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...

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..

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.

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

The tweet is from five months ago.

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.

At this point, I’m wondering why I’m still a print subscriber. The print edition just demonstrates how threadbare the non-A sections are these days. More than 3-4 pages of articles in Metro or Style (not counting comics, TV grid and death notices) is rare. Sports isn’t much better.

Did you hear about the Post combining Metro, Sports and Style into one print section for most days of the week? Begins next week.

Fair enough--but I guess that just means that the standard for a national newspaper is not even to have an actual sports section.

But isn't the NYT's sports section now the Athletic? By your metric, did they send anyone to the NBA Finals?

Does the IHT even exist anymore?

NY Times/Athletic? Are there any other national newspapers that cover sports? I’m not sure what USA Today did.