Archive: Morning Look
Morning Look: Backstrom's Refrigerator Art
Backstrom's painting of Swedish goalie Johan Holmqvist, courtesy of Swedish Radio. It would appear as though Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom was commissioned to create some artwork to be auctioned off for charity tomorrow. While painting, Backstrom listened to Raffi tapes and ate grilled cheese cut into fourths. I don't...
By Lindsay Applebaum | October 9, 2008; 10:55 AM ET | Comments (17)
Afternoon Look: Caps Ride Rollercoasters
Courtesy of the Washington Capitals [Update: Just saw this on Caps Owner Ted Leonsis's blog, Ted's Take: Real men and a better blogger would have been on the Superman roller coaster last night with our team instead of checking out the license plates on the streets of DC! He...
By Lindsay Applebaum | October 3, 2008; 03:37 PM ET | Comments (9)
Morning Look: Even More Skins Plates
How do you know when a gimmick has run its course? When the gimmick is funny Redskins license plates, and the inspiration was an "F Romo" plate, and by the third entry on this topic people again start sending you an image of an "F Romo" plate. Either that,...
By Dan Steinberg | October 2, 2008; 08:56 AM ET | Comments (7)
Morning Look: Jim Zorn Stays Medium
Pre-game coaching calisthenics. (By John McDonnell - TWP) Jim Zorn may yet turn into the Gilbert Arenas of NFL coaching circles, minus the repeated knee surgeries. I'm not sure exactly what Zorn's doing in this photo above, but much like Gilbert, he has his own pet phrases that get...
By Dan Steinberg | September 29, 2008; 07:53 AM ET | Comments (10)
Morning Look: Cooley Unfiltered
Passing judgment on how the famously unfiltered editors at Redskins.com handled Chris Cooley's first public news gathering concerning his private parts: Negative: As pictured above, in a screen grab taken this morning, Redskins.com sort of misidentified the player in question. The day Jason Campbell holds a press conference to...
By Dan Steinberg | September 18, 2008; 10:07 AM ET | Comments (4)
Morning Look: Ovechkin At the Phone Booth
(By Luis M. Alvarez - AP) Plenty of Washington D.C. sports figures show solidarity with other teams by showing up in the crowd, often in extremely nice seats. Just this last weekend, for example, Caron Butler made it to Landover for the Redskins game. Carlos Rogers and Clinton Portis...
By Dan Steinberg | September 16, 2008; 09:52 AM ET | Comments (3)
Morning Look: Jason Taylor's Biggest Fans
Q: What do you do if you're a Dolphins fan, your husband is a Redskins fan, and Jason Taylor gets traded from the Dolphins to the Redskins. A: Keep your Jason Taylor Dolphins jersey, buy a Jason Taylor Redskins jersey, pay a tailor $40 to split the jerseys in...
By Dan Steinberg | September 15, 2008; 12:06 PM ET | Comments (7)
Morning Look: Arenas at Summer League
Loyal (occasional) reader Unsilent Majority sends along this gallery of NBA Summer League photos, which includes a crowd shot during a Wiz game. Looks like some Arenas fans made the trip. No Arenas, though....
By Dan Steinberg | September 12, 2008; 08:29 AM ET | Comments (8)
Morning Look: Caron Butler's a Fashion Model
I noted yesterday that DeShawn Stevenson bought his entire new '80s wardrobe at élevée, and a wise commenter then pointed out that Caron Butler seems to be one of the high-end California custom clothing company's lead models. Well, Caron and Terrell Owens, which is kind of unfortunate. Presenting, then,...
By Dan Steinberg | September 11, 2008; 10:00 AM ET | Comments (8)
Morning Look: Sean Taylor's Stuff
If you read Mike Wise's Sunday column about the Sean Taylor auction last Friday in Bealeton, you realize that the story never stops twisting around to uncover new sadness. Strangers picking over one's leftover belongings for bargain prices might be the way of the world when rich people die,...
By Dan Steinberg | September 10, 2008; 08:29 AM ET | Comments (12)
Morning Look: Free Redskins Food
This all happened when I was in China, and it's been chronicled repeatedly in the Redskins Insider, but golly if I didn't return to a Redskins Park media room suddenly awash in free food, from the dispenser offering complimentary M and M's and Snickers and Milky Way chocolate destruction...
By Dan Steinberg | September 9, 2008; 10:41 AM ET | Comments (10)
Morning Look: Where Were You Saturday?
Since yesterday, anyone attempting to visit the home page of Middle Tennessee State Athletics has been met with this message: "Where Were You?" along with an inspirational video featuring highlights of Maryland's inspirational loss to the Blue Raiders. And indeed, 40 years from now, this game will be added...
By Dan Steinberg | September 8, 2008; 10:55 AM ET | Comments (8)
Morning Look: Redskins Power Trio
(By John McDonnell - TWP) You know, for the first year or so that I informally "covered" the Redskins (i.e. provided updates about their beards and tattoos), I had no idea what chief spokesman and Minister of Information Karl Swanson looked like. For some reason, whenever I read the...
By Dan Steinberg | September 3, 2008; 10:08 AM ET | Comments (7)
Morning Look: This Car Loves the Redskins
Photos by Adam Littlefield. My time in Ashburn is winding down, due to an impending flight to Beijing, but bloggers are showing up in droves out there, providing all the hard-hitting coverage the fan base demands. Over the weekend, it was Comcast SportsyNet super-producer Adam Littlefield, who captured what...
By Dan Steinberg | July 28, 2008; 11:17 AM ET | Comments (5)
Morning Look: (Sorta) Hot Fitteds in Ashburn
It's been a few days since I've really been able to mingle with the fans at Redskins Park, so my supply of Hot Fitted photos is a lot sparser than it should be. But today I did run into the fellas with the burgundy and gold Nats cap, which...
By Dan Steinberg | July 25, 2008; 08:12 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Colt Brennan Plays the Ukulele
Photo taken from Hawaii State Society of Washington D.C. On the first morning of the first week of Colt Brennan's first NFL season, the Hawaiians came out. The one group I spent time with included several out of towners from Hagerstown and Carroll County who had woken up at...
By Dan Steinberg | July 24, 2008; 08:24 AM ET | Comments (11)
Morning Look: Gilbert Meets the Media
(2003 photo by Charles Dharapak - AP) I know, right? Hard to imagine that's what five years ago looked like. And today, of course, is the day that Gilbert meets the media again, to once again discuss signing a massive deal with the Wizards. I had also forgotten that...
By Dan Steinberg | July 22, 2008; 09:04 AM ET | Comments (2)
Morning Look: Gil Bowing in Filipino Malls
If you were worried about a media blackout during Gilbert's Asian tour, worry no longer. Via Gilbertology comes word of Sandro's Site, which has posted literally more than 500 photos of Gilbert in Manila. It's an amazing collection that will pass at least 20 minutes of your time, and...
By Dan Steinberg | July 9, 2008; 08:19 AM ET | Comments (51)
Morning Look: Portis in Tysons
(Courtesy John Park Williams.) Some blogs have made their mark with pictures of famous professional athlete doing borderline inappropriate things with comely young ladies in social settings. This blog is in the process of trying to make its mark with pictures of famous professional athletes awkwardly posed with excited...
By Dan Steinberg | July 2, 2008; 08:59 AM ET | Comments (12)
Morning Look: A Shot of Jamison
(2004 TWP photo by John McDonnell) So your choices this morning were a disturbing, puffy-lipped look at Jack Kent Cooke's "Do you know who my dad is $1 billion goes a long way" spouting daughter Jacqueline, who managed to reverse the wistful-for-Cooke thoughts, at least for a day, or...
By Dan Steinberg | July 1, 2008; 08:24 AM ET | Comments (9)
Morning Look: Bearded Gilbert
(Photo courtesy Eric Young) I always sort of figured that news of Gilbert's next destination, if not broken on his blog, will be broken by some random Internet type who runs into Zero holding court in an Filipino sandwich shop, or playing shuffleboard in Miami, or sitting by himself...
By Dan Steinberg | June 30, 2008; 10:31 AM ET | Comments (20)
Morning Look: Ovechkin Day, the Video
If you've always wanted to watch Caps fans praise Alex Ovechkin over the instrumental soundtrack from a pop-infused "Stay Off Drugs"-style 1993-vintage soundtrack, this NHL.com video is your chance. "It's always good when people love you and have fun with you," Ovechkin says in the site's recently released moving-pictured...
By Dan Steinberg | June 27, 2008; 08:20 AM ET | Comments (0)
More Morning Look: Torrence on Today
See. Told you. And yes, I can finally say that the Redskins forced me to watch "Today." At least I learned a lot about fireworks safety and the Naked Cowboy....
By Dan Steinberg | June 25, 2008; 10:14 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Four Portis Costumes!
Having already courted the country music crowd, Clinton Portis's offseason push for heartland fan allegiance took its next natural step this week, when he went on the NFL Network to debut four new characters. If you watch the accompanying video, some of the youthful zest will likely be drained...
By Dan Steinberg | June 24, 2008; 11:31 PM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Cooley, Junior and Czarniak
The Redskins are fast becoming a Dale Earnhardt Jr. Appreciation Society. First Kedric Golston outs himself as a major Junior fan--despite that fact that Junior is not, technically, a Gibbs driver--and then longtime Earnhardt fan Chris Cooley does an extended TNT sit-down with Lindsay Czarniak and everyone's favorite soda-pusher,...
By Dan Steinberg | June 19, 2008; 09:34 AM ET | Comments (6)
Morning Look: The Miggy Move
You remember The Miggy, right? A celebration to unite young and old, rich and poor, freedom-loving and freedom-hating? Well, it's sort of from the early days of sports blogging, so let's refresh, from the Balto Sun via The Orioles Warehouse: Shortstop Miguel Tejada and second baseman Brian Roberts meet....
By Dan Steinberg | June 18, 2008; 08:34 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: DCU Rising
Having stopped paying attention to D.C. sports for seven days, I return to find a baseball team that recorded its first three-game sweep of 2008, a Mystics team that recorded its first road victory of 2008, and a D.C. United side that's unbeaten in four games for the first...
By Dan Steinberg | June 16, 2008; 08:11 AM ET | Comments (10)
Morning Look: Caron Dancing and Popping
D.C. Fab photo, showing a celebrity Wizards basketball team that included T.O., Fred Smoot, Vernon Davis and Kenyon Martin. Remember when I wrote about that charity basketball game featuring the most bloggable list of athletes I've ever seen? Well, it was Saturday. Some of the headliners--Clinton Portis, DeShawn Stevenson,...
By Dan Steinberg | June 9, 2008; 07:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Fans All Wet
While yesterday's D.C. United game was stuck in some sort of strange limbo for much of the night, delayed after 16 minutes of slop but not yet canceled, I couldn't help but hope that the waterlogged chaos would result in a delay of several hours, players helping squeegee the...
By Dan Steinberg | June 5, 2008; 07:50 AM ET | Comments (6)
Morning Look: Watch Blog Show 51
Yeah, I know. I can't believe I'm posting this either. Observe the look on my face. I look entirely comfortable with this whole process, right? But find me another local sporting event with a compelling image that takes place on or around June 3, 2008, and I'll find you...
By Dan Steinberg | June 3, 2008; 08:37 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Sliding Millz
Just a few short days ago, Morning Look was utilized in the following snarky manner: "here's the state of the Nats outfield, circa May 2008," with a photo of a Nats outfielder enthusiastically sliding and enthusiastically failing to catch a fly ball. Of course, it was a total cheap...
By Dan Steinberg | June 2, 2008; 09:01 AM ET | Comments (0)
Morning Look: Blogging Erin Andrews
There are two ways to view this photograph of me and Blog Show co-host Jamie Mottram considering ESPN's Erin Andrews and Blog Show producer Adam Littlefield. The first is as a carefully constructed commentary on the perilous foundation of sports blogging: the juvenile "hold-on-is-that????" wonderment, the detached near-spying by...
By Dan Steinberg | May 29, 2008; 09:54 PM ET | Comments (23)
Morning Look: Sliding Dukes
Continuing another new feature to help me survive the summer: Morning Look, featuring a photograph that may or may not speak to the previous day's D.C. sports news, and also featuring virtually no text. I know, give a guy a blog that advocates his firing and he suddenly thinks...
By Dan Steinberg | May 29, 2008; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (1)
Morning Look: Tiger's Presser
Introducing another new feature to help me survive the summer: Morning Look, featuring a photograph that may or may not speak to the previous day's D.C. sports news, and also featuring virtually no text. I know, give a guy a blog that advocates his firing and he suddenly thinks...
By Dan Steinberg | May 28, 2008; 09:01 AM ET | Comments (3)
