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The Obama Administration will not support a new Washington football stadium unless the team changes its name, according to Jonathan O'Connell of the Washington Post. Washington currently does not play in D.C., but there has been a push to get a new stadium approved and built there. RFK Stadium occupies the site where Washington has targeted a potential new stadium. However, a lack of support from the current administration would be a serious roadblock to the efforts. While the Obama Administration can't make the ultimate decision on whether a new stadium is built, it can put pressure where it's needed,...

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...

Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has joined Washington entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky's bid to purchase the Washington Nationals, Ledecky said in an interview yesterday. "The Soros family shares my belief that the Washington Nationals are a community trust that can serve as a positive platform for the economic development of the inner city," Ledecky said. Soros spokesman Michael Vachon declined to comment. The Soros announcement is the latest in a flurry of activity in recent days as at least seven groups have filed initial bids for the Nationals with Major League Baseball, according to baseball sources. Several groups have added...

Constance Bacon was walking home from the gym in a driving rain Monday, when she spotted a woman lying on the sidewalk on Beacon Street in the Back Bay, raindrops soaking her black pants and long wool overcoat. When Bacon called an ambulance, she said she had no idea it was Joan Bennett Kennedy, a member of one of America's best-known political families. Kennedy, 68, had apparently tumbled, injuring her shoulder and leaving a gash on her head. When Bacon found her about 5 p.m., Kennedy could not pull herself up from the sidewalk. So Bacon, 35, an artist who...

Washington Nationals officials say as few as 5,000 general admission tickets will be available for the team's home opener next month, making it one of the hottest sports tickets ever in the city. The Nationals are strongly considering the use of a lottery system to distribute at least a portion of those tickets to the historic event, a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 14 at RFK Stadium. That contest will mark the first regular-season Major League Baseball game played in Washington since September 1971. A decision on whether the club will use a lottery is expected by the...

D.C. debut set for April 3 charity game against Mets President George W. Bush has accepted the Nationals' invitation to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the regular-season home opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 14 at RFK Stadium, club president Tony Tavares confirmed on Thursday. President Bush, an avid baseball fan and former co-owner of the Rangers, will become the first president to throw out the first pitch in Washington, D.C., since Richard Nixon. "The president has told me he will [throw out the first pitch]," Tavares said. "It's outstanding. I've seen [presidents] throw the first pitch...

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Exactly 33 years after the Washington Senators played their final game, the nation's capital might learn on Thursday that major league baseball plans to return next season. Several baseball officials said Monday that the most likely day for an announcement that Washington, D.C., has been selected for the future home of the Montreal Expos is Thursday, although there was a slight chance the timetable could be moved up. After a meeting of the sport's executive council last Thursday, a high-ranking baseball official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said major league baseball would attempt...

Soccer Team Shows Military Appreciation By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 20, 2004 -- As military jets flew overhead and a D.C. National Guard helicopter circled above RFK stadium here June 19, spectator Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Briscoe said it for everyone present: "There's definitely no place like America." Dylan O'Donnell, 9, Joey Gaines, 7, and Ellen Gose, 8, take part in Armed Forces Appreciation Day celebration by helping carry out the Operation Tribute to Freedom banner at RFK stadium in Washington June 19. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA(Click...

Thirty people were injured Saturday night in a stampede in the mosh pit of a rock concert at RFK Memorial Stadium. D.C. Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter said one of the injured went into cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital. Paramedics were treating other concertgoers for bruises and broken bones. THE INCIDENT occurred at about 8 p.m. ET at the WHFS music festival, an event sponsored by a local radio station. Etter said earlier reports that the stadium’s bleachers had collapsed were inaccurate. Ambulances from Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties responded to the scene and were assisting fire...