kyrie irving is there now. does the rivalry carry over at all? >> without isaiah thomas, the wizards have to show they can play with the celtics, not the other way around. they added kyrie irving and they haven't missed a beat. so it's up to the and play to their level. to get off to a slow start i was disappointed in the wizards. obviously john wall dealt with injury. i love how bradley beal has come on. finish at the hoop and show he is clutch. looking forward to celtics defensive matchups. virginia in particular backcourt of the wizards. robert: redskins pro bowl tackle trent williams placed on injured reserve. big game on christmas. hope it's not a flop. kimberly: right. check the forecast. bill: good indoor day. christmas day a lot of us spend time inside. 37. slight chance of early morning flurries. next week is a cold week on wednesday to go through the new year's eve weekend with the potential for snow late. there >> robert said we have santa in all of this. this guy anchoring every show we have today! [applause] robert: merry "what if" t

were john wall and crew enough to top kyrie irving and the celtics? highlights when we return. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ it all starts with a wish. the final days of wish list are here. hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down first month's payment. hey, guys. where are the cookies for the... bake sale? bake... bake sale? need to bake in a hurry? use new country crock buttery sticks with sunflower oil. there's no softening required. so baking is delicious and easy. ooh, cookies! ah, ah, ah! (laughter) against the boston celtics. the wiz got things started early, with this great pass from marcin gortat to bradley beal... washington lead by two heading into the second half. then in the fourth - boston leading by 1...john wall finds kelly oubre in the corner for three...that gave the wizards a 97-95 lead. finally, the wizards went on a 12-nothing run to put this one away...wall comes up with the steal...ahead to beal for the exclamation point! the wizards win

speaking of the cavs, kyrie irving demanded a trade so he wouldn't have to play with lebron james, and not round. kyrie, baby, how you gonna say the earth is flat when you basically spend 20 hours a day dribbling a damn globe? a damn globe, of course! i'd be remiss if i didn't mention that there was a racial slur that was spray-painted on the home of lebron james. clearly money and fame are not enough to protect the black man in today's america, and that's an america with three k's, right, roy? -yeah, man. why do you keep bring up all this heavy race stuff? this supposed to be a light segment. i just want my sports with no racism. i'm sorry. you know me, but i'm an ally to the black man. stop saying "the black man." how you gonna say that? i minored in african studies. that ain't got nothing to do with it. okay. all right. i'll just back off the african. okay. -look. anyway, let's just move on because the most incredible performance of this year... yeah. ...has to go to serena williams winning the australian open while pregnant. -yeah. try pulling that off, roger federer. well, he coul

his opponent, kyrie irving did not let him live it down.sten. >> y m you missed your highlight. >> ooh, you missed your highlight. it didn't matter, though, because they won the game. washington ended up beating boston. 111-103. it was a close one. wall finished with 21 points and 14 assists. how's that for a highlight? >> and wall is giving lots of assists off the basketball court. >> he and other basketball stars are spreading cheer with the nba cares program and t.j. holmes has more on that. >> reporter: on the court, 6'4", 210-pound wizards player john wall is a force to be reckoned with. but when he's not ballin', he's giving back to the d.c. community, mentoring and inspiring families in need through his john wall foundation and nba care. >> one day my mom said you could be known as a great back but be known as a better person. >> reporter: he hosted a private screening of "jumanji, welcome to the jungle" for 200 underprivileged kids and a special message from his co-star. >> you are taking kids to see "jumanji", which is the best gif

late in the fourth it's that time for kyrie irving. the triple here for boston's largest lead of the game, 95-90. gronk and friends loving it. but the wizards right back. now just down one. john wall passes up a shot, finds oubre in the corner, hits the three. oubre's 16 points, wall 14 assists to go along with 21 points. wall also showing off. check this out. huge play. under four to go. steals the ball from irving. ahead to beal. finishe wizards outscore the celtics 21-8 down the stretch, win it 111-103. a little revenge. feeling good on this christmas day. >> still the same organization. they still have a lot of the guys on the team still. we know it's a lot of new faces but at the end of the day celtic green is what knocked us out last year. we still have that feeling in the back of our head. we definitely had it tonight. that's one of the points coach emphasized coming into this evening. we kept it in our hearts and came out and competed. >> a big win in a place they hadn't won since april 2014. nine games including the playoffs.

kyrie irving a game high 36.>>> to the college scene, temple taking on south carolina. quentin rose trying to make a long pass. where does the ball go but right in the hoop. 24 points for him including this three. was it a bad shot? you make the call. 76-6, temple gets the win. all is well on north broad street. that's sports. i'm danny pommels. we'll be right back.

and staying out east-- kyrie irving...playing his first christmas with the boston celtics.-we pick it up in the 4th.. irving...rolls left..pull-up 3. he and rookie jayson tatum combined for 40-points. boston led midway through the quarter --then, the wizards ripped off a 12-0 run. wall...steals it from irving... and down the other end, sets up bradley beal for the emphatic slam. --wizards triumph in boston, 111-103 let's now go to santa clara-- where yesterday jimmy garoppolo orchestrated another remarkable performance that gave the niners a 4th straight win... and increased that contract he'll sign this offseason. jimmy g....continues to amaze and had his most impressive outing yet... carved up that dominant jaguars defense that leads the league in sacks and is top 5 in turnovers. in fact, he was so good...the jacksonville players started fighting among themselves on the sideline. at the end of the day, he threw for more than 240-yards on 21-of-30 passing with 3 total tds. garoppolo improves to 6-0 as a starting qb...and the niners have won 4 straight, the first time that'

nobody had an answer for kyrie irving who scored 36. sixers lost 108-97.tomorrow. >>> you're in the hall of fame. >> i am. >> since when. >> since i just said so. >> don't listen to monica. she doesn't know. >> in his dreams. >> dreams are good. all right. thank you jamie. >> okay guys. >> quick break, more news when we come right back. first this one. villanova university professor and local college students trying to find a building to open a shelter for homeless people and their pets. the group has been operating a shelter since 2011 but they realize that people don't want to leave their pets out in the cold so they started a go fund me campaign in hopes of raising enough money to buy a church building in mantua in hopes of fulfilling that need. >> happy holiday season for some lucky pets thanks to the pet company foundation holiday wishes campaign. the organization donated 10 grand to the providence animal center. nominations submitted by pet owners who have adopted from that shelter. how about that. >> now we take a quick break. still to come on "acti

reverse dunk put back. 15 on the night much the goo it that led the way in scoring foreboom teams kyrie irvingritic on the sixers they fall to boston 108-97. >> temple taking on carolina. nice ball movement. damien moore temple up 23 with two minutes left to play. >>> carson wentz is the most popular guy in physical right now and with all that mvp talk he's remaining incredibly humble and still puttin putting up gret numbers. howard eskin sat down with wentz to get an inside look at his sophomore season. >> wentz back, he steps up, he's firing, touchdown, perfect strike as he guns it to zach ertz. >> second year in the league, you're in your mid 20s. and you're bigger in this town than santa claus. really how do you deal with that good for me it's just, i say it all the time i block out the noise by simi keeping my circle tight for one and limit wagon i do during the season just because we're so busy at the facility watching film, working all week and then i go home and get away as best i can. so i really kind of insulate myself from everything. >> you can hear more from wentz this sunday at 1

from a christmas day loss in washington they beat the charlotte hornets hundred two to ninety one kyrie irving lead with twenty one points and rookie jason tatum school ten of his eighteen in the fourth quarter. minnesota's game with the denver nuggets went into overtime with jimmy bottler leading the scoring for the temple he made twelve of their fourteen o.t. points to finish with a season high thirty nine and the timberwolves one one hundred twenty eight to one hundred twenty five. soundly cup holders the pittsburgh penguins returned to winning form on the ice on wednesday after a three day christmas break the team has been struggling this season by states seven out of eight in their division that's even after this win over the columbus blue jackets pittsburgh rallied from four to down in the third period to push the game into overtime for a fourth time in five regular season meetings sidney crosby and getting belkin scored in the shootout as the penguins picked up a much needed five zero win. the new jersey devils appear on stoppable on home ice they picked up their fifth straight win with

on to be there for a sleaze ball soon rookie jason todd on the side and nineteen points while kyrie irving lead with twenty the celtics winning one hundred two to ninety three. it's going to be an all egyptian affair at the world squash championships in manchester on sunday both the men's and women's finals will be contested by two players from egypt mohammed world number one gregory goal tear in his semifinal on saturday to set up a date with his brother martin the women's final the contested by nor any and. both prevailed from their semi's as well. now goals isn't often the team sport of the whole event in orlando his pair together fathers and their sons for a thirty six hole contest that includes eighteen time major winner jack nicklaus he's competing with his fifteen year old grandson g.t. who said to be the only one of his twenty two grandchildren with an interest in golf but leading the way is angle cabrera and junior they birdie their last three holes to take a one shot lead in the one million dollars challenge. and that's all your sport for now now back to you john q very much for

big players there are getting older and the nba is bringing on the beats, the carl anthony and kyrie irvingrands that a lot of nfl guys don't have >> you don't have a lot of wide receivers are complaining of not getting the ball it seems right now a little friend friendlier i don't know if the nba team is going to worth more of the nfl team i would own an nfl team tomorrow if i could, okay i would not give up my nba team though >> they're both just great sports >> the governor of new york is waiting. i want to come back and talk to tilman who's both in the nba and the gaming business of the potential of legalize gambling thank you very much, mike wise >> a legal battle maybe brewing, andrew cuomo says the state may challenge the law and raise the state's tax code andrew cuomo, thanks so much for joining us >> thanks for having me. happy holidays to you. >> happy holidays to you and happy new year you think this discriminates against democratic states? >> um, well, it is not that i think,s it does, right >> look at the bill and they started by saying that they run and do a cut for the middle