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Week 17 of the Nerdy 30: Quack Attack and a Wild Emergency
Now that we are out of the boring annual occasion that is the NHL All Star Weekend, I am finally glad that we can go ahead and proceed to some real hockey, especially now that we are into the month February and we got a trade deadline to discuss in less than three weeks. But […]

Week 13 of the Nerdy 30: Playing 500
I don’t mean to brag, but as a Capitals fan, I don’t know if I can think of a more fitting title for this week’s Nerdy 30 than that. Through all the torture and turmoil being a Washington DC sports fan has been over the years, there hasn’t been one athlete that has brought me […]

Week 12 of the Nerdy 30: Slashed Sabres and Karmanos’ Eternal False Hopes
Happy New Year everyone!!! Before I start talking about this week’s post, I want to thank everyone for reading all the articles I have written within the last year. Through all the work that was done for every post, you tend forget the success that is received within such a vast amount of time. It […]

Week 9 of the Nerdy 30: Oil-canned and Dancing with the Devils
This NHL seasons, plenty of changes have been happening. Three-on-three overtime has been a thrilling success, yet the coach’s challenge has been a complete blunder with it’s lack of clarity. One change that might be ignored by fans and media, could be that the Eastern Conference finally might be better than the West. If the […]

Weeks 6 & 7 of the Nerdy 30: Burned Out Flames and Predators Looking For Prey
Even though I missed posting last week’s edition of the Nerdy 30, I was able to tweet out how the teams would have ranked. Feel free to take a look at them for historical reference. Until then, almost every team has played 20 games this NHL season. That means that we have passed another […]

The Roundhouse Kick That Changed Everything
I felt it when Zinadene Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi. I felt it when LeBron James decided to leave Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat. I felt it when the Boston Red Sox came back in the bottom of the ninth inning in game four of the 2004 ALCS. I felt it when the Chicago […]

My Trip This Weekend
Hello Everyone! As you may have seen, I really enjoy watching Rugby, and outside of hockey, it is becoming my favorite sport. As such, I decided to make a trip out to London this weekend. I will be leaving on October 1st from Dulles to get to the city via Heathrow and will be coming […]

“Growing Pains” Starring the England Rugby Team
With barely over a month to go into the start of the Rugby World Cup, the DC Sports Dork has not been shy about his passion for Rugby Union. Thus, features on the state of the best nations and players heading into this year’s tournament will be on display. We start with Australia two weeks […]

Rugby World Cup Preview: Can Australia Win With Brute Force Alone?
With barely over a month to go into the start of the Rugby World Cup, the DC Sports Dork has not been shy about his passion for Rugby Union. Thus, features on the state of the best nations and players heading into this year’s tournament will be on display. We start with the 1991 and […]

2015 Stanley Cup Conference Semifinals Preview
Congratulations, we have survived the first round and boy were there some interesting matchups. In the last hockey-graphs podcast, Garret Hohl was dead on the money in mentioning that last round contained matchups of teams that were pretty even with eachother and it was going to take some producing or stealing of lucky charms to […]