Every season, it seems, a new wave of young talent catches fire in spring training, igniting the use of the ever-popular cliche, “hope springs eternal,” as fans dream not only of a successful season...

The Nationals beat the Marlins 2-0 on Opening Day. You probably knew that, living in Washington, D.C. and all. If you didn’t, a quick glance at that scoreline would signal a pretty unremarkable contest...

Today at 1:07 p.m., D.C. will see something it hasn't seen since the Great Depression: postseason baseball. It's almost unbelievable. After languishing with mediocre baseball teams (or no team at all)...

Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Johnson has let down fans of his club — as well as the members of his team — with his decision last Saturday to bench ace Stephen Strasburg for the remainder of...

Three weeks into the season, it’s far too early to crown divisional champions or to eliminate teams from contention, but with roughly one-tenth of the MLB season complete, several trends are starting...

Like many of us here in D.C., we neglected to note that baseball season has started, and given the Nats' losing seasons, understandably so. The Nats have never had a winning season in D.C. and (let's face...

Georgetown's men's and women's cross country teams took another step toward their goal of peaking at the NCAA tournament, as the women took third place and the men finished in second place in the Big East...

A Georgetown debate team won its first automatic invitation to the national debate championship since 1998. Andrew Markoff (SFS '14) and Richard Day (SFS '14), a team of two freshman debaters, learned...

Water polo: noun; a seven-a-side game played by swimmers in a pool, with a ball like a volleyball that is thrown into the opponent's net. This is the Webster's definition of a sport that it is unknown...

Last April on Georgetown Day, this column happily pointed out that despite the disappointing seasons of the other three major professional sports teams in Washington, the historically abysmal Nationals...

Hitting their stride now almost midway through the season, the Hoyas took to the Penn State National this past weekend trying to get a feel for the competitive races they will encounter when the postseason...