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George Mason University won’t build a temporary stadium for D.C.’s professional cricket club, the school announced Thursday. The stadium proposed for the university’s west campus would have become home to the Washington Freedom and the GMU baseball team, but the school’s president said the plan ultimately didn’t align with the uni...

Pitcher Stephen Strasburg was put on the 60-day injured list by the Washington Nationals ahead of their opener at Cincinnati. The 2019 World Series MVP, has not pitched since June 2022 because of injuries that have derailed his career. He still has three seasons left a $245 million, seven-year contract. Strasburg decided in late August to retire, b...

The deal that will keep the Washington Capitals and Wizards in D.C. comes with a complete transformation of the downtown Capital One Arena and the Gallery Place complex next door.

The club held a moment of silence as a replica flag of the one that flew when Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner dropped in the outfield.

In a major retreat from announced plans last year, the city of Alexandria, Virginia says it’s ended negotiations involving a $2 billion sports and entertainment district that was intended to house the Washington Capitals and Wizards.

T.J. Oshie is back in the Washington Capitals’ lineup the same day he’s being honored for playing in 1,000 NHL games.

American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-record holder.

James Madison’s moment in the college sports spotlight has been years in the making.

The NHL has suspended Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson six games for his stick to the face of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Noah Gregor. The league’s department of player safety matched the longest suspension of any player this season after a Zoom hearing with Wilson on Friday. It’s the sixth time he has been suspended since 2017 and...

Angelos’ death comes as his son, John, is in the process of selling the Orioles.

Freshman Audi Crooks scored a career-high 40 points on 18-for-20 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds in her sensational NCAA Tournament debut, and No. 7-seed Iowa State hit all the big shots in the second half to rally from 20 points down and beat 10th-seeded Maryland 93-86 in the first round. The 20-point comeback marked the second-largest all-time i...

The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals are obligated to play their games in the downtown arena through 2047. Brian Schwalb made that assertion in a letter to Monumental Sports and Entertainment this week. The letter comes as Monumental’s $2 billion...

Duke guard Jeremy Roach told NBC what the Blue Devils will bring to the NCAA Tournament as they chase another championship.

Top legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates are disputing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s claim that an independent consultant gave the thumbs-up to his proposal to lure two sports teams to the state. In speeches given across the state, Youngkin has said that an outside review commissioned by the House gave the proposal a clean bill o...

Howard’s season ended Tuesday after Wagner kicked off March Madness with its first NCAA Tournament win in program history.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Jordan Hairston scored 18 points and Bryce Harris and Seth Towns each scored 16 points and Howard beat Delaware State 70-67 on Saturday in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament championship to secure an NCAA Tournament bid.