For the increasingly sober print platform of Washington City Paper, I wrote a column this week about a short-lived hoops squad called the Maryland All-Stars.
The All-Stars were really just a gang of D.C.-area basketball buddies, including future Notre Dame coach and SI Coach of the Year Mike Brey, who landed in Ireland on St. Patrick's [...]

The Washington Kastles lost to the Philadelphia Freedoms, the team named after an Elton John song or vice versa, in their home opener last night. The big stories were the sellout crowd that filled Empty Parking Lot Arena, or whatever the temp downtown stadium is called, and the appearance of tireless Venus Williams, who gave [...]

On the morning of Friday, April 3rd, the highly decorated Irish author Colm Tóibín found himself in a rather unusual position: seated in front of a class of twelfth graders at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School on Euclid Street. The school visit was part of Tóibín’s participation in the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers in Schools program, [...]