What Type of Nats Fan Are You? Batter up. The Washington Nationals are returning for their home opener on Thursday, March 28th at 1:05 pm against the New York Mets. If you are not taking off or playing hooky for that game Tuesday, April 2nd against the Phillies could be …

Congress may be on recess, but that hasn’t stopped the rest of DC workers from slaving over their office desks and desktops. While you were refreshing your twitter feed working hard on a very important document, the best athletes in the world were duking it out in Rio. And all …

Last night, Olympic swimmer and the D.C. area’s very own Katie Ledecky shattered the world record in the 400-meter freestyle, taking home a gold medal. She swam eight laps in the professional-sized pool (which is 16 laps in a normal neighborhood pool) in 3:56:46 The craziest part? The record she destroyed by …

So here’s the deal: at the end of every month we’re going to give you our unsolicited commentary on what happened during said month. From politics and pop culture to pretty useless information, you’ll be able to find it in our Monthly Round Up. (you don’t have to tell us how …

The Undefeated – ESPN’s newest platform focused on the intersection of race and sports – is finally seeing the light of day and, after several months of some turbulence, the light at the end of the tunnel. The Undefeated launched this morning to bring its audience stories of athleticism, altruism and inspiration from …

Props to The Lead for writing the best headlines so far about the Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup. HOW ABOOT THAT? BLACKHAWKS WIN THIRD STANLEY CUP IN SIX YEARS  

Gary Adornato, founder of Varsity Sports Network in Baltimore gave me my first shot. I call it my “big break” because it was in the spring of 2008, I’d just graduated from college, and the job market was so wildly saturated that few new grads were getting jobs–the least of which, in media.

We’re ready for an entire season of Natitude. Charlotte Sellmyer works as a Cap Hill flack by day and photographer by night. She frequently shoots events, portraits and sites around the district. Follow, like or visit Charlotte’s blog to see more great photographs.

I’m not an NBA fan usually. Having grown up in North Carolina and being an alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I get my court kicks through college b-ball, preferably my beloved Heels (who won last night!). But when FamousDC was invited to the Wizards-Raptors game last night, …

The overall fantasy production was slightly up this week, but was provided by people you don’t know, don’t have on your team and won’t repeat their performance next week. So… there you go. I don’t have all the questions, but Mr. Trebek has given me the answers. Let’s get started …

Today Redskins owner Dan Snyder took to the opinion pages of the Washington Post to explain why he is filing a second lawsuit against the Washington City Paper. Mr. Snyder argues that this is about “the truth” and an attempt to “correct the record.” And it is not about him …

Or is this just a typical Morning Joe roasting? FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein: Where’s Luke Russert? ‘Maybe he’s, um, Busy!’ RELATED: Chuck Rangel Thinks Asking Relevant  Questions About His Shady Behavior is Dumb

We didn’t have enough to get past Ghana, but the USA had a great showing this World Cup. Posted yesterday by Landon Donovan on his Facebook page: I’m really proud of our team, really proud of our fans, and really proud of our country. Thank you all for the support …

Ron Artest and the Lakers are World Champions, Dale Peterson is the new Sarah Palin, the East Coast-West Coast rapper wars in the 90s have finally trickled down into the 2010 AL AG Commish race,  Media > Congress, out of work Louis Vuittons protested, USA SOCCER WAS ROBBED, top DC …

Between the coronation of the so-far very deserving Stephen Strasburg [SI jinx!! Nooo!!], the Caps impressive playoff run, and the Skins’ hiring of Mike Shanahan and Jedi-mind-trick pick-up of Donovan McNabb, we were starting to think that this town’s sports franchises might finally be turning a corner. Enter Albert Haynesworth. …