Photo by Tony DeFilippo

Photo by Tony DeFilippo

  • ‘Skins tight end Chris Cooley filled in for SI.com’s Peter King in today’s Monday Morning Quarterback column.
  • Housing Complex reports that Nathan’s managed to raise $22,000 to pay back-owed taxes, mainly from generous customers.
  • Early word from the forthcoming Banita Jacks trial, courtesy WaPo reporter Keith L. Alexander: the judge denied a request to delay the trial.
  • Following City Paper’s big story on the involvement of Marion Barry and key members of his staff in forging signatures and inappropriately directing funds to several non-profits his office helped to create, David Catania has called for a major investigation, which Barry is claiming is a personal vendetta. This thing is just getting started, folks.
  • Looks like the Pixies are going to make a stop in D.C. on their Doolittle Tour. Sweet.
  • How many more of these stories will there be? WJLA reports that a Ride On bus driver was caught reading a book while operating the bus.