🏟️ DC Sports
Combined Calendar

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This is a standard iCal feed, which means it works with any calendar app — Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Fastmail, Proton Calendar, and more. Copy the URL and paste it into whichever app you use as a new subscribed calendar.

Most apps have a "Subscribe", "Add from URL", or "Add calendar" option in their settings — paste the URL there. Here's how it works in Google Calendar specifically:

1. Open Google Calendar in a browser — the web version has the import option; the mobile app does not.

2. In the left sidebar, find "Other calendars" and click the + icon next to it.

3. Choose "From URL", paste the URL above, and click "Add calendar".

4. Done — all four DC teams will appear in your calendar. 🎉

What shows up in your calendar

Each game is a calendar event. The sport emoji in the title lets you see at a glance which team is playing:

Games disappear automatically once they end — no manual cleanup needed. When scores are available, they're included in the title: ⚾ Nationals (5) @ Phillies (3).

Each event includes the venue in the location field. Game duration is estimated at 3 hours for the purpose of the end-time filter.

How it works

dcsports.php is a single PHP file living on this server. When Google Calendar polls the URL, it runs and does four things:

1. Fetches live schedule data for all four teams from fixturedownload.com.

2. Filters out any game that ended more than 3 hours ago.

3. Converts the remaining games into standard iCal events, adding the emoji, matchup title, and venue.

4. Returns a single .ics file — the format all calendar apps understand.

There's no database, no cron job, no stored state. It runs fresh on every request and takes well under a second to execute.

View PHP source ↗  ·  Download dcsports.php ↓

Data sources

Schedules come from fixturedownload.com, which publishes free JSON feeds for major North American sports leagues. The four feeds in use:

Customising

All the configuration is at the top of dcsports.php in the $CALENDARS array. Each entry is a feed URL and an emoji — add, remove, or change teams here:

copy$CALENDARS = [
    [
        'url'   => 'https://fixturedownload.com/feed/json/mlb-2026/washington-nationals',
        'emoji' => '⚾',
    ],
    [
        'url'   => 'https://fixturedownload.com/feed/json/nba-2025/washington-wizards',
        'emoji' => '🏀',
    ],
    // add more teams here — any fixturedownload JSON feed works
];

The calendar's display name in Google Calendar is controlled by this line near the bottom of the script:

"X-WR-CALNAME:DC Sports\r\n"

Google Calendar sometimes ignores this on first import and labels the calendar with the URL. You can rename it manually in Google Calendar settings — the name you set there sticks permanently regardless of what the feed says.

Troubleshooting