<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Michael Wilbon</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/sports/columns/wilbonmichael?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><description>Michael Wilbon</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Time for Some Stops]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12420-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12420-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Guard Larry Hughes, Washington's lone stopper, knows the Wizards lack strong team defense, but recognizing there's been a problem hasn't remedied the situation.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan's Wizards, NBA Running in Right Direction]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10491-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10491-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While the playoffs may lack individual star power, some teams, including Eddie Jordan's Wizards, could provide not only a brand of basketball that is aesthetically superior to what we've seen the last dozen years, but several compelling series early in the playoffs.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draft Is Anybody's Guess]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7756-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7756-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We're not going to know whether the Redskins, or any other team, did the right thing in the NFL draft right away. Drafts are to be judged in two to three years, not Monday morning.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's No Way to Finish]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40927-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40927-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Wizards are collapsing at one of the most important stretches of the season and a lack of defensive intensity is largely to blame.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan Leading the Way]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28362-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28362-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a season that has seen some particularly resourceful coaching in the NBA, nobody's been any better than the Wizards' Eddie Jordan.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[May Day for Tar Heels]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26783-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26783-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[North Carolina's Sean May makes the most of his trip to the big stage, exploiting a flaw in Illinois' defense.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illini Like Underdog Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23819-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23819-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ranked No. 1 in the country yet the No. 2 pick in the national championship game? That's fine by the Illini.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Williams a Showstopper]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22171-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22171-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Illinois' Deron Williams has become indisputably the best player in the tournament, statistics be damned.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty-Four Years Ago, a Day That Lives in Upset History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8072-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8072-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Individually and together, the regional final matchups involving Illinois and Arizona, Louisville and West Virginia, North Carolina and Wisconsin, Michigan State and Kentucky were classic. But that's not to say they were incomparable.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can It Get Any Better?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5613-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5613-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even those of us whose brackets were torn to smithereens on the very first weekend of competition can't possibly complain about the journey to St. Louis and what remains.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Overtime, an All-Timer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4161-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4161-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There may be no signature play to mark fans' minds of the remarkable comeback authored by Illinois, but the greatest Illini win in history takes a backseat to no game.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emerging From Non-Obscure Obscurity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2157-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2157-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The number of believers in Salim Stoudamire as the best shooter in college basketball must have grown exponentially Thursday night when the Arizona guard hit the game-winner with 2.8 seconds left against Oklahoma State.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illini Set Sights High]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64510-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64510-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Illinois proves once again that it has so many smart, skilled, resourceful players that an end to its 100-year title drought may be in sight.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cardinals Are Birds of Prey]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52386-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52386-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's no question that Louisville should have been a No. 1 seed and the Cardinals proved it Sunday by dismantling Georgia Tech, a crisp-moving, ball-hawking, sharpshooting performance by Rick Pitino's team.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitino's Image Lasts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50273-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50273-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rick Pitino strode upon the scene of his first Final Four 18 years ago with Providence, but at just 52, the Louisville head coach labors for more memories.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Foul Effort by GW]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48829-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48829-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[George Washington had every chance to take a seat in Cinderella's carriage with Bucknell and Vermont Friday night but sabotaged its effort by missing free throws like nobody's business.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourney Outdoes Congress]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45342-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45342-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The real, worthwhile drama on Thursday took place in the NCAA tournament -- not the congressional hearing on steroids in baseball.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Parts, And a Lot of Glue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35280-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35280-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:50:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You consider the Wizards have missed 229 total games because of injury and illness, and it's a wonder they've gone 34-27, good for fourth place in the Eastern Conference after Monday night's 95-81 victory over the Lakers.]]></description><author> Michael Wilbon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Wide Open Field]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32441-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_sports/columns/wilbonmichael</link><guid 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