Daniel Snyder

Snyder Communications Inc., a Bethesda-based direct marketing and advertising firm, said yesterday that it will spin off its health care marketing business to create a publicly traded company called Snyder Healthcare Services Inc.Chairman Daniel M. Snyder, 34, who recently purchased the Washington Redskins for $800 million, will be co-chairman of the new company with his sister, Michele Snyder.Eran Broshy, who has worked at the Boston Consulting Group for the past 14 years, was named chief executive officer of Snyder Healthcare Services.

ASHBURN, Va. - Another Florida player can call Washington home. Less than a year removed from bringing in seven players from Steve Spurrier's University of Florida Gators, the Washington Redskins went back to their coach's stomping grounds and selected Gators wide receiver Taylor Jacobs with their first pick - No. 44 in the second round - in yesterday's NFL draft. With its second choice - No. 81 in the third round - Washington drafted Texas offensive guard Derrick Dockery. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder - aided by director of player personnel Vinny Cerrato, vice president of football operations Joe Mendes and Spurrier - made the decision to choose Jacobs with the team's first pick, but Spurrier was quick to quash any notion of nepotism.

FROSTBURG -- "I used to say it was pretty difficult to get fired around here," an ex-employee of the Washington Redskins said with a rueful grin recently.It's gotten a lot easier for Redskins employees to get fired since communications executive Daniel Snyder bought the team recently for $800 million.Snyder has swept through the Redskins' offices like a hurricane, firing about 25 employees from the general manager to the stadium director to the public relations director.You need a roster to keep up with who's who in the Redskins' front office.

Sure, Sunday's Ravens-Redskins clash will be on the field, Ray Lewis trying to drill Brad Johnson, Tony Banks searching to connect -- desperately, we know -- with anyone wearing a purple jersey. Things will be intense. But there's more to this battle than a confrontation between first-place teams, and maybe even more than the buzz -- remember that sound, Baltimore? -- among Ravens fans, who haven't had a legitimate NFL contender to root for since Jimmy Carter was president, roughly a million years ago. This game goes beyond the sights and the sounds to some strong feelings, most of which will be concentrated Sunday in the stadium's luxury suites.

DALLAS -- A Jewish group demanded and got an apology Tuesday after the Dallas Cowboys' fan newspaper compared a rival team's owner to Hitler.The Zionist Organization of America accused the Official Dallas Cowboys Weekly of "trivializing" the Holocaust by invoking the Nazi leader in depicting Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder as a "dictator."Russ Russell, longtime publisher of the weekly, which has a circulation of about 50,000 worldwide, said he didn't read the column ahead of time and would not have approved it if he had."

Snyder Communications Inc., a developer of marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies, has agreed to buy MKM Marketing GmbH for $58 million to strengthen its services to drug companies in Germany.Closely held MKM, based near Munich, provides marketing research, educational programs and materials for drug introductions to the health-care industry, Bethesda-based Snyder said.Snyder, which had 1997 revenue of $333 million, said it expects the purchase to add to per-share earnings this year and next.

Don't bash Redskins, Part 1 In the Jan. 23 edition of The Sun, Jack Smolenski, a self-proclaimed Washington Redskins hater, celebrated the Redskins' playoff loss and predicted that the Ravens would "pound them into fine sand next year." Clearly, these are two teams on the rise that could even meet in a future Super Bowl, but Smolenski should take an honest look at the two teams before predicting a big win for the Ravens. The Redskins' quarterback, running back and wide receivers are among the league's elite.

Snyder Communications Inc., a Bethesda-based marketing communications company, said yesterday that it has retained Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown to explore strategic alternatives that include the possible sale of the company.Company Chief Financial Officer Clay Perfall confirmed the hiring of Deutsche Bank but declined to comment on its significance.The review of investment banks was prompted by a recent share price offer from an undisclosed agency group believed to be in the mid-$20s, according to an article in Adweek.

ASHBURN, Va. - Another Florida player can call Washington home. Less than a year removed from bringing in seven players from Steve Spurrier's University of Florida Gators, the Washington Redskins went back to their coach's stomping grounds and selected Gators wide receiver Taylor Jacobs with their first pick - No. 44 in the second round - in yesterday's NFL draft. With its second choice - No. 81 in the third round - Washington drafted Texas offensive guard Derrick Dockery. Redskins owner Daniel Snyder - aided by director of player personnel Vinny Cerrato, vice president of football operations Joe Mendes and Spurrier - made the decision to choose Jacobs with the team's first pick, but Spurrier was quick to quash any notion of nepotism.

Fact: Still think the Orioles can contend in '99? Consider: For them to finish with the same record as Boston, last year's AL wild-card winner, they have to go 74-42 for the rest of the season, starting with last night's game in Oakland.Opinion: B. J. Surhoff is playing well enough to make the AL All-Star team, but he needs a day off now and then to avoid a repeat of what happened last year, when he played in every game but wore down and hit 20 points worse after the All-Star break than before.

Summer's discord has given way to October's playoff push for the Ravens and Washington Redskins this week. First place in the AFC Central and NFC East will be at stake when these two teams meet Sunday at FedEx Field. That wasn't the case last summer, though, when the Ravens and Redskins bickered over marketing practices like the old-time Hatfields and McCoys. What started with a Redskins advertisement in The Sun turned into a war of ad words. Both teams wound up televising their preseason games in the other's market and advertising in the other city's newspaper.

Don't bash Redskins, Part 1 In the Jan. 23 edition of The Sun, Jack Smolenski, a self-proclaimed Washington Redskins hater, celebrated the Redskins' playoff loss and predicted that the Ravens would "pound them into fine sand next year." Clearly, these are two teams on the rise that could even meet in a future Super Bowl, but Smolenski should take an honest look at the two teams before predicting a big win for the Ravens. The Redskins' quarterback, running back and wide receivers are among the league's elite.

Snyder Communications Inc., a Bethesda-based marketing communications company, said yesterday that it has retained Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown to explore strategic alternatives that include the possible sale of the company.Company Chief Financial Officer Clay Perfall confirmed the hiring of Deutsche Bank but declined to comment on its significance.The review of investment banks was prompted by a recent share price offer from an undisclosed agency group believed to be in the mid-$20s, according to an article in Adweek.

LANDOVER -- Daniel Snyder wasn't getting results from his meetings with the coaches, so on Thursday he decided to go directly to the players.The controversial new owner of the Washington Redskins met one-on-one with four veteran players. Two of them -- Marco Coleman and Tre Johnson -- were among the players who called a players-only meeting Saturday night.It might have been a coincidence, but the players responded with a 28-3 thrashing of the Arizona Cardinals yesterday."He made some statements, and we relayed them to the team," Johnson said.

Daniel Snyder, the new owner of the Washington Redskins, was watching ESPN on June 18 when he learned the Arizona Cardinals had waived running back Larry Centers. According to Vinny Cerrato, the team's new director of player personnel, Snyder immediately called coach Norv Turner and said, "Let's get this guy." "Norv loved the idea," Cerrato said. The Redskins quickly signed Centers to a one-year, $650,000 deal, and he's been a productive player, catching 29 passes in the first half of the season.

DALLAS -- A Jewish group demanded and got an apology Tuesday after the Dallas Cowboys' fan newspaper compared a rival team's owner to Hitler.The Zionist Organization of America accused the Official Dallas Cowboys Weekly of "trivializing" the Holocaust by invoking the Nazi leader in depicting Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder as a "dictator."Russ Russell, longtime publisher of the weekly, which has a circulation of about 50,000 worldwide, said he didn't read the column ahead of time and would not have approved it if he had."

LANDOVER -- Daniel Snyder wasn't getting results from his meetings with the coaches, so on Thursday he decided to go directly to the players.The controversial new owner of the Washington Redskins met one-on-one with four veteran players. Two of them -- Marco Coleman and Tre Johnson -- were among the players who called a players-only meeting Saturday night.It might have been a coincidence, but the players responded with a 28-3 thrashing of the Arizona Cardinals yesterday."He made some statements, and we relayed them to the team," Johnson said.

Summer's discord has given way to October's playoff push for the Ravens and Washington Redskins this week. First place in the AFC Central and NFC East will be at stake when these two teams meet Sunday at FedEx Field. That wasn't the case last summer, though, when the Ravens and Redskins bickered over marketing practices like the old-time Hatfields and McCoys. What started with a Redskins advertisement in The Sun turned into a war of ad words. Both teams wound up televising their preseason games in the other's market and advertising in the other city's newspaper.

FROSTBURG -- "I used to say it was pretty difficult to get fired around here," an ex-employee of the Washington Redskins said with a rueful grin recently.It's gotten a lot easier for Redskins employees to get fired since communications executive Daniel Snyder bought the team recently for $800 million.Snyder has swept through the Redskins' offices like a hurricane, firing about 25 employees from the general manager to the stadium director to the public relations director.You need a roster to keep up with who's who in the Redskins' front office.

Snyder Communications Inc., a Bethesda-based direct marketing and advertising firm, said yesterday that it will spin off its health care marketing business to create a publicly traded company called Snyder Healthcare Services Inc.Chairman Daniel M. Snyder, 34, who recently purchased the Washington Redskins for $800 million, will be co-chairman of the new company with his sister, Michele Snyder.Eran Broshy, who has worked at the Boston Consulting Group for the past 14 years, was named chief executive officer of Snyder Healthcare Services.