Even after 35 minutes of work went for naught, it's not hard to see what's happening at Maryland. Gary Williams is falling hard for a team he has suddenly coaxed into overachievers....

Envisioning Daniel Snyder scheming over how he would lure Albert Haynesworth to Washington with all that cash brings to mind, bizarre as this might sound, an old "Austin Powers" clip. Remember the character who leered diabolically into the camera, his pinkie perched near his pursed lips as he named ...

PITTSBURGH As Willis McGahee lay motionless, as Ray Lewis and other players knelt to pray, as the cart with the stretcher motored out and a concerned hush fell over Heinz Field, nothing mattered anymore....

Not that the Washington Capitals need an alibi, but is it too much to put this entire three-game funk on the atrocity of NHL all-star balloting? Feeling intense disrespect from fans, unable to rock the vote, much less the red, they have now scored an anemic three goals in nine periods at Verizon Cen...

It's become rote around here this week to call Miserable Suburban Guy radio, e-mail local sports cable networks or post on Redskins blogs about Jason Campbell's regression, to the point that some warped louts believe the starting quarterback should be benched in favor of Todd Collins....

The team president and his handpicked, trial-by-fire coach met through a mutual friend at the 1991 ACC tournament. Later that evening, over burgers at Frank Manzetti's Bar & Grill in Charlotte, Ernie Grunfeld, then a fledgling New York Knicks executive, and Ed Tapscott, the former American coach...

Dwayne Gourzong traveled a great distance to play soccer this weekend in Washington, where he will be introduced at D.C. United's game Sunday. Much farther than David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy could ever fathom....

OPINION | All the Wizards pre-series yakking dissolved when the ball went up. It's all hype....

In his second NHL playoff game, young Tomas Fleischmann was dropped hard to the ice by Mike Richards, a jarring, open-ice hit. No one in the pressroom could remember what period it occurred, until someone finally said, "I think he hit him every period."...

Gilbert Arenas went down hard with 15 seconds left, the good and the bad knee pounding the hardwood. Grimacing slightly, he got up and stepped to the free throw line in the fourth quarter of a taut game for the first time in more than four months....