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Get A Load Of The<i> Washington Post</i> Toting Water For Dan Snyder's Upcoming Stadium Scam
Nothing in this fawning Washington Post profile of Bruce Allen, team president of D.C.’s NFL franchise, would seem so much as a hair out of place in a glossy gameday program handed out by team employees inside the home stadium. To the extent it contains a thesis more complex than Bruce Allen is good...

Markieff Morris On Paul Millsap: "He's A Crybaby"
Another Wizards-Hawks game bringeth much fruit in the relatively bland Paul Millsap-Markieff Morris beef....

Umpire CB Bucknor Is Having A Bad Week
On Tuesday, umpire CB Bucknor made an absolutely inexplicable call when he ruled Chase d’Arnaud’s game-ending strikeout as a foul tip and gave the Braves a second chance at beating the Nationals. Last night, he almost did it again, but was saved by fellow umpires....

It Was A (Mostly) Glorious Night For D.C. Sports
One of these things is not like the others....

The Atlanta Hawks Are The Sorriest Fucking Losers In The History Of The Universe
Give credit to soft, washed, buster-ass piss-baby Paul Millsap, I suppose, for successfully whining this series into unwatchable whistle-ball, for that is all he accomplished. Despite the referees doing everything short of hogtying D.C.’s frontcourt on his behalf, his Hawks, entering the final days ...

Capitals Winger Tom Wilson Made The Save Of The Night
The Washington Capitals’ Tom Wilson isn’t a goalie, but he came up with the best save of the night in tonight’s crucial Game 4 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. About halfway through the first period, Wilson made a diving save to whisk the puck, which had slipped through Braden Holtby’s pads, off the...

Wow That Was Some Bizarre Umpiring In Nats-Braves
Yep, it was one of those CB Bucknor kind of nights. Bucknor, who has been named the worst umpire in baseball multiple times in player surveys, was behind the plate for last night’s 3-1 Nationals win over the Braves. Just where Bucknor thought that plate was is another story....

Capitals Fans: Ohfuckohshitfuckfuckfuck
Capitals fans: Now that you’re down a game to the eighth-seeded Leafs, in a series that was just supposed to be a warm-up for the real opportunities to choke, how’re those sphincters? Are they so desperately clenched that not even a molecule can pass through, giving you that familiar tummy ache of d...

Don't Forget To Tune In To The John Wall Show
In the most entertaining individual performance of the NBA playoffs thus far, John Wall seemed hell-bent on proving that no perimeter defender on the Hawks can stay in front of him for longer than two seconds....

Easter Bunny Absolutely Wrecks Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt thought he had a clear path to glory after the other presidents were knocked out early. He was wrong....

John Wall Was Electric
The Wizards took Game 1 over the Hawks, 114-107, due in large part to John Wall’s third quarter. Down by three at halftime, the Wizards broke things open to take a controlling lead in the third, and a 15-point quarter from Wall was much of the reason. ...

Leafs Draw Series Even With Double-OT Win Over Capitals
A back-handed pass from Brian Boyle to Kasperi Kapanen set up the game-winning goal 11:53 into the second overtime period, evening the Toronto-Washington series at a game apiece....

Daniel Murphy Just Keeps Mashing
During the 2015 playoffs, then-Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy, at the age of 30, suddenly transformed from a decent gap hitter into dinger-swatting god. Maybe you thought that was a fluke. Last season, Murphy joined the Nationals and hit 25 home runs to go along with a .985 OPS. Maybe you thought...

The Capitals Can Unclench
Weird things happen in the playoffs. After just two days we’ve seen game-winning goals from the unlikeliest players, including Tanner Glass, Joel Edmundson, Melker Karlsson, and Tom Wilson. And last night, with the Cup-favorite Caps facing the pressure and desperately needing an OT winner against To...

Tom Wilson Overtime Goal Gives Capitals 1-0 Series Lead
The much-anticipated Toronto-Washington first round matchup is meeting expectations, as tonight’s Game 1 went to overtime after the Capitals erased a 2-0 first period deficit and eventually prevailed after Tom Wilson knocked down a clearance attempt and fired it past Frederik Andersen 5:15 into OT....

NCAA Women's Basketball All-Time Top Scorer Kelsey Plum Goes No. 1 In The WNBA Draft
Surprising absolutely no one, Kelsey Plum went to the San Antonio Stars tonight as the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft....

Marcin Gortat Loves His Fans
Wizards center Marcin Gortat is a little more outspoken online than the average athlete. For instance, there’s the time he discussed the benefits of a porn subscription. So when someone told Gortat he was acting like a dick at a bar last night, the NBA player responded....

Junior Galette Arrested After Allegedly Running Away From Fight At Spring Break Festival
Washington linebacker Junior Galette was arrested on Friday and charged with disorderly conduct after he apparently hightailed it away from a scuffle that broke out at Biloxi, Mississippi’s annual Black Beach Weekend. Biloxi PD say that Galette got into a fight at a concert then ran away. WLOX first...

Jeremy Guthrie Had A Truly Terrible Birthday
Yesterday was Jeremy Guthrie’s 38th birthday. It was also his first major-league start since September 2015. It went amazingly, historically poorly....

Let's See How The Nationals Game Is Going
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