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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Business is boooooming for the Commanders

🏈They sold 12,000 new season tickets this year, leading the NFL in growth
🏈They signed 64 new corporate deals, going from bottom third of the NFL to top third
🏈Get this: They ADDED seats back to the stadium.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

The Commanders’ turnaround has brought back fans — and dollar signs

After decades of sitting at or near the bottom of the NFL in football and business metrics, Washington’s franchise has reversed course.

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 4

Brandon Coleman grew up idolizing Laremy Tunsil, and said it's "surreal" to be teammates now. He also told Tunsil he wanted to train together in the offseason. "Made my heart feel a little warm," Tunsil told @davidaldridgedc.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Commanders need Laremy Tunsil to keep Jayden Daniels’ body, and future, intact

For the Commanders, Daniels is the hope and the future. Tunsil was brought to Washington to make sure that future arrives safely.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

I need some hot tea I believe. I like to think I have just set a world record for “highest blood pressure spike related to a logic puzzle proposition involving the Washington commanders.”

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have now been informed that they changed my puzzle and it is easy now. I take no comfort in this. Sorry all. @markcooperjr.bsky.social We will never speak again, sorry those are the rules.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

We made it easier. @markcooperjr.bsky.social was concerned!

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Playing Connections: Sports Edition might be the best part of my morning, so I was legit thrilled to partner with Mark Cooper on a special gameboard for Commanders fans. And I was told it was "diabolical," which seems a bit much www.nytimes.com/athletic/con...

Play Connections: Sports Edition, our newest word game

Group sports terms that share a common thread. A new puzzle is available each day.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hahaha. That is, uh, not true in my case

Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Inside Terry McLaurin’s contract: all the incentives, escalators and the Adam Peters April 1 strategy www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Inside Terry McLaurin’s contract, from the incentives to a 49ers special

Like many NFL contracts that are only partially guaranteed, the true value of McLaurin’s deal isn’t quite what it seems.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 27

David Aldridge on what we learned from the Terry McLaurin negotiations about how Adam Peters does business www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

Terry McLaurin’s extension shows how the Commanders will do business going forward

For the Commanders, last season was a fairy tale, but general manager Adam Peters isn't just hoping for his future wishes to be granted.

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Scott Allen @scottsallen.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bama chicken sandwich (with an Alabama white sauce) from Marvin’s (Section 302) is solid. DMV Crab Rolls is back for 2025

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is pretty cool. Michael Phelps and Jay Glazer created a star-studded mental health support network of sports dudes who need to talk. It now includes The Rock, former UFC and NFL stars, Sean McVay and Dan Quinn. t.co/VN4TinAkX9

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6568161/2025/08/26/michael-phelps-the-rock-sean-mcvay-mental-health/

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 25

"He’s a winner," Bobby Wagner told Dan Pompei, "and energy doesn’t have age. The only time I think about the age difference is when he makes fun of me."

Dan goes deep on the friendship between the 35 year old linebacker and 24 year old QB www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

'Big brother' Bobby Wagner brings out the best in Commanders 'little brother' Jayden Daniels

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 22

Jayden Daniels to @diannarussini.bsky.social: “I just know that it is all gonna work out, that both sides will come to an agreement and Terry’s gonna be back out here. We’re gonna be throwing some passes to him.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

Jayden Daniels confident Commanders, WR Terry McLaurin will end stalemate

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 20

One person with knowledge of McLaurin’s contract negotiations told @nickijhabvala.bsky.social the veteran receiver has asked for more than DK Metcalf. Which would mean he wants to be top 4 among WR in AAV, or top 10 in guaranteed money, or top 5 in % of team cap www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

Why Terry McLaurin and the Commanders still can’t reach a deal

As the impasse continues, with McLaurin absent from the team's second preseason game on Monday, some large questions remain unanswered.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 19

How NFL execs rank the top three NFL players 25 and under
1. Ja’Marr Chase
2. Jalen Carter
3. Jayden Daniels ‬⁩

www.nytimes.com/athletic/656...

How NFL talent evaluators, coaches rank the top players 25 and under entering 2025 season

Ja'Marr Chase ascends to the top spot as a pair of players age out while Jayden Daniels debuts at No. 3 among the league's top young stars.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 18

Jayden Daniels spent the offseason scouting himself.
@nickijhabvala.bsky.social explains how it's already made him better. www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...

Jayden Daniels spent the offseason scouting himself. It's already paying off

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kliff Kingsbury’s comments were the most pointed yet by a Commanders coach or executive about the urgency of resolving McLaurin’s months-long contract dispute www.nytimes.com/athletic/655...

Kliff Kingsbury says Commanders need Terry McLaurin, other starters back

Kingsbury’s comments were the most pointed yet by a Commanders coach or executive about the urgency to get Terry McLaurin and others back.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 12

Out of San Francisco, Deebo Samuel has a plan to recapture what made him great

Commanders’ Deebo Samuel has a plan to recapture what made him great

After a season marred by pneumonia and a string of injuries, the veteran wide receiver took his training to another level.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Aug 11

So @sandonfl.bsky.social has been doing QB Tiers for 12 years. And Jayden Daniels just set the highest mark for a second-year QB in that span. www.nytimes.com/athletic/651...

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record

See who joined Jackson in Tier 1, where Caleb Williams stacks up in the 2024 draft class, how far Aaron Rodgers fell and much, much more.

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Ella Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social · Jul 30

Even in a departure letter, Sally Jenkins gives some of the best and finest writing you’ll read today.

Grateful to have had the chance to work with one of the all-time greats, a singular voice who lifted up Post Sports and made the whole place better.

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Jul 30

News: legendary Washington Post sports columnist @sallyjenx.bsky.social is leaving The Post.

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Ella Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social · Jul 27

Steve Goff is a stalwart of American soccer. He helped a whole generation of readers — everywhere, but especially in D.C. — understand and fall in love with this sport.

I'm immensely lucky to have had him as a colleague and to get to see up close how a legend gets it done. An incredible run.

Steven Goff @stevengoff.bsky.social · Jul 27

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout
— Tom Waits

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Andrew Golden @andrewgolden.bsky.social · Jul 27

For anyone who missed Tom Boswell's awesome speech yesterday afternoon at the Baseball Hall of Fame, here it is on our site:

"For me, after all these years, baseball is about generations. We don’t play the game. We replay the memories — together."

Thomas Boswell’s speech in Cooperstown: ‘Thanks, baseball’

After all these years, baseball is about generations. We don’t play the game. We replay the memories — together.

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Jul 27

We had fun today honoring Boz. They say the personal connection with readers is the thing that will save human-produced journalism. I dunno. But I sure wish we had chartered a bus for WaPo subscribers

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Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog.bsky.social · Jul 26

Let’s go

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