Order from Chaos

Ninety-two years.  That's a long time to wait.  1924 was the last time that a Washington baseball team won a post season series.  And it...

It's Sunday October 14 and normally hockey season would be underway.  However, for the third time in about 20 years, the NHL owners and ...

Next Sunday is the Super Bowl (in case you weren't aware). Last Sunday, on Championship Sunday (when the Giants beat the Niners and the...

April is a grand month. On Monday afternoon, I kept the streak alive by attending the Washington Nationals home opener. So far, I have not...

I know, I know. Usually I will use this day to remind people to eat crepes as it is Candlemas Day (You can click on "crepes" and...

Some time ago, this story came out. Doing what I do, I was of course immediately riveted. Especially because I also had my fair share of ...

While you digest the answers to last week's quiz, here is a map from the New York Times that shows how medals have been awarded in the...

It's just after 11:30 and I survived a night of being the sole parent in the house, with Mrs. BA off to spend her sister's birthday ...

Time Magazine has put forth yet another list of the Top 100 athletes to watch in Beijing . Will there be any other option? Aren't the ...

Tonight, I went out to Nationals Park for the first time since Opening Night (and again I went with OSG). This was the first outing on t...

I'm back "on the grid" after about 20 hours in the dark. We had some heavy duty wind and rain on Friday night and Saturday th...

So it came fifteen minutes after your birthday ended, but let's just say they did it for you on your special day. And of course there wa...

The Final Four have been decided. I sweated out the end of the Georgetown game, until UNC forgot how to score baskets and the Hoyas ran awa...

According to a professor at the Yale School of Management, betting the seeds in the March Madness Pool will yield a 56% success rate. Of cou...

Yesterday was, of course, Super Bowl Sunday. Yes I watched, no I am not happy with the outcome, but, yes the Colts played better and deserve...

Astute readers of this blog will note I challenged one of the readers, Archivalist, who toils "somewhere in Maine," to tell me eve...

Also from the pages of Down East Magazine (actually the next story from the one just posted). There is man from Maine, Don Crisman of Ken...

In the Eastern Conference, further divided into the Southeast, Atlantic, and Northeast divisions, the best team are the Buffalo Sabres. Fir...

I have to admit I don't understand fantasy sports leagues. While I can hold my own in a conversation about most sports, the intricacies...

On this date (November 29) in 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point. Navy creamed the cadets, 24-0, in the game p...