Dogs Deserve Better, a small nonprofit opposed to chaining and penning dogs, is trying to buy Michael Vick’s old house in Surry County, Virginia, which used to house dog fighting and Bad Newz Kennels. Vick’s former property had been on the market for a few years at a $595,000 asking price. Dogs Deserve Better has raised about $120,000 toward buying the house. They plan to use the property to help socialize and house-train rescued dogs,…
In the midst of a feverish haze on Monday night, I repeatedly heard the words “Michael Vick” and “touchdown,” as if I was imagining a world where large men lay down on defense and run up the middle down by 28. Those words kept repeating and repeating, with adjectives like “embarrassing,” “humiliating” and “putrid” mixed in. I figured it was the drugs, but was sorely disappointed when I found out it was Larry, Sonny and Sam running out of ways to describe what they were seeing on the field. (Sam, as he always does, did manage to call every Redskins touchdown a turning point.) The Redskins were getting destroyed by the Eagles, and no one was stepping in to do anything about it. Teams have off-nights, but those usually don’t come after not having played a game in two weeks and announcing a long-term contract extension for your quarterback. Now that the hysterics are out of the way, it’s time to turn to Sunday’s game against Tennessee with the comfort of knowing that things couldn’t possibly get any worse. Right?
At long last, it’s time to put the off-field drama of the last two weeks behind us and get back to what the Redskins do best get paid to do. (Or…maybe not.) The Redskins certainly don’t look like a division championship contender, but with the Giants getting pasted by the Cowboys yesterday, a win in tonight’s rematch with the Eagles would put the burgundy and gold just one game behind a team that is hopefully rediscovering their early-season mediocrity. A win for the Eagles tonight would tie them with the Giants for the NFC East lead with a nationally-televised showdown looming between the two teams next week. The stakes are high tonight, and it doesn’t require a huge injection of hyperbole to say that tonight is a turning point in the NFC East title race.
Donovan McNabb believes he’s going to hear cheers when he returns to Philadelphia this Sunday. He’s probably right, considering McNabb’s not the one who traded himself to Washington. And it would be asinine for Philly fans to boo the guy who displaced the Detmer brothers, among others, in the long and storied Eagles quarterback tradition. McNabb and the Redskins roll into Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday to face the Eagles and their shiny new (old) toy, Michael Vick.
The NFL’s second most reviled quarterback is in D.C. today, the Associated Press is reporting, in order to speak to local youngsters about how dogfighting is bad. Michael Vick has been making appearances like this in cities around the country since he was released from prison after being convicted of running a dogfighting ring in Smithfield, Va., as part of a Humane Society campaign against the sport. His talk will take place at Covenant…
Good morning, Washington. It’s almost October, but in many ways it still seems like summer. For one thing, it’ll be ninety degrees today. For another, there’s news of Michael Vick’s worsening legal situation. Yesterday Virginia indicted him and three others on dogfighting charges. Of course, we all knew that was coming sooner or later — less expected was word that a Canadian bank is suing Vick for defaulting on a $2.3 million loan. Potential…
>> Michael Vick pleaded guilty today for his role in a dog-fighting operation, while Jaime Foxx has yet to explain how fighting and killing pit-bulls is a “cultural” thing. [NYT and Access Hollywood] >> Yes, your Mac can survive a Coke spill. [Home Improvement Ninja] >> Fat bastards. No, seriously. We’re apparently a bunch of fat bastards. According to a report published by the Trust for America’s Health, 22.8 percent of the District’s children…
With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it’s a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-a-verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we’ve all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked…
>> October 1, 2007. Remember that date, because after it H Street aficionados will no longer be allowed to buy a single can or bottle of their favorite low-quality and high-alcohol beer. [FreeRide] >> Michael Vick filed his guilty plea in the dog-fighting controversy today. On another note, the Big Mac turns 40 today. To Post columnist Courtland Milloy, fans of the Big Mac are no better than Vick. [WTOP] >> Whoever said D.C….
We read all the local columnists, so you don’t have to. This week we find meat-eaters being compared to Michael Vick, a lot of bum opinions on city schools and District residents being called “granola.” Courtland Milloy: According to Milloy’s Wednesday column in the Post, your choice to eat a hamburger isn’t all that different than Michael Vick’s decision to brutally fight, torture and kill dogs for money. “We’ll kill a duck, deer, turkey –…
