Here’s a one stop shop for you for events of interest to sports fans in the Baltimore – Washington area:
Maryland baseball:
The Maryland baseball squad got a much needed win in the first of a three game series with Ohio State. You can read our recap here. A sweep of this series will go a long way to solidifying an NCAA bid for the Terrapins.
MLB Up and MLB Down
The Washington Nationals won their second straight game … Read More »
Even grizzled 12 year NFL veterans can display some degree of sentimentality. In this instance, the grizzled veteran is Ed Reed and the sentimentality is evident in his decision to re-sign with Baltimore, where he spent all but the final season of an illustrious career, so he could retire as a Raven.
Reed left Baltimore after helping the Raven win the 2012 Super Bowl. In 2013, he played for the Jets and Texans before sitting out the entire 2014 season.
The Washington Capitals travel to New York Friday night looking for a spot in the Eastern Conference finals. The Caps took a 3-1 series lead with Wednesday night’s 2-1 win at home in the Verizon Center on the strength of strong defense, a hot goalie in Braden Holtby and a pair of goals from rookie forward Andre Burakovsky.
A Capitals win would send the team to a Conference final for the first time since the 1997-98 season when they lost … Read More »
After their road win in the first game of the conference semifinals at Atlanta, the Washington Wizards appeared to be in a position to win their second straight playoff series. Then John Wall landed awkwardly.
Despite expressing some bravado about playing before the game, when the Wizards’ point guard announced he couldn’t play in game two Tuesday night coach Randy Whitman, who has called Wall “the toughest basketball player he’s come across in 30 years,” immediately suspected the worst for … Read More »
The Wizards can not win without him.
Second-year attackman Jack Rice recorded the first hat trick of his career, but it wasn’t enough as the Chesapeake Bayhawks suffered their first loss of the season, 12-9 to visiting Ohio in front of 4,739 fans at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
Goalkeeper Tyler Fiorito turned in his third straight strong outing with 13 saves for Chesapeake (2-1), which got beaten on ground balls (31-19) and faceoffs (16-9). Attackman Ben Rubeor along with midfielders Matt Mackrides and Jovan Miller all totaled … Read More »
Johns Hopkins played a near flawless game and squashed Ohio State 13-6 to win the Big Ten Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAAs.
Miquel Gonzalez was brilliant tonight going 7 2/3 innings of shutout ball as the O’s won 4-0. Sunday the O’s will play it’s last home game of the year in Tampa.
American Pharoah, the 5-2 favorite won the Kentucky Derby for trainer Bob Baffert. Is this a triple crown horse? I doubt it.
The Caps … Read More »
I have watched Floyd many times and the story is always the same–he is one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time–you just can’t hit him. In 12 rounds, I believe Manny only landed 81 punches many of which were ineffective. Maybe Manny could have given him a battle 5 years ago but I doubt it.
Some days being a sports fan kinda sucks.
Here’s a list of teams I root for who played games Friday: Maryland softball, Maryland women’s lacrosse, Maryland baseball, the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Nationals.
Here’s a list of the teams on that list that won:
Add the loss by the Maryland men’s lacrosse team Thursday night and the 24 hour period, well, as Maryland students are so fond of shouting, sucks.
If you’re inclined to extensive self-flagellation, you can read … Read More »
