D.C. Sports Bog Archive: Olympics
Olympic coaching made Caps appreciate Boudreau
Meeting with local reporters last week, Caps GM George McPhee had a harsh assessment of some of the coaching during the Olympic tournament. "I was surprised that there were only a couple of teams that were really well coached in the tournament," he said then. "I was surprised by the...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 8, 2010; 2:13 PM ET |
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Miracle on Ice was a WJLA Fail
One of the lasting storylines of these Olympics will be NBC, both for its tape-delay madness and for its delay in recognizing that the U.S. hockey team was going to generate a heckuva a lot of interest. By the end, of course, those things were solved for at least one...
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Dan Steinberg
| March 1, 2010; 1:43 PM ET |
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D.C's Official USA Curling hotel
Brian Reymann's plans to transform his downtown D.C. hotel into a curling mecca began with the idea that he could maybe get a plastic curling set to put in his bar, allowing people to goof around while drinking a beer or two. And somewhere along the line, Reymann wound up...
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Dan Steinberg
| February 18, 2010; 2:55 PM ET |
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About Those Dutch Baseball Fans
Dutch baseball, on Mount Olympus. (By Andres Leighton - AP) I went to one baseball game at the Olympics. It was the U.S. vs. the Netherlands, and the U.S. won in controversial fashion after massive amounts of rain and sitting around. Currrent Nat prospect Shairon Martis took the loss....
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Dan Steinberg
| March 12, 2009; 10:38 AM ET |
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Last Week's Top 10 WaPo Sports Stories
Last week's most popular sports topic. Seriously. (By Clive Brunskill - Getty) Redskins Redskins, blah blah blah blah, Olympics Redskins Redskins Redskins from here till February. With obvious exceptions for the first crazy thing Gilbert Arenas says, the first crazy thing Alex Ovechkin does, and anything lewd or lascivious...
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Dan Steinberg
| September 2, 2008; 10:44 AM ET |
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Rock Paper Scissors Gold
The last medal ceremony I'll see in Beijing. "Whew," Matti Leshem said. "I'm nervous." It was a few minutes before 8 p.m., Beijing time. We were in Club Bud, a massive convention hall that, for this month, was serving as a shrine to beer and scantily clad dancers and...
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Dan Steinberg
| August 23, 2008; 4:22 PM ET |
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