Monday, April 8, 2013
By KAYLA FARIA | Capital News Service
Two-time collegiate All-American Stephanie Ochs “literally had nothing to do” living in a New York apartment when she was playing soccer in 2012. Now that the U.S. Under-23 Women's National Team standout from San Diego has found a family in Germantown, there's always someone around. Professional athletes are bunking with host families in Maryland and the District. It's not a study abroad exchange program. It's the National Women's Soccer League – the third shot at a professional women's soccer league, which is set to kickoff on April 13. The living arrangement has become tradition for the country’s best women soccer players, and it helps build a fan base for the sport that needs support to become financially sustainable. It's also born of …
Friday, April 5, 2013
Post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #PatchOrioles ... or post your photos here!
Orioles Opening Day is here at last. After a winter of looking back at what was, while eagerly awaiting the upcoming season, baseball has returned to Baltimore. Whether you have great seats, a unique orange outfit, are watching at a bar with friends or caught a foul ball at the Yard, we want to see what you're doing for Opening Day. It's simple: Post your photos on Instagram today using the hashtag #PatchOrioles and your image will appear in our gallery here. Have video or photos on your phone but don't have Instagram? No worries. Upload them by clicking the button on this post, or email sean.welsh@patch.com and we'll share your images from the ballpark. There are now more interactive features in the ballpark, including the ability for …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Fans flocked to Nationals Park for opening day of the 2013 MLB season.
The Washington Nationals won their home opener against the Miami Marlins with a score of 2-0, thanks to Bryce Harper's two home runs. The Nationals started their 2013 Major League Baseball season with Stephen Strasburg on the mound and enthusiasm buzzing in the stands. Before the game began, Allen Hewitt, a Washington, DC, resident, was waiting for his buddy to arrive. The two always go to the home opener together. "I haven't missed an opener since they've been back," said Hewitt, who also "vaguely remembers" attending a game at Griffin stadium. Hewitt said this year he is looking for "consistency" from his Washington Nationals after last year's injuries. Billy Jones brought his daughter, Courtney, and son, Tyler, to DC from Carroll County…
Sports on Earth catches up with the former Washington Nationals manager with Rockville roots.
Is there any room for reprieve when it comes to baseball and quitters? That’s the question a recent post at Sports on Earth raised after catching up with Jim Riggleman, who quit as manager of the Washington Nationals in 2011 when the team declined to give him a contract extension. At the moment, Riggleman manages the Louisville Bats (an affiliate of the Cinncinati Reds). He told Sports on Earth that he regrets quitting the Nats and said starting at a “low level” of the minors might be a way of getting back to the majors. "As I've told many people, it wasn't the smart thing to do," Riggleman said. "But it was thought out and it had been going for awhile, but it wasn't the smart decision. But I thought it was the right decision. That's the…
Two members of the Washington Spirit will be living at a Rockville retirement community for the duration of their season.
Chris Hummer, the general manager of the Washington Spirit, was searching high and low for affordable housing for members of his professional women's soccer team when he was put into contact with an unlikely location: Ingleside at King Farm retirement community. The community volunteered to host members of his team, and that is how Robyn Gayle and Diana Matheson found themselves as the new residents of the Rockville-based retirement community. "When I first told [Matheson], she thought I was joking," said Gayle, who was teammates with Matheson on Canada's bronze medal-winning 2012 Olympic soccer team. "But we took a look at the place and said 'This looks pretty cool.'" The two players, both in their 20s, will be sharing a two-bedroom suite…
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The Washington Nationals enter the 2013 Major League Baseball season as favorites to win the World Series thanks to Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper and some important new additions.
Major League Baseball opens its season Sunday and the Washington Nationals are an Opening Day favorite to win the World Series. The Nats, winners of the National League East division in 2012, begin a 2013 season heavy with expectations on Monday when they host the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park. First pitch is at 1:05 p.m. • Opening Day ticket information for the Washington Nationals With the deepest pitching staff in baseball anchored by standouts Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Jordan Zimmermann, and a strong lineup that should be buoyed by 20-year-old prodigy Bryce Harper—the 2012 National League Rookie of the Year—entering his first full big league season, baseball experts are high on the Nats. World Series Bound? Sports …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Prime Choice caterers will be serving up summertime fan favorites during the Big Train's season.
Gearing up for the Big Train’s baseball season this year? Get your tastebuds ready, as well. The Prime Choice Caterers have signed on to serve up concessions at the Home Run Cafe at Cabin John Regional Park's Shirley Povich Field, the Big Train's home base. Ledo Pizza, Rita’s Italian Ice and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels also will be returning this year to offer their summertime fare on the Shirley Povich Field concourse. Prime Choice, which offers catering services across the Washington, DC, metro region, launched as a family butcher shop in Olde Towne Gaithersburg in 1981. This season, they’ll serve up favorites like hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, salads, nachos, cotton candy and ice cream. Baseball fans also can check out “home run” specials …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Hoyas begin their run for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Championship on Friday.
The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament begins today, and the Georgetown Hoyas are poised for a run that could get them farther into March Madness than they've been since at least 2007. The Bleacher Report says a Georgetown run to the Final Four in Atlanta "doesn't seem unfathomable" but the site stops short of annointing the Hoyas champions. It predicts March Madness for the Hoyas will begin with a victory over Florida Gulf Coast in their opener Friday and continue with a dismantling of San Diego State before a loss to Florida. Full television schedule of 2013 NCAA March Madness. Most predictions and Las Vegas odds for the 2013 NCAA Tournament champion favor Louisville. You can make your own predictions using the printable brackets above. …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gabriella Hachem, 14, competed in Omaha, NE over the weekend
A North Potomac teenager won the U.S. National Championship title at the 2013 US Short Track Age Graded Championships, which concluded Sunday in Omaha, NE. Gabriella Hachem, 14, is an eighth grader at Robert Frost Middle School in Rockville. She won three of four distances in her Junior C Women's 13-14 age group, winning the 1,000-meter, 777-meter, and 1,500-meter superfinal events, according to Alison Mittelstadt of Potomac Speedskating Club—the club with which Gabrialla competes. If she finishes in the top four at Junior Nationals, Gabrialla will be named to the US Junior World Championship team, according to Mittelstadt. ---- Full results can be found at USSpeedskating.org.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Plans are in the works for a new $50 million, 6,500 seat arena near Shady Grove Metro, The Gazette reports.
A local develper has sketched out plans for a $50 million, multipurpose arena slated to be built on an 8-acre property next to Shady Grove Metro Station, The Gazette reports. Potomac native William Askinazi, principal for the development company D&A Sports and Entertainment, said he envisions a space "where indoor lacrosse championships could take place simultaneously with antique roadshows," according to the report. "A Taylor Swift concert could dominate the space one night, he said, and a Disney show could take center stage the next night." The project was presented to members of the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce in January, and the developers are working on a lease with WMATA, according to the report. “We’re very …
