Washington Post Sports is dead (HTTR)

[Galah]

In case anyone is interested, for the last 3 days, the on line version of the post has run 4 articles about baseball, two about Harper, one about Turner and one about Scherzer…none about the current Nats, none about Spring Training and now baseball scores….so much for a hometown newspaper.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Last I heard Chico Harlan was the WaPo "climate editor"...he seems to be going from one extinction event to another

[imref]

Andrew Golden announces he has joined the Banner to cover the Nats (and O's)!

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Andrew Golden announces he has joined the Banner to cover the Nats (and O's)!

I guess he'll cover home games and they can pick up AP copy for road games. Otherwise those beats would conflict.

[nats2playoffs]

https://www.nytco.com/press/the-athletic-welcomes-new-colleagues/

"Barry Svrluga, Spencer Nusbaum, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Adam Kilgore and Jason Murray bring their expertise to The Athletic..."

For the 2026 Super Bowl, The Washington Post took up 66% of the front sports page with Adam Kilgore's op-ed about former quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

https://css.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/02/07/colin-kaepernick-protest-super-bowl/

Kilgore: "The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol."

Are you kidding me?? THIS is the hill you chose to die on? More nauseating liberal politics on the front page of the Sunday issue of the Washington Post? There was NO article discussing the actual Super Bowl game being played THAT DAY!

There were liberal op-ed articles posted on the Sunday Post sports page at least once a month for several months, before the firings. Good riddance, Kilgore.

Two weeks ago, the Sunday Post eliminated the Standings of all sports teams and all of the scores from professional, college and high school teams. How difficult is it to post that stuff?
 

[Natsinpwc]

And yet Bezos killed their endorsement of Biden. I guess he didn’t think to look at the sports pages. They outsmarted him for a few months.

[HalfSmokes]

https://www.nytco.com/press/the-athletic-welcomes-new-colleagues/

"Barry Svrluga, Spencer Nusbaum, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Adam Kilgore and Jason Murray bring their expertise to The Athletic..."

For the 2026 Super Bowl, The Washington Post took up 66% of the front sports page with Adam Kilgore's op-ed about former quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

https://css.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/02/07/colin-kaepernick-protest-super-bowl/

Kilgore: "The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol."

Are you kidding me?? THIS is the hill you chose to die on? More nauseating liberal politics on the front page of the Sunday issue of the Washington Post? There was NO article discussing the actual Super Bowl game being played THAT DAY!

There were liberal op-ed articles posted on the Sunday Post sports page at least once a month for several months, before the firings. Good riddance, Kilgore.

Two weeks ago, the Sunday Post eliminated the Standings of all sports teams and all of the scores from professional, college and high school teams. How difficult is it to post that stuff?
 

Max preps and their ai summaries are better for high school. nova hoops is much better for high school basketball. The post lost that battle a long time ago

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

If your hollow shell of a newsroom can't produce news, write an opinion piece...at least someone out there might remember that your paper still exists, even if only notionally.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

The remains of the Post sports are weird. I think they are trying to say something you don't see elsewhere but they end up missing the story. The Kap  angle was unique but a complete tangent rather than the story. Maybe it was the least covered angle because you had 2 big QB stories and some pretty good Ds to write about. The Kap story was like focusing on the peppercorns and ignoring the steak in steak au poivre.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I recall the WNFF Poet Laureate having a turn of phrase about making the potatoes look smaller to make the steak look bigger.  Peppercorns would really be small ball!

The remains of the Post sports are weird. I think they are trying to say something you don't see elsewhere but they end up missing the story. The Kap  angle was unique but a complete tangent rather than the story. Maybe it was the least covered angle because you had 2 big QB stories and some pretty good Ds to write about. The Kap story was like focusing on the peppercorns and ignoring the steak in steak au poivre.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Btw, I am trying to keep this part of the discussion here rather than in the politics section. Let's not get into our perceptions of the left / right slant of the Post and more on their deemphasis of sports, especially the Nats and local sports, in favor of sports as it relates to "culture."

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I recall the WNFF Poet Laureate having a turn of phrase about making the potatoes look smaller to make the steak look bigger.  Peppercorns would really be small ball!

I will also let the reference to the size of the Post's junk stay here rather than uncensored