washingtonpost.com - William GildeaWilliam GildeaLife After Dreams Die- April 23, 2005 Wednesday is national signing day, when young football players can commit to the colleges of their choice.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55378-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... Orioles Serve Up Youth- April 23, 2005 It's not easy for a major league team to climb in the standings with a revolving door of pitchers best known for their short risumis.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10644-2004Jul24.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... Anything but a Game- April 23, 2005 Given what members of the military are facing in Iraq none of Army or Navy's football players could think of Saturday's 105th meeting of the service academies as anything but a game.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36011-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... Five Years Of Planning Down the Drain- April 23, 2005 Ted Leonsis has come crashing to the end of his five-year plan as emphatically as one of his skaters being knocked into the boards. You'd have to turn the entire NHL upside down for him to be where he'd hoped to be, writes William Gildea.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21405-2003Nov29.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... At RFK, the Entire Exhibit on Display- April 23, 2005 MLS's season will end as it began, with talk of Freddy Adu. But as the league's regular patrons know, and a curious portion of the general public will come to find out, young Freddy at the end of his rookie professional season is not the whole of D.C. United, not even close.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31331-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... Common Horse, Uncommon Sense- April 23, 2005 Smarty Jones is one good story. Not only does he come from the wrong side of the Kentucky horse-farm fences, from Philadelphia, of all places, he is, well, smart. After two days of communing with him at the Pimlico stakes barn, it's evident that the horse is fast on his feet in more ways than one.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27999-2004May14.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... De La Hoya Needs to Serve Some Sugar- April 23, 2005 Oscar De La Hoya will have his work cut out for him when he faces Bernard Hopkins on Saturday. The matchup reminds William Gildea of a similar past bout between an underdog Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12608-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... For the Record, Ravens Do the Right Thing- April 23, 2005 Jamal Lewis deserved the chance to break the NFL single-season rushing record even if the most pressing issue of Sunday night for the Ravens was for them, especially Lewis, to come out of the game as healthy as possible for the playoffs, writes William Gildea.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37397-2003Dec29.html?nav=rss_sports/columns... NHL Needs Face Lift- April 23, 2005 Hockey winters are meant to be cold, but there are signs that this winter will be colder than usual. And we're not talking about the weather.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64447-2004Sep5.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... Sheckells Made Others Better- April 23, 2005 Tom Sheckells, a two-time, first-team all-American at West Point who was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame on Saturday night, was the master of making others better, writes William Gildea.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6598-2003Nov22.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/... |