The Washington Capitals season came to an abrupt halt (Japers Rink) in game 7 of the 1st round of the playoffs as they were dominated by the New York Rangers, 5-0. It was a brutal end to a strange season that started late due to a lock-out that team owner Ted Leonsis was reportedly [...]
Friday, it all started out well with the Washington Nationals taking game 1 of the weekend series over the Chicago Cubs 7-2 (mlb.com video) and the Washington Capitals taking game 5 over the New York Rangers, 2-1 (nhl.com video).
The good times would only last until Saturday’s fifth inning, when, after dominating, Stephen Strasburg came completely [...]
Tuesday saw two instances of mishaps befalling the opponents of D.C. teams. First, the Winnipeg Jets:
Ha. RT @rickralphtsn Fire alarm testing at the #NHLJets hotel this afternoon.Really?
— JapersRink (@JapersRink) April 23, 2013
The Washington Capitals host the Jets in a critical South(L)east Division game. Brian McNally has the Caps playoff math in The. Wash. Examiner. In [...]
Two games in the District today, back-to-back, separated by four stops on the Green Line.
Navy Yard Metro
4:05 p.m. Washington Nationals (2-0) vs. Miami Marlins (0-2)
Jordan Zimmerman vs. Wade LaBlanc
The Nats go for the sweep over the Marlins before a big series against the Reds in Cincinnati. That is going to be a real test. I [...]
Mike Rizzo: D.C. could become ‘primarily a baseball town’ – DC Sports Bog, The Post
I think that every professional sports team ought to be “aspirational” in everything they do. An example is trying to be the #1 team in a market. Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo seems to think so too:
“I think that [...]
On the twelfth minute of the twelfth hour of the twelfth day, let us celebrate some of the number 12’s who have played for D.C. pro teams.
Peter Bondra, Washington Capitals 1991-2004
Alfonso Soriano, Washington Nationals 2006
Kirk Cousins, Washington Redskins 2012
Okay, #11 was a little more impressive…
Soriano photo from misschatter on flickr
Since I not expecting the NHL season to start on-time, I never did print out a Washington Capitals schedule and put it up in my cube, so I don’t know how many games have been lost by the latest lockout. I miss watching the Caps a few nights of the week and the hockey talk [...]
The great Paul Lukas of Uni-Watch and ESPN Playbook has ranked the uniforms of the 122 MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA teams. This is similar to a feature he did over five years ago called the most livable Uni-Cities which I blogged about back then: Ranking cities by team uniforms. Lukas explains how he [...]
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 [...]
Dale Hunter steps down as Capitals coach – Capitals Insider, The Post
I’m not surprised Dale Hunter is out as Washington Capitals head coach. He has a good setup with his junior team/farm back in Ontario. Hunter could have been an assistant for years and that wasn’t enough to pull him away. It turns out being [...]
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