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…