Troy Brouwer got his first career hat trick, and Alex Ovechkin also scored Friday night as the Washington Capitals held on for a 4-3 victory that handed the Tampa Bay Lightning a sixth straight loss. Ovechkin and Brouwer scored power-play goals in the first 6 minutes, and Brouwer went on to score in the second and third periods for the Capitals, who have won six straight at home and six of eight overall to move back into playoff position in the Eastern Conference. Read full article > >

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Capitals vs. Lightning: Troy Brouwer gets first career hat trick to vault Washington past Tampa Bay

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris has agreed to join the Washington Redskins staff as a defensive backs coach, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed Wednesday evening. Morris’ hiring comes less than two weeks after Tampa Bay fired him and exactly a week after he met with Redskins’ brass about the position. Read full article > >

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Redskins hire Raheem Morris to be defensive backs coach

As cities like Tampa, Fla., have joined in the protests begun in New York, news organizations across the country have also begun to take notice.

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Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story

The home runs came off two pitchers as the Texas eliminated Tampa Bay, three games to one, in their American League division series.

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Rangers 4, Rays 3: 2011 A.L.D.S.: Rangers Eliminate Rays as Beltre Hits 3 Home Runs

Randy Savage, a failed minor league baseball player who became the biceps-popping professional wrestler known as the “Macho Man” and the archrival of Hulk Hogan, died in a car crash May 20 near Tampa. He was 58. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Mr. Savage lost control of his Jeep Wrangler near his Tampa-area home and drove into a tree. His wife survived the crash with minor injuries. Mr. Savage thrived in a multimillion-dollar industry that merges show business and athletics. Read full article > >

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Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage, flamboyant professional wrestler, dies at 58

The sky-is-falling Capitals fans want one thing written today. Because they’re so used to doom enveloping their franchise every spring, they want angst, desperation, panic. They want, “OUR SEASON IS 48 HOURS FROM MELTING IN TAMPA!”

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NHL playoffs 2011: No time for the Capitals, and their fans, to panic

Every extra drop of adrenaline provided by Alex Ovechkin’s game-tying, overtime-forcing tally was coursing through the Washington Capitals in extra time of Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. They dominated play and sparked bedlam from the capacity crowd behind them, but all the momentum of that setting wouldn’t prevent the Tampa Bay Lightning from taking advantage of one mistake.

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2011 NHL playoffs: Vincent Lecavalier, Lightning top Capitals in overtime, 3-2

A team that has learned from its mistakes had better learn fast against Tampa Bay.

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Time for Caps to cram

The Washington Capitals discuss their 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first game of their second round playoff series.

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Since the killings of two children in Tampa, people who knew the family have struggled to reconcile the trappings of a picture-perfect life with an unthinkably dark act.

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Suburb’s Veneer Cracks: Mother Is Held in Deaths

A search warrant filed in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday says a mother was unconscious and wearing a bloody robe and her two deceased children were covered in blankets when police arrived.

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A mother in Tampa, Florida has admitted in detail to killing her two teen-aged children, police said.

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Police: Mom kills ‘mouthy’ teens

Police found Julie K. Schenecker, 50, covered in blood on the back porch of her home in Tampa, Florida on Friday morning, after receiving a call from Schenecker’s mother expressing concern over the well-being of her daughter and grandchildren….

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The Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees will battle for the American League pennant after the Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5 to 1 Tuesday night. The Rangers’ Cliff Lee struck out 11 and allowed just six hits in the fifth game of the playoff…

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Rangers to Play Yankees for Pennant

Cliff Lee pitched another postseason gem and the Texas Rangers won a playoff series for the first time, beating the Tampa Bay Rays in a decisive Game 5.

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Rangers 5, Rays 1: Rangers, Kings of Road, Will Face Yanks