INTERVIEW — JOHN MATTHEWS – WMAL’s Managing Editor — recapped the NFL draft and the Redskins. Jonathan Allen, the Redskins pick is from Leesburg, Virginia!
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- Recap NFL draft for the Redskins: Jonathan Allen, the Redskins pick is from Leesburg, Virginia!
- Washington Redskins: Jonathan Allen, DE, Alabama — It would seem shoulder issues knocked him down a bit, but this could be a heist for the ‘Skins. Allen is an every-down lineman who had 28 sacks in four seasons despite often playing on the interior. He’ll plug beautifully into Washington’s three-man front and should be an instant factor for a defense that struggled in every area in 2016 and won’t have suspended pass rusher Trent Murphy at the outset.
- The Capitals fall to the Penguins 3-2 in Game 1 of their second-round Stanley Cup Playoff matchup. Decisive goal came late, but Capitals lost the game with earlier miscues. The Washington Capitals will wake up Friday morning and rue the third-period goal from Nick Bonino, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ third-line center who was last seen finishing the Capitals off in overtime of Game 6 last May, beginning summer in Washington a month early. On Thursday, in the opener of their second-round series at Verizon Center, it was somehow Bonino on the breakaway, Bonino outracing Washington defenseman Brooks Orpik to free himself for the shot, Bonino beating Braden Holtby to give Pittsburgh a 3-2 victory.
- Washington Nationals pound Colorado Rockies, 16-5, finish ten-game road trip 9-1. With a 16-5 win today in Coors Field, the Washington Nationals finished their ten-game road trip to Atlanta, New York and Colorado 9-1 with a 16-6 record overall on the season. Gio Gonzalez went 6 2⁄3 innings on the mound today in Coors Field, limiting the Rockies to two runs on seven hits as the Washington Nationals took the series finale in Denver, CO to finish with a 9-1 record on their ten-game road trip through Atlanta, New York and the Mile-High City. Gonzalez received plenty of run support in what ended up a 16-5 win in which he was able to collect two RBIs himself, on an RBI infield single in the sixth and a bases-loaded walk in the seventh. The Nationals blew things wide open in an 11-run top of the seventh in which they set franchise records (2005-present) for runs and plate appearances (15) in a single inning.
