The Washington Post cancelled their Olympic coverage, and may close the sports department completely:

In the mid-1980s, you could walk through the sports department and find Shirley Povich still filing columns at 80 years old, Thomas Boswell writing baseball pieces that felt closer to literature than game recaps, and Tony Kornheiser turning the Redskins’ Super Bowl run into the Bandwagon phenomenon. A young Michael Wilbon was learning the trade. Christine Brennan became the first woman to cover the Redskins beat. John Feinstein was simultaneously filing for the paper and writing “A Season on the Brink.” Sally Jenkins arrived from the San Francisco Chronicle and would go on to become one of the most respected columnists in the country.

The Post‘s sports section once represented the standard for American sports journalism. That’s not where things are now.

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It keeps becoming tougher and tougher to follow local team coverage. Newspapers moved behind paywalls, or went under entirely. While there used to be daily baseball coverage over the off-season, it now appears that most baseball writers take the weekend offs. There just are not as many voices as their used to be.