the caps in the thrashers zone. they win the faceoff. 1-0 capitals early on. still in the first, the thrashers on a power play but the caps are attacking shorthanded. alexander semi ne is denied but he sticks with t. lenot be denied a second time. that is the first of two goals for semin. he now has 18 for the season. that would be more enough for the goaltender. 39 saves in all, including this beautiful stab in mid air. from there the capitals would just pour it on. nicholas backstrom adds one. 8-1 making a big winner for head coach bruce boudreau on his 55 55th birthday. it's time for your first break in the show. the n.f.l. playoffs are underway. that and more when geico sports xtra returns.  ♪ ♪ doctor says i have to lower my cholesterol. here you go, mr. noran. thanks. [ female announcer ] trying to lower your cholesterol can be a challenge. but with the help of honey nut cheerios' sweet taste, lowering your cholesterol is a non-challenge. get $2 in coupons at non-challenge.com this is really good! >>> welcome back to the show. the cowbo

third period action, thrashers power play.im afinogenov cleans it up with a wrister to put atlanta back on top 2-1. last chance coming up here for the ducks with the extra attacker. ryan getzlaf fires it with three seconds left. it goes off the post. thrashers, they hold on 2-1. next up for your washington capitals a-rare visit from anaheim. puck drops at 7:00 tomorrow. our coverage starts rinkside at 6:30 on "geico sportsnite". on a side note, caps may have to call up brendan hopi has a league-leading 1.82 goals against average potentially jose theodore we understand has a lower body injury. he's day to day. >>> from philadelphia basementyoungest player to play an nba game in 1996 and named after the famous beef of kobe japan. there is much more to kobe bryant than meets the eye. arguably, the greatest player in the game with four championship rings. his championship for the game is rarely matched. before tonight's game, our ron thompson sat down with the laker star in a rare, cliexive interview to find out what it is that ma

thrashers turn it over. morrison passes right through three defenders to jason. he scores his first goal as a capital. the caps crush atlanta 8-1 their largest margin ever victory this season. talking football. peyton manning, a commercial actor who occasionally plays football. they forgot to add when play ss awesome. peyton manning won the most valuable player award. earning 32 more points than drew brees. donovan mcnabb rocking the air guitar. scaring the jeepers out of the cowboys fans. unfortunately, he was reynoldsered ineffective in his game. michael vick steps back, throws a strike to maclin. maclin is gone. 76 yards for the touchdown. game now at seven. looked like a ball game flight. later in the quarter, philly down 17-7. vick takes the snap, tries to hand it off to weaver. bobby carpenter all over it. a game changing play. that leads to another dallas touchdown. eagles pretty much out of it after that. here's the cherry on top for dallas. felix jones was the man. gets the ball. runs right. right through the eagles defense. and says excuse me, folks, i'

the capitals had to atlanta saturday to take on the thrashers. the redskins game, the team is not play off down. coming up, a car overturns in rock creek, sending cruise kremlin to try to get to the driver trapped inside -- sending crews >> the dc area is in the middle of a deep freeze, with some of the coldest air we have seen so far this winter. the powerful wind gusts made it feel like it was in the single digits. the wind brought down trees and knocked out power to thousands of people across the area. investigators are trying to figure out what led to a bizarre accident this morning. police say a car went off the rock creek parkway and into the icy rock creek. joshua kuhlman was pulled from the vehicle barely ali ad rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead this afternoon. there will be enhanced security measures for people coming to the u.s. from overseas. tsa says all passengers are eligible for random screenin anpeople coming from certain countries will undergo other security measures. getting back to the cold, we are looking at

it tonight, they played the team closest to them in the standings, pounding the thrashers into the ice early. at an atlanta, in the first, left side, watch tom podie. first, alexander semin, blocks the shot. two-zero capitals. mike green got the steel before the end of that, and the capitals go on to win, 8-1. >>> if you were among those attending the verizon center day watching the georgetown hoyas, you may have thought the game was over. the uconn was cruising. georgetown up by one, 33 points. less than one minute, uconn up by one. on rose shot is blocked, but the hoyas are up by one. -- 1 rove's shot is blocked. it looks like the boy is will turn it over. uconn gets a chance to get the ball back? maybe not. monroe gets it, the lead is 3. last shot to tie, stanley robinson, open 3, georgetown wins. >> felt it was all lost. we did not do what we were supposed to, how we were supposed to do it in the first half. but we knew if we took care of it we had a chance. the guys did a good job of focusing. it is terrific. >>> tim brant calling the uva-nc state game. virginia wins 70-62. >> goo

the guys were showing no mercy to the thrashers who were about to get embarrassed.st period, mike gets the scoring started. 1-0. nicholas backs tropical, trom 3-0. this makes it 6-1. how about you get one. 7-1. because who doesn't love more goals, jason, here is number 8. the only guy that didn't score was obe. he did play. they didn't need him to. capitals win 8-1. that matches their season high for goals in a game. nfl playoffs getting underway. mark sanchez making his playoff debut visiting the bengals. thomas jones a touchdown run. they win on the road 24-14. >>> college hoops and halftime mercifully rolled around, you couldn't have blamed la hoya fans for wanting to wave the white flag. for the guys in gray, there would be no surrender. number 12, georgetown, hosting number 13 yukon. hoyas have been down by at much as 19. but he went ballistic in the second half scoring 28 in the half. that gave him a career-high about 3. put the hoyas up 1. georgetown, the comeback win. hoyas have won four straight over the huskies. number 8, west virginia at notre dame. mount

no score the capitals in the thrashers zone. they get to face off. it 11-0 capitals.hat would be more enough for goaltender. 39 saves in all. the capitals would add on seven more goals. they go on the road. they get a key division win 8- 1. big east rivalries are so strong on the basketball court. case in point tonight's matchup between 12th ranked george towfn and 13th ranked connecticut. uconn has dominated this matchup for many years but recently the wins have gone in georgetown's favor. the hoyas having won the last three meetings. we start in the first half, it was all uconn, the hurvegies running early -- huskies running early and often. the hoyas down 15 at the half. second half, here come the hoyas thanks to austin freeman who went off. he scored 28 of his carr high 33 points in the second half. they're knocking down the long ball. freeman would dig the hoyas out of a 19-point deficit. georgetown make it is four wins in a row against u. con. they go on to -- uconn. they go on to win. >> our offense made the defense better. we were getting better shots so we we

. >> called crazy 8, they dominated the atlantic thrashers. let's get shortie, sem into the roof and nick backstrom and mike knuble and steckel a nice drive and cody on the power play and rick a nice pass and jason chimera is first as a caps. all caps against atlanta. >> the whole team took part and everybody has a kick. cody and jason chimera on the board. everybody chips in but two and an 8 spot doesn't happen every day, only 6 times in the last ten years. in the capitals history. hockey has a bunch of statistics that we keep track of and one of them is plus-minus and jeff schultz is gaining there. >> plus ten against at h a ball blue liner and one behind alex ovenchin. confidence, composed and consistent. >> he is very steady and bruce boudreau explained why he is performing so well. >> he's not making mistakes. he's doing the right things and things that people don notice that he does. he has such a big body that he gets in people's way. he doesn't bowl them over but he is there. he is like a pest for a big guy in our zone and help gets th