Sam Fortier
@Sam4TR
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Sports writer @washingtonpost. alum @dailyorange, @theathletic, @ringer. Signal: sam4tr.04.
Joined August 2011
New: How "Uncle Dennis" helped spark the sports scandal of the year. ▶️ Steve Ballmer, Jerry West depositions ▶️ Private texts, Magic voicemails ▶️ An equity fight involving a Knicks star ▶️ Kawhi's private airport Investigation w/ @AlbertSamaha: https://t.co/w8DRlL20Iz
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Kawhi Leonard’s uncle and adviser helped him build his business — and courted controversy in the process.
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This sucks. Varun shone bright on a tough beat. I know he's gonna go be great.
My last day covering the Wizards and with @PostSports will be Dec. 31. Leaving for a new opportunity (TBA). Im excited for what’s next but sad to leave — I loved working at The Post. I grew up with its sports section. The local beat writers were my idols.
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It's hard to write good stories about bad teams late in lost seasons. But Tom crushed this:
Tackling is one of football's basic crafts. Few players in NFL history have mastered it like Bobby Wagner. https://t.co/ZWd7ojDHce
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"The Washington Post is one of the few places left that allows sports reporters to go deep," writes @turnergs for this year's 2025 @Business Jealousy List. 🏈➡️Read the exclusive: https://t.co/SIdpH7sEqV
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The next time you watch college football, pay attention to how the institutional ads are changing:
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The most famous middle-school QB in America just scored his first NFL TD — 15 years later:
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📱 We obtained a 2019 text from a backchannel liaison between Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. There was a proposal for “Mr. Ballmer to fund the Kawhi marketing campaign,” it said. More from our investigation w/ @AlbertSamaha @PostSports:
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You know those university ads? The ones with shots of the leafy quad + students looking into a microscope? A lot of them look different this football season, focusing more on specific research initiatives. And one reason why is the reason for a lot of things in this country.
College ads, a staple of sports TV, are shifting tone in response to President Trump's attacks on higher ed. Unis are replacing rah-rah ads w/ specific stories about how research improves life in their communities. Reporting w @dougherty_jesse & @jribas: https://t.co/s8u69wzuO0
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College ads, a staple of sports TV, are shifting tone in response to President Trump's attacks on higher ed. Unis are replacing rah-rah ads w/ specific stories about how research improves life in their communities. Reporting w @dougherty_jesse & @jribas: https://t.co/s8u69wzuO0
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Front page of the @washingtonpost: The rise of “Uncle Dennis,” the adviser at the center of an NBA scandal. Reporting w/ @AlbertSamaha: https://t.co/w8DRlL20Iz
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Shared this around a bit yesterday, but this is the goods from @AlbertSamaha + @Sam4TR:
washingtonpost.com
Kawhi Leonard’s uncle and adviser helped him build his business — and courted controversy in the process.
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The @washingtonpost decided to do some digging re: Uncle Dennis Robertson, Kawhi, and Steve Ballmer. And @Sam4TR + @AlbertSamaha got a bunch of texts that I’d also been chasing about how the Clippers recruited Kawhi in 2019. This one is pretty interesting!
New: How "Uncle Dennis" helped spark the sports scandal of the year. ▶️ Steve Ballmer, Jerry West depositions ▶️ Private texts, Magic voicemails ▶️ An equity fight involving a Knicks star ▶️ Kawhi's private airport Investigation w/ @AlbertSamaha: https://t.co/w8DRlL20Iz
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want an inside look into the tangled web that involves snagging an NBA superstar? read this! riveting stuff here from @AlbertSamaha & @Sam4TR
New: How "Uncle Dennis" helped spark the sports scandal of the year. ▶️ Steve Ballmer, Jerry West depositions ▶️ Private texts, Magic voicemails ▶️ An equity fight involving a Knicks star ▶️ Kawhi's private airport Investigation w/ @AlbertSamaha: https://t.co/w8DRlL20Iz
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Court docs obtained by @PostSports show Steve Ballmer testified that Uncle Dennis asked for a house & sponsorships during Kawhi’s 2019 free agency, & that Ballmer told him NBA rules allowed him to “make introductions.” That & more in our investigation: https://t.co/PbVtb1a8WM
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In early 2017, Kawhi Leonard’s agency asked him to reach out to a promising college prospect named OG Anunoby. Uncle Dennis declined on his behalf bc the agency refused to give them equity stakes in the company. Read the full story: https://t.co/w8DRlL20Iz
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That was the worst NFL Sunday in decades. I did the math to prove it:
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Former NFL RB Doug Martin was "involved in a break-in" and died in police custody, Oakland police confirm. Martin became unresponsive after a "brief struggle," police said. OPD's full story:
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