Commanders Win!
Feeling pressure from fans, media, and coaching staff, the Washington Commanders gave fans a diamond-like 29-21 win over the New York Giants with Marcus Mariota, again, at the helm.
Mariota will likely remain the active QB as head coach Dan Quinn made the decision to sit out the team's starting QB, Jayden Daniels, for the remainder of this season as he continues to rehab his injured elbow.
Shout out to Terry McLaurin for scoring a TD. Fans have been waiting for most of the season for 'Scary' Terry to respond (goodness, he's messed up many a parlay!) and he did just that off a 51-yard catch from Marcus Mariota.
Say what you will about the team winning to a team like the dismal Giants, but fans will take a win any day.
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In the past, we've seen this team lose to teams they were supposed to beat, and ended up losing. The fact that they did beat a team they were supposed to beat is a good thing.
The win is surely confidence-boosting for a team that has struggled mightily this season.
Nobody should say anything negative about the Commanders winning.
Another Wizards Win.
Also winning are the Washington Wizards. The team, struggling to win games this season as well, defeated the Pacers in Indiana, 108-89, to give them a 4-20 (no pun intended) record.
Again, Washington sports will take any win we get (especially going into a holiday season).
Congrats to both teams!
Cena's Main Event
Not everyone can be a winner, however.
Fans watched in bewildered amazement as wrestling phenom John Cena lost in a contest that would be his last as a professional wrestler.
A retiring Cena, whose wrestling career spanned more than two decades, succumbed to the submissive chokehold of his opponent, Gunther, Saturday night at Capital One arena.
Watch here as Gunther takes a grueling hold causing Cena to deliver his final tap out.
The match saw Gunther seemingly having his way with the icon as he continued to land fierce body blows to a unrelenting Cena. In the end, only one man would reign.
Oh, but wait!
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Wrestling has been pegged as a sport of smoke and mirrors, with staged performances, strikes, flips, kicks and more. So, can we really believe Cena won't come out of retirement somewhere down the road?
Could we possibly see Cena make a run at Washington politics, perhaps? (Imagine Cena suited up, muscles bulging, as he makes his way to Capital Hill.)
He's definitely no stranger to Washington.
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DC UrbanSports peeped Cena signing autographs for fans at the 2009 Washington Auto Show. It would be sixteen years for the man, who easily became a household name for millions, to come full circle leaving yet another indelible mark on Cena fans in the city.
Who's to say he isn't thinking of a plan to leave another.
We can see you Cena.
A Place Where Athletes Go to Lose Their Last?
Please, let's not make DC the go-to place where famous athletes at the end of their careers come to retire. This ain't Florida, and the weather is too cold.
Oddly, or not, we saw this with Mike Tyson in 2005 (twenty years ago, already?) when he lost to Kevin McBride in what was then called the MCI Center.
I was there, sky-boxed, cheering for Tyson. And then, the unimaginable took place. The greatest heavyweight boxer of my generation lost in a not greatest heavyweight boxer of my generation kinda way. The air knocked out of Tyson fans in the place, the "Oh lay, oh lay oh lay, oh lay" chant you hear on sports game days. It was over.
And while Cena sat in the middle of the ring after his loss, pontificating, Tyson sat up against the ropes doing the same. Both men looking like they took their last breath after a hard fought battle, saying I can't do this sh*t no more.
"No mas!"
Please, I'm begging. Whoever plans to retire next in DC, do us all (and yourself) a favor.
Go out on top, and win.
Updated 12/14/2025, 2 pm
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From the DC UrbanSports Archives.
Washington football team's gift of a college scholarship. It is gift-giving season after all.
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