The past 18 years featured exactly one finals trip by a DC team: the Caps in 1998. And they got demolished. You know it's been a lean stretch when DC's single biggest sports highlights this decade were (A) Kornheiser and Wilbon getting their own ESPN show, and (B) male college students in the DC area pounding their headboards after sex in honor of Alex Ovechkin.
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This is a reference to an earlier joke he made in a past column, I think to the effect of whether Ovechkin has a crazy post-coital celebration like he does after his goals.
I like Simmons, but c’mon. The real Ovie has produced some actual highlights that the city can be proud of.
by grapejoos on Nov 13, 2009 5:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I’m going to start pounding the headboards after sex.
I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.
by Whiter Mage on Nov 13, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Ok, just don’t start dipping during sex.
"Let the rest be scared of us." - Sasha Semin
by Scott in Shaw on Nov 13, 2009 5:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And leave the nachos for watching the game.
"I'm just doing karate and trying to get females pregnant."
by Bald Pollack on Nov 13, 2009 6:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Simmons is just jealous he doesn’t live in DC with the rest of us awesome people.
by RedBirdie on Nov 13, 2009 6:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Simmons is barely a growing USMNT fan; he’s walk to walk before he well, crawls.
"I'm just doing karate and trying to get females pregnant."
by Bald Pollack on Nov 13, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Not worth getting riled up over. The guy’s an ass. I used to think he was funny, but his shtick grew old a long time ago.
by gfcaps fan on Nov 13, 2009 10:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
like most Bostonians’ sports shtick.
by RedBirdie on Nov 13, 2009 11:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I prefer this one.
I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.
by Whiter Mage on Nov 14, 2009 1:48 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Don't know who that guy is or what's happening
but I love the tee-over-sport jacket look!
Void Boyd! Go with Perreault!
by jordanDC on Nov 16, 2009 8:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
its Jim Laranaga, the George Mason basketball coach.
by RedBirdie on Nov 16, 2009 9:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
oh, right, forgot to add “what’s happening”: GMU won the Washington region at the Phone Booth to make the Final Four for the first time ever, and I believe they may be the lower seed to ever make it to Final Four.
by RedBirdie on Nov 16, 2009 9:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Equally impressive was the teams they beat – they didn’t get lucky with the scheduling. Michigan State, UNC, and UConn all got taken out, as well as a tough Wichita State squad.
It was a big enough deal that my mother started watching them, and it’s just a shame for them that they didn’t get further. It was an incredible run.
I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.
by Whiter Mage on Nov 17, 2009 10:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, that was glorious to watch, wasn’t it? Little ol’ Mason just steamrolling through national powerhouses. Awesome.
by RedBirdie on Nov 17, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks for ruining it, dick. Ugliest man on the planet.
I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.
by Whiter Mage on Nov 17, 2009 10:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
serious major ruinage.
I hate the SEC.
by RedBirdie on Nov 17, 2009 10:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
it’s only so often i can drop that on a GMU and OSU fan.
by Natty Bumppo on Nov 18, 2009 2:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
+1 for reminding me that 90% of the partying I did in college was in that short month’s span.
SI called that run the second-biggest upset in team sports, only to the Miracle on Ice, iirc.
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by winterion on Nov 16, 2009 12:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m no Maryland fan, but this one gets a rec.
by gfcaps fan on Nov 14, 2009 1:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Gary may be an abrasive ass at times, but I have nothing but respect for him. When another coach tells the Washington Post (paraphrase), if Gary would just bent the recruiting rules like everyone else, Maryland would win every year,I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
by RedBirdie on Nov 14, 2009 2:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Full disclosure on the Maryland thing. I’m a Georgetown grad. The only sport GU has going for it is basketball. My beef has always been the Maryland love in the press vs GU. I get it; there are way more Terps alumni than Hoya alumni because of the size differential of the study body. But even in our best years I felt like we never got the respect we deserved. Whiny of me? Yes, and I don’t care.
by gfcaps fan on Nov 14, 2009 4:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
They’re just evening out for the 1980s and early 90s, when it was nothing but Hoyas.
Also, the Hoyas simply haven’t given as much to cheer for — not consistently. When the Hoyas have had electric personalities and really been solid (Ewing, Iverson, etc) the local press has embraced them.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Nov 15, 2009 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
by RedBirdie on Nov 15, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s been a lot of years since Ewing, and even Iverson, so maybe my memory is going, but even in those years (and really, only the Ewing years were what you’d call all-time great), I remember feeling the team wasn’t getting at much coverage. Might not be true, but Maryland gets wall to wall even in awful years. That’s just the way it is, as I said above.
by gfcaps fan on Nov 15, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My memory was the exact opposite. Ewing. Mutumbo vs. Mourning. And always, the original John Thompson. The press couldn’t get enough. In the mid-80s, if the Hoyas were bad, the stories were “why are the Hoyas struggling?” For George Michael or the Washington Post, there basically were no other college teams.
Didn’t really start to change until Len Bias. By the 90s, the Hoyas had already faded, and Allan Iverson was supposed to herald a return to greatness (obviously, it didn’t work out). At that time Joe Smith was doing his thing in College Park and GW was starting to be a cinderella every year, the Hoyas really became an afterthought.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Nov 16, 2009 9:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
As a Kansas fan, I am not amused.
"And next year it will be ours."
by Ovechwin on Nov 21, 2009 1:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No Love for DC United…they’ve had 4 Championships in their history, all of which has happened since 1991…
Let's go Caps!
by MikeL-Caps on Nov 18, 2009 4:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
speaking of bill simmons…
does this look like the “biggest villain in sports” to you?
by Natty Bumppo on Nov 18, 2009 4:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
That pic has a decidedly…cuddly…vibe to it.
"Camaraderie, that's what the Washington Capitals are all about."
by CapitalCentre on Nov 18, 2009 6:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
agreed. I’ve been thinking that all day.
by RedBirdie on Nov 18, 2009 8:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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