Bryce Harper loves Washington, and says he wants to play his entire career in the city – The Post
Bryce Harper has decided as a 19 year old that he wants to stay in the D.C. area forever as a member of the Washington Nationals. He’s living in Pentagon City and I never wanted to move [...]

SPENCER HALL: The 2012 Tour de France: A Viewer’s Guide – SB Nation
Hall, the legendary gonzo-ish college football blogger from Every Day Should Be Saturday breaks down the Tour and why you should watch it. His reasons i.e. LE FLOW, LE GEOGRAPHIE, LE CRASH, LE HARD PART to name a few, are compelling.

The Washington Nationals losing a series is always disappointing, but double so when it is to the corrupt Baltimore Orioles for oft stated reasons like “evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.” The Baltimore fanboys in D.C. sports media are surely thrilled. Still, the Nats had a strong stretch through the seemingly most difficult [...]

I will admit that heading into the Washington Nationals vs. Tampa Bay Rays series I couldn’t find any “extra excitement” like I do for Northeast Corridor rivals. It is safe to say that this
series was way more fun than we could have anticipated after Joel Peralta’s pine tar ejection. Still, heading into last night, the [...]

How I Did It: Jerry Murrell, Five Guys Burgers and Fries – Inc.
The founder of FIVE GUYS, Jerry Murrell explains how and why he and his sons built the Northern Virginia-based hamburger chain. It is an interesting story that began because he advised his teenage sons to either “go to college or start a business.”
I [...]

The Washington Capitals 2012-2013 schedule has been released: SCHEDULE | DOWNLOADABLE SCHEDULES | PRESS RELEASE
I’m not going to get into how it lays out for the Caps because I’m skeptical of the full season being played due to the expiring collective bargaining agreement. I’ll probably write about the schedule when we know it will be [...]

The Washington Nationals are weird. Last night, after a 3-run inning against a Tampa Bay Rays starter making his MLB debut, they were hitless. A mere baserunner for 7 innings after the first. They won 3-2, behind Stephen Strasburg’s 10 strikeouts (video). The rubber game is tonight. Game recap video
The war of words between managers [...]

The Summer Solstice just happened.

I’ve done this before and probably will again because Ella and Louis are always a good thing.
Capital Weather Gang had another great write-up about the solstice today.
Did you know your shadow was its shortest of year at 1:10 p.m. today: DC’s solar noon at summer solstice?
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) [...]

Since DC Sports Bog and @SI_Vault have been posting DC sports photos from that past (mostly Washington Redskins) I thought I’d throw in a screengrab of Sonny Jurgensen wearing a Washington Senators cap, probably in 1970 or 1971 training camp. I have heard that he and Frank Howard used to hang out back in the [...]

Sadly, I don’t have a lot of time to recap last night’s events (video) — Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson asks the umpires to check Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Joel Peralta’s glove for a foreign substance and sure enough there was. Peralta was tossed and Rays manager Joe Maddon started barking off the field about [...]