D.C. Sports Bog: July 13, 2008 - July 19, 2008
This Week's Top 10 WaPo Sports Stories
This week's most popular WaPo sports subject. (By Erik S. Lesser For The Washington Post) Since there seems to be some amount of interest in the Washington Post's coverage decisions and click rates in these parts, I'm going to introduce a new Friday feature: the Top 10 most viewed...
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July 18, 2008; 4:41 PM ET |
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Durant Goes Off, and Rhyming Ovechkin
Is it possible that I'm still off the clock? I mean, just how lazy are bloggers, exactly? (Seriously, this slowness is partially because of the impending Olympics timesuck, and partially because if someone offers to let you not work and still get paid, you should probably say "yes thanks." Full-on...
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July 18, 2008; 12:41 PM ET |
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An Interview With Jerry Coleman
B Mitch, hugging his best friend Jerry Coleman. As most of you already know, significant changes are afoot at our local sports talkers. My colleague Paul Farhi wrote about many of them in today's paper: the end of "The John Riggins Show," the end of Steve Czaban's "The First...
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July 17, 2008; 12:31 PM ET |
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Why You Should Go Watch the Kastles
The food. Some of it, anyhow. Am I writing this because of lingering guilt issues over contributing to Justin Gimelstob's international incident? Possibly. More likely, it's because I went to one and only one Washington Kastles World Team Tennis match, where I actually enjoyed myself, which, if you know...
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July 16, 2008; 2:48 PM ET |
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Ovie's Take on the Beijing Games
This image comes courtesy of Konstantin E. Selinevich, the business manager to Alex Ovechkin. He reports that late last night, Russia time, 17 huge versions of this went up on the streets of Moscow. According to Konstantin's translation, Alex is saying to the Russian delegation, "Olympic athletes. You can...
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July 16, 2008; 8:59 AM ET |
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Behind the Nats TV Number (Again)
The 2007 D.C. DMA. Since other people keep writing about the Lonely 9,000, I'm gonna keep writing about it too. And for the severalth time, I'm not reveling in this at all, because small fan base = small blog base. Oh, and because some of you have asked, here's...
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July 15, 2008; 5:16 PM ET |
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Cooley's Growing a Beard
I guess it wouldn't be training camp if Chris Cooley weren't growing odd facial hair. One year after last year's internal team mustache-growing contest, Cooley has branched out to the much different world of beard-growing contests. He's challenging fans to join him, which, given the sort of folks who...
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July 15, 2008; 11:36 AM ET |
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