D.C. Sports Bog Archive: Beer and Cheese

Holy Hell: Bruce Boudreau Hates Cheese

I've always been partial to Bruce Boudreau, as both a coach and a media subject. As a coach, he's honest and he wins. As a media subject, he's cooperative, funny, smart, quotable, and unique. But then things went sour faster than fresh ricotta in the back seat of a...

By Dan Steinberg  |  September 17, 2009; 9:55 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (4)
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The Beer at Nats Park This Season: Good. Very.

Yay. A year ago, I took a food tour of Nats Park and spent the entire trip asking Stan Kasten about beer choices. He pointed out that I seemed to be obsessed; "one-track mind," I believe was the quote. And since I ended the season having drunk precious few...

By Dan Steinberg  |  April 2, 2009; 1:08 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (29)
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Olympic Athletes Having Fun

Olympic bronze medalist rower Tracy Cameron plays air guitar, drinks beer. "I just want to drink a beer," an Olympic athlete was saying early this morning at Club Bud. "A lot of them, actually." You've never seen so many grown adults so anxious to pop the top off a...

By Dan Steinberg  |  August 18, 2008; 11:20 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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Getting Meta With Scorpions on Sticks

Random Irish man eats silkworms for American blogger. Foreign media doing scorpions-on-sticks pieces is just about the lamest form of journalism imaginable. It's hackneyed, cliched, predictable and useless. It relies entirely on the gross-out factor, and is basically Fear Factor on location. It creates an image of life in...

By Dan Steinberg  |  August 15, 2008; 2:11 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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Sampling Yak Cheese at the Olympics

Mary Carillo samples yak cheese with Ritz cracker. The L.A. Times's Bill Plaschke has already eaten animal penis at these Games. NBC's Mary Carillo has already filmed a package on sampling scorpions and seahorses on sticks. But, as far as I know, I was the first American sportswriter to...

By Dan Steinberg  |  August 11, 2008; 1:44 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (8)
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Introducing the Beijing Cheese Society

The Beijing Cheese Society, auctioning off gourmet treats to raise money for earthquake victims. "There are 10,000 journalists here," Beijing resident Sharon Ruwart told me the first time we chatted. "You're at the bottom of the barrel, my friend, if you want to write about cheese." My intention, I...

By Dan Steinberg  |  August 4, 2008; 2:29 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (6)
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The Missing Cheese, Dan Steinberg , October 16, 2006
Week Two Tasting Notes, Dan Steinberg , September 19, 2006
Fancy Foods at a NASCAR Tailgate, Dan Steinberg , September 13, 2006
 
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