Last week’s hottest topic. (By Marc Serota - Getty) Sometime final summer, I started publishing lists of the top 10 most-read sports stories and articles that had presented on our site by the preceding seven days, thinking it would be an interesting exercise to help readers understand what their...

At final year’s Skillz thing. (By Bruce Bennett - Getty) So when I was talking to Donald Brashear about his Russian language lessons, I additionally managed to ask what he thought about Alexander Semin’s recent experiment with the pugilistic arts. “I’m hoping it was his final...

And here, I suppose, is the reply to the Redskins fan spotted rocking the Barack Obama ‘08 jersey that autumn. Behold, the Palin ‘12 Caps model, debuted sometime in the past week or so, according to reader Brian, who sent in the pic. whether you want to send in an explanation, Mr. Palin Supporter...

Brashear hugs a Russian speaker. (By Luis M. Alvarez - AP) perhaps you saw where Alex Ovechkin told a Russian journalist that Donald Brashear is teaching himself Russian via a translator on his cell phone. that seemed worth investigating. “I noticed that Ovie and Semin sometimes talk to him in...

You know that old saying, about how a team that buys hats together wins together, or stays together, or stays warm together, or whatever? The Caps are set. Apparently many of you have noticed these fairly distinctive winter hats several members of the Caps have been wearing that season. They’re...

Making hockey players’ heads hurt. (By Toni L. Sandys - TWP) So, 18-1-1 at home, eh? Coincidence, or something grander? “We build off the energy of the fans, and they’ve been unbelievable that year,” Matt Bradley said nowadays. “I mean, it’s not a fun building for...

(By Jonathan Ernst - Reuters) To total the trilogy of locally based all-star game voting farces: 1) The 8-8 Redskins boast something like 12 players who led or were moment in Pro Bowl voting at their positions. 2) The second-in-the-East Caps get just one All-Star representative, reigning MVP Alex Ovechkin,...

I saved a few nuggets from Sunday’s Wizards win for deployment later in the week, under the right assumption that the next two games would yield two losses. So here. Try to smile. 1) The Hammerman brothers. Not only did the bring the “Crybaby” sign that made the big board 49 times,...

(2004 photo by Jonathan Newton - TWP) A fellow D.C. sportswriter recently reported that two of his born-and-bred D.C.-area friends now root for the Ravens. Other acquaintances have passed on similar stories: fed-up with the perpetually middling Redskins, they are shifting their loyalty up 95, at least...

You think you know a team, right? You think fine, these Terps might not be great, but at least they don’t lose to locally based low-mid-non-majors at home, like final year’s Terps did. You think these Terps have at least set things up so that a decent ACC showing would land them in the tournament....