After a 295-day hiatus, Tony Kornheiser is back live on the Washington airwaves. This morning, The Tony Kornheiser Show aired on Washington Post Radio (WTWP, 1500 AM and 107.7 FM). Kornheiser was lured away from Sports Talk 980 (his previous employer) and Dan Snyder’s Red Zebra Broadcasting by a generous 3-year contract from WTWP. His return is expected not only to boost WaPo Radio’s sagging ratings, but to bring some life to a moribund D.C….

The big sports story of this weekend for area sports fans is going to be the inspiring play of the George Mason men’s basketball team as they compete for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Still, we hope that you will spare a thought for your DC United, who open their 2006 season Sunday at RFK Stadium against the New York Red Bulls. Ugh. Yes, DC, the MLS team you love to hate just got…

General thinking in the NBA Playoffs is that a series really doesn’t start until a team wins on the road. Well, after losing their second game in a row in Chicago to the Bulls (and continuing their recent less than stellar playoff history), the Wizards better hope this series “doesn’t start” until they return to Chicago next week. Home games on Saturday and Monday might be the last hurrah for this team if they…

Just what does a Redskins fan, slogging through another season in which the playoffs are not in the cards, have to be thankful for? Well, just about every Redskins fan I talked to on Thanksgiving day said the same thing: that Coach Gibbs will not forsake us. When next season comes and the win-loss record is back to 0 and 0, he will be there on the sidelines, guiding us to the promised land. Now…