One look at Marcin Gortat and you think he would have fared well living in Sparta. He’s hulking. He relishes physical play. And he can have a bit of a wild glint in his eye. The Wizards’ center can be ...

Before there was an Alamo – or an Agincourt, or an Iwo Jima – there was the Battle of Thermopylae, ancient Greece’s official entry in the “all-time great last stands” sweepstakes. From a numbers ...

“300,” Frank Miller’s comic-book version of the story of the 300 Spartans who hurled themselves into battle against the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae, is likely to open on top of the box ...

Acting on a tip, I asked Marcin Gortat this week whether he screams movie quotes to his Wizards teammates before games as a motivational technique. (I don’t know, are you interested in this? Trust me, ...