It may be the most watched of all time, but that number is almost certainly bogus. Would mean half the world’s population watched within 24 hours.

You mean the Slovaks.

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

Hmm, a hint of bolstered DC sports coverage from the Athletic?

When was the other Caps-Canes game where Caps outshot them by 20?

After the layoffs next week, it will barely be the Washington Post anymore.

Imagine having a sports section so great that some upstart competitor’s plan is to simply steal it.

Svrluga, Wallace, Janes and Buckner are the only ones left. I hope the reward for their loyalty isn’t Will Lewis handing them Amazon gift cards on their way out the door.

The once great Washington Post Sports section is now essentially dead.

Word is cuts include the Post Sports travel budget.

True, especially considering they have one writer right now covering the Wizards and all the local college basketball teams at the same time…

Wouldn't shock me if they cut back their coverage, but they still have two Nats beat writers. They've both going to stay in DC?

Considering I believe MASN was already on the Xfinity higher-priced tier, can’t imagine they’d expect this new channel not to be there. The Post article seems to suggest MLB will be doing the negotiating, which would certainly be a good thing.

Wonder how the negotiations will go with companies like Xfinity and YouTube TV and if the Lerners are going to drive a hard bargain. Would guess most people that end up watching games next year would still do it through their existing service rather than shelling out 100 bucks.

If Monumental isn’t interested, would guess the most likely outcome is MLB produces the games and they mostly end up on an over the air DC station like channel 20 or 50 where they split the ad revenue (in addition to selling a streaming deal.) Far from the windfall once imagined by some.

I did see a trailer for it before an episode of the Chair Company on HBO Max yesterday.

Funny that they said they would still do local endorsements, but haven't done any this year for the Virginia elections and no one even seems to have noticed...

Can’t believe there is much more to cut in Metro and still be able to have a section. If they cut Sports, how many beats survive?

t's not like the Post is not covering the NBA. They're had half a dozen different league preview articles and they're devoting their daily news podcast to the league today (which is really odd). But hardly anything on the local team....

Let me emphasize, I'm not blaming the beat writer. This is clearly a policy set by his editors. And I'm not going to argue that there's a lot of interest in the team in DC right now. But is this a disturbing preview of where local sports coverage is going with the Post? Because..

Varun Shankar on X: "From last night: What happened/What mattered from the Wizards preseason finale against the Detroit Pistons. https://t.co/4OJEzAul7W" / X From last night: What happened/What mattered from the Wizards preseason finale against the Detroit Pistons. https://t.co/4OJEzAul7W

It doesn't even appear that the paper is planning to run individual stories on the team's games--instead, they're apparently going to be added at this link which isn't even available on the app or homepage?
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

The "preview" story today on the opening of the season isn't a profile of the top draft pick or a look at the important questions this season, but a look at how bad the other bad teams will be, and whether the Wiz will be bad enough to keep their top-8 protected pick.

If you want a troubling preview of where local sports coverage is going with the Washington Post, look at the coverage of the Wizards' preseason. The Post's Wiz beat writer wrote just five stories over the month of training camp, and one of the five was about ticket prices!/1

One of the most notable things of his tenure so far is how he significantly shrunk the section. Before he came, there were 2-3 op-ed pages most days and sometimes even more on Sundays. Now, it’s down to one page a lot of days and just two last Sunday.

The way I read it, says he was invited. Doesn’t mean he went.

The tweet is from five months ago.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I think it’s fine to premiere it that week, even put a few up. But all ten seems odd—just seems like if it’s good, you’d want to build some momentum for the show. They’re not Netflix.

I don’t know—dumping the whole season on the weekend the NFL season starts doesn’t seem like a strategy to get viewers. Peacock is basing a good part of its streaming strategy on sports and they’re going to put their most high-profile show on against a huge sports weekend?

Crazy that the Post is buying out their longtime soccer writer a year before the World Cup comes to the US….but mazel tov to Steven Goff.