Our beloved D.C. United may have crashed and burned (again) in the MLS playoffs this season, but life goes on. Also, the playoffs go on — right in our backyard, in fact. Many moons ago, Washington was picked to host the 2007 MLS Cup this Sunday at noon, at RFK. Time to put aside your grieving and check out the game. Tickets start at $30, maybe even less on Craigslist. When else are you going…

According to Forbes magazine, the Washington Capitals are the third most worthless team in the National Hockey League. This is a big step up from last year, when they were number one! Of course, being businessmen and not hockey fans, the boys at Forbes have failed to take into account the kinds of younger, developing players that the Caps hold, ready to carry them to success either this year or in the immediate future. If…

Last week Prevention magazine put out its list of the Best Walking Cities of 2007. We were a little bit surprised by the results: 1. Madison, Wisconsin 2. Austin, Texas 3. San Francisco, California 4. Charlotte, North Carolina 5. Seattle, Washington 6. Henderson, Nevada 7. San Diego, California 8. San Jose, California 9. Chandler, Arizona 10. Virginia Beach, Virginia OK, so the top five cities are all plausible, even if we have a hard time…

D.C. United fans celebrated a come-from-behind win this week and have been rewarded with a high profile exhibition game as a midsummer treat. Chelsea FC, who posted a 29-1-8 record this past season as they soared to win the Premiereship, will be coming to these shores to take on the United here in the DC area, as well as playing a pair of dates with Champions’ League runners-up AC Milan. AC Milan is similarly scheduled…

Quite a weekend for the local sports teams: >> Showing no ill effects from Marlon Byrd and Tomo Ohka’s bizarre behavior on Saturday, the Nationals beat the Marlins 6-3 yesterday and put themselves atop the wacky NL East. While you’re swelling with hometown pride keep in mind that the last place team in the division is only 1 1/2 games behind us. The scrappy Nats have won six of seven during their homestand and seven…

We’ve always thought of D.C. as a great place to live (we write for this site, so we kind of have to). But we were intrigued when we saw that in a recent study of health in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Washington, D.C., came in as the second-healthiest city in the United States, beaten only by San Jose. The study, conducted by Sperling’s Best Places and Centrum, ranked the health of cities based…