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Local LGBT activists are upset over a document distributed by the Washington Nationals, according to City Desk. The document details the team's Vendor Procurement Program and features Major League Baseball's affirmative action policy, which includes this portion:The Licensee shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment or against any service recipient or applicant for services because of race, color, ethnic status, religion, sex, age, national origin, disable veteran status, Vietnam era veteran status,...

Saturday night's meeting of D.C. United and Toronto FC looked like a mismatch on paper. An expansion team with the worst record in Major League Soccer lined up against the most decorated club in the league's history and current point leaders. Add D.C.'s distinctive home field advantage and you have a recipe for a blowout. Yet for one half, TFC hung with their hosts. Indeed, at many points in the first half Toronto was the...

Move over, Jason Kreis. In the forty-eighth minute of the twentieth game in the twelfth season of Major League Soccer, D.C. United's Jaime Moreno became the league's all-time leading scorer with a deftly taken penalty kick. Moreno's 109th career goal put the cap on a solid 3-1 victory over Red Bull New York. On an uncharacteristically brisk August evening at RFK Stadium, United surprised the Red Bulls and never looked back. The 18,748 in...

Good morning, Washington. If for some reason you still haven't caught the D.C. United fever, there's yet another reason for you to get behind our city's best professional sports team: last night, Jaime Moreno broke the Major League Soccer scoring record with 109 career goals. As always, our United team of Matt and Kyle will have a full post on the game later on, but here's the United's coverage while you wait (in case...

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,...

The 46,686 spectators that packed into RFK stadium got their money's worth last night. The United faithful saw a dominating performance that vaulted their team into second place in the Eastern Conference of MLS. Those hoping to see soccer star and global icon David Beckham also left pleased: LA's five million dollar man played the final 20 minutes, making his Major League Soccer debut. Though United's finishing was spotty, they enjoyed the great majority...

, Former D.C. United prodigy and lightning rod Freddy Adu is off to Benfica of the Portuguese League, reports Steven Goff at the Soccer Insider. When Adu came to United at the tender age 14, his arrival inspired fanfare within Major League Soccer that has only since been surpassed by some British geezer. After three up-and-down seasons with United, Adu was sent to Real Salt Lake for a major allocation (a powerful tool in MLS...

[Editor's Note: With the Nationals readying to begin their third season in D.C., change is constant and questions abound. Last week, we took a look at this year's lineup in our Season Preview. Today, we discuss this year’s most pressing questions with some of the Nats' best bloggers: Chris from Capitol Punishment, Basil from Federal Baseball, and Brian from Nationals Farm Authority.] DCist: Since the Lerner/Kasten team took over the team, every move is justified...

Just when we'd started to forget the entire rigamarole about getting the new stadium for the Nationals, we get today's Post article on the lucrative sale of its naming rights. It's not so much that we should be surprised that the stadium may be named after a corporation — it's that the District won't see a penny of the money that the chosen corporation splashes all over the publicly financed $611 million project. Reads the...

As Nationals fans, we are but flecks of dust blowing in the wind. A tiny, insignificant bit of marginalia scribbled in the tome of baseball lore. That's what researchers found in a poll released yesterday by AP-AOL Sports. Out of the 2,002 people polled, the 32 percent that claimed to be baseball fans were asked several questions, including "Which Major League Baseball team do you root for during the regular season?" A whopping one percent...

American business titan John D. Rockefeller once quipped, "A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship." Following the Post's in-depth look at the negotiations between the District and the Lerner Group over the direction of the new stadium's construction and development in surrounding Anacostia, it seems D.C. might have put too much faith in the Lerners' friendship.

The writing was on the wall. After weeks of speculation, the Nationals made the official announcement Saturday afternoon: Frank Robinson would not be back as manager next year. As Robinson had expressed interest in returning and had requested a three-year contract extension, the decision of the Nationals to decline his request means that, effectively, the 71-year-old was fired. He has announced that he will not be seeking further employment as a manager. To say...

Will he stay? Will he go? Will he sign? Anxious Nats fans are closer than ever to finding out Alfonso Soriano's fate. With next Monday's trade deadline rapidly approaching, trade rumors are reaching a fever pitch. This afternoon, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian is reporting that the Nats and White Sox are "extremely close" to getting a deal done. The potential spoils for the Nationals may include Brandon McCarthy, a 23-year-old, 6'7" righty with less than...

In the latest bit of stadium-related drama, the Washington Post is reporting that the District government is in default of its lease agreement with Major League Baseball, according to a letter sent by MLB's legal team. MLB claims that the District is delinquent in handing over key documents such as the lease of the stadium grounds, proof of land ownership, and monthly project schedules. The letter serves as a written warning, announcing MLB's intention...

You can just about make out the strains of the Carpenters' classic tune "We've Only Just Begun" humming in the air down around the new stadium development in S.E. these days. Wait, no, that song is about falling in love. Whoops. I think we meant something more like "I Hate You" by Slayer. It's so easy to get those two mixed up. Yesterday, at its last meeting before taking their summer recess, the D.C. City...

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, sure, but when the whistle blows at the end of the day can you follow him home? D.C. has sports fans, apparently, and elephants aren't really cut out for zoos. There's this trick where you can read information from...

The Nats did a nice thing for 15,000 of their closest friends on Sunday afternoon. After soundly defeating the Phillies, 6-0, on a day perfectly suited to the game of baseball (75 degrees, cool breeze, sunshine), the team had a Picnic at the Park for season ticket holders. Now I have not purchased season tickets, but I was with a friend who did, and so I went along for the ride. This sort of mass...

A few weeks ago, the Nationals were down and out, battling to stay in front of the Florida Marlins. Now, after a weekend sweep of the Brewers in Milwaukee, the Nationals, led by Alfonso Soriano's hot bat, are on the rise. Winners of three in a row and 12 out of their last 17, the Nationals face off against their NL East rivals this week in a set of six games that could make or...

More on the church parking issue, you say? Today we find the Washington Times reporting that some Logan Circle residents are fuming at what they see as a concession to the neighborhood's powerful churches, a day after D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams put off enforcement measures and instead appointed a taskforce to study the matter. After close to a year of complaints, city officials promised to start enforcing the city's double-parking laws on Sunday, going...

Washington Nationals General Manager Jim Bowden, already under fire for his questionable off-season personnel moves and his team's underachieving start, added fuel to his own fire today as the club revealed Bowden was arrested on DUI charges last Sunday while in Florida. According to the AP, Bowden released a statement today saying, "I intend to plead not guilty at a future date in a Miami Dade court. I deeply regret any embarrassment that my...

This entry was written by DCist contributor Benjamin Kabak. This weekend's action for the Nationals started on Friday afternoon when Major League officials, representatives from Comcast and Mayor Anthony Williams appeared in front of Rep. Tom Davis' (R-Va.) House Government Reform Committee. Davis, in an effort to get all Nationals' games shown on DC-area cable networks, is attempting to broker a deal between Comcast and Peter Angelos that resolves a dispute that has left most...

This entry was written by DCist contributor Ben Kabak.

This entry was written by new DCist contributor Jeff Beam Away from the three ring circus created by Major League Baseball, City Council, and Mayor Williams’ office, the 2006 edition of the Nationals prepares this week to close shop in Viera, Florida and head north for another season along the Anacostia. A number of roster moves via trade, promotion, and shoulder tears have changed the look of the team, so we’ve compiled a season preview...

An impasse over Nationals broadcasting rights that has been almost two years in the making may soon reach resolution, if only because the powers-that-be are sick of missing games. Pressure on the parties involved is increasing from a number of governmental bodies. This weekend the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed to hear the latest Comcast appeal in a case that pits the cable company against the Orioles and Major League Baseball. The decision to hear the appeal comes after judges agreed to bypass the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, in a move that could cut a year off the expected duration of the legal process. That's still too slow for members of area legislative bodies, it seems, who have begun to take matters into their own hands.

The weekly Ist wrap-up is written by Seattlest editor Dan Gonsiorowski. After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist, DCist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode...

Good morning, Washington. It looks like today's going to be cloudy and cold, with the weekend bringing snow — snow! — at long last. We know, we know: it'll just be godawful slush and freezing rain, and in the unlikely event that it sticks around until Monday, we'll no doubt still have to go to work (we'll just be more cold & damp than usual when we arrive). But it doesn't matter; we still get stupidly excited at the prospect of flurries.

Teens Forced To Rob Banks: The Post reports that yesterday's story about a fourteen year-old bank robber is more complicated than it first seemed. This was apparently the second recent incident in which a teenager was forced to enter a bank and demand money under threat of violence from one or more assailants. The first of these crimes occurred three weeks ago.

MLB May Respond To Stadium Legislation Soon: The Post recounts the horse-trading that went into Tuesday's marathon council session. It all sounds a bit silly to us, with council members alternating between digging in their heels, declaring victory, and explaining that they had no idea what they were voting on. It might not be long before we learn whether that gamesmanship will pay off: Major League Baseball says it may respond to Tuesday's resolution as early as today. The deadline for a response from MLB is March 7.

WMATA Reforms Delayed: The city council isn't the area's only dysfunctional deliberative body. NBC4 reports that yesterday's WMATA board meeting ended prematurely after a dispute erupted about some members' need to depart for a commitment in Richmond. As a result, proposals to extend rail service and cut some bus lines were left on the table.

Va. Legislature Shelves Sex Offender Proposal: Speaking of Richmond, Virginia's state legislature has suddenly made itself look relatively circumspect: the State Senate's Education and Health Committee has decided to temporarily shelve consideration of a measure that would allow for the physical castration of those convicted of sex crimes.

Briefly Noted: Food Cafeteria fight sends boy to hospital... UMBC student charged with murder of MySpace acquaintance... Williams courts fellow mayors from around globe for voting rights support... Former Hagerstown cop charged with making various threats...

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A funny thing happened during our lunch break. After perusing the Post and reading about how Freddy Adu is gearing up for the upcoming D.C. United season (and how his play with the club team will affect his status on the US National Team, which is preparing for this summer's World Cup), we headed over to Deadspin where they linked to an article in The Times Online reporting that "agreements are imminent with the player...

WMATA Adds Walking Directions to Website: We've wondered it, too -- how exactly does one get to and from certain Metro stations on foot? Lucky for us, WMATA has now added walking directions to the map function on its website, which pop up once the user has created a trip itinerary. This feature will be handy for us who rarely have any idea on how to get where we are going.

While some in City Hall might be donning their Nationals hats and spontaneously busting out in "Take Me Out to the Ballpark," we'd like to offer a dose of caution. Yes, District officials and MLB have finally reached an agreement on a lease agreement for the new stadium, but no, this should not be considered said and done until the D.C. Council approves it. WTOP is reporting that the two sides -- forced into new...

We here at DCist are all about community development, and certainly the knowledge contained in our public libraries is a valuable resource that should be kept well maintained and freely available. Reading is FUNdamental, no? We just wish that for once, a government task force could report back to the mayor without bringing along a nine-digit number. The latest to issue a draft report thusly was the Mayor's task force on D.C.'s public libraries, which...