By Jordan Viener – I’ve been to rock concerts, I’ve seen top rap concerts, I’ve stood in playoff ticket lines, I’ve been in student sections for FCS playoff games, I’ve been to NFL, NBA, and yes, even NHL playoff games where the game was actually in the stadium, but I’ve never been in an environment like the Capital One Red Wave Mob.
The Capital One Mob (COM) is really something you had to be there to understand, but I will … Read More »
By Jordan Viener – While I was on lunch break the day we won the Stanley Cup, I was trying to reckon with a feeling that I had been having for a while. The feeling of finality, like something was coming to an end, but it wasn’t sad, it was a relief.
I was born about two months after the Capitals were swept by the Detroit Red Wings in 1998, Maryland won the title in 2002, I don’t remember that … Read More »
It was EPIC, ELECTRIC and many other things in downtown DC last night –
By Wayne Viener –
43 years later, from being a loser, a disappointment and now a Champion. The road has not been easy.
Stanley Cup Champions.
Never thought I would get to write that.
As part of a crowd of thousands who flocked downtown to be part of celebration I saw young and … Read More »
#8 was MVP. No doubt who was the best team as Caps won 4-1 including 2 at Vegas.
30% of the crowd in the arena were Cap fans.
7 goals for Devante Smith-Pelly, definitely … Read More »
By Jordan Viener – I have always felt like UMD and pro sports have a strange relationship. What I mean by this is that the Maryland fanbase is almost dead split between the DC and Baltimore metro areas, just look at this poll from Testudo Times few months back. Because of this divide, I feel like both the media team for the Terps, as well as Terp media outlets have been reluctant to embrace pro teams due … Read More »
Orioles draft Grayson Rodriquez with 11th pick–comments from espn.com
Baltimore Orioles – Grayson Rodriguez, RHP
Really, some of these grades should have capsules in which the players don’t make the majors. Most of these grades should have capsules in which the players don’t make the majors. Them’s the odds, right? But I don’t want some poor kid googling himself the day after the draft to see what people are saying, only to miss some internet hack’s dumb joke.
So instead, … Read More »
