[sportscurmudgeon]

A friend who is a sports journalist - he does not work for the Washington Post - told me about an hour ago that the Washington Post will announce that Rick Maese will replace Jason LaCanfora as the Skins' beat writer.


Maese did a stint with the Orlando Sentinel and then moved to the Baltimore Sun. He was a columnist at both stops so "beat writing" is something back in his past. He was let go at the Sun recently when that paper purged about a half dozen folks from their sports department.


I made three phone calls trying to confirm this rumor but could not confirm. So, this is still in the rumor stage - - - but stay tuned...