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Emotions high after 6-5 loss
This is the 60th time the Nats have lost this year, but it's tough to remember too many games where stronger postgame words were spoken than this one.
Thru 6: Oswalt shutting Nats down
In most games the Nationals have lost this year, they've been able to legitimately point to chances to turn the game around. In this one, there's been only one of them. They trail 4-1 after six innings, and are having a tough time cracking Astros ace Roy Oswalt.
Thru 3: Looking like a rough one for Olsen
We're through three innings here, and Scott Olsen is having his worst start since coming off the disabled list last month.
Zadzooks: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pangya: Fantasy Golf
Zadzooks High Definition Video Game Minute for July 10, 2009 - Washington Times reporter Joseph Szadkowski previews Electronic Arts' third person-action arcade shooter G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the Game developed for all consoles and reviews TOMY Corporation's Pangya: Fantasy Golf for the PSP.
Obama, the pope and the ecumenical patriarch
Although we may never know exactly what was said Friday behind closed doors between Obama and Pope Benedict XVI, we know exactly what went on when the president met with the head of the Orthodox world in April.
Lineups from Houston
Here are the lineups for today's game. You'll note Ryan Zimmerman isn't in the Nationals' lineup. He is attending his grandmother's funeral in North Carolina, and won't be in the starting lineup tomorrow either.
College Football Countdown: Nos. 106-110
Plenty of new coaches to look in on in this installment
Gov't calls for edgy flu videos, but no music!
The Obama administration wants MTV-style videos to raise awareness about swine flu, but like MTV itself, they don't want any music videos.
Burger King sorry for Hindu 'Whopper' goddess
Burger King offended Hindus with an ad featuring an Indian goddess hawking a Whopper. Next time they'll avoid the controversy and just use an image of the pope.
Burris won't seek re-election
Sen. Roland Burris won't run for re-election. And the entire state of Illinois breathes a sigh of relief.
Thru 6: Another sixth-inning heartache
If there's been one inning where the Nationals have been snakebitten more than any other, it's the sixth. They entered the night having given up 72 runs in the sixth, their most of the year, and the inning got them again on Thursday.
Thru 3: Nats up 4-2
For a game that started May 5, the Nats sure are feeding off the momentum it generated. OK, maybe not, but they're up 4-2 after three innings, beating up ragged Astros starter Russ Ortiz.
Nats win suspended game; now it's back to normal
Manager Manny Acta's pregame press conference today, most of which consisted of discussing the scenarios, implications and oddities of resuming a game that started May 5, took seven minutes. So did the game itself.
Bennett's Best for the week of July 5
Legendary comic book store owner Greg Bennett provides a pair of recommendations for comic book lovers every week. This week its Wednesday Comics, No. 1 from DC Comics and Asterios Polyp from Pantheon.
One top-level GOP group undermines another
Two candidates the National Republican Senatorial Committee has recruited for 2010 are at odds with the anti-stimulus opposition being put forth by the Republican National Committee.
