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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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Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, But The Capitals Won The Presidents' Trophy
One quirk of the NHL’s divisional playoff format is that clinching the Presidents’ Trophy for the best regular-season record in the league didn’t matter nearly so much to the Capitals as winning their division. Of course, they’re happy to do both....
Wizards Mad Because, Mew Mew Mew, The Warriors Kicked Their Asses Too Hard
God, this is so fucking embarrassing....
Former Player Says Scot McCloughan Was Hated By Skins' President
Take all this with a grain of salt, as it’s secondhand information relayed by a former NFL player who didn’t play for Washington, but here’s a potential explanation of what really went down between the Skins and recently fired GM Scot McCloughan....
John Wall's Season Deserves Better Than History's Dustbin
As of this morning, John Wall is 16th in the NBA in scoring, at 23.2 points per game. He is second in the NBA in assists, at 10.8 per game. He is second in the NBA in steals, at two per game. He is the only player in the top 20 in scoring who is also in the top 10 in both assists and steals. Also, h...
Tom Wilson Gets His Face Bloodied After Taking Out Zach Parise With A Gnarly High Stick
The Capitals and Wild met tonight in Minnesota and things got feisty pretty quickly. In the first period, Caps winger Tom Wilson caught Zach Parise in the face with a high stick on center ice, earning a four-minute penalty for the reckless stick handling....
Dear President Trump: Throwing Out The First Pitch At The Nats Game Will Heal This Nation
Dear Mr. President, ...
The Power Struggle At Georgetown Goes Back To A Petty, 50-Year-Old D.C. High School Hoops Feud
The Georgetown coaching situation—already plenty interesting with the school having canned John Thompson III last week—got a lot more interesting over the weekend, when Gene Wang of the Washington Post reported that the leading candidates were Harvard’s Tommy Amaker, Shaka Smart of the University of...
Good Dog Plays Fetch On Ice Rink
Here we have video of a very good dog playing fetch on the Washington Capitals’ ice rink, and it’s more entertaining than any hockey game I’ve ever seen:...
Ryan Zimmerman Shimmies Around To Miraculously Avoid Tag
Ryan Zimmerman showed off his scrambling skills to somehow avoid what should have been a pretty straightforward Brian McCann tag at home plate in today’s spring training game against the Astros: ...
Actually, The Huskies Didn't Want Michael Porter Jr. Anyway, Says Local Columnist<em></em>
Washington Huskies head basketball coach Lorenzo Romar was fired shortly after finishing a soggy 9-22 campaign, the worst in his 14 years at the helm, despite having the likely No. 1 overall pick (Markelle Fultz) in the upcoming NBA Draft. This seemingly non-controversial decision was made much more...