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• American League 4, National League 3: Hey, it's a Nat at the All-Star Game! (Not that it was anything to write home about.) Washington representative Ryan Zimmerman -- seen above coolly acknowledging all twelve people at Busch Stadium who realized that Washington actually fielded a major league-level baseball team -- entered the game in the top of the the fifth inning, replacing David Wright at third base. Zimmerman almost got into one in the bottom of the fifth, but just got under the second pitch he saw, flying out harmlessly to A.L. center fielder Josh Hamilton. Obviously unsatisfied with the length of his first trip to the plate, Zimmerman swung at the first pitch he saw in his second at-bat, weakly popping out to right. As far as I could tell from the television coverage, Zimmerman had nary a truly meaningful ball thrown or hit to him in the field -- although at one point, I think I caught an unfocused glimpse of Zimmerman in the background as Derek Jeter ran past him at third. So, you know, there's that.
  
  As if the fact that our rep's jersey doubled as an invisibility cloak on the field wasn't bad enough, Barack Obama also went out of his way to diss the Nats during his half-inning in the Fox announce booth. (C'mon, Mr. President -- that's just low.)
• Wizards 96, Cavs 93 (Summer League): The Wiz beat Cleveland in NBA Summer League play last night. From what I've ascertained, wins in the Summer League are even more meaningless than wins in baseball spring training games, but hey, far be it from this writer to complain about the Wizards winning anything. For the truly obsessed, Sports Bogger Dan Steinberg is hanging in Vegas for the week (man, what an awful locale for an assignment), so he's all over the scene.
• Caps Schedule Out Today: On a slightly more interesting note, the Capitals released their preseason schedule yesterday; the regular season schedule comes out today. When's Crosby coming to town? There's payback to be had.

We might not have Congressional representation, but at least there's this: voting for the July 14 MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis ends today at 11:59 p.m. EST -- and Ryan Zimmerman needs your help to get to the Gateway City. Zimmerman currently sits third in the race for National League third basemen behind New York's David Wright and Atlanta's Chipper Jones. Although he led the balloting for some time during his record-setting hitting streak earlier this season, it now seems unlikely that Zimmerman can make up the 700,000 vote gap which separates him from Wright. But the race for second is separated by a mere 50,000 punched holes; finishing ahead of Jones wouldn't guarantee that the franchise third baseman would be the Nats representative in the game, but it'd go a pretty long way: after all, outside of outfielder Adam Dunn -- who's currently sitting 12th among N.L. outfielders -- it's pretty slim pickings for All-Stars. Heck, two players on the Nats ballot aren't even with the team as of this moment. Fans can vote up to 25 times online; you can find the ballot here. (Of course, whether a team who's currently on pace to lose 115 games should even be allowed an All-Star is a topic for another day.)

Nicklas Backstrom is skipping the NHL's Young Stars Game because he wants a day off. The Caps' second leading scorer is sitting out a competition that pits second year players against rookies. Last year, when the Young Stars game featured only rookies, Backstrom competed. This year, many fans and analysts have asked why Backstrom isn't on the Eastern Conference All Star team. While it's nice that the NHL expanded the Young Stars game to include more developing talent, Backstrom deserves to appear on a larger stage.

Well, we may have been reluctant at first due to his, um, colorful past (as were many others). We also doubted his All Star chances. Now, though, we’re now firmly aboard the Dmitri Young Chuckwagon. In the same week he was named to the NL team for next week’s All Star Game in San Francisco, Young went 3-4 yesterday. His day was highlighted by a grand slam, cementing the Nats 6-0 win in front of...

Prompted by the opening of online balloting for the 2007 All Star Game a few weeks ago, we recently started wondering who might represent the Nats in San Francisco (since, you know, somebody has to). Dmitri Young? The guy's hitting for a scorching .500 average over the last 21 games. But he's mired behind popular stars like Albert Pujols and Nomar Garciaparra, as well as reigning MVP Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder's 23-homer bat. Even...

How unimportant is the Young Stars game? Well, they play it three days after the All-Star game, on a Tuesday. The teams are about half the size of real hockey teams, they skate four on four for the entire game, and the players aren't allowed to hit each other.

With all the attention Gilbert Arenas has garnered over the last month of the NBA season, it's easy to forget about his very capable teammates. Luckily for the Wiz, they were ready to pick up the slack last night when Gilbert had an "off" game. A look at the stat sheet might tell you the Bulls defense held Agent Zero to just 16 shots, but it wouldn't show Gilbert's determination to get his teammates...

So the Nats are having a little post-All Star Game slump. In any city, fans would blame the players, the managers, the umpires, anything. Here in Washington, where the beloved Nationals have electrified a baseball-starved populace? It's the fans, like the one at right that Justin DC snapped a pic of at Monday's game against the Colorado Rockies. The bandwagoners, to be exact. Writes the Post: When the bandwagoners first showed up -- yapping on...

Yesterday the NBA announced the reserve rosters for the 2005 NBA All Star Game in Denver, Co. and to no one's surprise, a pair of Wizards heard there names called out. Take a bow Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas, you deserve it.