The Washington Redskins had no trouble holding onto a fourth-quarter lead against JaMarcus Russell and the Oakland Raiders. Jason Campbell threw two touchdown passes to give Washington the lead, and Quinton Ganther put it away by running for two fourth-quarter scores in the Redskins' 34-13 victory Sunday. The Redskins (4-9) had lost three straight, blowing leads of six, eight and 10 points. Those losses came against upper-echelon teams in Dallas, Philadelphia and New Orleans, not the bottom... Read Full Story
DeSean Jackson scored on a 67-yard reverse and a 57-yard catch Monday night to help the Eagles build a 27-10 lead after three quarters of a game filled with injuries, including Philadelphia running back Brian Westbrook's concussion. Jackson was among several players hurt, leaving the field shortly before halftime to have his right foot X-rayed. But he returned in the third quarter. Westbrook, the Eagles' leading rusher, did not. He departed after his helmet collided with linebacker London... Read Full Story
In 2004, state legislators budgeted $4.2 million for helping the hard-core homeless. It was the first time the state had targeted money at the issue. At the time, this meant nothing to Charles Jones. Several months later, he woke up near a fence on A Street downtown and decided he wanted out of smoking four or five $20 bags of crack a day and drinking a case of beer and a half-gallon of Jack Daniels a week. After seven years of living on the streets, Jones, then 55, had lifted his head a bit... Read Full Story
Washington's backups were no match for Jacksonville's starters. David Garrard led the Jaguars to a touchdown and two field goals in four possessions, receiver Mike Sims-Walker looked sharp in his first action in nearly a month and Jacksonville took advantage of two early turnovers to beat the Redskins 24-17 Thursday night. The Jaguars (1-3) wanted to avoid a winless preseason, and playing starters longer than most teams do in the finale helped secure a victory for a young team trying to... Read Full Story
Friday was a fretful day for the 30 or so Washington Redskins considered to be on the bubble. "Time to wait....and wait...oh...and wait!" came the tweet from quarterback Chase Daniel. The final audition for jobs had come the night before, when the Redskins lost 24-17 to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The team's brain trust spent Friday huddled in meetings, trying to decide which 22 players to cut before the Saturday afternoon deadline, when the 53-man regular season roster is set. "I tried to... Read Full Story
Malcolm Kelly has won the three-way battle for the Washington Redskins' No. 2 receiver. Coach Jim Zorn said Wednesday that Kelly earned the nod ahead of veteran Antwaan Randle El and fellow second-year player Devin Thomas. "He's gone all of training camp really improving along the way," Zorn said. "His overall explosion along the line of scrimmage has been very good." Kelly was limited by a knee injury as a rookie. The second-round draft pick from Oklahoma played in only five games and... Read Full Story
With a solid training camp, two preseason touchdown catches and just the right amount of feistiness, seventh-round draft pick Marko Mitchell is on the verge of playing his way onto the Washington Redskins roster. If he knew how to tackle, he'd be a shoo-in. Mitchell says he hasn't had to tackle anyone since his junior year of high school in Alabama, when a shortage of players forced him to play both ways. He's having to master the skill in a hurry — because a rookie seeking to make an NFL... Read Full Story
With the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, you have two teams going in two totally different directions. With the Cowboys, you have a team that is like the little girl with the curl; when they’re good, they’re very good. When they’re bad, well…I think you get the gist of this. Meanwhile, with the Redskins, you pretty much know what to expect: a team that is, to put it mildly, offensively-challenged. Having said that, both teams hooked up Sunday afternoon at Cowboys Stadium with... Read Full Story
With the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, you have two teams going in two totally different directions. With the Cowboys, you have a team that is like the little girl with the curl; when they’re good, they’re very good. When they’re bad, well…I think you get the gist of this. Meanwhile, with the Redskins, you pretty much know what to expect: a team that is, to put it mildly, offensively-challenged. Having said that, both teams hooked up Sunday afternoon at Cowboys Stadium with... Read Full Story
With the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, you have two teams going in two totally different directions. With the Cowboys, you have a team that is like the little girl with the curl; when they’re good, they’re very good. When they’re bad, well…I think you get the gist of this. Meanwhile, with the Redskins, you pretty much know what to expect: a team that is, to put it mildly, offensively-challenged. Having said that, both teams hooked up Sunday afternoon at Cowboys Stadium with... Read Full Story
