us their opinion on the top five and the bottom five, would you be surprised to learn that Dan Snyder is a bottom five owner according to this study?  The SI drop on Dan:Snyder is a good businessman and spares no expense with one of the most profitable franchises in sports. But maybe that's the problem: The young billionaire...

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Jim Zorn Needs to Get Introspective on His First Year Introspection

Memory can be a funny thing.  Weak offense cannot.With a hat tip to Jimmy Shapiro at Zucker Media Group, last Wednesday Redskins head coach Jim Zorn did an interview with Chris Myers and Steve Hartman on radio station KLAC in Los Angeles, a Fox Sports affiliate, coach Zorn discussed a wide range of topics in this one segment piece, head back through the link above for the audio.After white gloving the controversy over trying real hard to replace...

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Tonight Once Again We Are a Capitals Blog

He put the biscuit in the basketThe Red will be Rocking in Chinatown tonight as the Washington Capitals take on the Pittsburgh Penguins in decisive game seven of round two of the NHL playoffs and I am once again a hockey fan. Our man Alexander the Great, Alex Ovechkin leads a team that went up two games to none, then lost three straight then won the tying game on the road, Monday's game was another heart attack overtimer.Lay back and enjoy the show,...

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An Interesting Question

Short answer: yes. I mean no.So quarterback Jason Campbell went and took charge of minicamp. Yes the same Jason Campbell that wanted a trade if the team brought in another starter has now found his spark, something teammate Chris Cooley said this evening in an interview on NFL Network Jason needed to find, maybe all the quarterback controversy helped him to find it.Jason Campbell will be the Redskins 2009 starting quarterback and barring injury...

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CSN Redskins Nation Wrap, 12 May 2009

Why am I doing this? It's May.There is a Redskins themed show on in the Washington area almost every night and I never watch any of them except be accident, then last night after the Washington Capitals magically beat the Pittsburgh Penguins to force a round two game seven tomorrow in Chinatown, neighbor Bill let Comcast SportsNet, the locally focused sports network, run on and Redskins Nation came on, and right there in front of us was our very...

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Inside baseball: Chris Cooley says Redskins PR department worked Jason Campbell over not to make like Jay Cutler while the team was trying to get rid of h...

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Bang it on NFL Network or Sirius NFL Radio right now, Chris Cooley is on next segment talking about Jason Campbe...

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Happy Birthday Andre Carter

High steppin into 2009Please join me in wishing Redskins defensive end Andre Carter a happy birthday, Andre turns 30 the big three oh today.Andre came to the Redskins with the 2006 class of free agents and has been a stead presence on the right side of the line. He must be bursting to get back on the field with the additions of defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth in free agency and outside linebacker slash defensive end Brian Orakpo through the...

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Tonight We Are a Capitals Blog

Up against the wall.  Again.Time to strap it on for another elimination game, my Washington Capitals are down three games to two to the hated Pittsburgh Penguins, losing three straight after taking a commanding 2-0 lead to start the series.Our man Alex the Great, Alex Ovechkin is doing everything he can, need to see the rest of the team step up, Mike Green what happened to you and can we get one more goal from the back line from Sergei Fedorov...

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Happy Birthday Jim Zorn

Becoming one with his cityPlease join me and the entire staff of The Curly R in wishing Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn a happy birthday, Jim turns 56 today.Happy birthday coach, bring us an early Christmas present this fall.Jim Zorn with his family at the Washington Capitals 4-3 playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on 4 May 2009: Getty Images from he...

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Power is out in my Fairfax Alexandria neighborhood so no blogging tonight, we are up on Twitter though, follow us at twitter.com/curl...

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"..it looks like we don't know what we're doing."

One hell of an admissionThe Washington Post's Jason La Canfora, about the most knowledgeable Redskins writer right now, had a great piece in the Saturday edition on the emerging contours of a likely and frequent topic of the Redskins 2009 season and that is the state of the offensive line and how the early numbers are really against the kind of unit performance Washington will need to get back into the playoffs.Bottom line: it's bad kids and it...

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