BETTER THEY MOVE TO RICHMOND ... ?
Sticking the old, old neck way, way out … but it says here you can forget the over-priced ($2.2 BILLION) plan to move the NHL Capitals and NBA Wizards from D.C., to a new home base in Alexandria. Ain’t gonna happen. Surely state lawmakers will recognize the folly of the whole thing. Sorry, governor. Nice try … but it WILL cost tax payers a lot … and few of Virginia’s roughly 5.5 million care about either team much less attend their games. To call the woeful Wizards “big league” is a stretch of major proportions … If TED LEONSIS must move the hockey team, why not to the 17,000-seat arena expected to be built in Henrico County by 2026? That would be two years before re-location anywhere can happen (according to The Washington Post) … I know, I know … it sounds silly to expect hockey to succeed here on any level, much less the highest, after six previous failures …. yet, stranger things have happened. All it takes is someone (someones?) with deep, DEEP pockets, hockey ex...