Sarah Larimer

Used to hang out in @PostSports. Midwesterner. Fan of grilled cheese sandwiches and striped socks.

[Barry Svrluga @barrysvrluga]

Alex Ovechkin led the Capitals in goals. He should play!

Alex Ovechkin is limited in the ways he can be used. He should retire!

On the cases for both sides of the most important player in Caps history as he approaches 41 -- and a huge decision.
https://t.co/vPz3YQbL8Z

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

This is so good

[Andrew Golden @andrewcgolden]

These Washington Nationals are unlikely to be conventional in 2026. They’ll take chances, like trotting out an unorthodox lineup to maximize matchups.

On a 10-4 win and the start of a new era:

https://t.co/vwxHcIEDtf

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

Nationals fans! Exciting news!

During the first game of every series, I’ll be in @TheAthletic’s Nats discussion tab with you to offer live insights you won’t see anywhere else and to answer your Qs in real time.

That starts… today! Here! ⬇️
https://t.co/SYtk3qxa9O

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

I fear @andrewcgolden is back and better than ever. This rocks.

[Andrew Golden @andrewcgolden]

Today's my first day at the Banner! For any story ideas/tips/etc., email me: [email protected]

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

My first day at @TheAthletic is March 16!

I’ll keep breaking news and writing features, but there’s a new element to this, too — answering your questions directly. (More on that soon!)

Hope you’ll come along for the journey!

New IG & TikTok: byspencernusbaum

[Sarah Larimer @slarimer]

!!!!!!!!!

[Andrew Golden @andrewcgolden]

Hey everyone! I'm joining the @BaltimoreBanner as a sports enterprise & features reporter. I’ll also help out w/the Banner's Nats/O's coverage.

Growing up in Baltimore County, it's a privilege to write about the intersection of Baltimore community, culture and sports.

[Andrew Golden @andrewcgolden]

The best thing about @spencernusbaum_ is that, in addition to being an amazing writer, he’s an even better person. Awesome news, so excited for him:

[Sarah Larimer @slarimer]

Can't say enough good things about Spencer, who formed an absolute dream team with @andrewcgolden. Just the very best. Thrilled for him, thrilled for Nats fans. He's gonna crush it.

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

Well, Nats fans, I’m sticking around.

Thrilled to announce that I’m joining the @TheAthletic as the Washington Nationals beat reporter.

I’m amped about our plans for the beat, and believe you will be, too.
https://t.co/IBFAh4o7MR

[Dan Steinberg @dcsportsbog]

The Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray https://t.co/KDTHb22f39

[Isabelle Khurshudyan @ikhurshudyan]

As @garciaruize says here, The Post’s Sports section was unique in hiring so many women, including myself. It was my first and best job. And our male colleagues were all awesome and supportive 💔

[Chelsea Janes @chelsea_janes]

I, like so many people I respect and love, was laid off today. What an incredible honor it was to spend 12 years there. I am so grateful for everyone who read and encouraged and lived seasons with us. I am so sad the Post sports family won���t be there to live it with you again.

[WashPost HS Sports @WashPostHS]

Thank you.

[Chuck Culpepper @ChuckCulpepper1]

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days.

The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic.

Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . .

. . . in Los Angeles.

Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling.

Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells.

I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026:

"I treasure you people."

[Greg Schimmel @Greg_Schimmel]

I started in The Washington Post's Sports section when I was 18, answering phones when people still called in their high school football box scores. I leave knowing we did a lot of great work with a lot of great people since then.

[Andrew Golden @andrewcgolden]

I was among the many sports reporters laid off by The Washington Post today. Feeling a lot of gratitude for my time working for this paper.

Not looking back. Looking ahead to what’s next!

[Sarah Larimer @slarimer]

It was such a joy to work in @PostSports. Just an absolute gift. I was so so so lucky to have been a part of this place, and so so so lucky to work with these lovely, kind, clever, incredible people. This was the dream.

(uh also If you need an editor, please do holler.)

[Spencer Nusbaum @spencernusbaum_]

I was laid off by The Washington Post today. This is gutting for our readers and our section, but I’m grateful for the 4 years I had to cover sports alongside friends and legends.

If you’re hiring or know of someone who is: spencernusbaum(at)gmail(dot)com

[Bailey Johnson @BaileyAJohnson_]

I was among the layoffs at @washingtonpost today. It has been an absolute dream to be a small part of this incredible team. Covering the Caps has been an honor; being a beat writer is an all-consuming thing that I love deeply. I hope I’ll get to continue that in whatever is next