D.C. Sports Bog Archive: Beer and Cheese
A guide to Verizon Center's beer
And now, public-service journalism. Over the summer, Ted Leonsis blogged about the incredible variety of beer at Verizon Center. Beer snobs quickly pointed out that having Bud, Bud light, Bud Light Lime Limte, Bud Light Wheat, Bud Select 55, Michelob, Michelob Amber Bock, Michelob Light and Michelob Ultra is like...
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Dan Steinberg
| October 18, 2010; 2:17 PM ET |
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Beer and Cheese, Caps, Wizards
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Holy Hell: Bruce Boudreau Hates Cheese
I've always been partial to Bruce Boudreau, as both a coach and a media subject. As a coach, he's honest and he wins. As a media subject, he's cooperative, funny, smart, quotable, and unique. But then things went sour faster than fresh ricotta in the back seat of a...
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Dan Steinberg
| September 17, 2009; 9:55 AM ET |
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The Beer at Nats Park This Season: Good. Very.
Yay. A year ago, I took a food tour of Nats Park and spent the entire trip asking Stan Kasten about beer choices. He pointed out that I seemed to be obsessed; "one-track mind," I believe was the quote. And since I ended the season having drunk precious few...
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Dan Steinberg
| April 2, 2009; 1:08 PM ET |
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Olympic Athletes Having Fun
Olympic bronze medalist rower Tracy Cameron plays air guitar, drinks beer. "I just want to drink a beer," an Olympic athlete was saying early this morning at Club Bud. "A lot of them, actually." You've never seen so many grown adults so anxious to pop the top off a...
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Dan Steinberg
| August 18, 2008; 11:20 AM ET |
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Getting Meta With Scorpions on Sticks
Random Irish man eats silkworms for American blogger. Foreign media doing scorpions-on-sticks pieces is just about the lamest form of journalism imaginable. It's hackneyed, cliched, predictable and useless. It relies entirely on the gross-out factor, and is basically Fear Factor on location. It creates an image of life in...
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Dan Steinberg
| August 15, 2008; 2:11 PM ET |
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Sampling Yak Cheese at the Olympics
Mary Carillo samples yak cheese with Ritz cracker. The L.A. Times's Bill Plaschke has already eaten animal penis at these Games. NBC's Mary Carillo has already filmed a package on sampling scorpions and seahorses on sticks. But, as far as I know, I was the first American sportswriter to...
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Dan Steinberg
| August 11, 2008; 1:44 PM ET |
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