Via Homicide Watch D.C., The Daily Beast reports that the District has become something of an international model on how to combat high murder rates.

It’s because we see something in the game that we see in ourselves. His name was announced with slight fanfare, mostly drowned out by the thousands of blue and white-clad cheering Hondurans in attendance. An enormous amount of sound is still capable of radiating through our stadium’s old bones and cavernous corridors. The perception is that this tournament doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things. It’s a “B” team cup. A nicety….

The Gold Cup’s quickly approaching, folks. OK, OK, that one too, but also the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the continent’s international soccer championship (it does seem remarkable, however, that the Virginia Gold Cup web site gets more hits than a bi-annual soccer tournament that crowns the champion of all of North and Central America and the Caribbean). Lucky for us, Washington has been named one of the 13 host cities in this year’s event. Even luckier,…