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Dave anchors and reports sports for @WTOP . Proud @newhouseSU grad. He's made college football and basketball his personal hill. AP Top 25 and Big Ten voter.

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A new administration in Washington...
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@AdamTuss @nbcwashington Loved talking to Bob Marbourg about potential expansion and the like...
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Mickey Rooney as Santa. The Winter Warlock's redemption. Burger Meister burning toys. This show had everything...
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51-years ago today “Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town” premiered on ABC (narrated by Fred Astaire - 1970) …
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@washingtonian "The NERVE of some people."- "EXACTLY."
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@odenhead Got 2 nominees who I think got out of ABQ in one piece...
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@Super70sSports Pinky Tuscadero and the Malachi Brothers. A demolition derby. The famed crunch.
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#Nats win the #WorldSeries -- the scene at Capital One Arena. @WTOP
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@netflix Hoping there's a reunion...
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2 years
This week's @AP_Top25 ballot...
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@itsSaulGoodman The vehicle. The plate. The shoes. The baseball cards. This Pryce is right...
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Law schools should devote at least one class to this scene...
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#Groucho :Now what's the matter? #Chico :I no like-a the second party, either. #Groucho  : Well, you should have come to the first party. We didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days! #ANightAtTheOpera 1935
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This week's @AP_Top25 ballot. Plenty of difficult decisions and tough omissions...
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Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman after throwing the ceremonial first pitch before tonight's #Nats - #Mets game. @WTOP
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@Super70sSports Puppet show was pretty damn underwhelming... and it was a Tufnel-less Tap (with the less-talented Shrimpton brother on drums).
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This week's @AP_Top25 ballot...
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@Super70sSports Sam the Butcher. Had a guest star WAR of 10.5 and made every episode better by his mere presence.
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@itsSaulGoodman Saved Los Polos Hermanos from ruin and is now the Regional VP of Ops for Madrigal's food division.
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@JimMWeber Same deal with ex-Maryland guard Kevin Huerter.
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@Super70sSports For a five-week stretch in the early 80's I swore Doug Henning was in Jefferson Starship...
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Father-son night at @Nationals Park: @Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin on hand. @WTOP
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This week's @APTop25_BB ballot. Plenty of tough choices and omissions. @WTOP
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Nick Cross...welcome to College Park! DeMatha product flips from Florida State to come to @TerpsFootball .
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@espn Sean Connery
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This week's @AP_Top25 ballot...
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@itsSaulGoodman "The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it."
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@RodCarew_29 "Rickey doesn't speak in the third person, only in the first Rickey..."
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3 years
Happy 87th birthday to @WashingtonNFL legend and Pro Football HOF Sonny Jurgensen, who owned the NFL mark for passing yards in a season from 1961-78.
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@itsSaulGoodman I smell a spinoff... "He's a young lawyer fighting for the little guy...while he's on the fast track in the fast food world. As roommates they're a dynamic duo!"
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2 years
@odenhead A man, a car, and his baseball cards.
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Historic day with the @Commanders sale means the #InfamousRedSuit at 25 & 55 on @WTOP .
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@awfulannouncing I'LL GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS. I'M NOT KIDDING." --taking 'unbridled arrogance' for $200...
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@UAB_FB And coming in a very very very very close second...
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UPSET IN THE STEEL CITY- @WashingtonNFL shocks 11-0 Pittsburgh 23-17, rallying from a 14-0 first half deficit. Alex Smith throws for 296 yards and a TD while Logan Thomas tallies 9 catches for 98 yards and a score. Burgundy & Gold improve to 5-7 and have won 3 straight. @WTOP
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@Super70sSports Gotta go with '77...
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Ice cream is 78% tastier when it's served in a batting helmet. @WTOP
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COMMITMENT TO DEFENSE- @GeorgetownHoops Coach Ed Cooley: "If you're soft you'll never play at Georgetown." Building program in what looks like another banner season for the @BIGEASTMBB .
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8 months
This week's @AP_Top25 ballot... let the conference tournaments begin!
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5 years
SHOULD BE THE PERMANENT JERSEY. NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT- OR LOWERCASE LETTERS ON THIS ONE. BLOCK NUMERALS FOREVER.
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The #Steelers will honor the 40th Anniversary of the Super Bowl XIV team this week as a part of Alumni Weekend and that will culminate with the team wearing their throwback jerseys on Sunday against the Rams.
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@CollegeSportsO And then it was surpassed in the only way possible...
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BREAKING- Face of the @Nationals Ryan Zimmerman calls it a career, retiring after 16 seasons with the team. The 2005 1st round pick played 1,799 games for the #Nats , notching 1,856 hits with 284 homers and 1,061 RBI. More coming up at 3:15 on @WTOP
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@Super70sSports Positively Fourth Street-
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For full effect we need Charley laughing uncontrollably...
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In the immortal words of Charley Steiner, here’s Carl Lewis aka “Francis Scott Off-Key” doing some very bad things to the national anthem ...
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9 years
Verizon Center crew no longer setting up for #CapsDucks . No word on the state of tonight's game.
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#Nats punch their first-ever ticket to the #WorldSeries - beating the #Cardinals 7-4 in Game Four of the #NLDS to sweep St. Louis. #Nats score 7 in the 1st. Patrick Corbin strikes out 12 and the bullpen of Rainey, Doolittle and Hudson combine for 4 scoreless frames. @WTOP
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@MJMcKean @edbegleyjr Birthday wishes are nice, but just give him some money...
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@EdCawley @Super70sSports Definitely the highest paid...
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Strasburg at 102 pitches to start the 9th..
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#Nats win Game 3 of the #NLCS 8-1 as Stephen Strasburg strikes out 12 over seven innings. Howie Kendrick goes 3-4 with 3 doubles, 3 RBI and 2 runs scored. #Nationals take a 3-0 series lead into tomorrow night's Game Four. @WTOP
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RIP Billy Packer. More than just a Final Four fixture from 1975-2008, Packer was a huge part of the ACC's package on Jefferson-Pilot (later Raycom) in the 70's and 80's, setting a record in 1983 when all eight conference school's fan bases thought he hated their team.
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5 years
A local minor league club celebrates the moon landing... #BowieBaysox
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Halftime at Xfinity Center- @TerpsWBB Coach @BrendaFrese shows the value of a fundamentally sound entry pass. #RedPanda
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@Super70sSports But...neither hit .328 for his career, crushed 64 beers during a cross-country flight or got pantsed in an episode of Cheers. Now THAT is a triple-threat.
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@Super70sSports The peak was right here-- how we never got a Cloud City playset I'll never know. Kenner booted that one...
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@Larry_Csonka39 In a year where you lost teammates Jake Scott & Jim Kiick, glad you can toast them as well.
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@Super70sSports Wade Boggs getting pantsed on "Cheers" was pretty awesome. "
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Ready for another tough test. @TerpsWBB coach @BrendaFrese knows that #FGCU will present challenges on both ends of the floor and called the Eagles "under-seeded". @WTOP
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@Super70sSports Ron Howard's ushers...
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RIP Cindy Williams. More than merely Shirley Feeny, she's awesome in "American Graffiti" as the girl Ron Howard tries to leave behind--but can't.
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In 2016 it was Wisconsin at 2:30 a.m. that clinched the Presidency for Trump. Today that state flips for Biden who leads 248-214 in the Electoral College. #SuperAwesomeElectoralMapCup
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#Senators great Frank Howard on hand before #WorldSeries Game Four.
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@Les_Johns @MLB "You can't possibly ruin your current and future audience." MLB--"Try me."
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@aadelsonESPN @ESPNStatsInfo That's two pandemics ago...
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@Super70sSports It is my unscientific theory that when Keith Richards eventually dies in 2055 the autopsy will reveal he has three lungs, two hearts, four livers, plus a glowing green sphere in his abdomen.
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@Super70sSports Going with "Baker Street"...
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@Kriegler007 -Beautiful Stranger was the best Bond song of the 90's. -Ghostbusters makes me want a new drug.
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@HerbieTeope @judybattista So...Mahomes only has to get the Chiefs to their OWN 35 to be within scoring distance????
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BREAKING BASKETBALL NEWS- Onetime Maryland All-ACC player (1952-54) and former @WashWizards Coach Gene Shue (Baltimore Bullets 1966-73, Washington Bullets 1980-86) dies at the age of 90. Led the Bullets as well as the 1977 Sixers to the @NBA Finals. @WTOP
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@MarkZuckerman Take that, Mets!
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Off to Jupiter FL for the @Nationals exhibition opener with the @Cardinals . Updates from the park this afternoon at 15 & 45 on @WTOP . @mstreetbank
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BREAKING @Nationals NEWS- Mark Lerner tells @masnKolko on @masnNationals that the team will retire Ryan Zimmerman's number 11 the weekend of June 17-18. @WTOP
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@FB_Helmet_Guy Yeah-- we'll take this one instead.
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@Super70sSports I'm coming back at you with the multiple faces of Artemis Gordon...
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@TGrant64 @Rob507 @AndrewBrandt I actually would have called him Francis...
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@OwnersBox THREE and SIX-- before trading both for a @QuebecNordiques sweater.
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5 years
Great to see my @WTOP co-worker @davejsports earn DC Sportscaster of the Year honors. More than just the voice of the #Wizards & #DCUnited , Dave's been the leadoff man in our sports lineup for 25+ years. Takes pitches like nobody else at 5:15 AM. Congrats!
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@JayBilas Keep in mind that 5 million dollars in Clemson South Carolina equals a billion dollars
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@PFF_College @ScottStras All-time standings: East 10-0 Leaders 2-1 Legends 1-2 West 0-10
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@Super70sSports The Really Rottens gave SMU football a run for its money in the early 80's from a violations standpoint.
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Dan Snyder by the numbers: More full-time coaches (8) than playoff appearances (6). Two playoff wins with ten last place finishes. Washington led NFL in attendance as recently as 2008, ranked last in the league in 2022. @WTOP
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@kasie @TomEScott Capn Geech & the Shrimp Shack Shooters put them to shame...
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@BenStandig Breaking news: "NFL to award Washington a 28-21 loss in Week Three"
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RIP Frank Bonner- who set the standard for radio station sales reps in dress and much more.
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#BondBirthday - @AnthonyStarke shined as "Truman-Lodge" in "License to Kill". You might also recognize him as "JIMMY" from "Seinfeld" or "Creepy Cowboy" from a very special "90210". Check out his turn as "Ezra Standish" in TV's "The Magnificent Seven".
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@FightinHydrant For some reason these complaints are 2.7 times as annoying.
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Boston TV sports legend @LynchieWCVB announces the next chapter of his career. He's been great for 37 years--but never better during the "I LIKE MIKE!" spots where #WadeBoggs played guitar with a bat.
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@Tosci_Marie "You took my sweater- my hat ! I can't find my cat (meow). The hardest part of breaking up is getting back your stuff.
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@Super70sSports "We have all the time in the world."
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@fashion_nfl I'd settle for the Richard Todd era unis...
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@max_olson @TheAthletic One can only imagine what sort of rivalry trophies they'll have in the new league...
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New year, new challenges. After 9+ years anchoring afternoon drive sports at @WTOP I'm moving to mornings. It's still 15 & 45, only with a lot more coffee. Looking forward to sharing the studio with @JohnAaronWTOP & @MichelleBasch . This never happened to the other fella.
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@Nationals The Broken bat single that kept the rally alive in the 2019 Wildcard Game.
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