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Matt Bonesteel

@MattBonesteel

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Gambling/fantasy sports for The Athletic. Ex-WaPo Sports.

Joined August 2008
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
19 days
Any news report on Will Lewis's resignation that doesn't lean into the fact that he was a complete failure in that role needs to be rewritten. Literally, a zero percent success rate.
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
22 days
kick-started initiatives that have been hilariously inept failures and now has gutted the newsroom to create a product no one is asking for. The man is an utter failure and should be covered as such.
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
22 days
What Will Lewis has accomplished at @washingtonpost would be impressive if it weren't so depressing. In just a few short years, he has caused hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers to stop subscribing, tanked the paper's reputation ...
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
3 months
I push some buttons on @TheAthletic NFL playoff simulator and come up with a few futures bets with some value.
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The Athletic's NFL playoff simulator finds betting value in three teams' futures odds. Read to see where the value lies.
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Matt Bonesteel
4 months
Ace’s solo LP was the best by 10 million miles, RIP
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Matt Bonesteel
8 months
Tree down on car in parking lot of Magruders in Chevy Chase DC. ⁦@capitalweather
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@PostSports
Post Sports
1 year
Which teams are most likely to win it all? History tells you these are the best bets for glory in the NCAA men’s tournament. (via @MattBonesteel)
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Which teams are most likely to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament? History tells you these 11 are the best bets for March Madness glory.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
John was in the newsroom one day early in my WaPo career. I had never once said one word to him and was a dumbshit kid, but he sought me out to tell me that he liked something that I had written. It made my day and probably my year and probably my career. So I'll miss him.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
John's accomplishments have been well documented over the past 24 hours. His *alleged* accomplishments, all self-proclaimed, could fill 10 more obituaries. His allegedly record-breaking swim times. His allegedly svelte waist size.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
And he would never write the late game, even if it was the best matchup of the day. Inevitably, we'd get a column about a 30-point blowout in the 2-15 game that started at noon. And inevitably, it would be a great column about the 15 seed trying to slay Goliath.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
Part of my job as colleges editor was planning our NCAA tournament coverage, and a large part of that was making sure John got a good press-row seat. Again, he never flew, so he'd always go to whatever first-round site was drivable, even if the matchups there were bad.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
John did the greatest Gary Williams impersonation. It was like Chevy Chase doing Ford in that John looked and sounded nothing like Gary, but he captured his essence perfectly. "We're here because we suck, and you're here because *you* suck" will never not make me laugh.
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
1 year
Asking me to look stuff up on the Internet. How his favorite golfers (Paul Goydos, usually) were doing that day. Other Patriot League scores. The Mets spring training result. Again, this inevitably happened with 15 minutes until deadline.
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
It usually started with how I had butchered his column by cutting out 20 inches of the 50 inches of perfection he had filed. But after I reminded him that we probably didn't need 50 inches about a Patriot League basketball game, he would get into Part 2:
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Matt Bonesteel
1 year
John drove everywhere, and never flew. So on fall-winter Saturdays, when my hair was on fire trying to get The Post's college sports content out, I could count on him calling me while driving back from wherever he was that day.
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@MattBonesteel
Matt Bonesteel
1 year
So many great John Feinstein stories out there. Here are mine.
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Dan Steinberg
1 year
Ok here is my John Feinstein thread. It's gonna be long. I saw someone praise him yesterday by saying he never made it about himself, which struck me as just about exactly wrong. He ALWAYS made it about himself. It's who he was, at least as long as I knew him
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Paul Kane
1 year
We lost a friend, a mentor, an editor, who shaped the careers of Pulitzer winners, TV news celebs and many others. But Tim happily stood off in backdrop, looming large over it all. Here's the full updated obituary for @timcurran_dc https://t.co/0zntMydfMa
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He was top editor at Roll Call, a Capitol Hill publication, before holding high-level editing jobs at The Post.
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@PostSports
Post Sports
1 year
Hail or fail: Commanders pick apart the Lions in playoff shocker (via @MattBonesteel):
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Washington’s improbable season isn’t done just yet after a high-scoring upset of Detroit.
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