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@richarddeitsch I wonder if both teams are having trouble handling the new tournament basketballs.

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@Jeff_Ermann Welcome to the upside-down

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@Jeff_Ermann agree. Plays so hard ... hope he stays healthy.

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@SethDavisHoops The Miami coach wasn't exactly calm, cool, and collected when he tossed a speaker during a tantrum in a previous game. Maybe his players are following his lead.

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@gene_wang @PostSports Tune Inn is perfect

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@Jeff_Ermann "Driving with no plan" seems to be a key aspect of Maryland's offense

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@farhip @TheAthletic The 2/27 sports section in the Post features wire stories on former Washington area players and coaches: Bryce Harper, Kevin Willard, Max Scherzer. Kirk Cousins even gets a mention and a photo. I guess this is part of the new strategy....

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@Jeff_Ermann ex-coaches are worse than ex-players. In Weber's case, not a lot of insight no matter what.

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@ElaheIzadi the events of the past few days should have prepared you well for that story :-)

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@Jeff_Ermann he's too small to play the wing on that 1-3-1. When the ball gets reversed, he has to block out someone twice his size.

[Lee K. Howard ☀️ @HowardWKYT]

What advice does Mark Pope have for young, aspiring journalists?

I’m teaching an upper‑level journalism course at #UK this semester, and on Thursday, I took my class to Pope’s press conference. I asked him what guidance he’d give the next generation of journalists. His answer was worth hearing.

[Joe Yasharoff @JYash]

Feels like a group therapy session at ⁦@PovichCenter⁩ ⁦@merrillcollege⁩ with former members of the shuttered Washington Post sports department.

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@Jeff_Ermann To top it off, the challenge possession that took 10 minutes resulted in an inbounds turnover. You can't make this stuff up

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@SethDavisHoops Oh, just stop....

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest.

Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people.

We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings.

When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there.

We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new.

Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (https://t.co/lxame7tiSF). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change.

Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.

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@Jeff_Ermann Does Maryland pay more than teams in Mongolia? Trying to see what's in it for him.

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@Jeff_Ermann he fits the Maryland puzzle perfectly. Note his stats from the previous game.

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@Jeff_Ermann I'd settle for possessions without turnovers as part of that development.

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@ErinatThePost Hang in there, guys...we're still reading everything from Maryland state government to the fate of D.C.'s public golf courses

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@Jeff_Ermann Who's going to make outside shots?