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Joel Elias Spingarn High School’s male basketball team, known famously as the spawning ground for pro basketball legends Elgin Baylor, Dave Bing and Sherman Douglas, played its final home game on Feb. 14. Spingarn, which has been located on Benning Road in Northeast Washington for 62 years, will be shuttered at the end of the […]

The National Basketball Association hosted its annual All Star Game weekend in Houston, Texas this weekend, featuring events such as the skills competition, three-point contest and the slam dunk contest. But what was expected to be the most exciting event to watch actually turned out to be the most disappointing event. With the notion of […]

The Washington Wizards have gone 10-7 over their last 17 games, paving the way to respectability. With John Wall healthy and running the team, and the trio of Martell Webster, Bradley Beal and Trevor Ariza sinking three-pointers alongside solid inside play, Washington isn’t the pushover they’ve been over the past few seasons. The team has […]

NEW ORLEANS, La.–Win or lose, the Baltimore Ravens will return Feb. 4 from a trip to New Orleans and gear up for next season. After totaling 72 regular season wins since 2006, mostly with legendary inside linebacker Ray Lewis as their leader, Baltimore has been one of the National Football League’s (NFL) steadiest teams. But […]

Equipped with air-tight defenses, playmaking quarterbacks, power run games and a set of brothers as head coaches, the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens are virtual mirrors of one another. Both teams would rather pound their opponent into submission than play a finesse game. So when both teams kick off in Super Bowl XLVII on […]

It didn’t take long for Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o to go from living legend to laughing stock. After Deadspin.com broke the story Jan. 16 that Te’o’s presumed deceased girlfriend (who reportedly passed away in September from cancer) isn’t in fact dead and was never was in fact anything but a well developed, strangely crafted […]

By now, most sports fans are aware that longtime sports columnist Rob Parker was recently fired by ESPN after his racial comments about Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. Parker, a Black sports reporter long known for his over-the-edge comments, questioned whether or not Griffin was a “cornball brother” during a segment on ESPN’s “First […]

Rumors have circled in recent days of a possible trade between the Washington Wizards and Memphis Grizzlies for small forward Rudy Gay, with NBA analyst Ric Bucher reporting “The Wizards have made a ‘good’ offer for Gay.” Though John Wall has returned from a knee injury, the Wizards still lack explosive talent in the front […]

The second half of the Washington Redskins 24-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the wildcard round of the National Football League’s 2012-13 playoffs saw a tug of war in ‘Skins Nation. One side wanted to stick with gimpy starter Robert Griffin III while the other was ready to see a healthy Kirk Cousins step […]

LeBron James is on a tear. And while the all-everything star has had several streaks in his career, he’s never had one like this. James has scored at least 20 points in 31-straight games, putting him 14 games away from George Gervin’s record in the 1981-82 season of 45 games with at least 20 points […]

It is rare for both the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins to make the playoffs and win their divisions in the same season. The DMV’s north and south football teams not only finished the year with the same record at 10-6 but they also squared off along the way with Washington beating Baltimore, 31-28 on […]

The vibe in the district couldn’t be any brighter following the Washington Redskins’ 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys, which completed their season sweep over their archrivals and clinched the NFC East division and the Skins’ first trip to the NFC playoffs since the 2007 season. Washington became the first team to recover from a […]