It's Spring and almost time for baseball to start, so time to look at how the winter sports have done.
The Maryland Terps Men's basketball team had a very good year, finishing the regular season with six wins in a row and a tie for the ACC Championship(13-4) and 24-9 overall.. The Terps did OK in the NCAA's and should have beaten Michigan State(they were lucky to hit a 3-pointer with just .3 seconds left in the game). Michigan State is now in the Fnal Four, and it should have been Maryland.
Gary Williams earned "Coach of the Year" and Greivas Vasquez was "Player of the Year" in ACC basketball and both were very deserving of the honors.
The Maryland Terps Women basketball team were very young this year with three freshman and a sophomore starting most games. They still finished wih a 21-13 record and should be back in the playoff picture next year with an excellent recruiting class for 2011.
The Washington Wizards had a diaster of a season both on the court and off the court. The team never played to its potential. Owner Abe Polen passed away and star player Gilbert Arenas got into a lot of trouble for bringing guns into the locker room and was suspended for the rest of the season. The team decided to trade away all-stars Antwan Jamison and Caron Butler along with cneter Brendon Haywood. The future does not look good for the Wizards.
The Washington Capitals ice hockey team continues to dominate the NHL and are seriously looking to make a run at the Stanley Cup in April. Ovie Ovetchkin looks to win his league MVP for third year ina row.
And the football team Washington Redskins always make news during the winter off-season. They have a new cach in Mike Shanahan and a new approach to building a winning team. Making slower and not as "splashy" moves as they did in past off-seasons. We'll see how this goes.
Back to Spring and baseball. The Washington Nationals signed the best college pitcher of the past decade, Steven Strasburg, and he pitched like it during Spring Training. So, The Nats decided to send him to the minors for "seasoning". He should be "sesasoned" by May and up in the big leagues. The Nats didn't improve the team from last year so I am not expecting them to do much better than last year when they lost 102 games. Going to be a long summer, except on days that Strawsburg pitches.
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