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Reporter @washingtonpost . In-N-Out stan. “That’s a lot of apple sauce.” scott.allen @washpost .com

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6 years
To Havoc and to hold...Adam Sandler crashed a couple's wedding photoshoot in Montreal while wearing a VCU basketball T-shirt
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Legendary: This Caps fan traveled all the way to Antarctica to remind the Penguins who won the Stanley Cup
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The 'Soto Shuffle' and Nats dugout dance parties will be in MLB The Show 20
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When Buzz Aldrin, who just threw a ceremonial pitch at Nats Park, landed on the moon in 1969, the Senators and Yankees were in the 8th inning of a game at Yankee Stadium. Umpires stopped play to recognize the moment.
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Redskins fan Chuck Coltman paid for a plane to fly a "Fire Bruce Allen" banner above Miami's Hard Rock Stadium before Sunday's game. "I hope Dan Snyder paid attention," he said.
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In 2013, Greg Christian and his wife, Dona, made a goal to see the Capitals play in every NHL arena. Greg completed their quest last week in Toronto, two months after Dona passed away from cancer
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Happy retirement to World Series champ Sean Doolittle, who once avoided taking the Metro for weeks after a teen on the platform told him he looked like Seth Rogen
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Greetings from Half Street, where the 2024 “What’s New at Nats Park?” media tour will begin in about half an hour. I’ll thread highlights and food pics here.
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A 76-year-old Redskins fan paid $1,600 for a "Fire Bruce Allen" banner to fly above Miami's Hard Rock Stadium before Sunday's game. “I hope Dan Snyder paid attention and might try something different," he said.
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5 years
Kurt Suzuki dons a MAGA hat
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5 years
Thirteen years after Alex Ovechkin threw the ceremonial first pitch and watched Ryan Zimmerman hit a home run at RFK Stadium, D.C.'s two longest-tenured active athletes had another night to remember at Nats Park
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5 years
Reminder: Juan Soto saw the original prototype of his bobblehead giveaway this season and asked the designer to revise it and make him smile more. #juansotothings
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5 years
Check out the yellow mark on the home run ball Howie Kendrick hit off the foul pole. Great look inside the Nats' World Series celebration by @Sam4TR
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“He didn’t come here to walk.” After striking out earlier in his local men’s league debut, Jayson Werth destroyed a 3-0 slider for a solo home run.
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"It's not like she's going to grow up to be a professional soccer player," Rose Lavelle's teacher told Lavelle's mom when the third-grader who once dressed as Mia Hamm would miss school for soccer commitments. Mrs. Neubauer was happy to be proven wrong.
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Pierce Brosnan golfing in a Nats World Series champs cap with his son, Paris
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“I thought, ‘Oh my God, there it goes.’” A Caps fan’s favorite Nats hat survived 14 years and two combat zones. Then someone threw it on the ice after an Alex Ovechkin hat trick.
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Look at how far "Baby Shark" has come
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“I feel like in the last 24 hours,” Astros catcher Martin Maldonado said, “I’ve seen Soto more than my wife.” The Astros were determined not to let Juan Soto beat them. They failed in Game 1.
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2 years
With Tuesday's game on ESPN, Ovechkin's 800th goal was missing Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin (and the broadcast missed goal No. 798). The NBCSW duo should be on the call when Ovi ties and passes Gordie Howe. The moment deserves it.
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4 years
This is cool: Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky will go head-to-head in EA Sports’ NHL 20 to help raise money for coronavirus relief. The best-of-three series between the two legends will be streamed on the Caps’ Twitch channel next Wednesday.
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“It’s been 20 years. I understand sticking with your team when they’re down, but why be a sucker?” The Ravens are as thrilling as the Redskins are dispiriting, and some fans are changing sides.
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Juan Soto rejected an early prototype of his Nats bobblehead because it wasn't smiling. “I’m always smiling and like to be happy,” Soto said. “I like people to remember me like I’m happy, not mad."
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6 years
Between cancer treatments at the Mayo Clinic, lifelong Capitals fan Amanda Wilson got permission from her doctors to fly home to attend tonight's Game 3 with her best friend
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3 years
After allowing nearly 800 more goals than they scored over their first eight seasons, the Capitals are within five goals of achieving a zero all-time goal differential for the first time since the first period of their first game in 1974
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In my dreams, we would install a replica of this bad boy outside @washingtonpost HQ for the World Series and update it during every game
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6 years
D-S-P! D-S-P!
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8 years
Zach Britton
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Dan Kolko
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Nats say due to Hurricane Matthew, Livan Hernandez won't be able to get to DC tomorrow. A "surprise guest" will now throw out first pitch
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MASN and FS South showed footage of the mid-inning incident that led to the Juan Soto-Will Smith beef Monday. 1. Soto watches Smith warm up from behind home plate. 2. Smith appears to say, "Get the f--- out of there." 3. Soto takes Smith deep, stares. 4. Smith gets big mad.
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Nick Foles wrote a goodbye letter to Eagles fans, Antonio Brown bought some billboard space to say peace out Pittsburgh and Odell Beckham thanked his former Giants family on Instagram this week. Say, has anyone heard from Bryce Harper?
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The Caps will honor Barry Trotz with a video tribute during Friday's potential playoff preview against the Islanders
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Juan Soto rejected an early prototype of the bobbleheads the Nats are giving out tonight because it didn’t depict him smiling
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2 years
The last time Washington played the Bears on Thursday Night Football, the legend of Todd Collins was born. Can't believe it's been 15 years.
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7 years
tfw you travel 7,000 miles from the United Arab Emirates to meet your favorite hockey player
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5 years
big time news: With DSP back, Paisanos tells me they're "rushing to make the edits to get him back on the air." DSP was edited out of his debut ad for the pizza chain after he was assigned to Hershey in February
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6 years
A couple more photos from T.J. Oshie's Metro adventure today, via a reader who couldn't figure out why there was a crowd at the ticket machine
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5 years
I'm compiling a list of the best moments from this Nats regular season. The Comeback. Last night. Scherzer's black eye game. Rendon's grand slam against the Braves. Back-to-back-to-back-to-back HRs. Barrett's return. Soto's go-ahead HRs in Philly (April and July). What else?
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4 years
Re-cy-cle! Re-cy-cle! (They did.)
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3 years
Redesigned Champions Club on club level
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4 years
10 highlights from the Nationals' epic World Series reunion Zoom call, the new gold standard for sports quarantine content, which you should really watch in its entirety if you missed it last night
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7 years
My favorite addition to Nats Park: Scherzer Eyes above Shake Shack
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9 years
The Sean Taylor graffiti at Brookland Metro has been restored http://t.co/FgB6wt1j8r (via @davidpoms ) http://t.co/Iu1lbxAgkE
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July 20ths, ranked: 1. Today: Snyder out 2. 1969: First moon landing 3. 1988: Stephen Strasburg is born
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While her husband was deployed in Afghanistan for the last 6 months, Kate Abbott would go to Nats games with friends and take a video during the 7th-inning stretch to send to him. He arrived home yesterday, just in time for Game 5.
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2 years
This is news to me
@SamanthaJPell
Samantha Pell
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Capitals announce Scott Allen has been named an assistant coach. The former AHL Hershey head coach will primarily work with the forwards/PK.
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Chad Dukes is no longer with 106.7 The Fan after Entercom, the station's parent company, said it learned of “racist and other inappropriate comments” he made in episodes of his personal podcast
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Ryan Kerrigan on his Oshie Chug: “The beer definitely doesn’t flow through there as well as Oshie made it look when he did it at the parade. That’s why I had to finish it off at the end, but...I thought it went pretty well.”
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"I’m not bitter," longtime Capitals organist Bruce Anderson said after the team informed him it was doing away with live organ music. "I’m just sad. It was a great experience." Anderson, who entertained fans for 22 seasons, hoped to retire when Ovi did.
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“The shirt was pre-ripped because I had do it quick. I couldn’t risk taking the few extra seconds to start the rip and let security get a hold of me. I wish I could say it wasn’t ripped, but I’m not going to lie you.”
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At Nationals Park for the “What’s new for 2023” media tour
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4 years
Great news for Jakub Vrana: The Caps are inviting fans to submit videos of themselves recreating scenes from "Unleash the Fury" to be used during the NHL restart
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@dcsportsbog One of my favorite additions for 2024 (a return, really, and maybe I’m the only one) is Taste of the Majors is back. Nats will offer a different city-themed hot dog for every opponent. Cincinnati chili for the Reds, etc. Maybe I’ll do a “Taste of the Majors dogs, ranked” story.
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9 years
The Truth getting in the Isles' heads...
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Ben DiNucci, a rookie from JMU, is a play away from becoming the Cowboys' quarterback
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Caps' Jakub Vrana plans to cook his first turkey today. “Yeah, I think it’s pretty simple, no? You just put it in the oven and it takes a couple hours.” This, by @SamanthaJPell , is great.
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Cris Carter in August: "Adrian [Peterson] had better get over himself. We were all great. But at the end, we all smelled like a baby’s diaper.” Carter on Monday: "A lot of respect to Adrian Peterson and what he’s doing at this advanced age."
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7 years
Beautiful
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4 years
Red Wolves seems to be the favorite among fans. Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. would be "honored and pleased" to work with the team if it goes with Red Tails. Warriors remains an uninspired option.
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Wall models limited edition cap designed by Bryce Harper. On sale tomorrow (via @MAJORDC )
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Ted Leonsis surprised 200 Monumental Sports and Entertainment employees from various departments with a trip to Las Vegas to see the Caps
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About that baby shark toy hanging from the Nats' dugout... It appears Gerardo Parra received a shipment of singing shark puppets (!) before the game.
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The Florida youth baseball team that got haircuts from Bryce Harper went undefeated
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Nats will wear the nice road blues from Expos' inaugural 1969 season
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John Wall on D.C. becoming a title town: "It's the dopest thing ever. ... I think it’s time for us to get a championship. I’m not promising anything, but that’s my ultimate goal is to bring a championship there for the Wizards. The city has been on fire."
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The navy blue alternate jerseys with the white script have been very good to the Nationals. Washington is 23-5 all-time in them, including 6-0 this postseason
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This is the day Gerardo Parra got his lucky sunglasses
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2 years
Chatted with SNY director John DeMarsico, who gave Mets closer Edwin Diaz's trumpet entrance the cinematic treatment it deserves and had Buck Showalter seeing red like Uma Thurman's character in "Kill Bill."
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2006 (Photos: Joel Richardson/The Washington Post) 2019 (Photos: John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
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Until a few years ago, Craig Laughlin drank nothing but light lagers. Now the craft beer convert has collaborated with two local breweries on a pair of hazy IPAs and has a third beer in the works, all to benefit his family's foundation.
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6 years
The Redskins' secondary might have the two biggest Sean Taylor fans in the league with the addition of Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (via: )
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Scientist and red wolf conservation advocate Ron Sutherland would be happy to see Washington adopt Red Wolves as its new name. He suggested fans might even help save the endangered species. "You wouldn’t want your mascot to go extinct in the wild again.”
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Friends and colleagues remember NBC Sports Washington's Michael DiVenere, who passed away over the weekend. He loved metal music and playing hockey, and he teared up when his favorite team finally won the Stanley Cup
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2 years
Ovi's nine 50th goals through the years... Last night marked the sixth time Nicklas Backstrom assisted on the milestone and the first time since his rookie year that Ovi hit 50 in a Caps loss.
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The Caps invited babies conceived during last year’s Stanley Cup run to recreate some championship moments. Where’s the newborn chugging a bottle through his onesie?
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'Jerk' (Evgeny Kuznetsov) vs. 'Bunch of Jerks' (Carolina Hurricanes) on Kuznetsov's 'The Bird' bobblehead night? It's Don Cherry's nightmare
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Growing up in Bethesda, Alex Chappell admired former MASN on-field reporters Amber Theoharis and Kristina Akra. She'll make her debut as Dan Kolko's replacement on Saturday
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7 years
Braden Holtby on inclusion: "You should be judged on your personality and your moral ground, not anything else."
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4 years
Rob Carlin learned Monday morning that NBCSW won't renew his contract in October. Later that day, which he called "probably the toughest" of his career, he hosted the Caps pregame and postgame shows.
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Dr. Fauci grew up a Yankees fan, but the Nats are now No. 1 in his heart. He'll throw the ceremonial first pitch before his two favorite teams open the MLB season on Thursday in D.C.
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What the people wanted
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The Nats should wear their navy blue alternates in Game 3 to prevent the Astros from wearing their own navy blue alternates
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3 years
Here's the story of two rival fan bases and the greater FCS community coming together to support two worthy causes (and the reason North Dakota State fan @matthewfraase will be decked out in JMU gear at Friday's semifinal game in Fargo)
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Mike Rizzo at the White House: “I’m always so proud to tell people that when you read about the Washington Nationals, you read about the Washington Nationals in the Sports section, and I think that is very important to tell about these players.”
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8 years
Well played, Nats fan
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T.J. Oshie and Matt Niskanen rode Metro to the Stanley Cup finals again, but Oshie wasn't prepared for those weekday peak fares
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Original Caps season ticket holder Grace Cohen, who turned 90 this year: “I think they’re going to win again, and if they don’t, how could it be bad? They won, and nobody can ever say again they never did."
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One of my favorite parts of March Madness was opening the paper the morning after Selection Sunday to see what our amazing design team had come up with for the tournament section. Here's a thread of covers from the past 16 years.
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Respect: The Capitals fan who threw @capscrab on the ice after Game 3 solicited advice from a Caps-loving, crab-tossing expert beforehand and wore two pairs of underwear to pull it off
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Howie Kendrick's grand slam touched off euphoric celebrations at Dodger Stadium, Nats Park and bars and living rooms in between
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