Really enjoyed @jessedougherty.bsky.social's reflections on sportswriters also being fans. I find it annoying when journalists ham up rooting for "their" team. I also find it annoying when journalists are joyless about sports they cover. What's the happy medium? open.substack.com/pub/colleges...

Wrote a bit about rediscovering (some) fandom after moving farther from home: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/sports-fan...

Wrote a bit about rediscovering (some) fandom after moving farther from home: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/sports-fan...

When you think of college football, you think of Saturday, right? Then there are teams like ECU, which played four of its first seven games on Thursday night. "You don’t need a map and a compass to find our games on TV." (w/ @emilygiam.bsky.social) www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

The teams with the most non-Saturday games since 2000? The Toledos and Boise States of the world. The teams with the fewest non-Saturday games? The Michigans and Georgias of the world.

College football is a Saturday sport. But then there are those Thursday and Friday and sometimes Tuesday games you turn on because why not? A fun story with @jessedougherty.bsky.social on how teams from smaller conferences try to grab TV eyeballs on weekdays. wapo.st/47W6Q1J

When you think of college football, you think of Saturday, right? Then there are teams like ECU, which played four of its first seven games on Thursday night. "You don’t need a map and a compass to find our games on TV." (w/ @emilygiam.bsky.social) www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

The real marathon here is Marlins Man taking a video of every single pitch (and deleting each little clip that doesn't amount to much). Generational clout chaser.

👀 @jessedougherty.bsky.social

What am I watching?

The Sunday sports front:

A story 🧵 I profiled Ace Dybantsa. Father of one of the best young basketball players in the world. Man of many, many words (very few of which he'll spend on whether his involvement in his son's career is too much): www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Required reading, a fascinating character (who might be involved w the Wizards in a few months)

One of the best pieces of sports writing of the year. Great work by @jessedougherty.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Want a piece of AJ Dybantsa, basketball’s next big thing? ‘You have to go through’ his dad. From @jessedougherty.bsky.social:

A story 🧵 I profiled Ace Dybantsa. Father of one of the best young basketball players in the world. Man of many, many words (very few of which he'll spend on whether his involvement in his son's career is too much): www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Last week, with his team trailing at halftime, Lane Kiffin cracked that his QB had to stop with the “Division II stuff.” But for Trinidad Chambliss, D-II stuff isn’t a pejorative. Without three years at Ferris State, he wouldn’t be thriving in the SEC: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

We simulated what your bank account would look like if you kept betting parlays. Here we consider a five-leg parlay with -110 odds per leg. And we assume you're no better than random chance. (You probably aren't.) You might get lucky every so often, but breaking even in the long run is very hard.

How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

Alert: @stevengodfrey.bsky.social back in the Washington Post's (digital) pages. Almost a must read. Also the alt headline of "The failure of playing by Jordon Rules" is very, very good.

Philadelphia native here who’s finding himself more emotionally invested in things from his hometown after moving far away from it: What’s the point of trading for Jhoan Duran if not to pitch him in the biggest spot of what’s basically a must-win game?

Watching baseball as a fan of the sport now, not as a beat writer, I have come to realize that I do not like a single major rule change of the past few years. AMA.

Hate to be the guy that references his story from earlier in the week, but... missed tackles. Lots of 'em again today. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Everybody Eats Episode 1: @mikepradanba.bsky.social joins the show to take a big picture look at the Wizards rebuild. Check it out! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/cl/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7AXv... Youtube: youtu.be/JlQCDohloNg

Very good story here. Making sense of college sports nowadays is hard but stories like these can help us understand it, at least

In the coming weeks, Paul Toboni will need to answer the team’s most pressing offseason questions. But on Wednesday — just a few hours after he was officially announced as the Nationals’ POBO — he didn’t have them all. Just a vision for the future:

The WNBA coaches are raging, the players are revolting and the loyal fan base along with those who are just learning your name are ridiculing the entire operation. So what are you going to do, Commissioner? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Caden Pierce, one of the Ivy League's best players the past few seasons, officially entered the transfer portal this morning. Yes, it's Oct. 1. So ... why? And why now? @washingtonpost.com profile here: washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/10/01/caden-pierce-princeton-nil/?itid=sf_sports_toptable_1_1

Some additional analysis and tidbits from my reporting here: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/caden-pierce

Caden Pierce, one of the Ivy League's best players the past few seasons, officially entered the transfer portal this morning. Yes, it's Oct. 1. So ... why? And why now? @washingtonpost.com profile here: washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/10/01/caden-pierce-princeton-nil/?itid=sf_sports_toptable_1_1

Read Flax. (Cause a lot of people who click this are also subscribing to my newsletter, since Flax has been kind enough to recommend mine, even though it has nothing to do with baseball) (But also just read Flax) (#ReadFlax)

You blink and, eight years later, the nine-year-old basketball "phenom" you wrote about commits to an SEC school. (Props to @danshanoff.bsky.social for alerting me to this last week, and for the idea to write about it): collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/neiko-mund...

You blink and, eight years later, the nine-year-old basketball "phenom" you wrote about commits to an SEC school. (Props to @danshanoff.bsky.social for alerting me to this last week, and for the idea to write about it): collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/neiko-mund...

Haven't been in front of the TV all day, but just saw the JOIN ICE! commercial during Mizzou-South Carolina on ESPN. Normal country. Yep, normal country.

The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

Fired football coach Brent Pry's wikipedia photo is the hard-livin' version of opinion guy

Okay that Georgia Tech ending is best-case drama. A real walk-off. Holy shit.

Warm up for college football with some … college sports/politics reading? Eh?

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A brain dump on the latest with college sports on Capitol Hill: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/score-act-...

A brain dump on the latest with college sports on Capitol Hill: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/score-act-...

Even more on this: Jared Moskowitz’s official X account responded to these same posts on X saying that his name was added to the bill without his office’s consent.

Some SCORE Act reporting: Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) signed on as a co-sponsor yesterday, then already removed his name today as the tide on the bill is/was turning, according to multiple people on the Hill. More …

Big development here from Brandon. In recent days, I started to hear a lot of doubts about whether the SCORE Act has the votes right now (it could pass through on a party-line vote, in theory, and has some Ds, too. But a handful of Rs have turned).

It’s whole again and so damn good.

Excited to be on the same team as you, Tashan. Thrilled to work with @tomschad.bsky.social, too. Our Commanders beat is whole again.

“This is one of those rivalries that, for families, goes deep in so many ways." “I didn’t know much about Mizzou-KU until I came here. But, you know, fuck KU, right?” www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...