Virginia has no shot clock, and some coaches think it’s a ‘travesty’

Virginia has no shot clock, and some coaches think it’s a ‘travesty’

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save After more than two decades around Northern Virginia high school basketball, Thomas Jefferson boys’ basketball coach Mark Gray-Mendes is still waiting for a shot clock. Until it arrives, he says, he’ll coach a different game than his peers in D.C., Maryland and 25 other state…

Fourth line powers the Capitals to a dramatic victory over the Kings

Fourth line powers the Capitals to a dramatic victory over the Kings

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save With 72 seconds left and the score tied Sunday afternoon, with a faceoff coming in the Washington Capitals’ defensive zone, three players predictably came over the boards. Center Nic Dowd and wingers Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Beck Malenstyn, as they do for the majority of the…

Looking for a bright spot on the Wizards? Watch Tyus Jones.

Looking for a bright spot on the Wizards? Watch Tyus Jones.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save CLEVELAND — After the Washington Wizards acquired Tyus Jones last summer in the three-team deal that sent Kristaps Porzingis to Boston, the locker room welcomed two new bodies, not just one. Jones is frequently accompanied after games by his mop-topped, 3-year-old son, Tyus Jr., who…

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…

Entering Paris Games, the top U.S. male Olympian isn’t a swimmer

Entering Paris Games, the top U.S. male Olympian isn’t a swimmer

Updated January 4, 2024 at 5:25 p.m. EST|Published January 4, 2024 at 5:51 a.m. EST Noah Lyles won three gold medals at last year’s world championships and aims to do the same this summer in Paris. (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Never shy about publicly proclaiming grand…

Analysis | The eye-popping price of MLB starting pitching keeps going up

Analysis | The eye-popping price of MLB starting pitching keeps going up

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save For teams that never had much chance at Shohei Ohtani and even for those who did, the defining feature of this baseball offseason has been the frantic and expensive scramble to secure starting pitching. From the top of the market to the bottom, the prices…

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…