The Strokes are coming to DC on May 1st at Merriweather Post Pavilion.
How cool is that? A great lineup at this Festival. Click here for details. A great time will be had by all.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
“Stolen”
What a fantastic film, a film about world class art, mystery and thieves. About Boston and about my youth.
The Gardner Museum is one of my favorite places to explore as a young student and as an adult.
Tatiana Gardner, a granddaughter of Isabella, is a friend of mine and classmate from Georgetown University.
This is a beautiful film. You will get chills up and down your spine. Watch it this weekend. The only museum controlled, designed and created by a woman – robbed!
Proud Hoya
Read this article please. It talks about the Georgetown Sports Industry Management program.
The University has a thriving practice here now for undergrads and at the graduate level. It is lead by a former executive at the Washington Capitals, Matt Winkler. It is staffed by former leaders of AOL such as Jimmy Lynn and many of our employees at the Caps, Wizards and Mystics teach here. I guest lecture at the school two to three times per semester. We hire interns by the boatload from this program at our teams.
I am on the board of Georgetown. Paul Tagliabue, former NFL Commissioner, is our Chairman of the Board at Georgetown.
There are several Georgetown alumni that own teams in professional sports or that are leaders in the sports marketing industry and in media that cover professional and NCAA sports.
Georgetown is considered the host of the NCAA Regional games here in DC that are playing at Verizon Center, a building that I own. As an aside, I attended several of the games yesterday. I also met with the President of the NCAA. What a wonderful experience and a great weekend for our city. The students all gather right outside my window at the arena. The bagpipes are playing; the students are chanting; the sun is shining; and all is right in the world.
Georgetown plays tonight in Chicago. Wish them well.
Georgetown, for a small liberal arts and research based school, plays a mighty big role in sports and sports education. I am proud. Hoya Saxa.
Toughest Game
Tonight will be a very tough challenge of a game.
We play the resurgent New Jersey Devils in New Jersey.
They along with Detroit have been the consistently great performers over the past decade or so with Hall of Fame players with Stanley Cup wins. They are fighting for their playoff lives right now and are the hottest team in the NHL. They are loaded with talent and their goaltender is the best – statistically – perhaps ever to play the game. Their run reminds me of our run to make the playoffs on the last day of the season in our coach’s first year when he was then named NHL Coach of The Year.
As an organization, we respect them very much. The last time we played them in NJ we lost 5-0. I was there sitting with some friends and Gary Bettman. It wasn’t a fun night.
We can’t look forward to any future games.We can’t acknowledge we are short-handed.
We must play with focus and try to weather the storm.
This has been quite the trip – Montreal, Detroit, NJ and then on to Philadelphia – four of the best teams in the NHL all in one week’s time.
We only have 10 games left to play with 20 standings points on the line. We are 18 points ahead of the 9th place team. We haven’t even qualified for the playoffs yet. We have work to do. Never feel complacent. “Don’t look back – they might be gaining on you.”
6212
Wow – big numbers.
Most minutes of rookie play of any team in the NHL so far this season.
And we have a pretty good record to boot. Thanks for finding this tidbit of info. Click here. Good stuff.
I Am a Zealot…
…About the beauty and history of our community.
I just found a wonderful book called Our Potomac, From Great Falls Through Washington, DC. It is a coffee table high quality photo book by Roy Sewall. Go buy it today if you love the waterways in the DMV.
Just beautiful. Just perfect photos of the wonderful scenery of our great river, falls and vegetation.
I am blessed that our new home Marwood has magnificent views of this mighty and important river. The last few days have shown the personality of the rapids and abundance of wild life in our neighborhood.
I also wanted to note something funny. I hear that our new house has been called “haunted” by some bloggers.
I asked the previous owner of the home about the Internet stories. He laughed and said, “The house is historic but it is not haunted. If it was haunted we would have been able to sell the house for a lot more money.” He then told me the story. A story was written and the research was flawed. An address was reported but it was not this home’s address. The article was picked up on the web. It was then cited in a publication and there you go. A myth was born and bad reporting was re-circulated as fact. (If you can call a “haunted house” in any manner as being fact.) The house has great history with FDR having spent many summers here. It is warm and inviting. It is a family home. It has spectacular views of “Our Potomac.” We are blessed. We are not haunted. Geesh. I can’t believe I even have to respond to stuff like this of late. Thank you.
“I’m a Caps Fan”
Good Lessons
I agree with much of this one. Click here to see for yourself. Thanks.
All Good Things Come To an End
Our 9 game win streak is over. It was fun while it lasted. It helped us to regain a stronger seeding in the standings.
We played quite well last night and good enough to beat most teams but quite difficult to beat the Detroit Red Wings at home in a back to back game for us. Both teams now have 92 points in the standings.
We lacked just a bit of energy and drive compared to the Montreal game. And being so short-handed finally showed last night being without – count them up – Backstrom, Arnott, Green, Poti, Varlamov, Erskine and Fehr. Seven players that we count on.
No excuses though. Detroit won 3-2. They scored on a power play and we didn’t. And that is the game in a nutshell.
We flew out to New Jersey and we get ready for a tough two game set against the hottest team in the NHL, the New Jersey Devils, and then on to Philadelphia to play the Flyers. How is that for a tough three game set? Detroit – New Jersey – Philly. All on the road in one week’s time.
As an aside, we hit 93% renewals of season tickets. Thanks for caring and for sending in your paperwork. The deadline is fast approaching.
Wacky Game But Two Points is Two Points
That was a weird yet wonderful game last night in Montreal.
We scored an odd goal to open the game and Montreal responded in kind.We scored a goal that was taken away from us in Montreal via Toronto but we just shrugged it off.
The ice and the boards seemed to be tweaked last night. Players were falling and pucks were bouncing. It was a game of pinball out there.
We get the two points. We won our 9th in a row. We suffered more injuries during the game.
We were missing our top 2 centers so our next top 2 centers stepped up and scored three goals between them.
Two vets iced the game with a great play to score our 4th goal. Well played.
Our latest rookie goaltender won his 6th game in a row.
As of right now, we are 3rd in the NHL in points with 92.
We play Detroit tonight in Detroit. They have 90 points and are two points behind us. They will be rested and cranked up to play us. Should be a fun game to watch. Go Caps!
We received a bunch of renewals yesterday and we are now at 86%. As predicted we will break – I believe – the 95% barrier on renewals soon. Please renew on time this year.