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Dan Steinberg

@dcsportsbog.bsky.social
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Managing editor, NFL, at The Athletic. Reach me at dsteinberg@theathletic.com.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Jayden Daniels falls from 6th to 13th in the Mike Sando qb tiers — now behind two other members of his qb draft class www.nytimes.com/athletic/int...
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2026 NFL QB Tiers: Patrick Mahomes’ unanimous run ends, Lamar Jackson slips into loaded Tier 2
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Daronte Jones played pickup football in Landover parking lots, first wore #83 for Ricky Sanders, and later modeled himself after Wilber Marshall and Dexter Manley. He never unpacked as a coach, bc he was never home. In DC, he unpacked. This is good www.nytimes.com/athletic/746...
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How Daronte Jones, NFL ‘Renaissance Man,’ finally returned home with the Commanders
The Commanders' new defensive coordinator has coached everywhere and traveled the world. His latest job has taken him back to his roots.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@likethemaps.bsky.social
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
CJ Abrams eats two cheesesteaks every day the Nats play in Philly. “The cheese is just melted perfectly,” he told the intrepid @mattgelb.bsky.social. “It’s good. It’s just good.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...
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A Philly special for MLB’s All-Stars: The clubhouse cheesesteak craved by visiting players (Gift Article)
There is a not-so-secret reason many of the visiting players enjoy a trip to South Philly. The All-Stars are eating cheesesteaks this week.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I was just asking the question ha. But this seems like a fair answer to me
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How much credit should Mike Rizzo get for what the Nats are doing right now? www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Great story from @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social about a local football star who went home and became a principal in the twin cities, not long before the ICE raids began. This is how he responded. Free link here www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...
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A local football star returned to lead his hometown school. Then the ICE raids began (Gift Article)
A tightknit Minnesota community once made Jordan Halverson feel safe. Now an entire middle school wondered if he could return the favor.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
most-slash-nearly all of my old sports blogs have been gobbled by the internet which makes me sad sometimes but mostly i don't care because it was largely garbage. but a reader just asked me to find something i wrote after caps-habs game 7. and i found it web.archive.org/web/20130220...
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D.C. Sports Bog - Caps lose Game 7, D.C. fans suffer again
This is melodramatic. If you're not into that, best avoid. There were at least two types of people in the concourse following that thing that happened Wednesday night. One type made a beeline for the ...
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16/05/2026
HOT DOG FRIES PANDEMONIUM
Mills
@MillsTwitch
The Hot Dog Fries are being sold in one place in the entire stadium and the line is being advertised as 75
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Nationals - what are we doing?
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Jeff Blankenburg @jeffblankenburg.com · 15/05/2026
Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Most fun detail in this @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social story: TWO NFL teams recently copied open-source code from the same restaurant-ranking app and created a tool to let their GMs rank prospects against each other. www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...
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NFL’s custom scouting systems tell the story of the sport’s changing technology
Advanced internal scouting systems can sort massive amounts of information on NFL prospects, organizing evaluations, grades and other data.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
what an ending to the Division III national title game! Mary Washington beats Emory at the buzzer
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Frustrated Nationals fans find themselves shut out of watching Opening Day on TV (via @spencernusbaum.bsky.social and @evandrellich.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...
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Frustrated Nationals fans find themselves shut out of watching Opening Day on TV
Fans who spent the game trying to reach customer service missed the start of a new Nationals era, one that featured a 10-4 victory.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Anyhow …. Our @spencernusbaum.bsky.social is doing live chats with fans during the first game of every series as a kind of TA experiment. It starts today. Go harass him in the discussion tab and/or ask him questions www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb...
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It’s a weird time!
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
WaPo seems to be covering the Nats again www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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Storylines to watch as the Nationals’ rebuild begins again
The Nationals are projected to flirt with another 100-loss season. But there are enough new names, and new ideas, to spark hope that more wins are on the horizon.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Team USA flag guys knew they were gonna win. "Walking through the tunnel, the energy between all 12 of us was just like some Dragon Ball Z character stuff. Everyone was over the power of 9,000. We knew we were already in control." (via @bytimgraham.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
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After U.S. flag football humbled the NFL, the Olympic conversation is very different
Team USA's dominant performance proved they're the ones to beat, and that NFL players have a lot of work to do to get in the Olympic mix.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
baseball has two basic modes: 1. grumpy, slow-paced cotillion 2. drama avalanche where it feels like you’ve been kidnapped but in a way you enjoy for some reason
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
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ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters
Former Washington Post reporters Kent Babb, Kareem Copeland, Chuck Culpepper, Robert Klemko, Tom Schad and Ben Strauss will all join ESPN in the coming weeks.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This story on how NFL scouts actually put together their scouting reports rules. Don’t miss the details on what emojis they use. (Via @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
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An inside look at NFL scouting reports, and the scouts who create them
An NFL scouting report can range from traditional sentences to a series of color-coded messages, shorthand terms and emoji-like tags.
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Seth Emerson @sethemerson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Book: How a small analytics company has so much influence over college football - and has changed the game. “I got into it not because I was intrigued by the math, but because I was intrigued by the winning." www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...
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How 'the book' has come to influence the decisions of 100+ college football coaches
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The D.C. Universe @dcuniverse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This hurts more than seeing Juan Soto join the Mets. Okay, not really. But it still sucks.
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davidaldridgedc.bsky.social @davidaldridgedc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Delighted that we can platform so many outstanding journalists, and bolster our coverage of D.C. sports, joining @nickijhabvala.bsky.social, @joshrobbins.bsky.social and myself. Being able to cover D.C. teams more is why I joined @theathletic.com in 2018. Welcome!: www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
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The Athletic Welcomes New Colleagues | The New York Times Company
We’re excited to announce the hiring of several Washington Post journalists as The Athletic expands its coverage of the Commanders, launches a new Nationals beat and adds to its growing roster of…
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
it's genuinely very cool to me to see the world's richest newspaper swoop in immediately after a competitor's mass layoffs to hire some generational talents just because they can.
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The D.C. Universe @dcuniverse.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Eight years ago, The Athletic was the obnoxious villain of the story and the Washington Post was the respected institution that treated its sports reporters so well, not a single one jumped ship. You normally have to watch WWE to see this sort of extreme change in good guy/bad guy roles.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
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The Athletic Welcomes New Colleagues | The New York Times Company
We’re excited to announce the hiring of several Washington Post journalists as The Athletic expands its coverage of the Commanders, launches a new Nationals beat and adds to its growing roster of…
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The one thing I think the WaPo really needs more of is staff editorials about the mayor of nyc
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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/ba...
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The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports
The Banner will expand its sports coverage to include Washington, D.C., teams, Editor-in-Chief Audrey Cooper announced in an internal email to staff on Thursday.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A quick 🧵: @51st.news wants to keep growing, and we need your help! 51st.news/the-51st-is-... The Post's gutting showed us we can't trust a billionaire to do the right thing. If we want local news to survive, we need to help *build and sustain it*.
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The 51st is expanding
D.C. needs more local journalists. You can help us hire them.
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Tina Nguyen @tinanguyen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive. The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead. www.theverge.com/policy/87683...
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Bezos could have saved WaPo’s sports and local journalists. He laid them off instead.
“The equation isn’t adding up.”
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“When the Nats won the World Series in 2019, there were no fewer than seven professional outlets that covered the team on a regular basis. For the last few days, that number has been reduced to one: MLB.com.” Make it two natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to-nats-j…
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Welcome to Nats Journal
Your new home for Washington Nationals news, analysis, podcasts and community
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Safety Julian Love clutched a Sierra Nevada pale ale and Nick Emmanwori looked at it, puzzled, before being informed it was a drink for old folks. “It really is,” said Love, who turns 28 next month. “It’s all they had left,” Love joked. (via @mikedugar.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...
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Why the Seahawks’ defense knew it would overwhelm the Patriots: ‘We have too much for them’
Nick Emmanwori woke up Sunday morning thinking, "Yeah, we got this in the bag." Sunday night, he and his teammates proved him right.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This game rules go try it you will not be disappointed
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What did Sonny Jurgensen mean to D.C.? Let @davidaldridgedc explain
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Sonny Jurgensen, in word and deed, was a majestic figure in Washington sports history
Virtually no one in the history of Washington, D.C. pro sports has had Sonny Jurgensen's mixture of electricity and personality.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“When somebody says ‘analytics’ on TV, I just run to the bathroom to vomit. We’re relying on some numbers? Really? If you aren’t smart enough and prepared enough to make an educated decision on what to do, then you shouldn’t be there.” Mike Martz! www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...
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The decision that has divided football and could determine the Super Bowl
The analytics side is winning the raging debate, but former coach and innovator Mike Martz believes "there's a stupidity to it."
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Washington Post ran a full-page letter to subscribers in today's print edition from exec editor Matt Murray stating that it is committed to sports and local coverage after laying off the vast majority of the staff on those desks
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Tom Gulitti @tomgulittinhl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Capitals coach Spencer Carbery began his media avail this morning by talking about beat writer @baileyannej.bsky.social who was among those let go by the Washington Post yesterday when it eliminated its sports staff. Bailey was lone independent media member who traveled to Caps road games:
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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
the shuttering of the post's high school sports coverage means no more all-met awards. absolute abdication of the role a local paper should play
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Anxious to read about the cultural and societal implications of this deal for the Wizards
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Sam Fortier @sam4tr.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work. But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I have printed out copies tho. Which is basically the only way to find my 2006 winter Olympics blog. Which really feels appropriate
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Patrick Stevens @d1scourse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Simply crushed today for so many amazing and talented people at @postsports.bsky.social. Felt really fortunate to even be a part-time/occasional teammate there for the last decade.
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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 04/02/2026
Not sure there are many people I've worked with who are more dedicated or have more integrity than Sarah. Just a world-class editor and human being.
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Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The sports section basically taught me how to read growing up. Somehow, years later, they let me write in those pages. I’ll cherish that forever.
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Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I was laid off by The Washington Post today. This is gutting for our readers and our section, but I’m grateful for the 4 years I had to cover sports alongside friends and legends. If you’re hiring or know of someone who is: spencernusbaum(at)gmail(dot)com
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Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Anyways, yeah. This is an incalculable loss for the region and sports journalism. It will be jarring to wake up in the morning — in one of the biggest metro areas in the country — and not have a sports section (and so many other great parts of The Post) to turn to.
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Seth Wickersham @sethwickersham.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
… Povich, Solomon, Shapiro, Denlinger, Remnick, Wilbon, Kornheiser, Clarke, Reid, Goff, Rosenberg, Hamilton, Berko, Nichols, Friend, Bos, Sally, Babb, Brew, Maese, Frey, Maske, Buckner, Culpepper, Wise, Les, Sheinin, Feinstein and so many others that made it so unique and essential.
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Seth Wickersham @sethwickersham.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
As someone who has subscribed, consumed, competed against, admired, and interned at the Washington Post sports section, I’m still in shock that the powers that be are *walking away* from a known, rabid, paying audience. Thinking foremost of all those affected today, even those who survived. But also
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Marty Langley @mlangley32.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Same here - in 53 years I've never lived in a house without a daily print Post subscription until now. @dcsportsbog.bsky.social
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Patrick Stevens @d1scourse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My modest contributions to the Post are finished as well. Lot of editors to thank: @dcsportsbog.bsky.social, @mikehumeathletic.bsky.social, the late David Larimer, @jasonmurray.bsky.social, @greg-schimmel.bsky.social. Probably forgetting someone, and for that I apologize.
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