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1. IN THE DISTRICT, THE RED LINE IS A BUS LINE

S8 February 20, 2012 Game #8-593: Florida A&M Rattlers at Howard BisonFebruary 11, 2012 3:00 pmBurr GymnasiumBBState Stats/Recap The subway is the glamour boy of public transit. New York’s subway, Boston’s T, and the Metro here in the greater Washington area are all, to varying degrees, well-known and reasonably easy to... [more]

2. You Are Worthy

S8 January 4, 2012 Game #8-342: Indiana State Sycamores at Drake BulldogsDecember 28, 2011 8:05 pmKnapp CenterBBState Stats/RecapFor many of us, particularly married thirty-somethings with no kids, the holidays mean travel. For me, that meant Waterloo, Iowa, for Christmas, and St. Petersburg, Fla., for New Year's Eve.... [more]

3. The Chuck: Where All the Pieces Matter

S8 December 21, 2011 Game #8-244: Bradley Braves at George Washington ColonialsDecember 15, 2011 7:00 pmCharles E. Smith CenterBBState Stats/RecapIntentions can be a heavy burden. I attended this game with a sense that I would attend a reasonably exciting inter-regional game between teams below the Red Line who have had... [more]

4. Kermit Washington Slept Here

S8 November 24, 2011 Game #8-105: Quinnipiac Bobcats at American EaglesNovember 22, 2011 7:30 pmBender ArenaBBState Stats/RecapThere are a number of ways the Quinnpiac-American game could have felt familiar to me. I’d spent two weeks on campus in the summer of 1997, at a camp for high schoolers interested in government.... [more]