Local Media Coverage of the Diplomats

When it came to their coverage of the Dips, The Washington Star was always on the "glass is half empty" side. They seemed to enjoy sneering more than objectivity. Case in point, a column by the Star's Tom Callahan after a Diplomat victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps, the reigning NASL champions, in which he stated the need to down a swig of Pepto-Bismol if any American were to try and watch a match. Andy Dolich, the Dips GM, responded in kind by sending Callahan a case of Pepto with the Dips logo on the bottles.