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By: Kevin Trainor/ Managing Editor The marina on Daingerfield Island sits just to the right of the southbound runway of Reagan National Airport.  Across from the last airport beacon lies a shallow, weed filled body of water with one clear channel leading from the boat basin of the yachting class to the open waters of the remarkably cleaned up Potomac River.  The same river John Smith, and crew, he of Jamestown Settlement fame circa 1609, sailed up.  They marveled at the oysters.  Oh, the oysters.  So visible from the decks through the clear waters then mostly fresh, or salty, depending on the tides.  Later, oceangoing cuttys, and other maritime pliers, could still tie up at Georgetown.  That harbor locale named for King George II, and not his problematic descendant King George III of the American Revolutionary era.  The arrival of civilization redirected the navigable river channel.  Later, the most upriver port was Alexandria, just downs...

By: Kevin Trainor/Managing Editor A clear, warm, early autumn day at Cardinal Stadium, on the campus of The Catholic University of America, in northeast Washington, D.C., witnessed a gridiron clinic.  The football Engineers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did everything correct.  They blocked, wrapped, executed, and out-played a lacking Catholic University squad 38-21.  Most recently they embarrassed the Coast Guard Academy, oddly nicknamed the Bears, at the service school’s Homecoming game, 30-21. Yes, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a football team.  Don’t laugh.  They are a NCAA Division III powerhouse with a 6-1 record at this writing. Getting out ahead of what you’re thinking, no, they do not issue scholarships.  Varsity sports are only open to undergraduates.  What can get you on the team is a relatively safe SAT score, under the new standard, of 2300.  A rough high school GPA of 4.10 should accompan...