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Maurice Evans on the Wizards
Veteran swingman Maurice Evans has contributed just 73 minutes and 19 points to the Wizards this season, but it sounds like he’s left a far bigger mark verbally. Evans got lots of attention after calling a players-only meeting in early January and then publicly ripping the team’s “sense of entitlement,” and his message has softened much since then.
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6 hours ago
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Michael Morse featured in ESPN the Magazine
I guess when ESPN the Magazine the Web site ran a video feature about Michael Morse’s swing last week, I should have figured this meant that ESPN the Magazine the Magazine would also have a Morse feature.
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7 hours ago
Jim Bowden with Whitney Houston
Say what you will about Jim Bowden, but the man sure knows a lot of famous people, both within baseball and without.
So I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise when Bowden tweeted on Saturday night that he was “At the Beverly Hills Hilton mourning the death of legend Whitney Houston with so many of her friends.....may she RIP..prayers to her family.”
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8 hours ago
Would Peyton Manning avoid Redskins because of Eli?
Among the reasons sometimes given for why Peyton Manning would not come to Washington, this one is a total wild card: would he prefer to stay out of Eli Manning’s division?
Thomas Boswell, for one, said yes Peyton would, during a Post chat:
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8 hours ago
Kegasus missing; Preakness unveils two potential replacements
You remember Kegasus, right? The Preakness mascot who was “Part champion Thoroughbred, part infield fan and all party manimal,” and who called himself “Lord of the InfieldFest?” And sang a song? And did a Post web chat?
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9 hours ago
JaVale McGee’s Do the Right Thing All-Stars
As Michael Lee reported over the weekend, JaVale McGee brought his AAU team, the Do The Right Thing All-Stars, to Auburn Hills for Sunday’s game with the Pistons. Comcast SportsNet got some video of McGee with his team before the game, which turned into a fine one both for the center and his team.
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10 hours ago
Racing presidents with people in their underwear
Was really hoping to catch a glimpse of Teddy’s knickers as he participated in Saturday’s Cupid’s Undie Run, a 1.5-mile jaunt typically performed while in one’s undergarments to raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation.
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11 hours ago
John Beck remains confident, amazing
The confidence of John Beck is a rare and amazing thing. It’s the type of confidence that got pyramids built, that allowed men to create the Panama Canal, that gave the world Diet Coke with Lime and Chia Pets and LMFAO. It’s otherworldly, ethereal, something felt more than analyzed, something to sip in slowly, savoring the warming glow as it spreads to your tingling extremities...
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12 hours ago
Randy Wittman on the Wizards’ core
Wizards fans have spent the past few weeks arguing which of the team’s pieces are potential building blocks for the future, besides the piece that got drafted No. 1 overall and was labeled the Game Changer before he had changed a single game.
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4 days ago
Joe Gibbs on Peyton Manning and the Redskins
Since I’m quoting everyone else on Peyton Manning and the Redskins, might as well quote Joe Gibbs on Peyton Manning and the Redskins.
Much of these comments — which came last week on Mike Wise’s radio show — already appeared in The Post via a Mike Wise column.
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5 days ago
Steve Young thinks Peyton Manning to the Redskins is a fit
Now that those pesky games are all out of the way, this Peyton Manning Redskins rumors stuff will really take off. Wednesday’s big hit came courtesy CBS Sports’s Mike Freeman, who wrote this:
Speaking of Peyton, everyone I speak to in the NFL — and I mean just about everyone — believes if Manning becomes a free agent, the Washington Redskins will sign him.
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5 days ago
Randy Wittman on JaVale McGee’s defense sprint
That play where JaVale McGee ran back on defense while his team was still playing offense has gotten a good bit of traction around the Internet on Tuesday, with a goodly number of people gently poking fun at the Wizards center. Myself included.
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6 days ago
Michael Morse and his Samurai Cobra Snake move
Michael Morse has explained his oddly hypnotic warm-up stretches a number of times in the past year, and each time he’s managed to find some new words.
“When I load, it’s kind of coiling up like a cobra,” Morse told Adam Kilgore. “Then I just took it to the next level. I go up there and it basically locks me in. It makes me feel like my weight is back, but I’m ready to...
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6 days ago
Post Sports Live: The Super Bowl, Gisele and Hoyas
Dan Steinberg was out sick today, but Cindy Boren, LaVar Arrington and Tracee Hamilton joined Jonathan Forsythe on this week’s webcast to put a bow on the Super Bowl, discuss Gisele Bundchen’s comments defending her husband Tom Brady, and preview Wednesday’s Georgetown-Syracuse game at the Carrier Dome.
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6 days ago
Theismann: Peyton Manning to Redskins ‘horrific idea’
Sure, Joe Theismann is often a bit of a blind homer when it comes to the Redskins, but his quarterbacking intuition was not bad this past season.
“I just don’t agree with the decision to start John Beck,” he said shortly after the switch was made, when virtually all Redskins fans were still on board with the Beck Era.
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6 days ago
Nats ‘Take Back the Park’ campaign hits front page of Philadelphia Inquirer
I was quite fond of my little report on the Nationals attempting to “Take Back the Park with a special Phillies series pre-sale for ticket buyers with local addresses. And the item got well over 300 comments, far above average for this little corner of our Web site.
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6 days ago
A John Beck jersey at the Super Bowl
Ok, this John Beck jersey wasn’t actually spotted at the Super Bowl itself, but this odd bird was walking around Indianapolis wearing the jersey in the run-up to the game. Very hard to imagine a scenario in which that seemed like an awesome idea.
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6 days ago
George Mason walk-on guard sings National Anthem at Patriot Center
George Mason walk-on guard Jordan Baird’s singing career has been well-documented; beat writer Steven Goff just recently went through the details in a story about the Patriots’ three walk-ons.
After his senior year at Stonewall Jackson High in Manassas, Baird was among thousands at an “American Idol” tryout in Orlando. He sang Nick Lachey’s “What’s Left of Me” and...
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6 days ago
JaVale McGee runs back on defense when Wizards have ball
So the Wizards had an 18-point third-quarter lead against a last-place team without its leading scorer on Monday night. They won in overtime. Whatever. A win is a win right now.
“A win is a win right now,” interim coach Randy Wittman agreed. “And we are happy,” Wittman said.
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6 days ago
Watch every dunk from the Wizards-Clippers game
If you missed the highlights of the Wizards-Clippers game on Saturday, there were 14 dunks. Ten of them were registered by the visitors. Several of those were impressive. Here are all 14 dunks.
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7 days ago
Wizards fan wears custom ‘Baltche’ jersey
I’m not sure the identity of this Wizards fan, who was spotted at Saturday’s home game wearing a custom-made “Baltche” jersey in honor of one of the most interesting uniform fails of all time.
But he’s basically an American hero. Especially since it’s updated in the team’s new color scheme. Which the old “Baltche” jersey wasn’t.
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7 days ago
Brandon Banks: Redskins swept the Super Bowl champs
So Brandon Banks tweeted this after the Giants won on Sunday night. A goodly number of Redskins fans were not terribly amused by that, since the Redskins also finished in last place in the NFC East and went 3-11 in their other 14 games.
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7 days ago
Nick Young’s Super Bowl bets
“Takin all bets ..... Im rollin with NY,” Nick Young tweeted Sunday, a few hours before the Super Bowl kicked off.
I wanted to take the Pats and offer to grow a ‘fro if they lost, while demanding that Young dress as Flip Saunders for Halloween if the Patriots triumphed. Never got that bet in.
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7 days ago
Randy Wittman says Wizards relapsed
The best quote of this quotable Wizards season came from interim coach Randy Wittman, during his first post-game press conference.
“You know, it’s like any bad habit we have,” he said then. “If you’re a smoker, you ain’t gonna drop those cigarettes the first day, all right? I’ve got to help them kick some of these bad habits that we’re into. That’s all it is. We’ve...
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