Six pressing questions heading into the NFL playoffs

Six pressing questions heading into the NFL playoffs

January 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST (David D. Robbins Jr./The Washington Post/istock) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Aaron Rodgers’s torn Achilles’ tendon and toxic mouth? Josh Dobbs’s turn from Passtronaut to afterthought? Bill Belichick’s fall in New England? That was all so regular season. As the playoffs begin, here…

He wrote letters to MLB GMs, asking for advice. Now he works for the Nats.

He wrote letters to MLB GMs, asking for advice. Now he works for the Nats.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Brad Ciolek’s interest in baseball began in Detroit, where he watched his first game with his dad, an avid Tigers fan. As Ciolek grew up in the Chicago suburbs, his love of the game grew, too. He attended every White Sox game he could. By…

Perspective | Smart NFL owners should be lining up to hire Bill Belichick

Perspective | Smart NFL owners should be lining up to hire Bill Belichick

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save If somebody told you to trust your money to Bill Belichick to invest, would you? Now turn the question around. Why would you trust football decisions to a mall developer? It’s that time of year again, the NFL hiring cycle, when billionaire superegos confuse their…

Draymond Green reinstated by NBA after serving 12-game suspension

Draymond Green reinstated by NBA after serving 12-game suspension

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The NBA reinstated Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green following his indefinite suspension for striking Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the head, the league announced Saturday. Green, 33, has missed Golden State’s past 12 games after the Dec. 12 incident with Nurkic and is…

The Rangers finally won a championship. These teams haven’t.

The Rangers finally won a championship. These teams haven’t.

The Texas Rangers on Wednesday did not end Major League Baseball’s longest World Series drought. That belongs to the Cleveland Guardians, who have not won the World Series since 1948. But the Rangers still ended decades of misery by winning the first World Series title in franchise history, which began in 1961 when the team…

Capitals’ Tom Wilson is named to the NHL All-Star Game

Capitals’ Tom Wilson is named to the NHL All-Star Game

For the second time in three years, Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson is headed to the NHL All-Star Game. In 2022, Wilson was named as a replacement for Washington captain Alex Ovechkin when Ovechkin tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the event. This time around, Wilson was included among the initial 32 all-stars, one…

Perspective | The Ron Rivera era was a mess. It’s time to clean things up.

Perspective | The Ron Rivera era was a mess. It’s time to clean things up.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save That Ron Rivera was finally, mercifully relieved of his duties as head coach and roster builder of the Washington Commanders falls into the pope-is-Catholic, sun-rises-in-the-east category. If new owner Josh Harris hadn’t fired Rivera on Monday, there might have been a mutiny of a fan…