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#5 UNC In Town

Tom Blaz — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:13:40 +0000

Terps-Heels tip at 4 p.m. on ESPN on Saturday Maryland plays host to North Carolina in a late-afternoon matchup at Comcast Center. The Terrapins (13-8, 3-4) are in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference and will be facing a Tar Heel squad (19-3, 6-1) tied for first place in the league. UNC comes to Comcast Center on a four-game winning streak, including a 68-53 win at Wake Forest on Tuesday. The Terrapins are coming off a 90-86 double-OT loss on Wednesday at Miami. The game was Maryland’s first overtime contest in 59 outings, with the last extra-session contest being [...]

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Washington Capitals Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

JacobWare95 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:28 +0000

Washington Capitals 3-4 Tampa Bay Lightning (OT) Washington Capitals 2-4 Florida Panthers Thumbs Up: Brooks Laich: Laich scored his tenth goal of the season against Florida and recorded a primary assist, his sixteenth, on the team’s first goal against Tampa Bay. Not many things went right for the Caps this week, and while Laich wasn’t phenomenal, he was the only Caps player to score two points. Mathieu Perreault: When a team loses its superstar offensive players, as the Caps have with Nicklas Bäckström, Mike Green, and Alex Ovechkin, you need your smaller players to step up and become producers. This week, [...]

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ACC New Divisions

Tom Blaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:33:25 +0000

With Pittsburgh and Syracuse coming aboard, the Atlantic Coast Conference has announced where the Panthers and Orange will reside. “We have been engaged in discussions on the various options for integrating Pitt and Syracuse since early fall,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. “It’s a tremendous tribute to the leadership at our schools that we will be able to seamlessly add Pitt and Syracuse at the appropriate time when they become full playing members.” Many had thought the two divisions would be restructured, but Pitt was added to the Coastal and the ‘Cuse to Atlantic with no other movement. COASTAL Duke [...]

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Lannan To Royals?

Tom Blaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:31 +0000

With an excess of starting pitching due to the free agent signing of Edwin Jackson, when, not will the Nationals trade John Lannan? Lannan may be the odd man out in the rotation and is also Washington’s highest paid pitcher. Rumors have the Nats sending the veteran lefthander to Kansas City. ESPN’s David Schoenfield; “Maybe the $5 million is too steep for the Royals, but let’s face it: If they want to consider themselves sleeper playoff contenders this year, they need to upgrade the rotation,” he writes. “Jarrod Dyson is an all-speed, no-power center fielder who might be a slight [...]

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Washington Capitals Complete Pair of Minor-League Deals

JacobWare95 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:32:43 +0000

The Washington Capitals have made a pair of minor-league deals, acquiring defenseman Kevin Marshall from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for forward Matt Ford and picking up center Mike Carman from the Colorado Avalanche for defenseman Danny Richmond. The deals mark the second and third minor trades the Caps have completed this season, after they acquired defenseman Tomas Kundratek from the New York Rangers for forward Francois Bouchard. Kundratek has since made his NHL debut with the team. Kevin Marshall is currently halfway through his third professional season with the AHL’s Adirondack Phantoms, the [...]

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Nats sign Edwin Jackson

Mark Buterbaugh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:53:14 +0000

Did the Washington Nationals just make one more strong statement that they are indeedready to compete for the playoffs? The Nationals signed free agent right hander Edwin Jackson to a one year deal. Jackson bolsters an already strong starting rotation for the Nationals that ESPN ranked in the top 10 of major league baseball. Jackson makes one helluva fourth starter behind newly acquire Gio Gonzales, Stephen Strasburg, and Jordan Zimmermann. Jackson, who is in Washington today for the physical, agreed to terms with the Nationals despite several reports that he had multiple three-year offers on the table from other teams. He is [...]

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Caps’ road woes continue

Mark Buterbaugh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:32:50 +0000

It isn’t hard to figure out just why the Washington Capitals are struggling this season. You can’t really blame it on injuries to Mike Green and Nicklas Backstrom. The inconsistency has been a year long struggle, well, since the 7-0 start. Additionally, other NHL franchises have suffered significant injuries as well, but keep winning. You can point to the Capitals consistently getting out shot, top scorers like Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin are not putting up terrifiic numbers as in the past, the power play just whimpers a long, and the Capitals just can’t win outside the Verizon Center. Last night was [...]

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