Ouch. For anyone who recently moved into one of the many apartment buildings rising along Massachusetts Avenue between Mt. Vernon Square and Chinatown and read the Post yesterday, it may have been a bit of a shock to find the city’s newspaper of record heaping criticism on the developments. In an article gracing the front page of the Style section and titled “The Mediocre Mile,” Post writer Philip Kennicott left little debate over what he…
Prior to yesterday afternoon, the last time the Georgetown Hoyas took the court they put on an embarrassing performance, losing to South Florida and costing themselves a first-round bye in the Big East conference tournament in the process. In the first half of Wednesday’s game against Notre Dame, they extended their streak of mediocre-to-bad play to 60 minutes, missing their first 12 shots and trailing at the break before rallying for a 67-63 win….
It was a busy weekend for college hoops in the area. By and large, it was also a successful one. George Washington clinched the regular season Atlantic 10 title, beating Fordham 78-67 at the Smith Center Saturday night. Playing without injured forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu, the Colonials won their sixteenth straight game behind 19 points from sophomore guard Maureece Rice. His backcourt mates, Danilo Pinnock (17 points) and Carl Elliott (16 points) also stepped up in…
George Washington won its 15th straight game last night, but the bigger news is that star forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu twisted his knee just before halftime and didn’t return. Mensah-Bonsu, the team’s second-leading scorer and rebounder, will be evaluated today. We (or, more likely, some alert DCist reader) will have an update on his status when it becomes available. Reserve forward Regis Koundjia stepped up in Mensah-Bonsu’s absence, chipping in with 13 points, 5 rebounds and…
The long holiday weekend meant lots of local hoops action to go around for fans of every school. I spent the weekend in Philly, where Villanova has taken over the headlines from the rudderless 76ers. The Cats beat #1 UConn earlier in the week but were determined not to overlook Georgetown on Sunday, especially since the Hoyas also have a win over #1 to their credit this season. Unfortunately Georgetown couldn’t match the energy and…
The -ist world has not made its way down to South Florida yet. But that doesn’t mean the blogging world hasn’t. DCSOB, who has been on vacation in Miami the past week or so, returns from the land of Marisleysis Gonzalez, “Miami Vice”, the NBC power sit-com trifecta “Empty Nest,” “Golden Girls” (above) and “Nurses” and the “pathetic Metromover downtown circulator system” to report that things are better here in the nation’s capital –…
Though the remains of Frances brushed the metropolitan area, areas to the south and west of Washington experienced a lot of rainfall yesterday. And in some areas, small tornados were spawned. From the Post: A small tornado spun along about 500 yards or so, tearing up some trees by the roots and scattering debris, said Don McGuire, the county’s director of emergency management. A National Weather Service-trained spotter — an emergency manager — and other…