D.C. Sports
3 hours 30 min ago
When I saw that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was honored earlier this week as sports executive of the year, I thought it might have been by the American Bar Association for all the money the league is putting in the pock
3 hours 30 min ago
The graves of the inventor of baseball, founder of an international tennis tournament, dominant heavyweight boxer and Negro League legend can all be seen in one place.
1 hour 11 min ago
There's nothing like spring in Paris. Songs are written about it, movies are made about it and galleries are full of paintings that showcase the beauty of the season in the French capital.
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3 hours 29 min ago
Terps-Greyhounds will meet for first time in 14 years
Maryland-Loyola will be the seventh NCAA lacrosse championship game pitting schools from the same state. The first four involved Maryland. The last two have pitted Syracuse and Cornell.
1 day 11 hours ago
How did Maryland go from a postseason underachiever to a postseason overachiever?
The simple answer is John Tillman, the first coach in NCAA history to take two unseeded teams to the Final Four, doing so in his first two years in College Park.
6 days 23 hours ago
Penalties, faceoffs, Lusby are the difference for Greyhounds
1 week 1 day ago
Rising senior started all 12 games in 2011, faces criminal charge
2 days 5 hours ago
David Serna, who spent seven seasons as Florida Atlantic’s running backs coach, remembers recruiting Alfred Morris out of high school.
4 days 10 hours ago
The Redskins and Cowboys, unusual allies, lost their fight to recoup a combined $46 million of cap space when arbitrator Stephen Burbank dismissed their grievance against the NFL it was announced Tuesday at the owners meetings in Atlanta by NFL executive vice president and genera
5 days 2 hours ago
1. The ball just jumps out of Robert Griffin III's hand at a different speed. That was evident again during the OTA workout Monday. Because of that, he’ll get away with some throws that others just can’t make.
5 days 6 hours ago
One couldn’t finish the season because of health; the other because of drugs. So both Chris Cooley (knee) and Fred Davis (suspension) have something to prove at tight end for the Redskins.
3 days 10 hours ago
He’s the one coach that always eats his pregame meal in the media room alongside the very reporters who cover him. At least, it’s what Jerry Sloan used to do before he abruptly resigned from the Utah Jazz last year after 23 seasons.
4 days 7 hours ago
The Wizards didn't do so well in NBA all-rookie voting.
5 days 10 hours ago
Wizards guard John Wall was named to the USA men’s select team that will compete against the USA men’s basketball team during its training camp in July ahead of the Summer Olympics.
4 weeks 1 day ago
It didn’t feel like the locker room of a team that just finished the NBA season with the league’s second-worst record. In fact, it didn’t feel like the Wizards locker room at all.
There were smiles.
There was satisfaction.
3 days 11 hours ago
The Capitals and the American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears have agreed to extend their affiliation agreement through the 2013-14 season, the organizations announced on Wednesday.
1 week 1 day ago
The Capitals could be finished with winger Alexander Semin, an unrestricted free agent whose agent this week made it clear his client isn't happy with how the team deployed him this season.
1 week 2 days ago
Capitals general manager George McPhee admitted in February that he and his staff saw issues with the roster they had constructed as far back as training camp. But once the NHL season starts fixing obvious holes is difficult, at best.
1 week 3 days ago
Wrote a feature for our web site on the long-term impact that Dale Hunter’s tenure will have on the Caps.
1 week 4 days ago
Of the Capitals’ six unrestricted free agents, the obvious candidate to leave early was goalie Tomas Vokoun. Not exactly difficult math to come to that conclusion.
2 days 52 min ago
A new generation of shortstops is arriving in major league baseball, but a few of the old-timers are still hanging on, too. Here are the best at the position through the first two months of 2012.
3 days 5 hours ago
No one actually believes the Baltimore Orioles or the Cleveland Indians are going to win their respective divisions. The American League East is too tough, the thinking goes, and the AL Central -- well, Detroit is clearly better than Cleveland anyway.
6 days 4 hours ago
You can take away Jayson Werth (broken left wrist). You can deal with a nagging injury to slugger Michael Morse (strained right lat muscle.).
3 weeks 2 days ago
But Johnson downplays its importance, sort of
The Washington Nationals will throw their three best pitchers at the Philadelphia Phillies and catch the visitors at a good time in their rotation in their three-game series this weekend.
4 hours 19 min ago
1 day 6 hours ago
Dwayne De Rosario’s offseason raised move him into the top 10 player salaries in Major League Soccer, according to figures released by the Major League Soccer Players Union on Friday.
1 day 12 hours ago
The U.S. men’s national team has trimmed its roster from 27 to 23 players ahead of the first of five games over the next two and a half weeks.
3 days 2 hours ago
D.C. United will play its first U.S. Open Cup game away from home since 2007 when it travels to meet the Richmond Kickers at Richmond City Stadium on May 29 in the third round of this year’s retooled version of the storied knockout tournament.
Recent Sports News
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Chris Heisey gave Cincinnati the lead with his first home run of the season, and four relievers made it stand up as the Reds overcame a poor start by Mike Leake for a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
3 min 21 sec ago
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Adam Griffin's bases-loaded single in the 12th inning sparked a four-run burst that lifted North Carolina past North Carolina State 4-0 on Saturday night in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.
3 min 52 sec ago
BOSTON (AP) — Boston's Jarrod Saltalamacchia caught Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk's ceremonial first pitch honoring a memorable Fenway Park moment.
Then he made one of his own about three hours later.
9 min 35 sec ago
BOSTON (AP) — Rajon Rondo had 18 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds and the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 85-75 in Game 7 on Saturday night to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
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MIAMI (AP) — It's a rematch: Miami and Boston will meet in the playoffs again, this time with a spot in the NBA finals at stake.
14 min 46 sec ago
SANDY, UTAH (AP) — Alvaro Saborio scored a pair of goals in the second half and Nat Borchers came up with the game-winner in stoppage time to lift Real Salt Lake to a 3-2 victory over FC Dallas on Saturday night.
17 min 3 sec ago
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kyle Kendrick threw a seven-hitter for his first career shutout, winning his first game of the season and putting the Philadelphia Phillies on the verge of their first four-game sweep in St. Louis since 1913 with a 4-0 victory on Saturday night.
19 min 32 sec ago
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| Exhibition |
Algeria 3, Niger 0
Burkina Faso 2, Benin 2
Ireland 1, Bosnia-Herzegovina 0
Jordan 2, Sierra Leone 0
Netherlands 1, Bulgaria 2
Norway 0, England 1
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| Traverse City | 6 | 2 | .750 | — |
| Southern Illinois | 5 | 3 | .625 | 1 |
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