Wizards @ United Game Day #18

Greetings from RFK Stadium, home of D.C. United. The stadium is old but comfy for the home side usually, but they've struggled recently at home.

Will Daniel is in town for this match again. If you don't recall a story from earlier this year, check it out here. Daniel first met Jimmy Conrad back in 1997 when Conrad was a member of UCLA's NCAA Final 4 team. Daniel, a young man with Down's Syndrome, has stayed close with Jimmy and some other members of that team (including Sasha Victorine) ever since. I ran into him and his mother, Pat, at the team hotel, and both referred to me as "the blog man". I'll take that as a compliment.

Our team hotel, supposedly a former mental hospital, is haunted. Lance Watson claims to have heard whispers in his room last night and his door mysteriously opened this morning while no one was touching it. Weird stuff.

Got out for some sightseeing today. I've been to D.C. before, but never seen the White House, so that was kind of neat. Saw a few pick-up soccer games on the National Mall, also cool.

Unfortunately Josh Wolff's hamstring strain will keep him out tonight. Pore replaces him in the starting lineup up front, and Matt Marquess will make his first appearance in the 18-man roster this season. Nelson Pizarro is back in the 18 after making his MLS debut last week.

Lineups:
KCW-Hartman, Jewsbury, Hohlbein, Conrad, Harrington, Lopez, Morsink, Victorine, Espinoza, Pore, Arnaud

subs- Kronberg, Myers, Wahl, Marquess, Zavagnin, Pizarro, Trujillo


DCU-Wells, Namoff, Carroll, McTavish, Burch, Fred, Simms, Vide, Guerrero, Emilio, Moreno

subs-Thorpe, Zaher, Cordeiro, Murphy, Thompson, Dyachenko, Kirk