Washington Sports and the Winter Olympics

The snow storm did not affect the basketball game between the George Washington Colonials (12-10) and the Duquesne University Dukes (12-11) on Saturday, February 6th at the Charles E. Smith Center. The Colonials extended their losing streak to three games by falling to the Dukes, 70-63. GW freshmen, Lasan Kromah led the team with 15 points. Two other GW freshmen scored in double figures. Dwayne Smith contributed 14 points and Bryan Bynes added 11 points for the Colonials. Duquesne was led by Damian Saunders, who scored a career-high 27 points. GW will travel to Bronx, NY on Saturday to play the Fordham University Rams (2-18). Tip-off is at 1:00pm. You can listen to the game on WRGW.

After Sunday's game between The Washington Wizards (17-33) and the Atlanta Hawks (33-18) was postponed due to snow, the Wizards fell to the Charlotte Bobcats (26-25) on Tuesday by a score of 94-92. The Wizards lost in the final seconds when Charlotte's Raymond Felton scored the game-winning shot with 1.9 seconds left. The Bobcats were led by Stephen Jackson, who scored 22 points in the game. Washington's Caron Butler led the team in scoring with 23 points. All-Star Weekend begins Friday night with the All-Star Celebrity game. The 2010 All-Star game will be on Sunday night at 7:00 pm at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

On Thursday night the Washington Capitals (41-13) fell to the Ottawa Senators (35-22) by the score of 6-5. The Capitals were able to come back from a 3-1 deficit after the first period to tie it up in the second period 4-4. Capitals' Alexander Semin achieved a hat trick by scoring twice in the second period and once in the third. Tomas Fleischmann and Jeff Shultz each contributed a goal in the game. The Capitals will not be playing until March because of the Winter Olympics. Five players from the Capitals are headed to Vancouver: Semyon Varlamov, Alexander Ovechkin, and Alexander Semin (Russia), Tomas Fleischmann (Czech Republic), and Nicklas Backstrom (Sweden).

The Vancouver Winter Olympics opening ceremony will be on Friday night at 6:00pm. Medal events will begin on Saturday. The Olympic events will be broadcasted on NBC.