A chill is in the air and DCist’s thoughts turn to November sweeps. For those readers that don’t spend every waking minute of their free time reviewing and updating their DVR recording schedules, sweeps is the period when broadcast networks set their advertising rates for the next quarter based on how many eyeballs they can glue to their programs. Generally, networks pull out all the stops to attract as many viewers as possible. DCist doesn’t…

DCist is happy to announce that Jason Linkins (aka The DCeiver) has agreed to take over our football coverage and bring his weekly “Passion of the Gibbs” column over to our bandwidth. I gotta tell you, DC…we was robbed! Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory this weekend at “Snyders of Landover” (as my buddy Josef V. calls it) when the seemingly miraculous Clinton Portis touchdown was called back on an illegal motion penalty…