Police are investigating the murder of the Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor, who died in a Miami Hospital over the night after being shot early Monday morning. Since Taylor had reported a previous break-in to his home eight days prior to the shooting — and Taylor’s fiancee found the house phone line cut when she tried to call the police Monday morning — something more than circumstance appears to be at play. As Redskins vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato noted today, “”This was a deliberate attack.” MORE »

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has died a day after he was shot in his Miami home, according to his attorney. [CNN]

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot outside his Miami home around 2:00 a.m. this morning, and remains in a local hospital. Police are still trying to figure it out. [Fox5]

Last night, the Washington Redskins held their annual Quarterback Club Player of the Year dinner. One lucky Wonkette Operative was there.

After the jump, George Allen provides a tenuous excuse for us to run this.

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Last night’s Redskins opener was a tasteful, sober celebration of the quiet dignity of American patriotism — just kiddin’! There was flags-a-plenty and Lee Greenwood on the loudspeakers!

Distributing flags to some 90,000 “greater Washington area” football fans who are rabid to start a promising season on the anniversary of 9/11 is a recipe for kitschy patriotism of the highest order. Intern Nick documented the vigorous flag wavin’, but had to end the recording before the spontaneous “U-S-A, U-S-A” chants began, because some things shouldn’t be shown even on the internet.

Despite having God and Country on their side, the Indiginous Americans lost by 3 to the Nordic Sailors.

After the jump, a big picture of Tom Cruise at the game with his scary robot wife and a child who might be his son.

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• DC: a less shitty place to live than other places that are more shitty. [Lawsomnia]
• Redskins’ marketing department great at coming up with ways to, “distract our moronic fans from realizing how we constantly bend them over and fuck them in the ass.” [Why I Hate DC]
• List obsessed Forbes magazine ranks DC 9th in best cities for singles. [Metroblogging DC]
• The ranking would have been higher if not for the fat flasher of 16th street. [Shiftless Badger]
• City Paper EIC Erik Wemple is less of a journalist, more of a crusader against hypocrisy in city government and, ah, doggy day spas. [Circumlocutor]
• The alt-weekly can, however, still be trusted to not miss a single instance of the loony-toon crazy ramblings of Brother Marion.
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Washington Redskins fans are still coming to grips over the team’s decision to release beloved middle linebacker Lavar Arrington. For many, Arrington was a “Mr. Redskin” figure–loudly cheered on the gridiron and admired for his friendly gregariousness off the field. However, Arrington spent the past football season under a dark cloud as far as his relationship with the team went, and fans were more likely to see him performing in one of his many locally produced commercials for Eastern Motors than in uniform. MORE »

• Knowing what the Redskins had invested in their white-on-white unis, why did the Eagles elect to take the field in their away greens? Washingtonian breaks down the superstitions. We say the Skins’ll keep on winning as long as Clinton Portis continues his multi-act hip-hop Fellini routine. [Washingtonian] MORE »

How on Earth can anyone in Washington be expected to give a rat’s ass about Abramoffukkah on a day where Washington’s version of Jesus Christ, Joe Gibbs, has found his way back to the NFL playoffs. AT the very least, we get another one of Clinton Portis’ awesomely cool press conferences. Though we must correct our brother Deadspin: it’s “Pretty Teef.” [Deadspin] MORE »

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• The Nationals’ stadium isn’t Anthony Williams’ baby, it’s Rosemary’s. Major League Baseball reaches new depths of depravity, soul-sucking evil. [DCist] MORE »