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Dave Wilson

@dwil

ESPN CFB reporter. Lobby talker.

Cedar Park, TX Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Jake Matson
Jake Matson@JakeMatson·
This article is a subtle masterpiece. Incredible depth for a story with unwavering fidelity to its thesis. One of my favorite reads of the past year and absolutely worth the time.
Dave Wilson@dwil

Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson is almost as interesting a draft prospect as he is a person. The ultimate searcher, he idolized Mike Leach, who had an affinity for him, and was lost when he died. And that’s why he’s driven to be his best. espn.com/nfl/draft2026/…

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Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson is almost as interesting a draft prospect as he is a person. The ultimate searcher, he idolized Mike Leach, who had an affinity for him, and was lost when he died. And that’s why he’s driven to be his best. espn.com/nfl/draft2026/…
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ESPN@espn·
How did a West Texas oilman make Team USA's Olympic bobsled team? @dwil on how Boone Niederhofer, a former Texas A&M receiver, followed an unusual path to the 2026 Winter Games ⬇️ spr.ly/6016h9N5E
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Dave Wilson@dwil·
Boone Niederhofer, a 32-year-old father of two who’s a production engineer for a Midland oil company, made the US Olympic team as a bobsledder, while juggling work and dad duties. Inside the adventures of an Aggie from San Antonio who made it to Italy. espn.com/olympics/story…
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Dave Wilson@dwil·
I once sat next to Chuck in Waco as the Bears stormed the field twice, after which he drove to Austin, talked his way into DKR mid-game as Kansas shocked the Horns, wrote that too, then wrote a third late-night piece about the insanity of a CFB Saturday. No one better. A giant.
Chuck Culpepper@ChuckCulpepper1

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days. The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic. Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . . . . . in Los Angeles. Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling. Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells. I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026: "I treasure you people."

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Dave Wilson@dwil·
The only journalism instructor I’ve ever had, Bettye Craddock from Kilgore College, was announced as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Hall of Fame today. She changed my life, and so many others’. So proud to see her get her flowers. texasipa.org/hall-of-fame-2…
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Andrea Adelson
Andrea Adelson@aadelsonESPN·
Late on this but good stuff here from @dwil on Miami OC Shannon Dawson and his rise up the coaching ranks, if only because he mentions the Arkansas-Monticello Boll Weevils. espn.com/college-footba…
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Dave Wilson@dwil·
As Miami closed out Ole Miss, Hal Mumme flashed back to Arkansas-Monticello, and the part-timer who once dialed up a win. A Dana Holgorsen protege, Shannon Dawson, has reshaped the Air Raid with Miami’s bruising talent, much to the pride of its founder. espn.com/college-footba…
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Andrea Adelson
Andrea Adelson@aadelsonESPN·
"When the lights are up, it's cool outside, and the moment is right, we're gonna get after it. 3 and 4 all day." "All day." My guy @dwil on the best pass rushing duo in America headed into the CFP semis v Ole Miss espn.com/college-footba…
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Tom VanHaaren
Tom VanHaaren@TomVH·
Anyone who wears a quarter zip with no undershirt should not be messed with.
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Sam Khan Jr.
Sam Khan Jr.@skhanjr·
12 personnel FTW
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Max Olson
Max Olson@max_olson·
Texas Tech couldn't afford to get the hire wrong. Joey McGuire was an improbable candidate. But after his first interview, it was obvious. "We found our guy." Deep dive on the 2021 coaching search and why McGuire was the perfect fit to fix @TexasTechFB: espn.com/college-footba…
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Dave Wilson@dwil·
Mascots need bowl fun, too, and the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl wanted Bevo to wake up feeling the cheesiest. So they hired an Orlando bakery — which initially thought it was being pranked — to create the big fella his own 12x12 Cheez-It. espn.com/college-footba…
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ESPN@espn·
The challenge at hand: Make a trophy a toaster, and a toaster a trophy. @dwil on how the one of the internet's favorite bowl took things to the next level by making its trophy a kitchen appliance 👀 spr.ly/6014CbXaK
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Dave Wilson@dwil·
There’s nothing Malachi Toney can’t do, even as a freshman who skipped his senior year of high school to help get Miami here. @aadelsonESPN on “Baby Jesus,” the phenom who has Texas A&M on notice. espn.com/college-footba…
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