What’s at stake here will likely be boiled down by Washington football fans as a matter of free speech. That’s not the case. The Patent and Trademark Office’s restriction on disparaging terms falls under the guise of “government speech,” which is held to a different standard than regular free speech allowances.

Because it has a lot of embedded brand value, and even to the extent is would be improved, it is nonetheless a bargaining chip that he needs to keep in his pocket for the next stadium deal.

Because they’re waiting until the DC Council decides to pay them to change the name in exchange for a shiny new stadium.

Only if the Dems can reclaim the Senate first, since we all know Reid’s filibuster-but-only-for-SCOTUS sham isn’t going to survive its first test.

Off by a round.

Every time there’s a Washington recap, the butthurt fans whine about penalties. The Caps had 3 power plays to the Pens’ 1.

That doesn’t excuse the gratuitous whacks he took at the pads while lying prone on the ice. Getting knocked into the crease isn’t a free pass.

That entire thread is magnificent.

Not just the Dodgers logo . . .

The peak of American union power coincided with the golden age of American manufacturing

Bill Simmons always knew there was a 50% chance of this happening to him, but since it wasn’t a LEGIT 50% he didn’t get Cousin Sal to take the necessary precautions.

Considering his inhuman durability to date, the decisive factor in his quest to pass Gretzky may not be health, but instead a desire to play in Russia at some point.

He has 4 of the 10 highest-goal seasons since he entered the League. The only other player with multiple appearances on that list is Kovalchuk, at 8th and 10th.

No, I get the point. It’s just a stupid one. If the newsworthy fact is the existence of the dossier, you can report on the existence of the dossier. Republishing its contents without independent corroboration is just thinly-veiled cover for essentially reporting them as true without having to take responsibility.

Hockey rules dictate that a team can never be down to less than 3 players, so when 3-on-3 OT was instituted the power-play rules were tweaked to give the offended team an extra man rather than put the offending team down a man.

According to the article I linked earlier, “[i]t was originally generated as part of opposition research by anti-Trump Republicans and then shopped by Democrats.”

My understanding is that the two-page document is a summary of the dossier, which in turn contains no content that has been verified by an intelligence agency.

The documents are real, and that’s what BuzzFeed reported on.

This is the opposite of true. The dossier is very much unverified.