Big Night

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- On a night when Greg Monroe found it easier to pass than to shoot, Julian Vaughn supplied the inside muscle Georgetown sorely needed to subdue a scrappy Big East foe desperate to stop a three-game slide. Behind Vaughn's career-high 19 points, seventh-ranked Georgetown overcame an uneven performance of its own -- as well as an eight-point, second-half deficit and a rebounding deficiency from start to finish -- to defeat Providence, 79-70. The back-court tandem of Chris Wright and Austin Freeman combined for...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost could have been excused for missing his team's game on the night his daughter got married. But he didn't. Yost was in Sugar Hill, Ga., on Thursday night with one eye on the wedding ceremony of his daughter, Jenny, while the Royals were playing the Tampa Bay Rays about 500 miles away. "I had the phone out, sitting on the pew right next to me, during the whole process," Yost said Friday afternoon. It was a big night all...

MIAMI — Kevin Slowey said the short rest didn't affect his performance. But it certainly didn't help. Slowey (2-6) allowed six runs — five earned — and nine hits in five innings on three days' rest for the Miami Marlins in a 10-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night. "Today's game had less to do with rest and more to do with me executing pitches," Slowey said. He was on short rest after he pitched seven scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory in Saturday's 2-1,...

SAN ANTONIO — Five things to note from Miami's 109-93 win over San Antonio in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night: ___ FLASH RETURNED: Dwyane Wade doesn't get called "Flash" often anymore, primarily because he tends to go by the more standard "D-Wade" moniker, partially because he keeps giving himself nicknames like "WoW" (that one didn't really catch on). But in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Flash was back, all right. Wade finished with 32 points, six rebounds and six steals — one more...

Turning Point: The Wizards closed overtime on an 8-2 run that included a layup and four free throws by Jamison and two by Andray Blatche. Player of the Game: Jamison trumped the big night turned in by Toronto's Jos¿ Calder¿n (20 points, nine assists) with 25 points and 16 rebounds. Key Stats: The Wizards made 20 of 21 free throw attempts and now trail the fifth-place Raptors by three games in the Eastern Conference standings.

You need a big voice to fill a big concert hall on its big opening night, which is why the Fillmore Silver Spring chose Mary J. Blige, the R&B singer who uses her vocal cords like ballistic weapons, to baptize its gleaming 2,000-capacity venue Thursday night. Everything about Blige's inaugural Fillmore gig felt big: the hits, her band, those earrings. But for such a big night, her time onstage was woefully short — less than 75 minutes. A few songs into the set, fans realized they were in the midst of a...

News flash! Rumors are true! The Presidential Inaugural Committee -- trumpets, please! -- is hosting 10 official balls on the night of Jan. 20. These, ladies and gentlemen, are the only parties where Barack Obama, Joe Biden and their wives are guaranteed to appear, albeit for a quick wave and onstage dance. Six of the balls will be held at the glamorous, escalator-studded Washington Convention Center. The other four will be at the National Building Museum, Union Station, the Washington Hilton...

Can solo shows compete for costume awards? "Bad Dates" makes you wonder. Melissa Flaim shimmies into a kaleidoscope of outfits at the Olney Theatre Center, where her character waxes about being a single mom in modern Manhattan. And, well, the shoes alone are spectacular. The opening scene is a Carrie Bradshaw fantasia as Haley Walker -- the mother/restaurateur/lonely-heart played by Flaim -- tries on dozens of high-end shoes looking for something that's just-right sexy and won't pinch.

BALTIMORE — The Washington Nationals scored Friday night for the first time since Monday. Once they started, they could hardly be stopped in a 17-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles to open interleague play. It had been a rough week for the Nationals, what with being shut out in consecutive games, rained out once and having General Manager Mike Rizzo find himself in the middle of a league investigation over an incident with the umpires after a loss to the New...

The holiday season is officially in full swing, and Santa is prepping for his big night by offering phone calls to anyone who may need a little extra motivation to stay good through the end of the year (or who would just love to hear from the big man himself). To request a call, visit ChristmasDialer.com , where you'll be able to choose from three possible voice greetings that can be directed towards any phone number. The first call is free, while subsequent requests cost around a dollar each...

MIAMI — Kevin Slowey said the short rest didn't affect his performance. But it certainly didn't help. Slowey (2-6) allowed six runs — five earned — and nine hits in five innings on three days' rest for the Miami Marlins in a 10-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night. "Today's game had less to do with rest and more to do with me executing pitches," Slowey said. He was on short rest after he pitched seven scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory in Saturday's 2-1,...

MIAMI — Carlos Gomez added another impressive offensive performance during his breakout season. Gomez had four hits, including two triples, drove in three runs, and scored three runs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 10-1 win over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday. "He had a very big night, two triples," said Jonathan Lucroy, who drove in four runs. "Anytime you have a guy with that kind of speed and a ballpark this big, things like that are going to happen. He did very well for us tonight and...

Robinson Coach Brian Nelson admits that he doesn't know who will step up on any given night for the Rams – and that's not such a bad thing. "You won't see much consistency in who leads us in scoring, and I think that makes us a little tough to scout," Nelson said. "If one guy is having an off night, it doesn't keep us from competing. " Such was the case in the Pohanka Chantilly Classic, where the Rams surged to the title...

With his bleached blond hair, Centreville running back Xavier Nickens-Yzer is hard to miss on the Wildcats' sideline. But entering Friday's Virginia AAA Northern Region Division 6 first-round game against West Potomac , the sophomore knew he was far from the primary backfield focus. Most eyes rested on Wildcats' leading rusher A.J. Turner and West Potomac's prolific junior runner Demornay Pierson-El . But on this night in Clifton, it was Nickens-Yzer who stole...

BOSTON— Democrat Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and bankruptcy expert who has spent her career documenting the decline of middle-class America, won the hotly contested Senate race in Massachusetts on Tuesday night, defeating Republican incumbent Scott Brown and reclaiming the seat held for decades by liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy. Warren, who rose to national prominence as chair of the congressional panel overseeing the 2008 Wall Street bailout, is the first woman to be elected...

Entering this season, Rashaan Jones had plans of building on his successful junior campaign from the wide receiver position. Boy, was he wrong. Three days before preseason camp, South Lakes Coach Marvin Wooten moved Jones from wide receiver to quarterback after the projected starter suddenly moved to Canada. Then, a few weeks ago, Wooten added another role to the playmaker's plate – defensive back. But for all the shifting that Jones has done this fall, he couldn't be happier with where he's ended...

The schools are separated by a mere seven miles on the map and one game in the Virginia AAA Concorde District standings. Their past two meetings have been decided by three-point margins, the most recent of which came down to a blocked field goal in the final minute of last year's Northern Region Division 6 final . So even though most of the players who take the field for tonight's game between Westfield and Centreville watched the previous meetings...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost could have been excused for missing his team's game on the night his daughter got married. But he didn't. Yost was in Sugar Hill, Ga., on Thursday night with one eye on the wedding ceremony of his daughter, Jenny, while the Royals were playing the Tampa Bay Rays about 500 miles away. "I had the phone out, sitting on the pew right next to me, during the whole process," Yost said Friday afternoon. It...

The schools are separated by a mere seven miles on the map and one game in the Virginia AAA Concorde District standings. Their past two meetings have been decided by three-point margins, the most recent of which came down to a blocked field goal in the final minute of last year's Northern Region Division 6 final . So even though most of the players who take the field for tonight's game between Westfield and Centreville watched the previous meetings...

CHARLOTTE — Democrats may face an enthusiasm gap in November, hope and change having lost much of their glow. But you wouldn't know it from the opening night of the party's convention. Democrats put on a rousing show Tuesday, a program of powerful political oratory and optics capped by first lady Michelle Obama's address. The evening's speakers built on one another to deliver a consistent message, and the arena was packed with delegates eager to express support for an embattled President Obama.