The best choice for Kentucky basketball wears Louis Vuitton, and the only reason the school won't consider her is on her birth certificate. Sally Jenkins: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Greg Norman has been to the Masters dozens of times, but never like this: as a ticketed customer, walking among the throngs, which is where Rick Maese found him today washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

The Caitlin Clark effect is already happening in the WNBA

Eight of our nine most read Sports stories last week were about women’s basketball

BREAKING: The NAIA, a collegiate sports governing body, voted today to ban transgender women from women’s sports. Trans athletes and advocates fear the NCAA could be next. My The Washington Post story with Jesse Dougherty washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

'No matter what sport it is, give them the same opportunities, believe in them the same, invest in them the same, and things are really going to thrive.' washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

715 in The Post, 50 years ago

This hug never wanted to end

The UFL gets out ahead of a beer snake catastrophe like last season’s opener and announces pregame that the beer snake is allowed. The fans in Audi Field are naturally pleased.

Strasburg “has agreed to defer some of his remaining salary, according to a person familiar with the matter. The extent of those deferrals is not known.” washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg has retired, according to the Nationals’ transactions page.

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If Alabama wins March Madness, the third-party sports analytics firm it works with will earn a $350,000 bonus, according to public records obtained by Gus Garcia-Roberts and Albert Samaha.

Fascinating story here: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

In May 2015, D.C. had a memorable doubleheader sweep of Atlanta teams, with Bryce Harper walking off the Braves and Paul Pierce calling game against the Hawks, but those games had similar start times washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports…

DJ Burns is built like a bouncer, passes like a magician, moves like a tap dancer, quotes Rudyard Kipling to coaches and leads like the Pied Piper. washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Old-school bogging here: A DC double-header, a rain delay, a Metro ride, Washington losing to Pittsburgh, Washington losing to Pittsburgh (again), a nagging emptiness of the soul, etc etc washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Many NIL collective leaders are lawyers or former school fundraisers. Marc D'Amelio has 10 million TikTok followers and a reality show on Hulu.

'I don't know why I do it, but I'm having so much damn fun.'

On a most modern college sports booster: 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…

The most probable scenario for Washington in 2024, based on early point spreads and solver tools and other weird stuff? A seven- or eight-win season. (via Neil Greenberg) washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Big League Advantage made waves paying baseball prospects for a cut of their future pay. Now it’s stirring controversy by signing up college football prospects with similar deals. This is .... something. (via Gus Garcia-Roberts and Albert Samaha) washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…