Jerry Brewer

Column | Sleepless in Seattle: Mariners win 15-inning epic the only way they know Far from flawless, the Mariners are still in the MLB playoffs because they just refuse to stop.

The Mariners advanced to the ALCS. Fittingly, it took 15 innings. Our @jerrybrewer.bsky.social with the scene in Seattle:

Column | This isn’t 2024, but the 2025 Commanders are proving resilient, too After a somewhat ugly start — to both the game and the season — Washington shows it can still be a force by beating the Chargers on the road.

Finally, against a quality opponent on the road, these Commanders looked like a team with a playoff pedigree.

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Good piece from Tashan.

Column | Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh’s rivalry is all grown up, but the fight remains The coaches of the Raiders and Chargers haven’t clashed on the field since 2014, but their rivalry still burns. They face off Monday night in Las Vegas.

Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh will renew their rivalry Monday night. Our @jerrybrewer.bsky.social breaks down how it has changed since they last clashed: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Excited to be on the same team as you, Tashan. Thrilled to work with @tomschad.bsky.social, too. Our Commanders beat is whole again.

Column | The Hall of Fame will honor the power Sylvia Fowles didn’t shout about The towering talent didn’t need to talk a big game. She just brought one every time she stepped onto a basketball court.

Sylvia Fowles, the greatest center never to flaunt greatness, actually has a big personality; she just preferred to make room for others.

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Column | The Hall of Fame will honor the power Sylvia Fowles didn’t shout about The towering talent didn’t need to talk a big game. She just brought one every time she stepped onto a basketball court.

I wrote about the greatness and grace of Sylvia Fowles as she enters the Hall of Fame. The entire HOF class is a good one, and the women's group is all-time special. But don't overlook Fowles, whose accomplishments grow even more impressive with time. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

🤣🤣🤣 That next-century "Love Jones" look

Any other generational, homegrown (drafted) stars that teams repping Dallas want to trade? It's officially a trend. Who's next in that city to do something really dumb?

Column | The Big Ten and SEC are fighting over how to fix the sport they broke College football’s power brokers need to focus on better instead of more.

The Big Ten and SEC are fighting over how to fix the sport they broke

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Column | In fight against NFL, Jon Gruden becomes the unlikely antihero we need The former coach is not someone worth rooting for, but it’s worth finding out why the NFL is so desperate to keep his case out of court.

Jon Gruden will exhaust all legal tactics until he forces the NFL to confront some uneasy questions.

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Column | The shooting at NFL headquarters raises hard truths, but no easy answers Football didn’t turn Shane Tamura into a murderous gunman, but we need to take some time to wrestle with why he thought it did.

What drives a young man once chasing a football dream to take a rifle to the NFL's doorstep? The truths are hard. The answers aren't easy.

Please read and reflect on today's column:

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Column | Bradley Beal’s contract will soon be gone. But it won’t be forgotten. As Beal works toward a buyout with the Suns, it’s worth looking back at his deal, which he signed as a Wizard, to help ensure such an error never happens again.

As Beal works toward a buyout with the Suns, it’s worth looking back at the deal he signed with the Wizards to help ensure such an error never happens again.

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Column | The American-born NBA superstar is disappearing. Enter Cooper Flagg. Can the NBA’s No. 1 overall pick from Newport, Maine offset the dearth of younger American players capable of dominating the league?

Cooper Flagg enters the league as the new great American hope in an era ruled by international stars.

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Column | The breakout star of the NBA playoffs now has a new foe: Scrutiny Tyrese Haliburton needs to step up in the NBA Finals. But he doesn’t need to step out of his body, no matter what the pundits and social media screamers say.

Tyrese Haliburton must do more. He doesn’t need to operate differently, however.

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Column | It’s finally time to bid farewell to the ‘face of the NBA’ The new NBA doesn’t want or need a single face anymore, but this transition will be a bit uncomfortable for a league accustomed to superstardom.

The face of the NBA is a title with diminished meaning and murky criteria that punishes candidates as much as it promotes them.

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Column | In Seattle, the Thunder’s success reopens wounds never fully healed Seventeen years after the Sonics left town, Oklahoma City’s run to the NBA Finals feels to fans like “they’re making you watch your ex get married.”

Column: On the Sonics ... and the Thunder. Not the Sonics/Thunder! And Seattle's persistent passion to get a team back and continue its NBA story www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Column | Lay it on the line: Foul artists have ruled the NBA playoffs It’s not a magic trick: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Brunson have hacked the system for their benefit.

The NBA playoffs are usually a reckoning for foul merchants. But this year?

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Column | The NBA will have another new champion. Get used to it. Owners negotiated a financial system that has brought about a level of parity the league has never experienced

Column: In a conference finals round of wet-behind-the-ears contenders, let us say one final farewell to the Dynasty Era -- the only era that NBA had ever truly known www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Thank you, Tricia! 🙏🏾

Column | As the Mavericks go from broke to fortune, the NBA lottery looks sketchy The league’s draft order process isn’t rigged, but Dallas landing the top pick months after trading a superstar certainly raised eyebrows.

Is the NBA draft lottery rigged? I mean, probably not, but ...

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Column | The only agenda targeting Draymond Green is the one he created The Warriors’ star is a lot of things, but he’s not a victim.

Draymond Green is again playing the victim, when he is anything but, writes @jerrybrewer.bsky.social.

Column | The Nuggets might want to stop testing Nikola Jokic’s patience Nikola Jokic has become the most responsible superstar in the NBA, but he deserves a supporting cast worthy of his basketball genius.

Nikola Jokic deserves a Nuggets roster worthy of his basketball genius, writes @jerrybrewer.bsky.social.

I'm so grateful!!! What a day.

Why the ‘Tiger Woods Effect’ failed to reshape the PGA Tour Nearly three decades after Woods’s game-changing Masters win, the tour is still struggling to capitalize on his success to diversify the game.

Nearly three decades after Tiger Woods won the Masters, Black golfers still have a minimal presence on the PGA Tour. I wanted to explore what challenges remain in changing the complexion of golf & what Woods felt his purpose was instead of leading the crusade. wapo.st/4icb7ku

Column | Florida-Houston’s messy ending was the perfect metaphor for college sports Florida-Houston was an uplifting title game. And then it just ended.

From today's column: "It was not the ending that this men’s basketball national championship gamedeserved. But during a capricious time in college athletics, does anything resolve in a clean and fulfilling way?"

Read here:

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Column | Kelvin Sampson is relentless. This Houston program is his masterpiece. The veteran coach has rebuilt the Cougars with grit, substance and character. He just earned his greatest victory in the Final Four against Duke.

Read @jerrybrewer.bsky.social on the game of the tournament, won by Kelvin Sampson's tough, gritty Houston Cougars:

Column | Cooper Flagg is a true freshman in all the best ways Duke’s baby-faced star hasn’t used his time in college as just a gap year on the way to being the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.

Cooper Flagg turned 18 just 3½ months ago. He should be attending prom right now, not leading Duke to the Final Four. Yet despite his acne and aw-shucks demeanor, Flagg is the man of the moment.

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My column on Cooper Flagg and the value of staying in the moment ...

Column | ‘Nobody controls college basketball:’ How programs build amid anarchy Auburn, Duke, Florida and Houston are an impressive Final Four quartet, but they’ve merely circumvented the sport’s instability.

"Their methods work, for now. They’ll have to build a little differently next time. They’re shooting jumpers at a moving basket."

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