Most fun detail in this @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social story: TWO NFL teams recently copied open-source code from the same restaurant-ranking app and created a tool to let their GMs rank prospects against each other. www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

what an ending to the Division III national title game! Mary Washington beats Emory at the buzzer

Frustrated Nationals fans find themselves shut out of watching Opening Day on TV (via @spencernusbaum.bsky.social and @evandrellich.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

Anyhow …. Our @spencernusbaum.bsky.social is doing live chats with fans during the first game of every series as a kind of TA experiment. It starts today. Go harass him in the discussion tab and/or ask him questions www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb...

It’s a weird time!

WaPo seems to be covering the Nats again www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

The Team USA flag guys knew they were gonna win. "Walking through the tunnel, the energy between all 12 of us was just like some Dragon Ball Z character stuff. Everyone was over the power of 9,000. We knew we were already in control." (via @bytimgraham.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

baseball has two basic modes: 1. grumpy, slow-paced cotillion 2. drama avalanche where it feels like you’ve been kidnapped but in a way you enjoy for some reason

ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

This story on how NFL scouts actually put together their scouting reports rules. Don’t miss the details on what emojis they use. (Via @jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

The Book: How a small analytics company has so much influence over college football - and has changed the game. “I got into it not because I was intrigued by the math, but because I was intrigued by the winning." www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

This hurts more than seeing Juan Soto join the Mets. Okay, not really. But it still sucks.

Delighted that we can platform so many outstanding journalists, and bolster our coverage of D.C. sports, joining @nickijhabvala.bsky.social, @joshrobbins.bsky.social and myself. Being able to cover D.C. teams more is why I joined @theathletic.com in 2018. Welcome!: www.nytco.com/press/the-at...

it's genuinely very cool to me to see the world's richest newspaper swoop in immediately after a competitor's mass layoffs to hire some generational talents just because they can.

Eight years ago, The Athletic was the obnoxious villain of the story and the Washington Post was the respected institution that treated its sports reporters so well, not a single one jumped ship. You normally have to watch WWE to see this sort of extreme change in good guy/bad guy roles.

The Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray www.nytco.com/press/the-at...

The one thing I think the WaPo really needs more of is staff editorials about the mayor of nyc

🚨The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/ba...

A quick 🧵: @51st.news wants to keep growing, and we need your help! 51st.news/the-51st-is-... The Post's gutting showed us we can't trust a billionaire to do the right thing. If we want local news to survive, we need to help *build and sustain it*.

(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive. The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead. www.theverge.com/policy/87683...

“When the Nats won the World Series in 2019, there were no fewer than seven professional outlets that covered the team on a regular basis. For the last few days, that number has been reduced to one: MLB.com.” Make it two https://natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to-nats-journal-0e3

Safety Julian Love clutched a Sierra Nevada pale ale and Nick Emmanwori looked at it, puzzled, before being informed it was a drink for old folks. “It really is,” said Love, who turns 28 next month. “It’s all they had left,” Love joked. (via @mikedugar.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

This game rules go try it you will not be disappointed

What did Sonny Jurgensen mean to D.C.? Let @davidaldridgedc explain

“When somebody says ‘analytics’ on TV, I just run to the bathroom to vomit. We’re relying on some numbers? Really? If you aren’t smart enough and prepared enough to make an educated decision on what to do, then you shouldn’t be there.” Mike Martz! www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

The Washington Post ran a full-page letter to subscribers in today's print edition from exec editor Matt Murray stating that it is committed to sports and local coverage after laying off the vast majority of the staff on those desks

Capitals coach Spencer Carbery began his media avail this morning by talking about beat writer @baileyannej.bsky.social who was among those let go by the Washington Post yesterday when it eliminated its sports staff. Bailey was lone independent media member who traveled to Caps road games:

the shuttering of the post's high school sports coverage means no more all-met awards. absolute abdication of the role a local paper should play

Anxious to read about the cultural and societal implications of this deal for the Wizards

I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work. But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.

I have printed out copies tho. Which is basically the only way to find my 2006 winter Olympics blog. Which really feels appropriate

Simply crushed today for so many amazing and talented people at @postsports.bsky.social. Felt really fortunate to even be a part-time/occasional teammate there for the last decade.

Not sure there are many people I've worked with who are more dedicated or have more integrity than Sarah. Just a world-class editor and human being.

The sports section basically taught me how to read growing up. Somehow, years later, they let me write in those pages. I’ll cherish that forever.

I was laid off by The Washington Post today. This is gutting for our readers and our section, but I’m grateful for the 4 years I had to cover sports alongside friends and legends. If you’re hiring or know of someone who is: spencernusbaum(at)gmail(dot)com

Anyways, yeah. This is an incalculable loss for the region and sports journalism. It will be jarring to wake up in the morning — in one of the biggest metro areas in the country — and not have a sports section (and so many other great parts of The Post) to turn to.

… Povich, Solomon, Shapiro, Denlinger, Remnick, Wilbon, Kornheiser, Clarke, Reid, Goff, Rosenberg, Hamilton, Berko, Nichols, Friend, Bos, Sally, Babb, Brew, Maese, Frey, Maske, Buckner, Culpepper, Wise, Les, Sheinin, Feinstein and so many others that made it so unique and essential.

As someone who has subscribed, consumed, competed against, admired, and interned at the Washington Post sports section, I’m still in shock that the powers that be are *walking away* from a known, rabid, paying audience. Thinking foremost of all those affected today, even those who survived. But also

Same here - in 53 years I've never lived in a house without a daily print Post subscription until now. @dcsportsbog.bsky.social

My modest contributions to the Post are finished as well. Lot of editors to thank: @dcsportsbog.bsky.social, @mikehumeathletic.bsky.social, the late David Larimer, @jasonmurray.bsky.social, @greg-schimmel.bsky.social. Probably forgetting someone, and for that I apologize.

Well, turns out this was my last story for The Washington Post, 2,011 bylines later. For nine years, it was a dream in every sense of the word, no matter how many of the company's leaders tried to make it otherwise. Thanks for being part of the ride.

I was among the many sports reporters laid off by The Washington Post today. Feeling a lot of gratitude for my time working for this paper. Not looking back. Looking ahead to what’s next!

I am so angry on behalf of everyone axed by the cretinous turds running the Washington Post today. The best sports section in America. A glittering international crew. It's the ruination of a precious thing by a principle-free rich man, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

Bezos has been tearing down what was once one of the most reputable papers in the world for years now, but I chose to keep my sub to read and support the people providing great sports coverage. Welp.

It’s saddening and maddening to watch what’s happening at the Washington Post today. The staffers there and their readers everywhere deserve better than these shortsighted decisions and the mismanagement that led to them.

Crestfallen and f$&@ furious about the closure as we know it of @postsports.bsky.social by an indifferent, compromised owner and a failing publisher — a dept of Povich and Boswell, Wilbon and Kornheiser, Gildea and Sheinin, of poets, authors, Hall of Famers and Pulitzer finalists. A terrible day.

they’ve taken away everything worth reading, why should they get my money

My first job out of college was the Washington Post sports section. I worked there four years. This decision isn't just terrible, it's idiotic. People read sports. The Post sports section has been arguably the best in the country over the last 50 years. Doing this can't be a business decision.

I was among the layoffs at The Washington Post today. It has been an absolute dream to be a small part of this incredible team. Covering the Caps has been an honor; being a beat writer is an all-consuming thing that I love deeply. I hope I’ll get to continue that in whatever is next