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OF MANY THINGS ... LIKE CAPS, WIZARDS NOT GOING ANYWHERE

  The highly-controversial (to say the least) plan to move  Washington’s NHL Capitals and NBA Wizards to Alexandria  has been on life support almost from the beginning. Wednesday  it died a merciful death … when  TED LEONSIS , who owns  both franchises, agreed to a deal to keep them in exciting,  downtown D.C. Like he had any other choice … well, short of  the longest of long shots. More on that in a moment …  Yesterday morning District mayor  MURIEL BOWSER  told  cable TV’s “The Sports Junkies” that she considered telling  Leonsis, in effect, to take a hike … after it became apparent the  Virginia General Assembly wasn’t buying the $2.2 billion  boondoggle … but that wasn’t what her constituents/voters  living in the area wanted … so she came up with more than  $500 million to help renovate Capital One Arena and guarantee  the teams would remain for a long time (2050, at the very least)  … As...