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...

[Admin. note: With this file OFB proudly welcomes American University journalism student Andrew Tomlinson into the blogging fold. Andrew has been covering the Caps this season for AU's student paper The Eagle , for which he serves as multi-media editor, and his work has been acknowledged by bot...

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."...

Ah, college basketball. I'm essentially indifferent towards you - until March. Then I care quite a bit. This of course does not make me different than quite a few Americans, especially those from Philadelphia. The great thing about growing up here is that you can root for any one of six different te...

Now this is an interesting story: the Hockey Hall of Fame understandably wants the hockey stick Mike Green used in Tampa this past Saturday to set an NHL record for the most consecutive games by a defenseman scoring a goal, but Greener ain't parting with it. That, too, is understandable. Think about...