Morning Look: Gilbert Meets the Media
(2003 photo by Charles Dharapak - AP)
I know, right? Hard to imagine that’s what five years ago looked like. And today, of course, is the day that Gilbert meets the media again, to once again discuss signing a massive deal with the Wizards.
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Gilbert’s Got a New T-Shirt
Gilbert hasn’t arrived at the Acela Club for his “Yeah, I signed two weeks ago” press conference. The media members are here; at least, those members who aren’t in Ashburn. More importantly, what appears to be the entire staff of Washington Sports and Entertainment is here, wearing matching t-shirts.
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The Mike Sellers Beard Returns
The first thing I noticed about Mike Sellers today? The beard, of course. You remember last year’s two-toned training camp beard, dyed blond at the bottom, that prompted teammates to call him T-Pain? The beard that he then shaved off in mid-November, citing superstition and saying it was “time for a change?”
D.C. Sports Media Approval Ratings: Kelli Johnson
What better way to kickoff Redskins Training Camp Week than with a look at some of the Reporters Who Cover the Redskins? And where better to start than with Kelli Johnson, the team’s beat reporter on Comcast SportsNet.
Seven Bowel Movements: A Training Camp Conversation With Stefan Fatsis
Morning Look: Todd Collins is a Cover Boy
There are certain stock images of athletes posing that you’ve seen so many times your mind whirls right past them: the smiling face with hands resting loosely on hips, the scowling stare with hands gripping some sporting implement, the defiant glare with shirt off, tattoos screaming into the air.
Redskins Football Has Returned
This photo was taken around 7:15 a.m. Yup. It’s football season.
Welcome back, football. We’ve missed you. We’ve missed your muddy scent, the charred and bloody nourishment you provide, the sight of your curves, pale and blurry this month, gradually becoming both more distinct and dreamier as you peak around summer’s corner.
Chris Cooley’s Wife’s Got a Nice T-Shirt
If marriage has dulled Christy Cooley’s affection for her husband, it didn’t show today. Yeah, that’s her, pictured above. Yeah, that’s her t-shirt. Yeah, it’s signed by her husband. She asked him for a special message. He obliged.
Durant Goes Off, and Rhyming Ovechkin
Is it possible that I’m still off the clock? I mean, just how lazy are bloggers, exactly?
(Seriously, this slowness is partially because of the impending Olympics timesuck, and partially because if someone offers to let you not work and still get paid, you should probably say “yes thanks.” Full-on bogging returns Sunday morning for Skins camp. In the meantime….)
Kevin Durant goes off for 60 in a Goodman League game at Barry Farms. Lawrence Moten and Tony Bethel and assorted others were also playing. Sounds, um, cool. Word is Durant is playing again tonight. If you never follow my links, make an exception and read this one. (D.C. Metro Sports)
This Week’s Top 10 WaPo Sports Stories
This week’s most popular WaPo sports subject. (By Erik S. Lesser For The Washington Post)
Since there seems to be some amount of interest in the Washington Post’s coverage decisions and click rates in these parts, I’m going to introduce a new Friday feature: the Top 10 most viewed WaPo sports stories of the previous seven days (i.e., Friday through Thursday). I believe official newspaper policy is still that our coverage decisions are not governed by click counts, but for the merry gang of Internet media critics, it’s at least grist for snarky anonymous comments about other sports. (And needless to say, if I were in charge, clicks would be king and the entire sports section would have nothing but Redskins news, down to 1,500-word profiles of the dude who washes the team socks.)
