The Washington Wizards lost the NBA Draft Lottery back in mid-May, chance pushing where their 23-59 record was slotted back two spaces to the unenviable position of sixth. “Jan Vesely,” I sarcastically said to one of my team rooting cohorts, “he sounds like ‘such’ a Wizard.”

Around 6 p.m. on Tuesday night, John Wall confidently strode into the NBA Draft Lottery media room, flanked by a member of the Wizards’ press relations staff and an NBA escort. He pointed and smiled at a few people, gave former Georgetown and current Detroit Pistons center Greg Monroe a half hug/half handsake, and then did the same to projected number one pick Kyrie Irving. Then he smiled and shook hands with some members of the Washington D.C. media, before finally settling down in his designated area for interviews. He looked like a young man who ready to take on any and everything thrown his way.

Last night, the Washington Redskins took their mind off of their owner’s lawsuit against local journalists and their defensive tackle’s alleged sex crime, and conducted some football-related business, selecting Purdue defensive end Ryan Kerrigan with the 16th selection of the NFL Draft.

Image by clydeorama Tonight at 7 p.m. you can watch the first round of the NHL draft on Vs. In a week where the Caps have received some of their annual propers with one of two available MVP awards (Alexander Ovechkin), comeback player of the year (former Capital Jose Theodore), and first team NHL all star nods (Ovechkin and defenseman Mike Green), this is just one more reliable sign that summer is here and…

D.C. basketball fans have about one month to wait before David Stern walks up to the podium inside Madison Square Garden and announces “with the first pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards select John Wall, point guard from Kentucky.” It’s a no brainer, right? Of course, I can say that because I’m a blogger who is allowed to make prognostications which I deem appropriate within reason, and not, say, an employee…

Photo by Flickr user spiggycat. It is the week of the baseball draft, and in what looks like a yearly tradition, it is time to see what the Nationals organization does with the first pick. Everyone expects them to draft pitcher Steven Strasburg. Strasburg is a talent so great that only a team as incompetent as the Nationals would fail to draft and sign him. It should be an interesting Tuesday. Strasburg is represented…

They may measure two inches shy of a collective 19 feet tall, but the first three Caps picks from this weekend’s NHL draft stand on the shoulders of giants. With two picks in the first round and their first of two in the second, the Caps brought in players with strong connections to franchise history, tying the team’s future to its past. The Caps traded up to the 21st overall spot to pick Anton Gustafsson,…