It’s been a rough spring training for the Nats, particularly where pitching is concerned, and the approaching World Baseball Classic might induce some additional nervousness for Washington fans, as Nationals’ arms are put to the test. Fireballing Mets reliever Billy Wagner withdrew from the U.S. roster yesterday, allowing Nats relief pitcher Gary Majewski to step into his spot. Majewski joins closer Chad Cordero on the American team, while Washington players Luis Ayala and Tony Armas…

For three and a half quarters last night, the first meeting between the Redskins and the despised Dallas Cowboys played out according to the worst fears of hometown fans. The offense was cover-your-eyes awful. The Skins committed turnovers and penalties in the face of a swarming rush. Dallas’ defense stacked the line, keeping Clinton Portis in check and forcing the ball into the hands of Mark Brunell. And Mark Brunell obliged the home crowd…

In a one two punch designed to simultaneously quell the last week’s negative buzz emanating from the Post’s Skins-beat rag-a-muffins Jason LaCanfora, Nunyo “Business” Demasio and Mark Maske, while at the same time bringing a new choir of “Whaaaa?” to the forefront, Gibbs n’ the Gang dropped some serious draft week bomb-a-loo by acquiring Denver’s first round pick, the 25th overall, in exchange for the Skins’ 2005 third rounder, in addition to next year’s…

Howard County police have arrested an area man who made creative use of a list of NFL players phone numbers to bilk some of the games superstars out of a few thousand dollars. And while he’s not crowing about it on his website (it actually doesn’t appear as if he’s doing much at all with his site), it appears that the scam was uncovered by Oakland defensive lineman Warren Sapp. According to the Post, Lewis…

The Washington Redskins, in a hopeful sign of things to come, rang in the calendar year 2005 by playing their best, and perhaps most complete game of the season, running the Minnesota Vikings out of the stadium and nearly out of the playoffs. Riding a monstrous performance by the defense, who once again began the game missing key defensive starters and featuring players you’ve never even heard of, like Garnell Wilds, the Skins played…

DCist is happy to announce that Jason Linkins (aka The DCeiver) has agreed to take over our football coverage and bring his weekly “Passion of the Gibbs” column over to our bandwidth. I gotta tell you, DC…we was robbed! Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory this weekend at “Snyders of Landover” (as my buddy Josef V. calls it) when the seemingly miraculous Clinton Portis touchdown was called back on an illegal motion penalty…