Showing posts with label Washington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

Whine or lose

Poor Cleveland

As a Washington D.C. sports fan my guard is always up.  I didn’t think there was any possibility that the Capitals would pull out a game seven on the road against the defending champion Bruins; based on the Capitals' recent history in the playoffs and more importantly the recent history of D.C. sports as a whole, the notion that the Caps might win (in overtime no less!) wasn’t even conceivable.  For my generation of Washingtonians, we are a city of sports failures.  Strangely enough, these failures have given me a certain type of traction among friends in sports conversations.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Ranking the Metro

The D.C. Metro is one of the most under appreciated features of the nation's best city. Washington boasts one of the best train system in the United States. It's cleaner than NYC's more useful than Chicago, and more existent than L.A.'s I give you here, the top stations on the Metro.