| Sports: Sports News, Scores, Analysis, Schedules & More - The Washington Post | | The Washington Post Sports section provides sports news, video, scores, analysis and updates about high school, college, and pro sports teams, including the Capitals, Nationals, Redskins, United and Wizards. Post Sports also offers blogs and discussions about the latest sports news. | |
| Jason Chimera returning to the United States Nov 28th 2012, 01:10 Capitals forward Jason Chimera will return to the United States Wednesday after a five-game stint with HC Chomutov in the Czech Extraliga, his agent Allan Walsh confirmed. Chimera, 33, waited until November to look for work in Europe during the lockout because he didn't want to leave his wife and two young children. He ultimately missed his family too much to continue playing overseas while they remained in Alexandria and decided to return, as was first reported by TV Nova Sport in the Czech Republic. Read full article >>   |  | Adam Oates ends six-week run coaching Bears Nov 27th 2012, 22:33 New Capitals Coach Adam Oates ended a six-week run as co-coach of the Hershey Bears, the team's top minor-league affiliate, last week. Oates had worked with Hershey Coach Mark French in leading the Bears for the first 16 games of the American Hockey League season, a move General Manager George McPhee made to give Oates and his staff assistants Calle Johansson and Tim Hunter experience working together as a unit while the NHL endures a lockout. Read full article >>   | | ACC files suit against Maryland in North Carolina court Nov 27th 2012, 20:31
The ACC has filed suit against Maryland in a North Carolina court, saying the school is bound by the conference's bylaws to pay an exit fee in order to join the Big Ten. The suit, filed Monday in Greensboro, N.C., points to Maryland President Wallace D. Loh's suspicions that the exit fee equal to three time's the ACC's operating budget isn't legal. The ACC is pursuing a declaratory judgment, essentially asking the court to enforce the rules its members have established. Read full article >>   | | Jason Babin released by Eagles Nov 27th 2012, 20:22 In their first major roster move, the Philadelphia Eagles released defensive end Jason Babin today. Babin's production had fallen in his second season in Philadelphia from 18 sacks to 5.5 and he wasn't expected to be around next year.He signed a five-year, $27.725 million contract before last season and more than $16 million was to come in the next three years (via Pro Football Talk). Read full article >>   | | Virginia Tech basketball faces first real test vs. Iowa Nov 27th 2012, 17:46 Erick Green sat in Virginia Tech's locker room last Friday afternoon, basking in the program's first 5-0 start since 1984-85 and heaping praise on the first-year coach who got the Hokies to this point. But when the 6-foot-3 point guard began talking about the dynamic duo he and forward Jarell Eddie have formed thus far, Green's mind quickly drifted away from the 87-86 victory Virginia Tech had just scored over Appalachian State. Read full article >>   | | Fan breaks up with the Wizards Nov 27th 2012, 17:23
Adam Gerloff grew up in Alexandria and has been a Wizards fan for most of his life. Even after moving to New York in 1997, the now 39-year-old stayed loyal. But the recent state of the team has put strain on the long-distance relationship, and before the season started Gerloff decided enough was enough. He was breaking up with the Wizards. Read full article >>   | | Jamaal Charles asked Peyton Manning for his autograph Nov 27th 2012, 17:11 Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles has found himself at the center of a controversy because he asked for Peyton Manning's autograph after the Chiefs' 17-9 loss to the Denver on Sunday. Charles, whose team had just lost its eighth straight game, was shown waiting for Manning in a postgame report onKCTV. "My mom wanted this autograph," he said. Read full article >>   | | Charles Barkley says Steve Buckhantz deserves hazard pay' Nov 27th 2012, 16:58 During halftime of the TNT NBA broadcast on Monday night, the studio crew mocked the Wizards, with the help of the Harlem Globetrotters' theme song. Watch that clip here. But during the postgame show -- after the Wizards were officially 0-12 -- things got even worse. This is high-level, no-regard, no-apologies national ridicule. I don't know that it's necessarily deserved -- I think last year's Wizards team was easily more ridiculous -- but this is happening now. Read full article >>   | |
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