Harper, Hamels Move Past HBP
The name came quickly to Hunter Pence. "Bush," Pence said. "Dave Bush." When Pence, then with the Astros, made his Major League debut against the Brewers on April 28, 2007, Bush w...
Washington, D.C.
Nats' Harper Fitting Right in With Teammates
Adam Kilgore, Washington Post
Where Is the Best Fit for Stan Van Gundy?
David Steele, Sporting News
Hamels Wants Old School? Watch Bryce Harper
Will Leitch, Sporting News
Johnson and Nationals Are a Perfect Match
Hal Bodley, mlb.com
Strasburg Shows He's a Slugger Too
James Wagner, Washington Post
Earlier this month, in Cincinnati, Bryce Harper joined several teammates strolling from the stadium to the team hotel. The group included Ryan Zimmerman, Xavier Nady and Adam LaRoc...(full article)
The Orlando Magic took their sweet old time keeping Stan Van Gundy dangling after their playoff exit two weeks ago, but they finally liberated him Monday afternoon. As of Tuesday...(full article)
Even as a baseball fan, it can be terribly difficult to figure out what “old school baseball” means. It’s even tough to understand when the “old” in...(full article)
The Nationals are so banged up, their trainer's room looks like a scene from M*A*S*H*. Ten players are on the disabled list, and if you add up the total games missed by each, it ap...(full article)
As Stephen Strasburg stood on the dugout steps on a windy Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park, an above-capacity crowd of 41,918 roared for him. They had demande...(full article)
Related Videos
More Recent Articles
Nationals Continue Mastery of Phillies
The final, fraying vestiges of the Philadelphia Phillies’ superiority over the Washington Nationals unraveled Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies sent to the mo...
More SEC Expansion Coming, But Where?
The last time they stopped playing the “Realignment Rhapsody” and everybody scrambled for a seat, the SEC had 14 available chairs. One year later, they’re cranki...
Battle of Beltways Now Has Relevance
As the Washington Nationals prepare to host the Baltimore Orioles this weekend at Nationals Park for the 2012 Battle of the Beltways, let's pay tribute to that illustrious list ...
Nationals Battling Through Injury Bug
How bad is this Nats blight? It’s now 500 lost games and counting. That is the best ballpark guess, so far, on the damage to the Nats this spring from disabled-list injuries to...
Is Ovechkin Still the Man for Capitals?
Alex Ovechkin isn’t a playoff choker. Lack of production isn’t the reason why his Washington Capitals haven’t made it past the second round since his arrival, and he’s aver...
Hunter Goes Home to Love and Money
The hockey landscape is dotted with lifers; guys who loved the game but weren’t always loved back. They become scouts and assistant coaches and hockey school instructors and wor...
Nats' Harper, Strasburg Making History
On Friday night, immediately after grounding out to Joey Votto in the seventh inning of the Washington Nationals' victory over the Cincinnati Reds, Bryce Harper threw down his ba...
1st of Many? Harper Finally Goes Deep
Bryce Harper stood in the Washington Nationals’ dugout as Nationals Park roared for him, with the unfamiliar and splendid feeling of being unsure of what he should do. Jayson W...
Hunter's Exit Obscures Caps' Problems
Let’s begin with all the hearts and flowers stuff: The Washington Capitals made the 2012 playoffs more compelling than in any year since their run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1...
Hard Not to Focus on Harper
Just watch. If you're wondering what the hype is all about, sick of the focus on a kid still yet to make his 600th professional plate appearance, weary of a seeming cult around a...
Walk-Off Slam Caps 3-Homer Day
It didn’t shatter any outfield lights, but Joey Votto delivered a walk-off grand slam Sunday that was straight out of “The Natural.”Votto made reference to the ...
In Losing Game 7, Holtby Proves He Belongs
One day last summer, long before he would wander into the teeth of Madison Square Garden, Braden Holtby hired an airbrush artist in Sweden to paint a new motif onto his hockey ma...
Nats' Harper Injured Throwing Tantrum
Bryce Harper sheepishly emerged from the trainers’ room in the Washington Nationals’ clubhouse late Friday night, a golf ball-size welt and 10 stitches over his left ...
Caps Try to Erase Past Playoff Woes
There’s a gleam in Coach Dale Hunter’s eyes whenever he talks about playing in a Game 7. These pressure cookers are the contests players remember most, he says, games...
Taciturn Hunter Wins Over Capitals
The game and news conference were over when the coach walked into his office dressed in his usual black suit and red-sheen tie at 11:01 p.m. Wednesday following the Capitals’ 2...
Ovechkin Carries Weight of Game 7
If Alex had have put that one in on the breakaway, who knows?” — Bruce Boudreau, then-coach of the Washington Capitals, May 14, 2009. “If I score first goal, mayb...
Ovechkin Making More Out of Less
“Of course sometimes you get angry you didn’t play a lot of minutes, and sometimes you get angry you’re not out there,” Ovechkin said before Game 7 agains...
Strasburg Fans 13; Nats Snap Skid
Thursday afternoon, before batting practice, Davey Johnson gathered the Washington Nationals in their clubhouse at PNC Park. The manager told his players he remained behind them, ...
Will Rangers or Capitals Have Anything Left?
Much sweat and blood has been invested in a playoff season that has surprised many. Certainly, parity has played a part in the exits of top seeds and favorites in the early round...
Ovechkin's Return to Form Trouble for Rangers
It has become plainly evident in this series that there are 39 mere mortals populating the active rosters for each game, all of them bound and limited by earthly principles. And ...
Resilient Capitals Not Done Evolving
These are not the Caps that were swept out of the playoffs last season, or the Caps that struggled to qualify this season, or even the Caps that eliminated Boston in the first roun...
Rangers Can't Allow Capitals to Have Hope
Teams of destiny create their own. It’s time for the Rangers to do that tonight. It’s time for the Rangers to lay down a Game 6 hammer on the Caps and put an end to t...
Harper Already Most Polarizing Player in MLB
Bryce Harper is 19 years old. That explains why he has a dog named Swag, a truck that’s one American flag decal short of a Toby Keith wet dream and a patchy haircut that lo...
Capitals No Longer Living Life in Fast Lane
‘Do you miss it?” asked the reporter, and Nicklas Backstrom smiled a little Swedish smile, faint and ambiguous. “No,” he said. “Really?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” ...
Crushing Loss Won't Crush Capitals
I know. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory — or something like that. Painful? You lose a lead with less than seven seconds left in a seminal game of the Stanley Cup playof...
Nationals-Phillies Rivalry: Game On
Now we’re talking. Now the Washington Nationals have a rival. A real rival, not an interleague, MLB-arranged, bi-annual blind date with the Baltimore Orioles, which despite thei...
Capitals' Ward: I Let My Team Down
By the time the reporters poured into the Washington Capitals' dressing room late Monday night, it was almost empty. Most of the players were already gone. The trainers were pack...
More Than Good, Rangers Seem Blessed
It had been another slog, another coin flip, and this one was slipping away with every missed opportunity. But the Rangers are starting to look like one of those teams of destiny...
Shanahan Leaves No Doubt: Griffin to Start
The first thing you notice is the footwork—and not because of the gold shoes. Yes, that’s part of Robert Griffin III’s persona. Just like the braids that flowed f...
Young Holtby Remains Unflappable
About an hour before every game, Braden Holtby will find a spot in the arena and transform it into his personal reflection garden.At the Verizon Center, it is often behind the Ca...
Is This the Best Capitals' Best Playoff Team?
In each of the previous four postseasons, the Washington Capitals lacked at least one key ingredient all successful teams possess. In 2008, they didn’t have enough experience...
Level of Blocked Shots in Playoffs Getting Absurd
The new-age rules were supposed to promote skill, supposed to open up the game, supposed to spotlight the best and the brightest of the NHL, but in the Stanley Cup playoffs in Ye...
Hamels: I Hit Harper on Purpose
The Nationals never had any doubt, from the moment Cole Hamels’s 93-mph fastball bored into Bryce Harper’s backside, that Hamels had done it on purpose. Afterward, in a state...
Caps No Longer Glitzy, Just Tough
The Washington Capitals aren’t as photogenic as they used to be. We may never, for instance, see Alexander Ovechkin score another goal while lying on his back. But what they...
The Man Who Rescued Nats' Ramos
The grainy video begins with footage of a slow-moving river, the camera operator panning the lens clockwise across the water, sweeping past the dense Venezuelan jungle that choke...
Nats Win Battle for Park, Can They Win War?
Washington Nationals fans took back their ballpark from the invading fans of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. And they did it by a landslide, not by some piddling plurali...
Do Capitals Have Enough Offense to Win?
The Capitals have scored just five goals in three games against New York, tying them with the St. Louis Blues for the lowest goal total in the conference semifinals. Of the six p...
6 Draft Picks With Lingering Questions
Robert Griffin III, QB, Washington Redskins: I live in Washington, D.C., and the excitement surrounding RG3's arrival is enormous. Griffin is an excellent athlete who made plays o...
Nationals Win on Harper's RBI Double
Twenty-five games into this season, the Washington Nationals are without, to name a few, their best slugger (Michael Morse), their best player (Ryan Zimmerman) and their closer (D...
Another Painful Memory for Capitals
Nothing good ever happens to the Washington Capitals after midnight. That’s been pretty well established over the decades, hasn’t it? The four-overtime game against the New Yor...
Harper Has 3 Hits as Nats Snap Skid
The kid dubbed the “Chosen One,” with the funky hair, the moonshot-producing swing, the bravado and the rocket arm, spent 7,135 days — that’s roughly 19 1...
Hunter Has Clout to Bench Ovechkin
Dale Hunter, it seems, remembers those scenes from the 2010 NHL playoffs. The ones where time and time again, Alexander Ovechkin made a solo rush down the ice against the Montreal...
Harper Shows He Belongs in Big Leagues
When Willie Mays hit the big leagues at 19, he couldn’t get the little kid out of himself, didn’t want to anyway and used to play stickball on the New York streets. On Monday...
Young, Arenas Use Friendship to Move On
When Nick Young was traded to Los Angeles in March he asked to wear No. 0, homage to his long-time friend and mentor, Gilbert Arenas. No bleeping way, the Clippers told him. The ...
Nats' Harper 0-for-3 in Home Debut
Bryce Harper and his preternatural ability, his magnetism anywhere on a baseball diamond, will spread murmurs and chills throughout Nationals Park for years to come. The first t...
Ovechkin Nets Winner as Conflict Percolates
When he unleashed that game-winning wrist rocket from the point Monday night, Alex Ovechkin was battling a variety of forces. There were the rugged Rangers players who skated with...
Bryce Harper Will Change Nats, Maybe the Game
On April 7, 1984, a 19-year-old phenom named Dwight Gooden walked to the mound at the Astrodome in Houston for his big league debut with the New York Mets while a 22-year-old nam...
Capitals Need More From Ovechkin
It is undeniable that the Washington Capitals can beat one of the top teams in the game without a significant contribution from their star captain and his star acolytes. We saw it ...
Harper a Target Right From the Get-Go
In the second round of the 2003 amateur draft, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Tom Gorzelanny, a left-handed pitcher from little-known Triton College in River Grove, Ill. With the ...
Harper's Debut Nearly Perfect
The kid strode to the plate in the top of the ninth inning Saturday with the score tied and the go-ahead run on third base, the most Hollywood of moments in the most Hollywood of...
Griffin OK With Redskins' Taking Another QB
Robert Griffin III isn't the only new Washington Redskins quarterback. Kirk Cousins is headed to nation's capital, too. The Redskins made one of the most intriguing moves Saturday ...
From Frozen 4 to Stanley Cup Playoffs
Three weeks ago, Chris Kreider was a champion. With Boston College, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound winger helped the Eagles to their fifth NCAA title as the NHL regular season was comin...
No Lack of Motivation for Rangers vs. Caps
John Tortorella says that history is irrelevant, that there are no psychological barriers to overcome or grudges to settle on Saturday afternoon nestled in the tacky design of t...
Early Debut No Surprise for Nats' Harper
Of course he's ready. Bryce Harper was born for this, built for this, trained for this and anointed to this. It's baseball. Just baseball. Just his life, or however much of it he c...
Caps, Bruins Familiar with Game 7s
Dale Hunter gushed about it: a Game 7 for the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night at the Boston Bruins with a trip to the second round on the line. “You’ve got to pr...
Holtby Latest Unlikely Goalie Star
Fresh off a 44-save performance against the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins in Washington's series-tying Game 4 win on Thursday, rookie goaltender Braden Holtby just...
Capitals Must Rise Above Scrums
“Stuff happens in the playoffs,” Karl Alzner said Wednesday, after the Washington Capitals were done banging the puck around at Kettler Iceplex. Oh yes, stuff does. Lo...
Backstrom Lifts Caps in Double OT
Nicklas Backstrom scored 2:56 into the second overtime Saturday to give the Washington Capitals a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins and tie the first-round playoff series at a g...
Caps Have New Role as Underdog
Back in September, hockey experts predicted that the Washington Capitals would sit atop the Eastern Conference in the spring. This year, they would advance beyond the second round...
Nats' Strasburg Dominates Mets
The delicate treatment of Stephen Strasburg ended Wednesday afternoon. In the sixth inning, with the tying run on second base, the Washington Nationals chose competition over prec...
Strasburg Sharp in Win Over Cubs
Even if Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg goes on to follow the wondrous career path laid out for him and collect a Jack Morris-like haul of Opening Day starts, his ...
Caps Need to Win Final 2 Games
After five months of up and down results, the Washington Capitals’ playoff hopes rest on the results of their final two regular season games. The stakes couldn’t be an...
Pressure on Caps' Young Goalies
Nine months ago to the day, the Washington Capitals made a decision to sign a veteran goaltender they hoped could push them above the fray, a move that freed them from pinning ex...
Nats Believe They're Contenders
After going 80-81 last year and making several impact moves in the offseason, the Washington Nationals have crossed the line from intriguing to "fashionable.'' The players caught...
Who Is Capitals' No. 1 Goalie?
While each team in a playoff position in the Eastern Conference has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, nearly all of them have one thing in common – a go-to option in n...
Caps Drop Key Game vs. Sabres
For days, the Washington Capitals spoke of Tuesday night’s contest as having the weight of a playoff game. Coach Dale Hunter even compared it to the intensity of a Game 7. ...
Sabres Make Statement vs. Capitals
The showdown became a stunning beatdown. The Buffalo Sabres were better in every area Tuesday night in rolling to a 5-1 win over the Washington Capitals and taking a two-point lea...
Nene Leads Wizards in Win Over Nets
For the first time in nearly 10 years, Nene stepped into an NBA arena and he wasn’t representing the Denver Nuggets or wearing the No. 31. The last week has been an emotion...
Jets Down Caps in Critical Contest
A four-on-four situation against the talent-laden Washington Capitals deep into a tie game — not what most Winnipeg Jets’ fans were hoping to see. But the Jets turned...
Redskins Get It Right in Big Trade
Those Redskins fans exasperated by their franchise's profligate free-agent spending and wasteful attitude when it comes to draft picks (especially in the Vinny Cerrato "era") wou...
Where Might Manning Land?
It's finally upon us. Wednesday is expected to be the day we've all been waiting for. Peyton Manning can be your quarterback IF ... the Price is Right! Forget about "The Decision ...
Nats' Harper Showing Improvement
Bryce Harper glanced across the Space Coast Stadium diamond Friday afternoon at the Georgetown Hoyas, almost all of whom were older than him. If Harper had stayed on a typical sc...
Hoyas Aim for Double Bye in Big East
Georgetown men’s basketball Coach John Thompson III said he intentionally ignored his team’s seeding scenarios for the Big East tournament in an effort to avoid get...
Ovechkin's Return Sparks Capitals
With time running out and their margin for error all but used up, Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals returned to Verizon Center on Friday night and played with the type of ...
Seton Hall Bolsters Resume
In the two days before Tuesday night's game, Seton Hall talked about how it needed to prove that Saturday's abysmal loss at Cincinnati was a fluke. Mission. Accomplished. With th...
Jets Come Back for Big Win vs. Caps
Instead of falling six points back of the Southeast Division-leading Capitals, the Jets today are just three back of that top rung in their division. The Caps and Florida, winner...
Nationals Waiting on Phenom Harper
In 2009, when the Nationals lost 103 games, their pitchers allowed 874 runs. Two years later, they cut that total by 231 runs. That is why GM Mike Rizzo (with owner Ted Lerner&rsqu...
McGee's Mom Comes to His Defense
This is the night the hammer comes down, you’ve decided. This is the night to call out the brain lock and the boneheadedness — everything embodied by their starting c...
Wizards Hand Thunder 3rd Loss
Jordan Crawford tossed the ball skyward from near halfcourt and John Wall soared to catch it and dunked with two hands. Wall swung on the rim, let out a guttural scream and viol...
Wizards Coach Rips Showboating
Wizards center JaVale McGee has been a walking highlight reel from the moment he came into the league; an incredible athlete with superior speed and leaping ability that makes h...
Capitals Shut Out Penguins
Tomas Vokoun told his teammates before Wednesday night’s meeting with the rival Pittsburgh Penguins that he planned to be involved in the contest, not just by making saves ...
Wizards Pick Up 1st Win of Season
John Wall blocked Toronto Raptors guard Jose Calderon’s jumper and Jordan Crawford scooped up the ball. Wall and JaVale McGee both took off on a full-out sprint and leapt a...
Wizards Fall Short of 1st Victory
The unfamiliar sights were in abundance as the Washington Wizards attempted to no longer be the NBA’s only winless team. But no amount of exuberance, extra effort and impass...
Caps, Kings Highlight 1st-Half Stories
Officially, the NHL’s 2011-12 season will reach the midpoint point Monday with Game 615 between the Los Angeles Kings and the Washington Capitals, and it’s an inadver...
Wizards Off to Worst Start Ever
Andray Blatche pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his head, placed a pair of oversize headphones on his ears, and scrolled to a Sam Cooke song on his iPod. As he grabbed his...
Capitals Starting to Click
Things are starting to come together for the Capitals. Just over five weeks after firing former coach Bruce Boudreau, Washington is making strides under new coach Dale Hunter. O...
Gtown Success Traced Back to China
Georgetown's impromptu fight with a Chinese team, the Bayi Military Rockets, in Beijing in mid-August was not condoned. But it is being privately celebrated for its positive conseq...
Nats, Boras Meet About Fielder
The Nationals are in the Prince Fielder sweepstakes, according to a baseball source, and ownership recently visited with Fielder's agent, Scott Boras, in the nation's capital. It...
Devils Improve to 8-1 in Shootouts
There was no need to have seen any of the Devils’ first 33 games. On the eve of the NHL’s Christmas break, they summed up their entire season in one roller coaster fin...
Ovechkin, Neuvirth Power Caps
Steadiness hasn’t often been a trait used to describe the Washington Capitals’ goaltenders this month. But Thursday night, Michal Neuvirth put on the type of performanc...
Another Ugly Loss for Capitals
The Capitals made a coaching change last month because general manager George McPhee saw far too many games like this one. Rested after three days off and playing at home against...
Goalie Woes Sinkings Caps, Bolts
With 3 minutes and 44 seconds left in the first period on Tuesday night, Scott Hartnell of the Philadelphia Flyers fired a shot from the top of the faceoff circle to the right of W...
Caps Can't Break Funk vs. Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins inspire fiery performances from the Washington Capitals. Thursday night’s visit to Verizon Center, with new Coach Dale Hunter behind the Capitals&rsq...
Media and Blogs
Newspapers
Washington Post
Washington Times
Washington Examiner
Blogs
D.C. Sports Bog
Mr. Irrelevant
DC Pro Sports Report
DMA 7-22 Sports
The Cooley Zone
Hogs Haven (Redskins)
Nats Insider (Nationals)
Truth About It (Wizards)
Bullets Forever (Wizards)
Rock the Red (Capitals)
The Hoya (Georgetown)
Gobbler Country (Virginia Tech)
Terp Ticker (Maryland)
Washington Post
Washington Times
Washington Examiner
Blogs
D.C. Sports Bog
Mr. Irrelevant
DC Pro Sports Report
DMA 7-22 Sports
The Cooley Zone
Hogs Haven (Redskins)
Nats Insider (Nationals)
Truth About It (Wizards)
Bullets Forever (Wizards)
Rock the Red (Capitals)
The Hoya (Georgetown)
Gobbler Country (Virginia Tech)
Terp Ticker (Maryland)
Washington Sports News
Wizards still quiet about plans for
Nearly a month after the...
Klinsmann sets final roster for U.S
Juergen Klinsmann on Friday set his 23-man roster for the U.S. national team...
Washington Capitals season review:
When the Capitals brought in Dale Hunter as head coach in November, they altered the team’s s...
Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat make Pacers
Remember that whole ...