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The Washington Capitals can now add another notch to their belt in 2009-2010.
The professional hockey team, boasting the NHL’s most impressive record this season with a franchise-best 51 wins and 114 points, has garnered another distinction as of April 5, 2010: The Presidents’ Trophy.
Although the Caps clinched the Eastern Conference regular season title last week, and their third straight Southeast Division crown and playoff berth a few weeks before that, their most recent ...
Washington Capitals Score Hat Trick as Three-Time Division Champs
Posted: 12th March 2010 by K. D. James in NHL
One expression used over time is that three's a charm.
That is definitely the case for the Washington Capitals, currently one of the NHL's hottest teams, as they clinched their third consecutive Southeast Division championship in early March.
They earned the distinction after division rival Atlanta lost to Columbus, 2-1, Thursday evening.
The Thrashers, the second best team in the division, trail the Capitals in points by an overwhelming margin of 33. In fact, Washington boasts a 15-2 record this season ...
Are You Ready For…Next Year? It’s a Virtual Redskins G.M. Moment
Posted: 12th December 2009 by K. D. James in NFL
It's done, Virginia.
There is no Santa Claus.
If you're rooting for a professional team in the nation's capital, then one more bleak season looks to close unceremoniously in a few weeks after Santa drops coal in Dan Snyder's proverbial stocking.
Heaven forbid that the front office find some way to forfeit most of its picks for a few wash-up free agents in February, March or April.
Or the team find lightning in a ...
Washington Redskins: No Portis, No Problem…No Betts, Big Problem
Posted: 17th November 2009 by K. D. James in NFL
Here is what embattled Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn saidáduring the press conferenceáat Redskins Park on Monday, whenáhe told the local media who will be the team's starting running back for the rest of the season:
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"I don't want a guy toàlose his job because he got a concussion. [Clinton Portis is] our running backàI don't want to take anything away from what Rock [Cartwright] did and what Ladell [Betts] ...
Remember when, as kids in an archaic time period, our mothers would scold us for sticking our tongues out at funny-looking strangers, and say something like, "[Insert your full , fulláname here], you come over here, mister/missy! What you did was impolite! Apologize to him/her right this very minute, or I'll send you to your room this eveningùwithout any supper!"
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We'd bicker and bawl, trudge begrudgingly some odd distance to the ...
Washington Loses Again: Don’t Call It a ComebackùYet
Posted: 9th November 2009 by K. D. James in NFL
You know it's bad when so far in the season I've been watching most of the Redskins gamesáafter halftime. Sadly, it's either been unbearable for meáto watch a Redskins game at all or it's justábeen tough to stomach an entire 60 minutes of the once-proud franchise.
It's been years since the household used to scream at the top of its lungs and yell at players with jersey numbers like 44, 81, ...
Phillies-Yankees: Cliff Lee Shines in Game One of 2009 World Series
Posted: 28th October 2009 by K. D. James in MLB
More over, Cole Hamels. The Philadelphia Phillies have another big-time lefty ace in town.
Cliff Lee proved his worth last night with a six-hit complete game against the mighty New York Yankees,ástriking out 10 and walking none.
Lee now has a 3-0 postseason record and a remarkable 0.54 ERA.
His pitching efforts stifled the Yankees offense, but he didn't do it alone: The bats of the Phillies did not remain silent throughout the ...
The 2009 World Series: The Right Two Teams Are in It
Posted: 28th October 2009 by K. D. James in MLB
As it has been pitted, it'sácheesecake vs cheesesteak. The City That Never Sleeps vs The City of Brotherly Love. Girardi vs Manuel. A-Rod vs Ryan Howard. CC Sabathia vs Cliff Lee.
It might be a moot point, but who wouldn't want to see the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees playing tonight?
I mean, you have one American Leagueáteam in its 40th title series, winning 27 since 1923. The other team ...
Washington Redskins Have a Different Play-Caller, but Get the Same Results
Posted: 27th October 2009 by K. D. James in NFL
When a man witháa rÚsumÚ thatáincludes Super Bowl rings is plucked from his retired Bingo duties in Michigan to come back and call plays for aáhapless team, drastic changes can't be made overnight.
As bright a mind as Sherman Lewis, 67, has possessedáin helping to call plays for NFL legends like Roger Craig, Tom Rathman,áJerry Rice, Joe Montana, and Brett Favre, there's no way he can immediatelyáhelp improve a depth-less roster ...
Just Bag It: Why Chris Samuels Should Retire With His Head Held High
Posted: 25th October 2009 by K. D. James in NFL
Let meáfirst notifyáthoseáreacting toáthe headlineáwith the following: I'máNOT knocking theámassive (6'5", 314 lb.)áman with the basso profundo , Southern drawl from Mobile, Alabama. NOT, OK?
Good. With that out of the way, let me say that if it weren't forá No. 60, Patrick Ramsey, Danny Wuerffel, Mark Brunell, Jason Campbell, Shaun Alexander, Ladell Betts and Clinton Portis would have been eating more turf, throwing for fewer completedápasses and ...