D.C. Sports Bog - By The Washington Post's Dan Steinberg - February 4, 2007

What You Need to Know

The weekend....

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 7:42 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (13)
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Eleven Things You Didn't Know About the GW Women

(Note: I realize the headline might be a little much. Like, for most of you, I could list the team's top 11 players, and those would be 11 things you didn't know about the GW women. But hey, they're 20-2, they deserve a little run.) 1) Of the 14 men's...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 7:04 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (12)
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Gilbert and the Wizznutzz Hit the Wall Street Journal

David Roth has a story about Gilbert in today's Wall Street Journal Online. So Gil hit Time and the WSJ in the same day. Dude's keeping me here way too late on a Friday. Anyhow, I don't have the subscription-free link. Here's the basic point: "Even though he's an All-Star...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 5:11 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Caron and Gilbert on the Blazers Game

Just to emphasize the disconnect..... Here's Caron after practice this morning, discussing Sunday's game with Portland, during which Gilbert will supposedly score 50 points: "You know what, we're just gonna focus on the Portland Trail Blazers against the Washington Wizards. We're gonna go out there and just attack it like...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 4:43 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (6)
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Wizards Games: Cheaper Than Caribbean Vacations, Maybe

This item probably demands actual journalistic research, but I just don't have the time right now. Which ought to be my slogan, along with John Feinstein's "a little too clever for real people" mantra. Anyhow, former Bog poetry winner Ouij sent me a distressed e-mail this morning. Seems he wanted...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 4:23 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Maryand vs. Virginia: The Wizards Respond

Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas seems to be getting a certain amount of attention lately for being somewhat of an entertaining fellow. As Gilbert "wrote" on his "blog" today, "We have a funny locker room." I'd submit that this is a true statement, and that, publicity levels notwithstanding, the...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 3:59 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Gil's a One-Armed Frisky Sex Symbol

Gil blogs. Just read it yourself. As expected, things get weirder. 1) "They call me the 'Golden Arm.' The 'Golden One Arm'." No, they don't, but still. Lots to follow on the shooting competition with DeShawn. 2) "See, on the tape, they don't show you what he was doing....He didn't...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 3:09 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Gilbert's Taste in Sushi

I think I need to amend my e-mail to that Portuguese feature writer this morning, which outlined some of Gilbert's quirks, to include this one: he special orders California rolls and cream-cheese rolls fried in tempura batter. The Reliable Source, joining the Gilbert train, actually has two Wizards items this...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 11:23 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (18)
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Sun Ming Ming Goes National

I knew Sun Ming Ming was scheduled to be on Today this morning, but I forgot. A heartbreaking mistake, as it turns out. Pray that it appears out of the innerwebs either. If you missed this comment above, here's what Local Poll voter Bryc3 saw: Sun Ming Ming was on...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 11:21 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (5)
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Daniel Snyder: More Milkshakes

This nostalgia stuff is getting out of control for Mister Snyder. First he buys his favorite childhood team, and now he's buying Johnny Rockets, "the 1950s-inspired restaurant chain known for employees that sing and dance...." Which joke-like direction do you go with this? That after the Gibbs hire we all...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 9:39 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (13)
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu News

And there's so much of it. On Tuesday, the Mayor of Foggy Bottom was named to the NBDL all-star game, which will take place at Mandalay Bay the day before the NBA all-star game. Unlike the writer of that story, I might hesitate in calling it the "First Annual" NBDL...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 9:09 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: College Basketball , Minor League Basketball
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Important Sports Results

Local No. 4 VCU tops No. 8 Mason: Rams now have a clear path to the CAA regular season title. GW women win again: The Colonials, with the best record of any local team, men's or women's, reach 20 wins. Caps OT the Kings: Washington is 6-1-1 at home since...

By Dan Steinberg | February 9, 2007; 8:39 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (15)
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Local Poll Updates

In lieu of the link dump at the beginning of the day, what say we try this? Local No. 1 Georgetown earns praise after that win last night. Juan Tello Palacios says the Hoyas probably have the best frontcourt he's seen. Rick Pitino says the Hoyas would win 9 out...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 4:41 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Roger Mason's New Tattoo

Wizards guard Roger Mason Jr. unveiled his new tattoo yesterday, which runs all up and down his left upper arm and shoulder. "That's blazin'," DeShawn Stevenson said when he first saw it. The full image from a distance. (By Sports Bog) I guess I knew that Roger had been thinking...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 3:41 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Signing Day Coverage (by the names)

Since signing day is apparently one of the hallowed days on the sports calendar, I figure I should acknowledge it in some way. And with help from colleague Alan Goldenbach, I realized the most Bog-worthy acknowledgement possible: by the names. Best homage to the Golden Girls: OL Bearthur Johnson, Maryland...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 12:32 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (13)
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Gilbert on Vids

(Gosh, I feel terrible about the people I might be turning off b/c of too much Wizards coverage. It's sorta like when I was at the Olympics, and all I blogged about was curling. This phase will pass, I promise. Bear with me.) Gil's newest jersey. (By Sports Bog) (But...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 11:33 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (15)
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Restaurant Options

Since several people pointed out that the most interesting part of my too-long post on OT Magazine was the tidbit on Chris Webber's restaurant (the 44 oz. "Fab Five" burger for $29.50, the "C Webb's Game Day Chicken Sandwich" with American cheese, lettuce, ketchup and tabasco), I figured I should...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 10:54 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (9)
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Wizards on Tying Ties

Losing locker rooms usually aren't good for Bog purposes. That's another reason why you haven't seen much Caps in here lately. But oddly enough, the Wiz locker room usually winds up being ok, win or lose. And you can spare me the lectures on how these guys aren't taking the...

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 9:29 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (15)
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Important Sports Results

(Since this site seems to be sorta popular, I figured maybe I could rip off his "last night" format. And since my editor's on vacation, he can't complain about the lack of 50 bunched-up links every morning, which, let's be honest, just gives you a headache. And me.) Local No....

By Dan Steinberg | February 8, 2007; 8:34 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (13)
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Local Hoops Poll Week Nine: Additional Pithy Comments

But first, a message from John Feinstein, who sent me an e-mail today that ended with the following two lines, concerning the pithy comments that appear in the newspaper: "Are those really reader comments or do you make them up? They seem a little too clever for real people..." Ha!...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 7:02 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (20)
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GW: Better at Beer Pong Than Georgetown

So says Local Poll voter Clay Travis, who has authored some groundbreaking beer pong analysis for CBS Sportsline, whose standards for sports journalism are apparently as low as The Post's, or at least, as Washingtonpost.com's. And so anyhow, when trying to convince everybody that they're better than Georgetown, GW students...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 5:01 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (26)
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HoF Voters Explain Their Monk Votes

Since people are still blogging about Art Monk (Mister Irrelevant, The Big Lead, Hogs Haven, Cincy Jungle, Politics and Pigskins, The Curly R, and some guy named Dan Joe Taylor, among others) I figured I should wring one more post out of this puppy. And it's a good one. Friends,...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 4:14 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (9)
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Jerry Palm Handicaps Our Top Seven

Since Jerry Palm of CollegeRPI.com is the Official At-large Prognosticator of the Washington Post, and since the calendar seems to have flipped to February somewhere along the way, I figured it was time to get Palm's take on the Local Atlantic 11 Poll, or whatever it's called. I spared him...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 2:52 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (7)
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Gary Williams Is Happy

Happy to be asking you to go shop at Kroger! In 1987! Back before he always looked like he was stranded in a small windowless cell with nothing to drink but flavorless endurance beverage and nothing to eat but gruel and several pictures of Ralph Friedgen on the walls and...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 12:56 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (37)
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What You Need to Know

It's Dre Blatche day. He admits the preseason hype "suped up" his head, or possibly "souped" up his head. Also, Eddie Jordan asks a high school team who their Gilbert Arenas is, and DeShawn Stevenson has stepped up his scoring with Jamison out. And in San Antonio, Pop and Parker...

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 10:09 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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What You Need to Know

Yo yo yo. I really need to get them to remove this entry from the top, huh? Or maybe I should be like Brendan Haywood, and offer a motivational message of the day....

By Dan Steinberg | February 7, 2007; 9:09 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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The Key to Blatche's Breakout

Many thanks to Reader Joey M., who sent the following e-mail last week: Have you ever noticed that during the player introductions B. Haywood always stops and yells at A. Blatche? I've wondered what that is all about. You know Joey, I'm often eating my last bite of garlic bread...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 6:28 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (7)
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Another DeShawn Shooting Competition!!!!!!!

But I can't write about it. Sorry. Embargo. I can say this: DeShawn Stevenson won a shooting contest today against an out-of-town non-basketball playing professional. "It happens to the best of us," DeShawn consoled his foe when it was over. (DeShawn's victory celebration today also included him yelling "chicken and...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 4:47 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (13)
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Send Me Your Blogs (With a Mason Rant)

If you're a real observant sort, you might notice that there's a little Top 5 blog list that went up to the left of these words today. Apparently feeling that I haven't been working hard enough, my boss has given me something else to do: choose five (hopefully) local (hopefully)...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 4:17 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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French Fist Pumps, and G-Wiz

I left the Wizards game at halftime last night because I finally decided that after 11 consecutive hours without sunlight in the bowels of the Verizon Center, I had had enough. Luckily, two readers have stepped up with their Bog-esque observations. I didn't ask their permission to use these items,...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 3:14 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (8)
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My Message to High School Journalists

In case you're curious, I showed the high school journalism students my video of the Wizards discussing Gil's party, and a You Tube (via Deadspin via Sports By Brooks) video of Bill Cowher shirtless on the beach, and the Gil-DeShawn shooting competition, and Gil's MySpace page, and the best-dressed Wizard...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 3:00 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (5)
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The Greys, and Gil's New Uniforms

It's possible that all of this has been blogged elsewhere today, but I'm all off schedule and out of sorts, so I'll press on. The signed Lenny Wilkins jersey. (By Sports Bog) Before last night's game, Gilbert received two signed jerseys: a Ray Allen all-star jersey from last year, and...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 2:13 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Goat on Video

Sorry, that took longer than expected. Anyhow, since I've written like 17,000 words about Goat, the Caps super fan who doesn't show up 'round here too much now that my Caps output has diminished (and sorry 'bout that, they've been on the road a lot), I figured I should post...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 1:44 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Wiz Pre-Game Reading Material

Two big stacks of magazines at the front of the Wiz locker room last night. Stack one (the more popular stack): ESPN The Magazine. Stack two (the less popular stack): OT; The Business and Lifestyle Guide for Professional Athletes. A few people (Cal Booth, DeShawn Stevenson) were reading ESPN The...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 9:44 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (9)
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What You Need to Know

Hey. (No, seriously, I have to spend three hours this AM talking to a bunch of high schoolers. They're the future, ya know. Plus maybe I can convert them into Bog readers. So talk amongst yourselves.)...

By Dan Steinberg | February 6, 2007; 7:32 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Gil Goes Gray

At least, the early word is that Gil will wear gray Gil Zeros tonight. I'll have photos tomorrow. Also, while there will be no best-dressed contest tonight, our friends who work for the Wizards have posted a photo gallery and a poll of last week's fashion show. I love the...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 6:25 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (28)
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Local Hoops Poll Week Nine: D.C Doesn't Rule

Preview: Georgetown! Last week I gloated that our humble Area was on the verge of returning to college basketball dominance. Well, I was wrong. On the whole, we took a step back this week. Of our Top 11 teams, only three survived the week unscathed: Georgetown, Virginia and Old Dominion....

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 5:25 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (15)
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Wizards Fashion Week Continues

After Jarvis Hayes's win in last Tuesday's "Best Dressed Wizard" contest, the stage was set for a dramatic showdown on Saturday night. And I'm not talking about Kobe-Gil. The "Best Dressed Wizard" contest was back, featuring Andray Blatche, Roger Mason and defending champion Jarvis Hayes. Since I wasn't at the...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 3:20 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Todd Bozeman Doesn't Want Ham Sandwiches

This news has broken too late to affect anyone's Local Atlantic 11 poll ballot this week, but it's worth mentioning. Morgan State basketball coach Todd Bozeman was charged with misdemeanor assault after an argument with a restaurant employee following a close loss to Longwood. Police were called to Mulligan's restaurant...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 2:33 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (7)
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Art Monk Internet Reaction: Sad

Being neither a native Washingtonian nor a Redskins fan, I can't entirely share in the fanatical Art Monk worship that crops up around this time every year, but years of exposure have at least made me sympathetic to the heartbroken masses who hurt so badly, for whatever reason. So let's...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 2:07 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (20)
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Caron Butler's Dap, on the Black Hand Side

In a continuing effort to satisfy your every whim, here's your Caron Butler Hand Slapping update. You'll recall that someone either posted a comment or e-mailed me to ask why Caron Butler slaps the back of his teammates' hands instead of the front. Actually, if it was an e-mail, you...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 12:51 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Gil and DeShawn: Still Friends

As predicted, last Friday's DeShawn Stevenson-Gilbert Arenas three-point contest proved popular. More than 43,000 views made it the week's 14th most popular YouTube sports video, barely ahead of the Royal Rumble and well behind an Italian soccer riot. And it got considerably less than five percent of the traffic of...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 12:24 PM ET | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Sun Ming Ming's Debut

In case you weren't among the sold-out crowd of 1,800 that saw Sun Ming Ming's Maryland Nighthawks debut against the Strong Island Sound on Saturday, here are the particulars. The 7-foot-9 center had 8 points and 4 rebounds in 20 minutes. Seems like a fairly solid debut, until you remember...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 10:31 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (6)
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What You Need to Know

The Wiz look to recover from a manic week and too much energy tonight against the Sonics, who still won't have Rashard Lewis, have lost 14 straight on the road and have a coach openly talking about getting fired. Actually, things sound sorta disastrous with the Sonics, and Supersonicsoul is...

By Dan Steinberg | February 5, 2007; 9:31 AM ET | Permalink | Comments (7)
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