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The Wizards' desire to move Butler has only increased in recent days, since they found out they will indeed get some cap relief from the NBA this season after losing Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton to suspension for the rest of the season. Washington's cap number will be reduced almost $4 million, according to sources -- pro-rated amounts of the remainder of Arenas's $16.1 million and Crittenton's $1.47 million salaries -- taking its cap number to a little more than $74 million. The cap
Here's the thing with automatic transmission in America: People get lulled into the notion that driving all cars is pretty much the same. Here's the other thing: In the snow, that notion flies out the window. Cars that have a lot of power and—hey!—ballast shouldn't be the ones fishtailing in and out of snowbanks. This [ ... ] ...
Between digging out of the nearly two feet of snow that fell around our house this past weekend and the half dozen or so trees that targeted our dwelling during the blizzard--we've been pretty busy keeping things safe. There is nothing like watching 75 to 100 foot tall trees falling during a storm and wondering whether your roof is going to collapse at any moment thanks to the possible impact ... Fortunately, major damage was avoided. By breaking off high, not at the roots, they missed, but left
As forecast in the lede of the current Cheap Seats column, Drew Brees was named Super Bowl MVP.And as promised shortly thereafter by a spokesman for the Redskins' designated drinkmaker, Diageo, Brees did not strike a Captain Morgan pose on the field at game's end, even with all those reports that the boozers put up [ ... ] ...
More photos » ... Fernando Medina - NBAE via Getty Images ... Browse more photos » ... A close loss to Celtics, a big loss to the Knicks, and a close win over Orlando gave Wizards fans a little bit of everything to chew on last week. Other than Brendan Haywood, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, no one provided consistently strong performances throughout the week, making this week's decisions on who enters the palace that much more difficult. ... ... Andray Blatche ... Andray was one of
Indy Cornrows: It could be way worse, Wizards fans ... It's natural to compare the gun situation to the brawl at the Palace, but in case you wanted to draw parallels between the two, Indy Cornrows, SB Nation's Pacers blog, reminds us that they had a lot more go wrong ... (Though we are seeing the whole "other DC-area team rise up and take fans" phenomenon with the Caps already) ...
If you haven't already bothered to figure this out, there's big news in post-snow trash removal. The Department of Public Works has ambitions to brave the snowy side streets and pick up your trash. DPW's Linda Grant tells City Desk: "We are collecting today."Grant cautions that District trash haulers won't be able to do any [ ... ] ...
Everything's closed, we got tons of snow, there's more in the forecast. Yeah, we know all of the above. What we really want to know is what happened within the administration of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty between roughly 5 pm and 9 pm. At the former hour, his people put out the word that the [ ... ] ...