The Capital of Basketball

John McNamara, staff writer and award-winning journalist for the Annapolis Capital newspaper, spent over 30 years covering local, college, and professional sports. He reported on everything from state high school basketball championships to the Final Four. John McNamara was one of five employees of the Annapolis Capital who were gunned down in a mass shooting at the newspaper on June 28, 2018.Among many other honors, he was one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year for 2018. Andrea Chamblee, John McNamara's widow, covered high school basketball for her community paper and atteneded over 500 college and high school games in the DC Metro Area with the best play-by-play man she ever met.David Elfin has covered local sports for most of the last four decades while writing seven books on Washington sports and serving on the DC Sports Hall of Fame selection committee.