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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.

Maryland women vs. N.C. State: 10th-ranked Terps blow out Wolfpack, 82-62 Jan 19th 2013, 05:19 The 10th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team turned to its two most indispensable players and got all-around contributions from a freshman on Thursday night to run away from North Carolina State, 82-62, at Comcast Center. Read full article >> Morning Pixels: Verizon Center ranked as a good stadium experience Jan 18th 2013, 14:27 Stadium Journey Magazine is a thing, and they've ranked the best stadium experiences in 2012. Verizon Center came in at No. 6 out of 101 for Caps games, and again at No. 87 for Georgetown games. According to the magazine's explanation of the process, the staff took into account "food & beverage at the stadium, overall atmosphere, the neighborhood in which it resides, the fans, access outside and inside the stadium, return on investment, and allows for room for 'bonus points' for unique features." Read full article >> Is Lance Armstrong the world's biggest liar? Jan 18th 2013, 11:00 "[This was] one big lie that I repeated a lot of times." — Lance Armstrong, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Jan. 17, 2013 It is fair to say that in more than three decades of reporting, The Fact Checker has never written a sports story. But the Fact Checker has written a lot about people who stretch the truth — or to put it less delicately, are liars. Read full article >> Gonzaga vs. DeMatha: Charles Glover leads Eagles to 61-52 win Jan 18th 2013, 04:49 Gonzaga senior Charles Glover is fine with the fact that his name doesn't show up often in scouting reports. As for Eagles Coach Steve Turner, it's a situation that makes him equally mad and happy, for as much he can't stand how Division I colleges overlook the talented Glover, he doesn't mind when Gonzaga's opponents do the same. Read full article >> Lance Armstrong confession gets specific in Oprah Winfrey interview Jan 18th 2013, 04:36 With no tears and little emotion, Lance Armstrong acknowledged that he won all seven of his record Tour de France championships with the help of performance-enhancing drugs and that he acted as a bully who needed to "win at all costs" in the first of his two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night. Read full article >> Ted Leonsis talks about the NHL lockout Jan 18th 2013, 02:53 As the Capitals prepare to start a shortened 48-game season Saturday, owner Ted Leonsis disputed that he was a "hardliner" during the labor dispute and said he believed that the 119-day NHL lockout was worth the end result a new, long-term collective bargaining agreement. Read full article >> Rafael Soriano introduced by Nationals, Mike Rizzo discusses Michael Morse trade Jan 18th 2013, 02:31 Last June, Rafael Soriano sauntered into Nationals Park wearing the uniform of the New York Yankees and closed two victories against the Washington Nationals, complete with the ritual untucking of his shirt. He left with a new impression of the Nationals, whom he had faced often earlier in his career with the Atlanta Braves. Read full article >> After loss of his brother, Baltimore Ravens WR Torrey Smith played for his other family Jan 18th 2013, 02:26 OWINGS MILLS, MD. —The last time Torrey Smith faced the New England Patriots, he must have been a mental mess, his emotions everywhere. The chronology is, by now, well known: At 1 a.m. on a Sunday morning in late September, he received a call that his younger brother, Tevin Jones, had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Smith left the Baltimore Ravens' team hotel, that night's game an afterthought, if a thought at all. Yet as 4 p.m. approached, he was considering whether to play. When the ball was kicked in the air that night, he did. Read full article >> D.C. United stays local, drafts Maryland's Taylor Kemp in MLS draft Jan 18th 2013, 02:20 Few college soccer games are televised, so aside from attending tournaments and combines and hunting down video, Major League Soccer coaches do not have many opportunities to evaluate top prospects. Except, of course, if an NCAA program that has stocked the pro ranks for 15 years is in your back yard. Read full article >>

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