Friday, December 12: What Wide Receivers Do In Practice

Yesterday, commenter Ax asked me what, precisely, the wide receivers actually do at practice. My initial inclination was to say that they run around a lot and occasionally catch passes, but it seemed like a needlessly glib, unhelpful response. So I promised that I’d have one of the receivers take me through it today, and [...]

Redskins Distribute Jackets

The reason I was in my car to hear Clinton Portis‘s pointed thoughts on Jim Zorn was because of Antwaan Randle El. Randle El, along with many of his teammates, and with the help of his El Foundation, the Redskins Charitable Foundation, and Dick’s Sporting Goods, spent today distributing winter coats to underserved children at [...]

Wednesday, October 29: Redskins Make Kids Healthy

Seeing members of the Redskins working with kids in the community makes me realize just how much more effective elementary school education could be if the teachers were celebrities. Not just celebrities, but very large, very strong celebrities. With whistles. Even then, the kids don’t fully listen, but it certainly makes for some interesting visuals. [...]

Inside Redskins Park: Some New Front Desk Help

A little surprising to walk into Redskins Park today and see a new face at the reception desk. Good choice, though — Randle El is one of the most versatile people on the team, and now he can add this to his list of accomplishments. I bet Kordell Stewart didn’t answer phone calls as one [...]

Making “The Mayne Event”

Kenny Mayne’s idea for his Mayne Event segment this week centers around the “Hip Hip Hooray” cheer, which appears to have caught the public imagination in a way that I couldn’t quite have imagined when Zorn first broke it out at the Welcome Home Luncheon. As Mayne explained to me when I spoke to him, [...]

Tuesday, October 7: Randle El Hip Hip Hoorays

It’s been up on Redskins.com for awhile, and it’s also been picked up around the blog-o-world, but if you haven’t seen Antwaan Randle El leading the “hip hip hooray” after the win over the Eagles, it’s an excellent way to start off the day.

Chris Cooley and Antwaan Randle El: Good Guys

A few people sent me the link to a story in the Frederick News-Post this weekend, about Chris Cooley driving up to Jefferson, MD, (west of Frederick) to visit with Ron Frazier. Frazier is a lifelong Redskins fan who was diagnosed with colon cancer, and a family friend contacted the team to see if they [...]

Your Questions for Antwaan Randle El

I received more questions for Antwaan Randle El than I have for any previous individual, and I was only able to get to a portion of them. But he was candid and straightforward in his responses, and if the opportunity presents itself I’ll try to get in some of the questions I missed. Much is [...]

A Player’s Week: Randle El On The Practice Field and On Camera

Thursdays are incredibly full days for Antwaan Randle El. They start with meetings, followed by weights, and then a morning practice. “We don’t wear full gear, but we do wear helmets,” he says. “It’s definitely difficult, and it lasts about 30, 45 minutes.” Open locker room comes at the same time as many players are [...]

A Player’s Week: Randle El’s Day Off

The strangest thing about following Antwaan Randle El this week has been how frankly normal his life is. Even knowing that Randle El is a devout man of faith – thus eliminating the possibility of some sort of over-the-top, 1990′s Dallas Cowboys-style day off or anything like that – and even in the era after [...]