About an hour’s drive southwest of D.C. lies Willow Run, home to an icon of American polo, John Gobin.
Gobin manages The Great Meadow Polo Club in The Plains, VA., and is captain of the US Polo Team, competing internationally against the world's finest teams.
From April 'til November each year Gobin offers
The Marine Corps Marathon 10K presented by Aetna, held simultaneously with the 36th Marine Corps Marathon in October, registered runners for all 10,000 available entries.
For the owner of DC's first professional tennis team, 2011 could not have been any sweeter.
"It was truly a season for the ages," said Washington Kastles owner Mark Ein, who established the team four years ago, and watched his beloved team complete the first perfect undefeated season in the 36-year
This is a story about hope and overcoming the most daunting of physical challenges.
Members of Team Strike Out MS, a group of local athletes committed to raising awareness about multiple sclerosis, competed in the Marine Corps Marathon Oct. 30 using specialized racing chairs.
Personal trainer and former professional basketball
While the weather is never certain, a few things are at every Virginia Gold Cup or International Gold Cup race meet: The hats and tailgates rule the day.
Tailgating at the International Gold Cup races is a time honored tradition. The best tailgates have a theme, decorations and special food and drinks recipes. The hats and chapeaux
And the winner is...Moses Kigen Kipkosgei, who flew to America from his homeland of Kenya to win the second annual Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon presented by WillPower Sport & Wellness.
Kipkosgei crossed the finish line in 1:02:37, knocking 2:07 off Derese Deniboba's event record time from last year. Defending champion
Tennis greats Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Jim Courier will perform in a newly expanded and reformatted Champions Series on Friday, Sept. 23 at The Verizon Center, taking the highly competitive tennis circuit to a total of 12 U.S. cities over a five week season through October 22. The matches begin at 6:30 pm.
Two days after her originally scheduled match-up with #17 seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, three-time champion Serena Williams found her groove on Arthur Ashe stadium court. She defeated the 20-year-old Russian, 7-5, 6-1, to reach her sixth semifinal at Flushing Meadows.
Both players struggled to find a rhythm for the first half
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Body Found in Well may be Alexandria Community Activist
