Our season-ending breakdown of the Capitals’ roster concludes with Forwards, Part II (Hendricks to Ward).

If you missed any of the other installments, check them out here: Forwards Part I, Defense, Goaltending, Unrestricted Free Agents and Restricted Free Agents.

D.C. United goalkeeper Bill Hamid had not yet signed a professional contract and was still competing for the club’s youth academy team. Midfielder Andy Najar had just finished an All-Met sophomore season at Edison High.

Wizards owner Ted Leonsis’s son, Zach, will represent the team at the NBA draft lottery in New York on Wednesday with the hope that he can help the organization claim the top choice for the third time in franchise history. Kentucky big man Anthony Davis is considered the prize of a deep draft, and the Wizards possess the second-best odds at winning the No. 1 overall pick at 19.9 percent.

Curiously, the team that didn’t spend truckloads of cash in the offseason and wasn’t anointed a preseason World Series contender is in first place in their division. The Cleveland Indians, of three straight losing seasons fame, are your American League Central leaders and among baseball’s most intriguing teams this spring.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios laid off its entire staff on Thursday only two days after he praised his employees’ "breathtaking resilience" through the video game company’s financial struggles.

Nearly a month after the Wizards concluded the regular season, the team has still been extremely quiet about its plans for Coach Randy Wittman.

A source with knowledge of the Wizards’ thinking recently described the situation as "an ongoing process," adding that the team has no timetable to make a decision. Wittman and his assistants are still under contract for next season, lessening the urgency. But the silence – and lack of aggressiveness in pursuing other potential candidates – has raised speculation amongst agents and rival league executives that they all will be brought back.

Josh LeRibeus is one of those guys that just looks like he belongs on the Redskins’ offensive line. There’s something about him, but I wasn’t sure what until he pointed it out yesterday on the Sports Fix.

The groundwork that led to Natasha Lacy’s surprise ascension to starting point guard began long before her name was called during opening introductions of the Washington Mystics’ season-opening loss to the Chicago Sky last Saturday night.

Juergen Klinsmann on Friday set his 23-man roster for the U.S. national team’s three friendlies and two World Cup qualifiers by cutting defender Alfredo Morales (Hertha Berlin), midfielders Daniel Williams (Hoffenheim) and Grahame Zusi (Sporting Kansas City) and forward Juan Agudelo (Chivas USA).

The U.S. Olympic Committee put a contentious financial dispute officially behind it Thursday by signing a 20-year revenue-sharing deal with the International Olympic Committee, and then almost immediately turning its attention to another major task: bringing the Olympic Games back to the United States.

Another day of organized team activities has ended with another significant injury for the New York Giants.

Wide receiver Hakeem Nicks broke his right foot running a route today and is expected to have a pin surgically implanted Friday. The Giants say they expect that he’ll need about three months to recover, which would put him in doubt for the season opener Sept. 5. It wasn’t immediately clear how Nicks was hurt because the OTA was not open to members of the media.

Rob Larkin and James Cumiskey brought a scuffed soccer ball with them to Jacksonville’s EverBank Field on Friday afternoon for the U.S. national team’s training session.

Not just any ball.

It was the one that Landon Donovan booted into the crowd at the final whistle of the Americans’ pulsating victory over Algeria at the 2010 World Cup in Pretoria, South Africa.

The Nationals and Braves are starting their showdown series tonight against Tim Hudson, historically one of their toughest opponents. In 23 starts against Washington, Hudson is 14-3 with a 2.05 ERA. On the season, he’s 3-1 with a 3.03 ERA. Ross Detwiler will try to solidify his spot in the rotation with Chien-Ming Wang now healthy. Talk about the game right here.

If Chien-Ming Wang stayed on his regular schedule as a starter, he would be pitching tonight’s game. But the Nationals had no room for him in their rotation, and so Manager Davey Johnson seems to be unsure of what, exactly, to do with him.

The opportunity Roger Bernadina received upon Jayson Werth breaking his wrist already appears to have elapsed. For the third straight game against a right-handed starting pitcher, Steve Lombardozzi will play left field and Bernadina will begin the game on the bench.

Nationals left fielder Michael Morse played in his first extended spring training today in Florida, and on Monday he will begin a rehab assignment at Class A Potomac, Manager Davey Johnson.

Morse has been sidelined all season with a strained lat muscle, but the Nationals’ projected cleanup hitter, a slugger who hit 31 homers last season, is nearing his season debut. In an extended spring training game today, Morse hit a home run center field, hit a single and flied out to right.

Briar Woods linebacker Matt Rolin verbally committed to South Carolina on Friday, ending a whirlwind offseason that saw the junior go from a relatively unknown commodity to one of the area’s top defensive prospects.

The Nationals and Braves will begin their weekend showdown with Ross Detwiler and Tim Hudson on the mound. For the third time in the past three games against a right-handed starter, Steve Lombardozzi will start in left field with Roger Bernadina on the bench.