Since July 2021, LSU gymnasts have disclosed 75 NIL deals worth a combined $4.9 million. That's almost as much as the school's football + WBB players - and almost four times its MBB players.

Read the Emily Giambalvo story (with Albert Samaha + me pitching in): washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

An Iowa state police investigation into college athletes who gambled online unraveled amid allegations of illegal searches. My story on a case that embodies the uncomfortable tensions of the sports betting boom: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

“Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness” nytimes.com/2024/04/15/art…

Investment firm Big League Advantage offered college athletes cash in exchange for a cut of their future earnings. Did their deals violate state NIL laws? Gus Garcia-Roberts & I investigated the controversial company at the center of a burgeoning industry: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

What happens when a firm notorious in pro baseball for its controversial deals collides with the Wild West that is the college NIL system? W/ Albert Samaha on a deep dive into Big League Advantage, Gervon Dexter, Fernando Tatis - and Alabama basketball? washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

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The Colombo crime family and bets in Atigua, Yahtzee boxes full of cash, and the 'largest overseas real estate investment scam the FTC ever targeted.” Albert Samaha and I dug into the interesting life of Mathew Bowyer, the bookie at center of MLB scandal washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03…

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I traveled to Côte d'Ivoire for the African Cup of Nations bc I wanted to know how it would feel to celebrate the beautiful game in a majority-Black space (and to practice my French). what an affirming, life-changing experience—I had to write about it 🌍⚽️ andscape.com/features/insid…

“The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world” washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

WED at 10 AM PT w/ guest host Mina Kim 김미나:

Kate Wolffe & Albert Samaha join to talk about the culture – and future – of youth tackle football in California.

❓ What’s your stance on youth tackle football?
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California lawmakers pushed a tackle football ban. Families pushed back. (via Albert Samaha): wapo.st/42dOdTt

“Competitive imbalance exists in all sports. But crashing into a dominant opponent in football means not just losing by a wide margin but getting physically pummeled” — my story on two disparate high school teams colliding on homecoming night: washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/12…

This is an incredible Albert Samaha narrative about one high school football game - and the toll that the sport's widening competitive divide is taking on its young players

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NEW: How politics, race, culture and economics are shaping which kids abandon tackle football -- and which keep risking its toll. With Emily Giambalvo washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…

“The weight of a city’s complicated & entrenched problems fell onto 2 men drawn to the same place from opposite corners of the world, driven by parallel hopes, colliding in a burst of unimaginable violence.” Spent the summer investigating Bob Lee’s death: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

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Before the private equity firm 777 Partners bought Everton & other soccer clubs around the world, it faced allegations that it profited from predatory financial practices.

My first story for the @WashingtonPost:

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“‘The Sandlot’ isn’t so much a story as it is a state of mind, a summer vibe.” theathletic.com/4791590/2023/0…