Scott Allen

Welp, it seems I've been cut off. This was fun and I'll try to do it for pre-2002 pages soon.

"There's whiskey drinkers and milk drinkers, and we've got a lot of whiskey drinkers on this team." On a real rivalry, an epic gold medal game, and the stark contrast between winners and losers to close the Olympics. My last dispatch for the Post. washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

So… who paid all that money for the John Riggins jersey and ring? From Selling Sunset to Buying History: espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

SNY is thrilled to announce Chelsea Janes as our new MLB Insider. She was previously with The Washington Post as a national baseball writer. Welcome to SNY, @chelsea_janes!

One Big Thing All-Met

Commanders leave 3 seats open for The Washington Post and Dan Quinn says what a loss it is to not have them covering the team

I have rebranded my free newsletter as By Jesse Dougherty. Consider it an open-ended thing, going with the post-layoff winds, starting ... uh ... now? More on that here. I'd love it if you subscribed (or stuck with it if you already do): collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/rebrand

One thing to make clear: American athletes don't necessarily arrive at the Olympics, guns blazing with their thoughts about the state of things in a binary world. They're asked, and they answer -- thoughtfully, with nuance. Isn't that what we want? washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

Pitchers and catchers report for spring training tomorrow. And so do I. Welcome to Nats Journal. Hope you'll join me on this new endeavor, and hope you'll help spread the word! natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to-n…

There plenty of ways to play great football. The Seahawks strangled Super Bowl LX and showed again that the only way to play the best football is well-coordinated violence. washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/02…

Do you sometimes watch the Winter Olympics and think ... who even does these sports? We analyzed the locations of more than 2,500 training facilities for Winter Olympic sports. Check to see what's near you — and which sports are hard to find. wapo.st/4qlkAKf

The winds of change roared in D.C. today...

Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.” nytimes.com/2026/02/07/tec…

You failed, mate. You epically, monumentally failed, and showed yourself to be a coward in the process. Hope the Super Bowl is brilliant.

Just to be clear, there were no 2,000-word features on a local basketball team. More than anything, it speaks to the lack of engagement with the sports department from whoever this unnamed person is, someone who likely helped decide the fate of dedicated reporters and editors.

A statement from the family of Christian A. "Sonny" Jurgensen III

Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing.

My last project for The Post went up this morning. I was really excited to work on this after being a competitive figure skater for 12+ years. On Alysa Liu’s chaotic figure skating path to the Olympics: wapo.st/4ah8ITM With @lescarpenter @byaliceli @postsports

My friend @Lescarpenter was up early and reported to our WaPo office in Milan this morning, one day after our storied Sports department was dismantled. We talked the whole commute about Olympic stories he's still excited to do. And I can't wait to read them.