Football Team

The emergence of T.C. Williams right-hander Alec Grosser as a big-league prospect is a multi-state odyssey that features a flat tire along Interstate 75 near Ringgold, Ga., a familiar Good Samaritan, a 425-mile drive, a late arrival at Kiwanis Field in Salem, Va., and an impromptu head-snapping performance that had seen-it-all professional scouts exchanging puzzled do-you-see-what-I-see? glances. "A year ago, if someone had told me I'd be in a spot like this," said Grosser, who has been contacted...

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Coach Dennis Allen is pleased with the progress he's seen the past two months during the offseason program for the new-look Oakland Raiders. The Raiders wrapped up their mandatory three-day minicamp on Thursday and won't reconvene as a team again until they report to training camp in Napa on July 24 — two days before the start of practice. The team that arrives in wine country will look very different from Allen's first one with the Raiders with key players like...

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Coach Dennis Allen is pleased with the progress he's seen the past two months during the offseason program for the new-look Oakland Raiders. The Raiders wrapped up their mandatory three-day minicamp on Thursday and won't reconvene as a team again until they report to training camp in Napa on July 24 — two days before the start of practice. The team that arrives in wine country will look very different from Allen's first one with the Raiders with key players like...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Authorities say an Arizona State University football player has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault. Tempe police said Tuesday that Andres Rafael Garcia is being held on suspicion of two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault/domestic violence. The 22-year-old defensive back was arrested late Sunday after police say he got involved in an argument with a 21-year-old woman he knew. It allegedly escalated into a physical assault. Garcia is...

The Howard University football team was one of 218 Division I programs sanctioned by the NCAA yesterday for failing to meet academic standards. The University of Maryland men's basketball team also failed to meet academic standards, but the program was not at risk for punishment because of a recently approved exemption. The NCAA yesterday unveiled the latest batch of Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, which measure how well a team returns academically eligible athletes semester to semester, as well as the sanctions imposed on...

When one of the Washington area's top high school basketball players agreed to rejoin his school's football team, the coach was not expecting too much. Sure, Joe McDonald was a terrific athlete and seemed like a natural on the field, but Landon football coach Paul Padalino had no idea that the 6-foot-1, 177-pound guard on the basketball court would be so fearless in cleats and shoulder pads. But in the Bears' first scrimmage, McDonald caught a short pass along the right sideline.

After four years coaching football at Atholton , Kyle Schmitt accepted the head job at Spalding earlier this week. He replaces interim coach Brian Propst, who led the Cavaliers to a 5-5 record in the fall after assuming control of the team last June following the death of longtime Coach Mike Whittles from pancreatic cancer. Schmitt, 31, said he had not spent much time pursuing other jobs during his time at the Columbia public school, but the chance to lead a team in the MIAA-A Conference...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Oct. 30 -- Virginia fullback Rashawn Jackson appeared in court Wednesday after being charged with one count of breaking and entering and one count of grand larceny relating to an incident that occurred at a campus dormitory on Nov. 22, 2007. University of Virginia Police Lt. Melissa Fielding said it took nearly a year after the incident to charge Jackson because the incident occurred during Thanksgiving break, when few people were on campus. Fielding said the investigation was complicated and relied...

DeMatha Catholic High School Principal Dr. Daniel McMahon released a statement on the school's Web site Friday morning in response to a Washington Post story regarding the dismissal of five football players following an incident involving prostitutes on a team trip to North Carolina. "The school stands behind our coach, Elijah Brooks, his staff, the school staff who monitored the trip, and our students," the statement read in part. "The school community is saddened and hurt by the...

If Centreville High School fans don't want to sit on the hard benches at Friday night football games, no problem. There are blue plastic "contour" seats available through the booster club for a season fee. Should students need to know what to wear to the game — it could be a white-out or blue-out, or even toga or camouflage night — they need only check a Facebook group set up to inform them. If supporters come to the right game, they might get a giveaway flag or towel emblazoned with the...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse University athletic department's former media director has been sentenced to five years of probation for secretly videotaping male athletes in locker rooms. Local media outlets report that the judge who sentenced Roger Springfield on Thursday called his actions "strange, bizarre and colossally stupid. " The 57-year-old former local television sportscaster pleaded guilty in March to a felony count of unlawful surveillance. Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH'-gah)

The students had barely left the building when the rented tables were rolled in and the transformation began. In a few short hours, Perry Street Prep, a public charter school in Northeast Washington, would welcome back its student-athletes and their families for a catered dinner in the school's gymnasium. In a departure from previous years when the ceremony was held in the auditorium, Athletic Director Tal Bayer wanted something extra special for the students this year. "We don't usually hold...

Michael Holmes, a running back on the Virginia Tech football team, has been arrested on two counts of simple assault and one count of malicious wounding, a Montgomery County (Va.) jail spokesman confirmed Sunday afternoon. Holmes, a redshirt sophomore who started five games last season, was being held without bail. A press release issued by the Blacksburg police department said officers were called to the 200 block of College Ave. near campus for a fight in progress at 1:50 a.m. Sunday morning.

Following a two-year hiatus, the Navy football team was back at the White House on Friday afternoon to accept the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy from President Obama in a ceremony held in the East Room. The Midshipmen had won the trophy presented to the winner of the series among the three service academies seven consecutive times beginning in 2003, but that record streak ended when Air Force claimed it in 2010 and 2011. Navy has won the trophy 13 times in all. "This never gets old," Navy Coach Ken Niumatalolo said...

Regarding Reed Hundt's April 5 op-ed column, " Unsporting language ": Mr. Hundt's schoolmarm-like expurgatory exhortation for a Federal Communications Commission investigation of broadcaster references to the Washington Redskins misconceived liberal societies and the First Amendment. The final end of the state is to make men and women free to develop their faculties and be morally accountable for their destinies, not to cram virtue down their throats. A state that cradles its citizens — even for beneficent...

The New York Yankees have had Major League Baseball 's highest payroll in each of the past 14 seasons. But this past offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers — triggered by new ownership and the prospect of new local cable TV money flowing down the Los Angeles River to Dodger Stadium* — decided to challenge the Evil Empire for top dollar. That's like trying to outspend Joan Rivers at Cedars-Sinai Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center. The Dodgers did it. Maybe. They...

One university's corporate partnership was impossible to miss this past week — and not just because it came emblazoned in gold, black, red and white . When the University of Maryland football team burst into Byrd Stadium in Under Armour uniforms inspired by the state flag, the game itself was immediately overshadowed. From sports anchors to fans on Twitter, the uniforms led the discussion. "I think it's a brilliant marketing move," said Lisa Delpy Neirotti, director of George Washington...

President Obama welcomed college football's national champion, Auburn, to the White House Wednesday. There was another championship football team there as well – three-time defending D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association champ H.D. Woodson . Woodson Athletic Director Ed Wilkerson said he got a call late last week from the Office of the First Lady and was told the school could only bring 30 people – including players and coaches....

The emergence of T.C. Williams right-hander Alec Grosser as a big-league prospect is a multi-state odyssey that features a flat tire along Interstate 75 near Ringgold, Ga., a familiar Good Samaritan, a 425-mile drive, a late arrival at Kiwanis Field in Salem, Va., and an impromptu head-snapping performance that had seen-it-all professional scouts exchanging puzzled do-you-see-what-I-see? glances. "A year ago, if someone had told me I'd be in a spot like this," said Grosser, who has been contacted...

Days after 16-year-old Caleb Gordley was shot and killed after sneaking into a neighbor's house, students at his Sterling school were planning how they would keep his memory alive. Friends on the Park View High School football team said they wanted to write Caleb's initials on their helmets. Some students wrote songs for him. Monday morning, hundreds of classmates wrote messages to him and his family on a sheet of butcher paper stretched across the Loudoun County school's gym. ...