Much of the Redskins-Peyton Manning chatter that I’ve so dutifully been chronicling has concerned this question: Would the Redskins be interested in Peyton Manning. A great many reporters and pundits and random cockroaches to which I’ve attached microphones have agreed: yes, they would. Read full article >>

Cool news everyone: today’s Express was guest-edited by Susan O’Malley! Never thought I’d see the day! I guess even though Ted Leonsis has been steadfast that he won’t attempt to profit by marketing visiting stars, the local media is under no such obligation. Still, boo. Read full article >>

Little did I know, when I pledged long ago to transcribe every radio interview I could find on the possibility of Peyton Manning winding up in D.C., that my work would create more work. It has become a self-fulfilling obsession, in which one radio interview transcription actually forces another. Read full article >>

When Mark Turgeon started “Zaching” on Wednesday, I wrote about that flexing pose that pays homage to Terps student manager Zach Lederer, who is battling brain cancer. In the next 24 hours, long profiles of Lederer came out in The Diamondback and on NBC 4, and the thing kept growing. Read full article >>

Earlier this week, Bryce Harper gave a candid interview to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson, in which he candidly suggested he might want to have a lifestyle like that of Joe Namath. Much credit for the historical knowledge. But still, an interesting choice. Quoting from Ladson: Read full article >>

If I’m going to quote everyone else speculating about a possible marriage between Peyton Manning and Mike Shanahan, might as well quote them talking about each other. Here, via the Denver Post almost exactly three years ago, is Manning on Shanahan: Read full article >>

Knicks, Wizards, wicked pixels, blah blah blah. You don’t really care about the game. You care about seeing a pair of third-quarter dunks in which Jeremy Lin and John Wall sort of dunked in the general vicinity of each other. First came Wall’s dunk, which is above. Then came Lin’s dunk, which is below. Got awfully loud after that dunk for a road arena. Read full article >>

Maryland student basketball manager Zach Lederer has gotten a fair bit of attention in recent days for his flexed-arm pose, meant to signify his fight against brain cancer. After Patch.com did a lengthy story about Lederer’s battle, the story was picked up by Huffington Post and SB Nation DC, among others, in each case illustrated by an iconic shot of Lederer in his hospital bed...

The Wizards Web site is holding a contest, asking fans to identify players by their sneakers. Go here to enter. The prize involves shoes. In other Wizards news, the team seems to be very interested in sugary breakfast cereals. Read full article >>

Earlier this week, I called the then-anonymous Wizards fan who showed up to Verizon Center in a “Baltche” jersey an American hero. Well, that man now has a name, and a story. Read full article >>

I keep doing this even though nothing ever changes. No team moved more than one spot since last week. Virginia never passes Georgetown. Loyola can never get higher than No. 8. Richmond can drop to .500 and remain in the rankings. Read full article >>

Huge win for the Caps on Tuesday night, as they clobbered Florida, got an old-school Alex Ovechkin performance, moved back into their rightful place atop the Southeast Division, and saw some Capitals swag show up on FX’s popular drama, “Justified.” Read full article >>

I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but it’s time for an update. With the Giants winning the Super Bowl, that means the past 12 NFL champs have a combined 52 regular-season losses. And, remarkably, a full 11.5 percent of those losses — six games in all — came at the hands of the Washington Redskins, one of the stinkiest NFL teams of the past 12 years. Read full article >>

The Wizards lost again on Friday night, but viewers of the team’s Emmy Award-winning program, Wizards Magazine, were still winners. (See that kids? That’s professional 10:30 p.m. blog writing. Take notes.) Read full article >>

Bill Simmons’s latest podcast from Indianapolis featured the NFL Network’s Michael Lombardi and longtime D.C. sports fan Joe House. It also featured this dialog: Lombardi: If you’re the Redskins, do you wait for Peyton Manning or hope Peyton Manning comes around, or do you do what they’re planning on doing, which is to sign Kyle Orton and let him be the starting quarterback...

It’s already been a season of memorable Wizards quotes, from “wicked pixels” to “diaper breath,” from “This is your captain, Andray Blatche,” to “when I see them pull out a cigarette, I’ve got to take it out of their mouth.” Read full article >>

When pro coaches are fired, it’s customary for team leaders to speak up and say that the coach was not to blame, and that it’s always sad when a good man loses his job, and that if the players don’t improve they’ll be next, and so on and so forth. Read full article >>

If I wanted to transition away from a life transcribing Redskins radio interviews, this winter is providing me a unique opening: the chance to spend my life transcribing Wizards radio interviews. Because goodness, the pundits are out for their pound of diaper breath in recent weeks. The latest to pop off was former WaPo columnist and JaVale McGee antagonist Michael Wilbon, who eviscerated...

The NBA announced this week a week’s worth of Chinese New Year celebration things, which“will pay tribute to the league’s Chinese fan base with live games, customized coverage and a variety of NBA-themed events in China and the U.S.,” according to NBA.com. Read full article >>

In six years of doing this job, I’ve seen all sorts of speculative blog posts relating to both major and minor news involving local professional sporting teams — and heavens knows, I’ve written a few myself — but this is a new one to me. Read full article >>

Twenty years ago this week, the Redskins participated in Super Bowl hype for the last time. Yes, you’re getting old. In honor of this gruesome anniversary, I will provide daily updates of what people were writing 20 years ago each day. Until it gets too depressing. Which might have already happened. Read full article >>

Mike Knuble has two Stanley Cup rings, which is maybe not the sort of thing you wear to Safeway, but I’m sure you might be tempted to break it out for special occasions. Whole Foods trips, for example. Read full article >>

This is the first hockey season in a decade and a half that Steve Kolbe has not spent doing Capitals play-by-play. The team’s longtime radio voice was, of course, replaced by Hershey’s John Walton in August, after the team decided in July to open the position up to others. Read full article >>