The night of the national championship game, I watched Michigan-Washington with people who could have made a lot of money if Washington won. They weren't gamblers. At least not in the traditional sense. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...
Campus Ink is building its business with NIL merchandise, competing with legacy brands by giving athletes a bigger cut of their sales.
Did a lot of NCAA governance/NIL on Capitol Hill things last week. Not sure if there's anyone here, following me, who has any questions or thoughts they want to share on that. But since I'd rather discuss here than on the old place, I figured it couldn't hurt to throw out.
Emma has some of the best story selection instincts of anyone I've ever read and I hope someone throws money at her and lets her cook.
A man walks into a bar and the bar's owner's name is Austin Travis Lane (and the first man, me, is covering the Sugar Bowl in about 72 hours). Good timing all around, especially since I was working on a story about ... good timing. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...
Today’s newsletter is only very tangentially about food. But there’s pizza. And emotions.
I thought writing about my birthday might be a tad self-indulgent — and then I logged onto Instagram to an onslaught of “Spotify Wrapped” posts. Self-indulgence reigns, so hand me the mic.
I moonlit and wrote @postsports.bsky.social's newsletter this afternoon and took a second to unpack my new beat and what we hope to do with it. Two passages from that:
Military branches have started partnering with high-profile athletes in NIL deals. Service academy athletes, however, still can't do NIL deals because ... Well, read the story: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/...