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Getting Ready For 2:00

Just some scenes from around Redskins Park as people get ready for the 2:00 press conference introducing the new head coach.

NFL Network getting the lighting and audio ready in the auditorium.
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Inside Redskins Broadcast Network: Redskins Late Night Explained

If it’s Tuesday, it means that I’m heading out to the taping of Redskins Late Night at the Gordon Biersch restaurant in Tysons Corner. Tonight’s guest is Rocky McIntosh, and anyone in the area should feel free to drop on by.

I’ve been mentioning this just about every week, but I’m beginning to gather that not everyone automatically knows exactly what I’m talking about. So I went to Megan Imbert, who’s producing the show for the Redskins Broadcast Network, and she gave me lots more specifics.

True to its name, Redskins Late Night airs late at night, specifcally on Saturdays — or, more accurately, early on Sunday mornings. Basically it’s at 1:30 a.m. on NBC-4, shortly after Saturday Night Live. And it’s a little different from most of the other RBN programming. Read more »

Thursday, April 30: Redskins Glamour Shots

Minicamp starts tomorrow, which means that there are a lot of players in the building today, greeting each other and teasing one another for how big (or small) they’ve gotten over the last three months and all that sort of first-day-of-school stuff.

There’s no football work today, but — like the first day of a new semester in college, when you do nothing but review the syllabus for each class, or the first day on a new job where you just learn where the copier and coffee machine are — there’s plenty of administrative stuff to get squared away. In fact, there’s enough of that to make today feel like the official start of the 2009 preseason. Read more »