D.C. Sports Bog: February 27, 2011 - March 5, 2011
David Gregory unleashes the fury
This is sober and respected NBC newsman David Gregory, screaming "Unleash the Fury" into a camera for the Caps. It's sort of hard to be sober when you're screaming "Unleash the Fury," though I guess that's the point. (Via The View From Here)...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 5, 2011; 1:29 PM ET |
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Post Sports Live: The end of the Portis era, the NFL's labor issues, college hoops and Caps trades
Dan and Michael Lee joined LaVar Arrington, and host Jonathan Forsythe on this week's webcast discuss the Portis era, what the NFL owners and players are fighting over, the end of college basketba;;'s regular season and whether the Capitals made the right dealine deals Post Sports Live streams live on...
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Washington Post editors
| March 1, 2011; 1:55 PM ET |
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Clinton Portis's first Redskins press conference
(Photos by Joel Richardson - TWP) Since Clinton Portis's first Redskins press conference pre-dated the blog era, I wanted to get the photographs and quotes out there, to help complete the historical record. From the AP, in what I can only assume the below photograph is illustrating: Clinton Portis...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 1:46 PM ET |
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Virginia man uses Caps jerseys to win lottery
Whenever I play the lottery, I always go with 2, 14, 17, 37 and 39. And I never win. Remarkable. Damn you, ex-number-of-David-Steckel./ But it turns out that instead of playing ex-Caps, I should have been playing Caps stars. Like Jimmy Smith of Alexandria, a heartwarming Reader's Digest story come...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 1:27 PM ET |
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George Mason's hair hits ESPN
Finally, ESPN had George Mason forward and noted fashion maven Ryan Pearson on to discuss the team's Pearson-inspired pledge not to cut its collective hairs until this 15-game winning streak ends. Dunno what took so long. "You're coming into practice with your grizzly-bear beard, got the Afro growing out,...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 12:53 PM ET |
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George Mason's band plays Rage, in the stands
Remember last week when I asked someone to get me video of the George Mason Green Machine playing its new Rage Against the Machine? Well, Bog friend @tomcblock complied, and less than a week later, the video has been viewed 500,000 times. How to explain this? Let's turn to...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 10:57 AM ET |
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Richmond's new Spider mascot search
"How many legs does a spider have? When the University's new mascot is unveiled, it will likely be back to eight." I mean, there is so much in the press release announcing Richmond's search for a new Spider mascot that I didn't know. For example, that "Spidey" -- an...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 10:35 AM ET |
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American University trick shots
The YouTube trickshot craze has finally reached our humble metropolis, as American's Joe Hill and Steve Luptak present Eagles Trick Shots. Someone at George Mason is getting awfully lazy. Speaking of, here's Seth Davis on Ryan Pearson: If George Mason does make the Final Four, Ryan Pearson's beard is...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 10:16 AM ET |
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A Mike Bibby Wizards retrospective
A brief look back on the career of the best-ever player to log fewer than 30 minutes in his Washington Wizards career. Bravo, Comcast SportsNet, bravo....
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2011; 9:54 AM ET |
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Atlantic 11 Week 14: Mason triumphs
(By John McDonnell - AP) For the first 13 weeks of the 2010-2011 Atlantic 11, Georgetown was in first place. It was boring. It was predictable. It was tiresome. And it's over. On the strength of its nation-best 15-game winning streak, George Mason has finally toppled the Hoyas' hegemony....
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 6:45 PM ET |
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Portis goes out with a [redacted]
(By Ricky Carioti - TWP) Clinton Portis's tenure in Washington will be remembered for many things: gutty playoff runs, ridiculous costumes, and spellbinding radio interviews, among others. It would be hard for him to lead a gutty playoff run or don a ridiculous costume on the day he was...
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 3:08 PM ET |
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The time Bryce Harper tipped off a pitch
Here's how self-confident Bryce Harper is: at the age of 14, during an actual game, he tipped off his buddy that a fastball was coming, out of anger that his pitcher had shook him off. That's a 14-year old going all Crash Davis on some poor, unsuspecting middle-school pitcher....
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 2:05 PM ET |
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D.C. United's Olsen's Army truck
(Courtesy D.C. United) As mobile MLS marketing trucks go, this thing is pretty boss. All it needs is a few bass drums a couple of kegs, some veggie dogs and a flying stink bomb launcher, and I'd be willing to move in....
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 1:58 PM ET |
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The best Vinny Cerrato quote ever
Vinny Cerrato, ESPN, Outside the Lines, Feb. 25, Planet Earth. Host: "Vinny what did you find, running the Redskins, as the biggest mistake you could make weighing risk and reward?" Vinny Cerrato: "Well, the biggest mistake is to pay an older player...a lot of money who's, you know, 30 years...
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 1:43 PM ET |
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Sports Illustrated on Ovechkin: A "Falling Star"
Time was, you could comfortably call Alex Ovechkin one of the two best hockey players in the world and no one would notice. To some segment of the casual sports fan, that's probably still the case. But eventually, even the casual sports fan is gonna notice stuff like this....
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 10:11 AM ET |
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Here's Gary Williams sweating
The whole "Sweat Gary Sweat" thing is childish, cliched, immature, unoriginal, irrelevant, cheap, lame, boring, juvenile and crass. But it's also true that the man sweats a lot. This was what he looked like during his halftime interview on Sunday evening. The still image really doesn't do justice to...
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Dan Steinberg
| February 28, 2011; 7:21 AM ET |
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Nick Young's crazy 360-degree layup
Say this for the 2010-2011 Wizards: they continue to produce amazing highlight-reel nudge-your-neighbor top plays. In losses. Whilst slouching toward the lottery. But still, Nick Young's 360-degree while-making-bleu-cheese eyes-closed-hands-tied reverse layup against the Mavericks on Saturday night was a beauty. "I look forward to seeing that on YouTube," Young...
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Dan Steinberg
| February 27, 2011; 12:42 PM ET |
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