Dan Steinberg
@dcsportsbog.bsky.social
Managing editor, NFL, at The Athletic. Reach me at dsteinberg@theathletic.com.
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...
2026 NFL QB Tiers: Patrick Mahomes’ unanimous run ends, Lamar Jackson slips into loaded Tier 2
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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...
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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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...
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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I was just asking the question ha. But this seems like a fair answer to me
LetTeddyWin@blog.letteddywin.com · 2mo agoOK Dan I'll take the clickbait. Rizzo deserves plenty of credit. They wouldn't be where they are without him. They also probably wouldn't be where they are WITH him. Both things can be true at the same time. 🤯
How much credit should Mike Rizzo get for what the Nats are doing right now? www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
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...
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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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...
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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Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email
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...
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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what an ending to the Division III national title game! Mary Washington beats Emory at the buzzer
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...
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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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...
WaPo seems to be covering the Nats again www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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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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...
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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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
ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
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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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...
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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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...
How 'the book' has come to influence the decisions of 100+ college football coaches
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This hurts more than seeing Juan Soto join the Mets. Okay, not really. But it still sucks.
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...
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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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.
Dan Steinberg@dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
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.
Dan Steinberg@dcsportsbog.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
The Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
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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The one thing I think the WaPo really needs more of is staff editorials about the mayor of nyc
🚨The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/ba...
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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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*.
The 51st is expanding
D.C. needs more local journalists. You can help us hire them.
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(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...
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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