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Can Nats regain their standing among D.C. sports teams?

November 21, 2021, 3:11pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Can Nats regain their standing among D.C. sports teams?

If you took a stroll around town on Nov. 3, 2019, and asked a random sampling of 100 people on the streets who the most popular professional team in D.C. was at that moment, there's a good chance more people would've said the Nationals than anyone else. The fact they had just held a parade for the World Series champs 24 hours earlier probably would've played a role in that, but that championship really was the culmination of something that had been building for some time. After two decades...

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Three-day celebration begins with parade and rally

November 01, 2019, 7:46pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Three-day celebration begins with parade and rally

To the victors go the spoils, and the Nationals are about to be very spoiled over the next three days. After enjoying one day off at home to recover from their World Series-clinching victory (and subsequent celebration) in Houston, the Nats are about to go into full-scale party mode over the next 72 hours, with a parade, a stop at a Capitals game and then a trip to the White House. It begins today with a parade so many people have waited so long to experience. Here are the pertinent details: *...

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As Caps finally proved, D.C. can be a championship town

June 07, 2018, 9:16pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

As Caps finally proved, D.C. can be a championship town

I really didn't have much of an opinion of Washington as a sports town before I moved here in 2001. I knew the Redskins had won three Super Bowls and were the biggest deal in this city. I knew the Capitals made the playoffs most years and had been swept by the Red Wings in the 1998 Stanley Cup Final. To be honest, I didn't know much about the Bullets/Wizards. And I knew that with no baseball team in the District, a lot of people were fans of the Orioles, a model franchise for decades that was...