The Cheated Generation finally got handed the check Tuesday. Their heroes, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, were passed over by baseball writers for the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the 10th and final time -- and it was like that moment when the mark realizes he's just been scammed: Pain. Anger. Lingering disbelief and delusion. Published January 26, 2022
Washington made a big splash last week doing international business, landing one of the prize young free agents and one of the top prospects in the pool -- Cuban outfielder Cristhian Vaquero, who came to the Dominican Republic in 2020. Published January 17, 2022
Before the distance grows too far from the 2021 Washington Football season and people say nice things about it -- character, right direction, all the words we've heard before at so many other season closures -- let's do an inventory. Published January 10, 2022
The Eagles fans who toppled through a railing at FedEx on Sunday should have finished the job and torn down the rest of the stadium. Washington Football Team fans would have probably helped them. Published January 3, 2022
John Madden, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 85, didn't just love life. He loved lives. Published December 29, 2021
You might have been able to stir up some sympathy if they were a sympathetic lot. But this franchise is a magnet for scorn and ridicule, from the half-empty seats in Landover to the "we-bought-custom-benches-too" sidelines in Dallas to the squalid corridors of the headquarters in Ashburn. All of it earned. Published December 27, 2021
It's not the benches that matter. It's the butts that make use of those benches. Published December 22, 2021
"Concussion" has become an almost meaningless word. Players have a "concussion" they enter "concussion" protocol and eventually they are healed. It's part of doing NFL business. More attention is paid now to COVID-19. But a concussion is a brain injury and should be referred to as such. Published December 20, 2021
Chronicling the 22 years that Dan Snyder has owned the Washington Football Team is like detailing the history of some banana republic dictator. Each year by itself stands as evidence of dysfunction and destruction. Published December 16, 2021
The storybook portion of the season may have run its course. The stadium full of Cowboys fans should have told you that this isn't some sort of fable anymore. The reality is a wrecked Washington franchise under congressional investigation with a 6-7 record hanging on to a hope of squeezing into the playoffs. Published December 13, 2021
Some of these women may have never heard of LaMont Jordan. Others may have grown up watching him rush for more than 1,000 yards for the Oakland Raiders and catch 70 passes in 2005, the best season of his nine-year NFL career. But they were all fixated on every word Jordan said, recognizing the value of lessons from someone who played the game at the highest level -- maybe even a little star struck. Published December 9, 2021
On Sunday, Goliath was Derek Carr, the Las Vegas Raiders' $125 million quarterback who was leading the NFL in passing before the 17-15 loss to the Washington Football Team. Heinicke tossed a rock right at the Raiders' head, leading his team on the last-minute drive that led to Brian Johnson's 48-yard game-winning field goal. Published December 6, 2021
Robert Griffin III -- the architect of both brief times of triumph followed by long stretches of pain -- woke Washington Football Team fans from their dreams with the news he posted on his Twitter account that he will have a book coming out next August. The title? "Surviving Washington." Published December 1, 2021
Olympics sponsors -- especially those who do business in China with untold riches at stake -- have shown no appetite for pulling out of these Games, despite calls from human rights activists. Published November 29, 2021
To reinvent himself as a sympathetic, all-around nice guy -- instead of one of the biggest cheaters in baseball history -- Alex Rodriguez needs some help from the media. And he's getting it. Published November 25, 2021
The former New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi once told me the quarterback you want is the guy who, when he gets on the team bus, everyone else believes they have a chance to win that day because of him. Rivera was telling you Heinicke's teammates feel that way about him. Published November 22, 2021
Villanova Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright knew that Tommy Sheppard had a bright future in basketball when the two met while Wright was on Rollie Massimino's staff at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in the early 1990s. Published November 18, 2021
It would have been easy to make the change, and no one would have blamed the coach. But Rivera stuck with Heinicke, and his faith paid off. Now Heinicke likely has the rest of the season to convince people that he could be the quarterback of the future for this team -- not that he is, but that he could be. Published November 15, 2021
When Sam Huff played, he was justice -- the judge and jury. And when he called Washington football games, he was the prosecutor and defense attorney for what he saw on the field. And fans loved him for it. Published November 14, 2021
If anyone ever needed a Kirk Cousins-style "You like that!" game, it is Chase Young on Sunday. Published November 11, 2021
