Category: Sports

Washington Redskins third-string quarterback Rex Grossman and fourth-string quarterback Pat White led a dynamic offense in the team’s 30-7 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Aug. 24 in FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Though the third game of each preseason usually features extended playing time for a team’s starters, top quarterback Robert Griffin III continued […]

The Baltimore Ravens lost their first game of the preseason, falling to the Carolina Panthers, 34-27, on Aug. 22 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. It was the third game of the preseason schedule, traditionally the game in which the first-string personnel see the most action. Most NFL head coaches allow the starters to play […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Could cooking be the new doubles endeavor for Serena and Venus Williams? The two tennis superstars giggled and teased each other as they joined celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson in a cooking demonstration Thursday as part of the annual “Taste of Tennis” event, one of the many festivities leading up to next […]

A World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler announced publicly on Aug. 14 that he is gay, according to reports, becoming the first professional wrestler to make such an announcement. A cameraman working for gossip website TMZ confronted Fred Rosser, who has wrestled in the WWE under the name Darren Young for approximately three years, at a Los […]

The Denver Broncos will be without Pro-Bowl linebacker Von Miller for their first six games. Miller will serve a six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, a punishment that will cost Miller more than $800,000 of the $2.3 million he was expected to make this season. “I made mistakes and my suspension has hurt […]

The Washington Redskins claimed a 24-13 victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers in week two of the preseason on Aug. 19. But the win was overshadowed by an injury to their backup quarterback, Kirk Cousins. Cousins had become sort of a fan favorite in Redskins Nation after playing well in place of their franchise savior, Robert […]

The Baltimore Orioles were in desperate need of a win after entering this week 1.5 games behind in the race for a wild card seed. Instead, they went on to lose four of five games and ultimately fell behind three games in the wild card hunt. (Aug. 12-14) Arizona Diamondbacks Sweep Three-Game Series .The first of […]

There weren’t many times this season in which the Washington Nationals had more wins in a week than losses. But that was the case this week as they capped a three-win sweep against the Phillies on Aug. 11 with a 6-0 win, and then won two of a three-game series on Aug.13-15 against the San […]

For many years when the sports news hits a dry spell, I attempted to entertain you from personal experiences. The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals can’t make up their minds whether they want to stick around and contend for the division championships and the Redskins and Ravens have just come out of camp and are […]

MOSCOW (AP) — And with three gold medals in Moscow, Usain Bolt, the Jamaican great, became the most successful athlete in the 30-year history of the world championships. The 4×100-meter relay gold Sunday erased the memories of the 100 title he missed out on in South Korea two years ago because of a false start. […]

It was a tale of two halves for the Baltimore Ravens in a 27-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons in week two of the 2013 NFL preseason. The Ravens’ starters went into halftime trailing 20-7 before the backups took to the field and scored 20 unanswered points in the second half for the comeback win […]

NBA All Star Kevin Durant returned to Seattle for a game in NBA player Jamal Crawford’s summer pro-am league Aug. 11 to score 63 points. Durant only managed to make 26 of his 62 field goals, including shooting 8 of 32 from three-point range. Durant had the chance to give his team the lead at […]