Best of the Best

Dan Steinberg's DC Sports Bog is, quite simply, everything a blog should be (and he has my dream job). He is constantly solicited to attend sporting events for free. He gets to meet and shoot the shit with any and every athlete he wants. I also assume he has copious amounts of micro-brewed beer and artisanal cheese sent to him as well. He is the man.

These are just a few of my all time favorite Sports Bog moments.

• Want to see a penis on a Georgetown student's face? (note- that kid will likely be your accountant in two years) Also, make sure you check out the reader comments; some got pretty heated.
• Brendan Gaughan is not the only reason I love this story. Apparently, NASCAR is trying to net in inner city fans. I imagine these kids at a NASCAR event would feel the same way I'd feel that time I went to a Marrion Barry fund raiser.
  
• The eternal question is finally answered: Which DC sports icons have the best staches??? --- Best beard? Ben Olson, obviously.
  
• I love anything with Luciano Emilio or DC United, and this man covers it all. This one is a personal favorite, nabbed from Bobby Boswell's site.
  
• Clintin Portis trivia... Because Eastern Motors commercials never get old.
  
• And, my number one reason for loving the Bog (of 5 million)--- Steinberg, as shown in a three part series, really really loves Georgetown too!
  

Track is even less popular than soccer

Writing for the Georgetown Voice, we reporters often faced a crisis; Athletes are often dumb... like far less articulate than brick walls. Now, this problem is not limited to the world of college sports, but ESPN can take even the least known, mumbling fool and intercut the interview with shots of him with Clinton Portis as the latest hip-hop hit blasts in the background.

However, at Georgetown, unless we had J-Wall on the line (and incidentally, the Basketball players were universally some of the funniest, brightest, and friendliest athletes at school), that unread article was going to end as toilet paper in some frat boy's apartment.

Track. Crew. Field Hockey. These teams has some of the most popular and articulate students (with the highest GPAs as well). They were reporters dreams, friendly and willing to talk. But the problem was, we didn't really want to interview them, because no one cares about college swimming, or track, or ladies tennis. Once in a while, we threw out features that attempted to uncover the drunken orgy that is Crew , and the only thing that motivated anyone to write or read the story were rumors of a tamer Duke-type scandal that remained covered, or wrote tongue-in-cheek looks at the popular institution that is Club Rugby , but even then, what drove these stories was the human interest angle, not the sports themselves.

I can't help but feel that in the US, soccer, whether MLS or English Premiership, is treated with the disdain of, gasp, Georgetown D3 Football. In history, I am sure it has graced ESPN's screen far less than poker does in a month. And it is likely that fewer people could name a single DC United player than have the entire Redskins lineup tattooed on their asses.

And now Galaxy has shelled out a Chelski-worthy sum for Beckham, and no one is watching Posh's TV show, and I am left to wonder: What will it take to get American soccer on the map?