John Carlson (ice hockey)

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Soccer--Premier League, teams to be announced, 9:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Los Angeles at New York, 12:10 p.m. (ESPN2) Auto Racing--Indy Racing League, IndyCar Indianapolis 500 Bump Day, 11 a.m. (NBCSN); Drag Racing, NHRA Kansas...

The lack of penalties on the Rangers in Game 6 -- none until the scrum at the final buzzer Sunday -- irritated the Capitals, especially after what they saw as a slew foot by Derek Dorsett with 6:14 left in the third period. Mike Green retaliated and was...

|TODAY| |HOCKEY| |North American Hockey League| |Robertson Cup Tournament| |Dr. Pepper Arena| |At Frisco, Texas| Amarillo vs. Wenatchee (Wash.)/Fairbanks, 4:30 p.m. Bismarck vs. Jamestown, 7:30 p.m. |HORSE RACES| Brown County...

The New York Rangers scored their only goal in the first minute. Then the Washington Capitals made home-ice advantage work. And in this series, home ice has been critical. Nine minutes, 24 seconds into overtime, Mike Ribeiro was stationed by the...

WASHINGTON _ The season has come down to one game at Madison Square Garden Sunday. The Rangers either beat the Capitals or go home for the summer. They were put in the precarious position by Mike Ribeiro and his Washington teammates, who won Game 5 of...

The season has come down to one game at Madison Square Garden tomorrow. The Rangers either beat the Capitals or go home for the summer. They were put in the precarious position by Mike Ribeiro and his Washington teammates, who won Game 5 of the best-of-...

Andre Hollins won't be the only University of Minnesota basketball guard nicknamed "Dre" anymore. Now there's Deandre Mathieu, an Arizona Community College junior college guard also nicknamed "Dre." "We're both Dre and both from Tennessee," Mathieu said...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Rangers 4, Capitals 3 Rangers 4, Capitals 3: Defenseman Dan Girardi scored a power-play goal to snap a tie 59 seconds into the third period as sixth-seeded New York evened its Eastern Conference first-round series at two games...

Derek Stepan and Arron Asham both scored tiebreaking goals in the third period for the New York Rangers in a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals in Game 3 on Monday night. The Rangers finally found their offense and got back into their first-round...

Alex Ovechkin’s franchise-record 31st career playoff goal got the Capitals started before less-heralded teammates Marcus Johansson and Jason Chimera scored 46 seconds apart, and Washington beat the New York Rangers 3-1 Thursday night in Game 1 of...

In the NHL playoffs, does familiarity breed contempt? We'll find out starting this week, when the Rangers meet the Capitals for the third consecutive year and fourth in the last five. Some of the players -- and in the Caps' case, the men behind the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a game of disputed deflections and odd bounces, with the puck behaving more like that oblong ball with the laces more commonly associated with Super Bowl Sunday. The strangest carom of all came on a simple dump-in that hit a...