Washington picked Jayden Daniels, a major step in the new regime’s quest to restore the franchise to glory and end a decades-long search for stability at the game’s most important position.

Read: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

QB analysts are better than ever. But still no one can perfectly project prospects to the pros.

So, what should we make of the boom in longform QB analysis?

I went down the rabbit hole to find out:
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Today’s Grazing: I wrote an essay/review/something about “Piglet,” a very good book that’s about food and women’s bodies and appetites and three towering croquembouches.

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.ESPN story on Reggie Bush’s Heisman being returned includes the Heisman Trust finding a “fundamental changes in college athletics” in which rules that have allowed “student athlete compensation” to become “an accepted practice and appears here to stay.” es.pn/3w92KUR

New w/ Julie Kliegman: After the NAIA banned transgender women from women's sports, advocates for trans athletes believed the NCAA was going to vote on the issue this week. And though the vote is likely delayed, pressure mounts on the NCAA from both sides: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

And here’s a gift link to our recent NAIA story wapo.st/49NuFaQ

Here’s a gift link to our latest story: wapo.st/3Usp7y2

This morning, Athlete Ally sent letters signed by hundreds of athletes and scholars to the NCAA demanding they continue to include trans women in competitions. Meanwhile, Nancy Hogshead-Makar and some Republican legislators have called for a ban similar to the NAIA’s

NEW The Washington Post from Jesse Dougherty and self: The pressure is mounting on the NCAA on both sides of the issue to take a stand on transgender women competing in sports washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Also expected but now official: The DI Board of Directors stripped the Pac-12 of autonomous legislative powers and removed their representation on the board.

LSU coach Jay Clark on NIL + Olivia Dunne: 'I did joke with Liv one time when she wasn't doing well one day. I said, 'How do you want me to handle this? Since you make 10 times what I make.''

LSU, the team that's famous online and also is very good at gymnastics, has maybe its best chance ever to win the school's first NCAA title

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Heading into tonight's NCAA gymnastics championship, here's what to know:

title favorite Oklahoma did not advance to the final after a shocking collapse in the semifinal

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NCAA Playing Rules committee rubber stamps what was recommended/approved last month: College football now has a player-to-coach helmet communications system.