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The Washington Post Eliminates Its Sports Department
|Washington Post Sports Department Was Among Last of Its Kind https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs-sports-section.html Don Graham, whose family owned The Washington Post for 80 years, published a touching eulogy…
The Washington Post eliminates sports section as part of wider layoffs
The Washington Post announced mass layoffs Wednesday. Eric Baradat / Getty Images The Washington Post eliminated its sports department on Wednesday, a process that will include laying off dozens of journalists and bringing to an end a storied…
CFTC Withdraws Proposal Banning Prediction Market Sports Betting
The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the agency has withdrawn a Biden-era proposal that called for prohibiting sports and politics-related wagers on prediction markets. “The 2024 event contracts proposal reflected the…
Eileen Gu: The Winter Olympian who earns $23m a year - but just $100k of it from her sport
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics An outlier lies among the list of Forbes' 2025 world's highest-paid female athletes. Tennis star Coco Gauff tops the list, earning an estimated $33 million, followed by her peers Aryna…
KKR to Acquire Sports Investor Arctos in $1.4 Billion Deal
KKR & Co. has agreed to acquire sports and secondaries investor Arctos Partners in a $1.4 billion deal, in a major push into a booming industry. Arctos will become part of a new unit called KKR Solutions, which will be led by Arctos co-founder Ian…
Rupert Murdoch's family blood sport
When The Book of Mormon musical first took Broadway by storm, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – so vigorously satirised in the show – responded by taking out adverts in the programmes. “You've seen the…
Washington Post 'fires hundreds' and shuts entire sports department
The Washington Post has announced a raft of cuts that will see 'hundreds' of staff lose their jobs and the entire sports department shut down. The brutal cost-cutting measures were announced to staff on Wednesday morning during an internal Zoom…
BBC Sport weekly quiz: Who did Liverpool agree to sign on transfer deadline day?
So much has happened over the past seven days, including transfer deadline day, the Australian Open final and an ice skating copyright dispute. About 5% of quizzers got full marks in last week's edition. Will you make the grade this week? After…
Letters: 'Democracy is not a spectator sport'
Something fundamental is being tested in our country — not just a policy or an agency, but the idea of who we are. Across the nation, people are speaking out against abuses carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and…
CFTC Pulls Proposal Banning Sports Prediction Markets
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn a Biden administration-era proposal that would have banned sports and political prediction markets, some of the most popular event contracts today. The recently confirmed CFTC chair, Mike…
From The Sports Desk: The Games have begun (sort of)
Hello from idyllic Cortina, where the first day of Olympic action began two days ahead of the opening ceremony with a fan favorite: curling. Kira Dixon from our partners over at NBC Sports was there. We're coming to you from our lively newsroom in…
Washington Post eliminates sports department amid mass layoff
The Washington Post announced Wednesday that it is eliminating its sports department as part of a mass layoff of one-third of its staff across all departments. Some sports reporters will move into other roles amid large-scale cutbacks by the…
Jamie Carragher's Sky Sports retirement update as Reds icon calls out Richards
Jamie Carragher might not be thinking about retiring from Sky Sports anytime soon but that hasn't stopped him calling out Micah Richards for planning to step back in the near future. Ex- Liverpool defender Carragher has become one of the most…
The Washington Post's sports section was a gold standard, all the way to the end
The Washington Post sports section died Wednesday. Whether you blame natural causes or more avoidable factors, the loss for the D.C. area is immense. The ramifications were felt almost immediately. Shortly after the newspaper eliminated its sports…
Washington Post closes sports department as part of sweeping layoffs
The Washington Post announced widely expected, significant layoffs on Wednesday, with entire departments being shuttered in what the company is calling a 'significant restructuring.' On a webinar with Post employees who were asked to stay home…
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