Mixed Martial Arts Set to Sully Network Television

Hoop It Up

Listened to part of a Georgetown Big East tournament game on the radio last week, and happy to report that long-time Hoya broadcaster Rich Chvotkin is still slinging all those classic cliches throughout the game.

It was so refreshing to hear terms like tickle the twine, charity stripe and bunny (lay-ups) being bandied about over the two-hour broadcast. You won't hear much of that on buttoned down CBS during March Madness, but for a real good time and occasional laugh out loud hoop du jour jargon, Chvotkin remains The Man on Georgetown basketball.

No Talk on Tiger

If you bill yourself as an all-news radio station, it would be nice to hear some up to date weekend sports news on Tiger Woods, merely the most recognizable athlete on the planet these days.

Someone needs to tell that to whoever is manning (or woman-ing) the sports desk on Sunday mornings over at WTOP. Driving from the Baltimore suburbs back home to Northern Virginia this past Sunday, with several stops along the way, over a five-hour period I never heard during a single one of at least a dozen sports updates that Woods had shot 66 on Saturday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and was tied for the lead going into the final round. That's called news, boys and girls, and should have been reported.

E-Mail of the Week

Myron Cope never embarrassed our franchise. Dan Snyder has. Firing longtime employees, call me "Mr. Snyder," firing Charley Casserly, being hours late to a meeting with Norv Turner so he could twist in the wind, firing Turner in the middle of a season, Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith, Jeff George, how he handled Marty, Spurrier, Archuleta, Duckett, Lloyd, how he handled the fence around the parking lots, no GM, Vinny Cerrato, how they handled the selection of a coach, free agency, dead cap money, concession prices. I am sure there is more.

Mike Dashiell

Omaha, Neb.

Leonard Shapiro can be reached at Badgerlen@hotmail.com or Badgerlen@aol.com.