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Washington Post Sports Watch: Can We Keep Things in Perspective?

One of my major issues with the Washington Post sports section, and the Washington sports media in general, is its tendency to overhype the quality of local teams--a premature excitement  or optimism...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: They sent two writers to Europe and none to the...

The primary reason I started writing "Washington Post Sports Watch" was because of what I think are deficiencies in the way the Washington Post cover the Washington Capitals and the NHL in general....

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Washington Post Watch: What's the deal with Ted Leonsis?

There's a really interesting tidbit of news buried in Friday's Washington Post Sports section. It's only two paragraphs, at the bottom of page 2 in the digest section, but it raises some questions that...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: What's Tom Boswell Leaving Out?

I thought Tom Boswell's column Monday morning on the state of the Nats was generally pretty good. Finally, for pretty much the first time all season, he didn't make excuses for the team or try to come...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Stuff I liked, and a couple updates

If I'm going to spend so much time criticizing, it's only fair that I go through some of the stuff I liked over the past week or so in the Washington Post sports section. So let me run down some...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Jason Reid Believes the Hype

Last week I wrote a post about the tendency of Post writers and columnists to frequently overhype the local teams, demonstrating a "premature excitement" or optimism about the teams before they've...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Praising this summer's Nats coverage,...

Before I get to my criticism of the Post's Nats coverage today, I want to give some credit to the Post's Nats coverage. Adam Kilgore's lengthy Sunday piece on the unraveling of the Nats' season was...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Wise, Reid, Storen and the Elephant in the Room

Over the last two days, Mike Wise and Jason Reid  have written dueling columns on the Drew Storen demotion, and what it says about the Nats and Storen. I'm less interested in what the treatment of...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Mike Rizzo was extended. Did Any of the...

The Washington Nationals gave Mike Rizzo a contract extension and promotion on Thursday evening about 9 p.m. As I write this, more than three days later, no Post sports columnist has yet written a word...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: What does it mean to be "talented," and stuff I...

What have I liked in the Post Sports section lately? Well, as their playoff chances pretty much died this week, it was nice to see Post columnists Tom Boswell and Mike Wise finally give us some honest,...

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Washington Post Sports (And Business) Watch: Failing to Ask Leonsis Some...

OK, today's post isn't technically about the Washington Post Sports section. But when I opened up Monday's Washington Post Business pages and saw that Post business writer Thomas Heath had spent "the...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Boswell's Statistics Don't Quite Add Up

Tom Boswell wrote a really interesting column the other day about baseball catchers and the importance of pitch selection, or  "calling the game." Part of the piece talked about how pitch selection is...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Once Again, The Sports Columnists Forget About...

Hey, remember how after the Nationals made the Denard Span trade last November, Tom Boswell had a whole column about what this trade meant to the Nationals lineup and the lineup possibilities for the...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: The RGIII story the Post Missed

It seems hard to believe, but could it be that even with the tens of thousands of words and dozens of articles the Washington Post Sports section printed on Robert Griffin III's knee the last eight...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Martin Erat, Mathieu Perreault and the Post's...

So imagine that back during the Nats' 2012 season, they had traded their best hitting prospect, Anthony Rendon. It was in July, during Ian Desmond's stint on the disabled list, and the Nats traded...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Anyone Want To Talk About the Marcin Gortat Trade?

On Friday afternoon, the Wizards traded Emeka Okafor and a 2014 first round pick for Marcin Gortat. On Monday afternoon, the national sports site Grantland had extensive analysis of the trade posted....

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Ray Emery Wasn't Suspended, and The Post...

You probably saw or heard about the Friday night "fight"--better characterized as an assault--by Philadelphia Flyer goalie Ray Emery on Washington Capitals' goalie Braden Holtby. And you might have...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Ted Leonsis Came to the Washington Post And All...

Three weeks ago, back on Oct. 31, Ted Leonsis spent two hours meeting with reporters and editors of the Washington Post. He talked about the Caps and Wizards' profitability, about his Monumental Sports...

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Post Sports Watch: Failing to Put McPhee and Grunfeld on the Hot Seat, While...

When it comes to determining whether George McPhee and Ernie Grunfeld will remain as general managers of their respective teams, Ted Leonsis is the ultimate decider. But the local media also plays a...

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Washington Post Sports Watch: Analyzing Sally Jenkins' Lazy, Inaccurate,...

Just like Sally Jenkins does in her columns, I won't beat around the bush: Her column today on RGIII's alleged selfishness and entitlement is awful. It's not awful because of her opinion that Griffin's...

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