Michael Jenkins does Coach K impression
Jeez, Coach K’s comments about Maryland and Duke’s not-really-rivalry seem to have touched a nerve in downtown Bethesda. Not only did Chick Hernandez accuse K of whining, but Michael Jenkins did an...
View ArticleWizards TV ratings near the bottom of the NBA
The Wizards’ recent resurgence may have come too late to salvage their television ratings this season. According to the annual mid-season local TV review posted by SportsBusiness Journal, Wizards...
View ArticleSteve Buckhantz’s retracted dagger
Steve Buckhantz is a great broadcaster. His “Dagger!” call is a terrific signature, one of the best symbols of joy in D.C. sports. And watching Trevor Ariza’s last-second potential game-winner on...
View ArticleWhy the Wizards moved Steve Buckhantz off the floor
When rapper Wale climbed the Verizon Center stairs a few weeks back to complain about a perceived slight from the Toronto Raptors television broadcasters, it highlighted a new development that may have...
View ArticleThe saddest Caps fan of the game
When the Capitals were awarded a pair of consecutive two-minute power plays in the third period Tuesday night, everyone immediately decided that those four minutes would decide the game. If the Caps...
View ArticleJohn Wall’s 47 points: the video
Plenty of people have unearthed plenty of absurd John Wall nuggets in the wake of his 47-point explosion Monday night. For example: * John Wall is two months younger than Damian Lillard. (@jeskeets)...
View ArticleRandy Edsall calls an Alex Ovechkin goal
Randy Edsall was a guest in the Comcast SportsNet Caps broadcast booth during Sunday night’s Caps game. As sometimes happens in such situations, Edsall was sort of being mildly interviewed while the...
View ArticleLeonsis: Wizards want to keep Wall for ‘a long, long time’
Ted Leonsis was in Chicago on Wednesday night to watch the last game of an occasionally promising but ultimately disappointing Wizards season. And the owner sat down with Comcast SportsNet’s Steve...
View ArticleLeonsis on the Caps’ late-season surge
Ted Leonsis’s conversation with Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier during Wednesday night’s Wizards finale was almost exclusively about the NBA club, but there was a bit of Caps chatter. And since that...
View ArticleAn Alex Ovechkin ‘MVP chant’ at Verizon Center
If given the choice in early March between the Caps winning their division and the Verizon Center faithful serenading Alex Ovechkin with deafening “MVP” chants, I’d likely have just gone to grab a...
View ArticleMatt Hendricks and Al Koken make postgame magic
Caps fans were likely smiling throughout much of the third period of the team’s division-clinching win on Tuesday night, and if they kept their televisions tuned to Comcast SportsNet, they likely kept...
View ArticleThe Caps 2013 TV ratings
There isn’t necessarily a juicy headline coming out of the Caps’ 2013 TV ratings, but I like to publish stuff like this for posterity. So here are a few bullet points, via Nielsen data: * The 45 Caps...
View ArticleHow Al Koken became Smokin’ Al
I recently wrote something about Smokin’ Al Koken, the veteran D.C. sports broadcaster, prompting a question from a reader about the origins of the Smokin’ Al nickname. I didn’t actually know the...
View ArticleAlan May blasts officiating in game 6
Rightly or wrongly, many Caps fans were apoplectic when their team was penalized five times Sunday afternoon in New York, while the Rangers made it through 60 minutes without once breaking the rules....
View ArticleAl Koken, from the archives
I promise that this will be my last item about Smokin’ Al Koken — in this month, anyhow — but I couldn’t resist. See, I wound up doing this story about Al for print last weekend, and that put me …...
View ArticleTiger Woods on RGIII
Tiger Woods was in town on Monday to promote the AT&T National, giving me the opportunity to put “Tiger Woods” and “RGIII” in the same headline. There’s an assist in there, of course, for Comcast...
View ArticleGary Williams mock draft has the Wizards taking Alex Len
Near as I can tell, most Wizards fans — or at least, most Wizards fans who hang out on the internet — believe their favorite team should target either Otto Porter or Anthony Bennett with their third...
View ArticleWatch Matt Hendricks and Karl Alzner fishing
Cool it with your “hit the golf course” jokes. The next NHL playoffs joke can involve being out on a fishing boat. Also, Matt Hendricks attempts to catch fish with the ol’ “Here, fishy fishy fishy...
View ArticleComcast SportsNet debuts new football music video
If you’re a regular viewer of Comcast SportsNet’s pre- and postgame Redskins coverage — and aren’t we all — you’ll notice at least one new feature this season: a music video. The network put out a...
View ArticleRedskins fans talking Kirk Cousins
The NFL is a fickle, fickle place. Well, it’s really a sports league, not a place. But were it a place, it would be fickle. Evidence No. 413B: The Redskins are 0-2, and Robert Griffin III has not...
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