Be sure to tell Geoff Embler, Nick Schaper and David All happy birthday. This isn’t on the Republican front, but after you tell POLITICO’s Jack Smith happy birthday please go check out his Twitter background.

Black-and-Red to face seven-time European champions D.C. United Press Release: D.C. United announced today the club will play an international friendly against Italian giants AC Milan on May 26 at RFK Stadium. It will be the first-ever meeting between the two clubs.  Kick-off is set for 8:00 p.m. ET. . …

FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein: Pulitzers Announced, WaPo Wins Big

Nia-Malika Henderson is leaving POLITICO and heading to the Washington Post [theRoot]

Ben Smith: White House kills Hillary SCOTUS buzz The White House has yet to comment on FamousDC’s recommendation for the Supreme Court: Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle

The Speaker’s Lobby: All Over But the Shouting

UPDATE: Obama needs to watch the Kenny Powers training video before next year’s Opening Day

Do you know when you’re organizing your fantasy football league and you’re one person short, and then someone in your league says they have a friend at work who wants to join, and then he takes Donovan McNabb in the first round and drafts three RBs with his next three …

Tucker Carlson vs. Michael Steele heated up, Michael Calderone got a new gig, sadly – there is not a “Catch Phrase for Dummies” on the market, Erik Brown is excited this week is over, David All was born on both Good Friday and Friday the 13th, House lawmakers aren’t into …

Politico: Barney Frank rips staffer-turned-lobbyist

Michael Blake Adam Conner Sean Davis Christine Delargy Dawn Dodge Chris Gindlesperger Kevin Hechtkopf Tim Neill Anna Palmer Michelle Gloden Schoenfeld

Wednesday morning = FamousDC warns the world about Guam tipping over Wednesday afternoon = Fark sounds the Drew Curtis alarm Thursday = CBS News signals the masses Aren’t the Internets fun?

At the buzzer … it’s good! Hotline’s Reid Wilson: Three Of Four Finalists Are GOP Havens . The majority of schools who will compete in the Final Four this weekend have GOP-heavy fan bases, according to an analysis of the media markets they own. Could this be a second Deadspin …

WSJ’s Elizabeth Williamson: Trivial Pursuit: One Man’s Quest to Catalog Presidential Minutiae We consider Mark Knoller’s Twitter feed a must-follow. You can join in here.

We want the Nats to score runs, but not this kind… [Even The Washington Nationals’ Ticket Website Knows They’re Crap] h/t Deadspin’s Dauleiro via Jonathan Grella