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Byline: Fred Bowen The Washington Football Team (WFT) will announce its new name next week. The team will also reveal its new burgundy-and-gold uniforms and helmets. Last fall, the team's [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen If you like watching pro football, you will love this weekend. There are six National Football League (NFL) playoff games played over three days. The winners move [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The United States Figure Skating Championships are being held this week in Nashville, Tenn. The top male and female skaters will move on to the Winter Olympics [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Another year is almost over, and it's been a tough one. The worldwide coronavirus pandemic is still around, and most kids are wearing masks in schools and [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Sometimes the news from the front page of the newspaper spills over to the sports section. President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States will [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Raise your hand if five weeks ago, you thought that the Washington Football Team (WFT) had a chance to make the National Football League (NFL) playoffs. I [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen On Sunday, a committee of 13 people will select the four teams that will play in the College Football Playoff (CFP) on New Year's Eve and January [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? Hopefully with a big meal surrounded by family and friends. And maybe a favorite dessert! I love pecan pie with a scoop [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Has any team ever had a season such as the Washington Spirit soccer team's 2021 campaign? The Spirit beat the OL Reign, 2-1, on Sunday to advance [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen President Joe Biden met this week with world leaders at the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. KidsPost is publishing stories about the worldwide climate [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen They're called role players. They are not the stars of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They are the starters and off-the-bench guys who play 20 to 30 [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The weather report in Washington, D.C., for Wednesday was partly sunny with temperatures in the low 80s - not exactly hockey weather. Nevertheless, the Washington Capitals began [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Major League Baseball playoffs begin this week. The best pro teams will go head-to-head to see who will make the 2021 World Series. The MLB playoffs [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen If you watch sports on television, you have probably seen ads for DraftKings, FanDuel and other gambling services. More than 20 states and the District of Columbia [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Taylor Heinicke hopes he is the answer to the Washington Football Team's quarterback problems this season ... and for many seasons to come. Washington started the 2021 [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Slowly, youth sports are coming back. Kids are playing pickup basketball at local parks. I see young athletes wearing their team shirts at the grocery store. High [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen As the National Football League (NFL) gets ready to begin the season, it's clear the Washington Football Team (WFT) is getting better. Finally. For the past 20 [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen As the United States Open tennis tournament gets ready to begin next week, one burning question for tennis fans is: Who is the greatest male player of [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Now that the Summer Olympics are finished, it's time to check in on what's happening with the Washington Nationals baseball team. -Is Max Scherzer still striking batters [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen 'I'll race you.' It's a sport that every kid has tried. The race to the street corner. The race to a tree in the backyard. The race [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Summer Olympics, which will officially start Friday in Tokyo, Japan, will be different. The organizers of the Games decided there will be no fans at most [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Major League Baseball (MLB) all-star break couldn't come soon enough for the Washington Nationals. The team is struggling. The Nats lost their last four games before [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen As most sports fans know, the Summer Olympics are coming. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, more than 11,000 athletes are expected to compete in Tokyo, Japan, from July [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen A recent Supreme Court decision may mean big changes are coming for college sports. The court decided in a case last week that the National Collegiate Athletic [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Major League Baseball (MLB) issued a warning to its pitchers last week not to use 'foreign substances' on the baseball. Pitchers, including the Nationals' Max Scherzer, claim [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen For one week every four years, United States swimmers are the rock stars of the sports world. This summer they will swim for Olympic gold and glory [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Sullivan 'Sully' Massaro's favorite subject is history. This spring the fourth-grader joined the History Hunters and History Makers Club at Kings Glen Elementary School in Springfield, Va. [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs are in full swing. Sports shows and sports pages are full of talk about players who [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Eighty years ago this week, the most incredible baseball record of all time got started. On May 15, 1941, Joe DiMaggio, the center fielder for the New [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Since the beginning of Major League Baseball (MLB), the game has been a contest between the pitcher and the batter. These days the pitchers are winning. In [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen There are only 10 more games left in the Washington Capitals' National Hockey League (NHL) regular season. It is time to ask: Are the Caps for real? [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen This Major League Baseball (MLB) season may be the last for the team named the Cleveland Indians. The Cleveland owners announced months ago that they would change [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Lots of kids are looking forward to the Summer Olympics starting in July in Tokyo, Japan. That is, if organizers don't cancel the Games because of the [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen It's Opening Day ... or more accurately opening night. The Washington Nationals begin their 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) season Thursday against the New York Mets. Nats [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Girls on the Run Happy birthday to you Girls on the Run (GOTR), an organization that [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Gonzaga University enters this week's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball tournament with a record of 26-0 (26 wins, no losses). If the Bulldogs win the [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen One year ago, I wrote about the University of Maryland women's basketball team and its prospects for the 2020 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament. I said [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game is Sunday. The game marks the halfway point of this year's 72-game regular season. It's a good time to check [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The first day of spring according to this year's calendar is March 20. But for baseball fans, the first day of spring is when Major League Baseball [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The Pro Football Hall of Fame named eight new members last weekend, including legendary quarterback Peyton Manning. Next year, the organization should name Kenny Washington as one [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Super Bowl LV will be played Sunday. ('LV' is 55 in Roman numerals.) Most of the talk leading to the big game is about the starting quarterbacks: [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Hank Aaron died last week. Aaron not only was a great baseball player. He was also an incredible story of determination. Aaron was born in Mobile, Ala., [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen The big news in the National Basketball Association (NBA) last week was a blockbuster trade involving four teams, seven players and 10 future draft picks. The headline [...]