The Senate majority leader said The Washington Post’s sports coverage is in decline. He’s wrong. Sports is actually the best part of the paper.
Via our tipline comes a disturbing allegation about Washington’s beloved NBA all-star, Gilbert Arenas. Game-fixing! Encouraging teammates to take dives to pad his own stats! And an unrepentant attitude that makes it all that much worse. Of course, the competitive enterprise in question is Halo 3, not NBA basketball. But that makes it no less disturbing. The allegations of Agent Zero’s ill-gotten swag surfaced this morning on the forums of Bungie, the company responsible for…
FRIDAY: >> Octogenarian fiddler Joe Thompson (at right), said to be the last black traditional string band player, plays a free show at The Kennedy Center’s The Millennium Stage with fellow folk musicians Wayne Martin on fiddle and Bob Carlin, a clawhammer style banjoist. 6 p.m. >> Space rockers The Gulf sold out their D.C. show in April, and are coming back to play at the Red and the Black with the Joonies, Twin Earth,…
Andre the Giant, Schmandre the Giant. The other day we noticed one of these stickers on a lamppost at about 13th and R Streets NW. It’s good to see some grassroots (lamp roots?) support for the D.C. United star, and Dan Steinberg over at the D.C. Sports Bog has been on the case for some time. For those who don’t know, “tiene un posse” is a reference to the Andre the Giant Has a…
>> Sports Bog purveyor Dan Steinberg’s minivan was stolen. If you see a blue 1996 Dodge Caravan around town, please tell the thief that he or she has very bad taste. [DC Sports Bog] >> A student graduated from Brentsville High School in Virginia today with a perfect attendance record of 2,836 consecutive days. He hasn’t missed a single day of school in 13 years. [WTOP] >> A two-alarm fire early this morning swept…
>>The story of Bobby Boswell’s ill-fated Nickelodeon GUTS appearance is well documented, thanks to some tremendous coverage from Dan Steinberg at The Sports Bog. It wasn’t until yesterday, however, that we received indisputable video evidence of the incident. BobbyBoswell.com has the goods. The key quote from the clip: “I’ll be honest with you. I scored a goal against Chelsea, was an MLS All Star. I was the defender of the year and just recently named…
>> Dan Steinberg has some classic footage on “Bog TV’ of Preakness Race fans drunk off their gourds. One guy’s insistence that “this is what Maryland is all about,” and by “this” he means heavy drinking, is just fun for the whole family. [D.C. Sports Bog] >> Fairfax County police locked down Willow Springs Elementary School in Centreville this morning after reports of a shooting in the nearby area. The school re-opened around noon without…
>> The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) opens tonight with a special tribute to Academy Award winning Executive Producer John Daly (Terminator, Platoon), and DCist will be there. Daly will be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the film industry. Having trouble choosing between which of the 139 films being offered this year? DCist will have a slew of reviews over the course of the festival. We’re especially excited about DCIFF’s move…
>> Whatever this “new local news television show” is, they certainly have a firm grasp of exactly the sort of people who check the Missed Connections on a daily basis: The same people who would just die to get on television. [FishbowlDC] >> Washingtonpost.com’s Dan Steinberg needs your help to shoot DC United’s Nick Rimando with a water gun. Really. [D.C. Sports Bog] >> Will Augusto Pinochet ever be held accountable for the Sheridan Circle…
We’ve mentioned our respect and admiration for Dan Steinberg and his wonderful D.C. Sports Bog in this space before. Dan’s a fantastic, knowledgeable writer with a flair for great, off-beat stories that surround the events he’s covering and quite frankly, if you’re not reading his blog, you’re missing out. That said, our respect for him has grown even more this week after his seemingly wacky idea to get as many area Caps fans out…
