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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2009 – Military children and their families were honored here yesterday by a troop-support group and others when the Washington Nationals took on the New York Mets. Left to right, Riley Anderson, his sister, Olivia, and his brother, Adrian, participate in Tribute to Our Troops, July 21, 2009. Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals, Careerbuilder.com’s "Mission Get Hired" program and troop-support group Our Military Kids joined together for the event at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. As part of this event, 1,500 tickets were given to military families to enjoy an evening of baseball. Riley Anderson threw out...

Fans at RFK Stadium first started noticing it in the top of the second inning when the Washington Nationals took the field wearing maroon and orange caps that instantly clashed with their standard red and white uniforms. The announcement then came over the stadium PA system, declaring the Nationals would be wearing Virginia Tech hats for the rest of their game against the Atlanta Braves, the club's small way of honoring the 32 students and teachers in Blacksburg who were killed Monday in the worst shooting rampage in American history.

p>The Talk Shows Sunday, August 20th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; airport security consultant Rafi Ron; Rand Beers, former presidential counterterrorism adviser; Washington Nationals co-owner Mark Lerner.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; British Home Secretary John Reid; Spike Lee, director of the documentary "When the Levees Broke." LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iraqi Industry Minister Fawzi...

Greeted with loud boos and some cheers, Vice President Dick Cheney threw out the ceremonial first pitch Tuesday at the Washington Nationals’ home opener. He stood directly in front of the mound and released a ball that hit the dirt in front of home plate. Nationals catcher Brian Schneider scooped it up. Cheney wore a red-and-blue Nationals jacket that seemed bulky, perhaps filled out by a bulletproof vest. Security agents ringed the top edge of the outdoor stadium.

Major League Baseball signed a lease for a new ballpark for the Washington Nationals yesterday, a development baseball officials believe will clear the way for the city to begin construction near the Anacostia River in Southeast and for MLB to choose an owner for the team. Major League Baseball delivered a signed document to attorneys for the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission yesterday afternoon, agreeing to the city's condition that the cost of its investment not exceed the $611 million cap that the D.C. Council approved last month. MLB, which owns the Nationals, also agreed to contribute $20 million toward...

Eviction notices for landowners on the site of the proposed Washington Nationals baseball stadium won't be issued until Major League Baseball agrees to terms with the city government, a D.C. Superior Court judge said yesterday. Legislation for a ballpark lease gives league officials until March 6 to agree to the deal so the city can issue bonds to begin construction. Baseball owners have been reviewing changes added by the D.C. Council that would limit city spending to $611 million. The D.C. government is working to use its eminent domain authority to take possession of 15 parcels of privately held land....

When Yogi Berra said, "It's like déjà vu all over again," he might as well have been describing this week's D.C. City Council vote on the deal negotiated by the city and Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals' stadium. Last year around this time, Mayor Williams and the council acquiesced to the league's demands by agreeing to build a brand new, baseball-only stadium to be financed largely by a new tax on local businesses. Now the council is being asked to agree to a stadium lease that keeps MLB from having to pay more than $20 million of...

Today is the deadline for property owners in Southeast to comply with the D.C. government's demand that they give up their land for the District's proposed Major League Baseball stadium, but club owner Robert Siegel says he plans to keep fighting. "I am scared to death," said the landlord of many of the neighborhood's homosexual strip bars and adult theaters. "And I have lost a tremendous amount of business, and right now we don't even know if the stadium is going to be moved or relocated to RFK Stadium. That's what I want. That's what I am hoping for. And...

So now we are being regaled with the latest twists and turns involving the publicly funded proposed ballpark site in Southeast, starting with a D.C. Council looking to appear fiscally prudent while remaining committed to the awful deal forged with Major League Baseball. There is nothing like an approaching election season to prompt the backside-protecting instinct of politicians. The city gave away everything but the Washington Monument to baseball in order to land the team, and the stench has become harder on the senses than the Blue Plains treatment plant after the Nationals sold more than 2.7 million tickets to...

The story has been on the back burner of the news agencies for several months now, but it's finally coming to a head. Let me give you the rundown: The owners of the Washington Nationals want a new baseball stadium in Washington DC. They chose a spot where they wanted to put it, and they made offers to purchase the land from the people who currently own the 21 acres they want. Ten of these landowners never responded to the offers, and of the remaining 13 landowners, many rejected the offers. In a free-market, "ownership society", as George W. Bush...

The District will begin using eminent domain to acquire parcels of land at the site of the Washington Nationals' ballpark by the end of this month, after unsuccessful negotiations with nearly half of the landowners. City officials said they expect to file court documents to take over at least some of the 21-acre site in the coming weeks and have $97 million set aside to buy the properties and help landowners relocate. The city made offers to all 23 landowners on the site last month but received no response from 10. "We think there are some that we'll have good-faith...

AgapePress) Be careful about nodding your head, folks. It may get you run off. And be careful about affirming biblical truths. It may get you run off, or worse -- gasp! -- you might offend someone and be labeled intolerant and hateful. Meet Jon Moeller, Washington Nationals team chaplain. Or at least he was, until he had the audacity to answer a player's theological question, which is kind of in his job description. The question was asked by, ironically enough, outfielder Ryan Church: "Are Jews doomed because they don't believe in Jesus?" Before I go further, I must say this...

The Washington Nationals suspended a volunteer chaplain and distributed an apology from outfielder Ryan Church yesterday, two days after Church was quoted in a front-page Post article as suggesting that Jews are headed for eternal damnation.

From Jews For JESUS: CONTROVERSY IN WASHINGTON Stevphen Katz Jews For Jesus I just got off a call with Jon Moeller, chapel leader for the Washington Nationals baseball team. He volunteers with a ministry called Baseball Chapel. Jon called me because he and Baseball Chapel are facing a challenge from the Jewish community, which has caught them offguard. THEY NEED OUR HELP. Here is the link to a 4-page article from Sunday's Washington Post. (If you must register to read it, it's free so go ahead and do it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701522.html?sub=AR The article descibes how Baseball Chapel works, but there...

The Washington Nationals suspended a volunteer chaplain and distributed an apology from outfielder Ryan Church yesterday, two days after Church was quoted in a front-page Post article as suggesting that Jews are headed for eternal damnation. Tony Tavares, the team's president, issued a statement saying the quotations in the article "do not, in any manner, reflect the views or opinions of the Washington Nationals franchise."

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 27, 2005) – The Houston Astros received a special visit at the ball park July 23, shortly after making a special visit of their own. Several wound-recovering Soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center watched the visiting Astros take on the Washington Nationals at RFK Stadium after receiving an invitation by the team’s highest ranking official. The Soldiers were invited guests of team owner Drayton McLane, who took several of his players to visit with recovering troops at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital the two afternoons prior to the game. McLane arranged for his...

Comcast cable company accused Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos yesterday of creating a regional sports network whose purpose is to keep Washington Nationals games off the vast majority of the region's cable networks. "Peter Angelos and the Orioles have knowingly created a situation where cable carriers predictably would not carry MASN and, thus, many Washington Nationals' games," Comcast said in a written release that coincided with a legal filing in Montgomery County Circuit Court. "This is particularly regrettable given that, unlike Mr. Angelos, Comcast supported the return of Major League Baseball to Washington D.C. and offered to broadcast the Nats...

The developers, land speculators and lawyers are pressing ahead with the beleaguered property owners, entrepreneurs and residents of Half Street Southeast, site of the proposed ballpark along the Anacostia River. There is nothing really fair about the process, nothing really joyous about pushing tax-paying citizens off their properties in order to enrich the wealthy, ostensibly for a public good. The hardy urban pioneers descended on this previously forgotten stretch of asphalt wedged between the Navy Yard and South Capitol Street and scratched out a living long before it became the solution of Mayor Anthony A. Williams and a fashionable destination...

Mr. Soros, who this week joined a bid led by D.C. philanthropist and entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky to buy the MLB-owned Washington Nationals, continues to be the talk of sports, financial and political circles.

Baseball is as American as mom, apple pie and left-wing zealot George Soros trying to buy John Kerry the last presidential election. At least this is the position of the Jonathan Ledecky investment group, which has added Soros to its ranks in its quest to acquire the Washington Nationals. The risk is obvious. All too many of the clubby owners of baseball, of whom President George Bush was a member at one time, are certain to be having that fingernails-against-a-chalkboard reaction to the news that the multi-billionaire native of Hungary is part of the Ledecky investment group.