Steinz -

This week 7 of the top 10 were columns or features. The trend continues.

How may Nats/Wiz/Caps columns or features ran this week?

BTW, I read all of the above (though none online, all dead tree).

Well of course the top stories are all Redskins related. With DC United on hiatus due to the all-star game, there are no other sports in DC this week.

Maybe once there is an announcement of the results from Morrison's arbritration hearing...

@WebberDC: There was a Nats feature this week, on Willie Harris, although it was much shorter than the epic-length Springs and Zorn features (which were both really good, as was the Wise column on Portis.)
And considering there were a couple Nats stories this week that could only have been read online and not in the dead tree edition--since the games ended so late--these numbers don't speak well of interest in the Nats. Then again, I'm one of the MASN 9,000 and I get depressed reading about the Nats, so I understand.

This list will be a lot more interesting in mid-November, when we're midway through the NFL season, the NHL season is in full swing, the NBA season is starting, etc.

The United played twice this week but their fans think they were on hiatus??? Maybe they will crack the top 10 when football, basketball, and baseball season are over.

Who said CBT was a DCU fan? He didn't. This does seem like a good time for a soccer feature, but I gather Goff has been in an out on some much-needed vacation. And anyway I'd take the Soccer Insider coverage over a weekly feature any day.

The United excuses #2&3: Goff was on vacation and we don't read features anyway.

I read none of those stories online, as I care not one whit about the throwball team.

And count me among the people who believe in the gatekeeper theory of media.

@PB and @danj: My comment of DC United being on hiatus was in reference to their play on the field this week, not whether or not they played at all.

And today's most emailed story on the NY Times is about granite countertops.

Clearly, they need to close their Tel Aviv bureau and move it somewhere to study Corian.

Number four is a story on arugula. I guess the journalist veggie lobby is damn strong.

Ok, is it surprising to me that the Redskins dominated? No. But by this much? All 10 stories? In a week Rauch got traded/Guzman re-upped, and Gilbert had his contract press conference (which ran on the top of the sports section front), and our Wiz reporter was live at Vegas Summer League, and the NFL kickoff was still more than a month away, I wouldn't necessarily expect to see a Redskins notebook crack this list.

Hey Dan, just got some time to watch the Cooley interview.

Absolutely LOVED it! Very cool to get a personal glimpse of a Skin. Please keep it up. It's a shame that the Redskins are preventing you from doing more of this.

Keep up the great work.

Hey dude thanks for tagging along and using us before training camp you little beatch!!!!

Honestly I was earlier just typing from the hear and then I actually read back what I wrote and what everyone else wrote and who did I see?
That PUNK ASS BEATCH THE PB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
TOO BAD ALL THE MONEY YOUR SPENDING IS ON THE WORST TEAM IN BASEBALL AND YOUR STUPID COMCAST CABLE CONNECTION YOU DORK!!!!

Dude now you don pissed off my dad dude!
PB! What two games are you referring to?
United is what I'm talking about..
They lost to HOuston finally on Wednesday night but what other game are you talking about this week?
You seem to think you know sooooo much about "the United" but you really dont/
I think your just fat, lonely, lonely, lonely, and maybe gay, and really, really , miss Christian Gomez...
that' s totally cool and all but I don't understand why you are trying to make yourself look cool in front of a bunch of skins fans for bashing DC UNITED... Kinda lame dude.
seriously.

The United lost to Houston both on Saturday and on Wednesday, you probably missed the game on Saturday, it wasn't very well attended.

Last time I checked the week begins on Sunday PB, and you are right I was way out in California...Kind of hard to attend a game when youre not even on the same coast.
It was a worthless game as far as mattering, but you probably are very used to the same thing with your baseball team.

Leave it to the WASHINGTON Post to never cover the Washington Nationals. If they even did 1/2 th coverage of the Nats like they do the stupid 'Skins, Nats stories would be the most popular stories, by far.

Why does the Post hate the Nationals?

Stupid, liberal rag.

The United fan named Dadryan doesn't know that games played on Saturday are reported on in the paper on Sunday. And Steinbog's week runs from Friday through Thursday anyway.

What I really want to know is how Maske's coverage of the Patriots compared to the Nats stories. How many blog posts? Really, Tom Brady is glad Jason Taylor is out of Miami.

So I'm guessing that everything you know about DC United you read in the Washington Post the day after they play.
Stein hasn't posted anything today...What are you talking about?
You can buy a Sunday paper on Friday.
I already knew that United wasn't going to play their starting eleven and like i said I was in California and missed all of United's Superliga games minus some that I watched some live stream of online...
Meanwhile you are sitting around nit picking a team you don't really know anything about.
Shut up dude.
Go Skins
Vamos United
and give me a call when the Nationals aren't the worst team in baseball, so I can catch another game.

Once again, these are not the top 10 Washington Post sports stories; they are the top 10 washingtonpost.com sports stories. The paper edition of the Post actually makes money. The dot-com? Not so much. But obviously the tastes of Internet visitors should be highlighted over those of printed-Post subscribers, because the data (on how to lose money) are easily accessible.

Seriously - does the Post want me to start reading the paper only on the Web, so that my personal reading habits and preferences will actually be taken into account?

Rough Start, Big Finish
I believe this was the headline after A-Rod's first night with Madonna.

Did Bruce Smith 1.0's arrival receive as much media coverage as Bruce Smith 2.0's?

This would be a more interesting feature if it listed the top 10 non-Skins stories. Everyone knows the Skins are the Big Fish in the local pond.

I only know who that guy is because he was on Dancing With the Stars. So not a football girl.

NFL coverage in July bores me to no end, but I grew up in a town that seldom pays more than passing attention to football until baseball season's over.

Its nice to see all the coverage and if it based on baseball it will better.

http://www.sports-trader.net/