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Emily Giambalvo

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Sports Reporter at The Washington Post

Washington Post reporter • sports + data • [email protected]

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Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Jesse Dougherty |Emily Giambalvo

    Trump vs. Harvard has international athletes scrambling for answers (washingtonpost.com) Trump vs. Harvard has international athletes scrambling for answers By Jesse Dougherty; Emily Giambalvo 2025060713223000 Not long after President Donald Trump's first attempt to bar Harvard from enrolling international students last month, the school's men's soccer team, along with athletic teams all over campus, received a note from the coaching staff.

  • 2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Giambalvo

    Oklahoma returns to the top with its seventh gymnastics national title (washingtonpost.com) Oklahoma returns to the top with its seventh gymnastics national title By Emily Giambalvo 2025041923525100 A year after a stunning collapse in a national semifinal kept Oklahoma's dominant women's gymnastics team from competing for the title, the Sooners returned to their sport's pinnacle.

  • Mar 27, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Jesse Dougherty |Emily Giambalvo

    When the SEC hired Mike Tranghese nearly a decade ago, the former Big East commissioner had one job: Fix men’s basketball. At first, Tranghese did that work in the shadows, making calls, scribbling notes, advising new commissioner Greg Sankey as he went. It was clear, right away, that the SEC needed better officials, better coaching hires, more financial and emotional investment from its football-obsessed schools.

  • Mar 23, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Emily Giambalvo |Jesse Dougherty

    After Kentucky beat Troy in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Friday night, Wildcats guard Lamont Butler joined Mark Pope in an on-court interview, beaming at his coach. When the microphone got close enough, Butler let the country know it was Pope’s first NCAA tournament win. Butler then laughed at a reference to Pope playing at Kentucky in the 1990s, when he was part of a national championship team.

  • Mar 20, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Emily Giambalvo |Kati Perry |Jesse Dougherty

    If you’ve ignored college basketball since last March … well, you might be a little confused this week. That men’s player who seemed perfect for his team — the jersey colors made sense, the coach and him seemed like real buddies? He plays for a bigger program now. And that women’s player you took to? She also transferred, no matter how many times she called your alma mater her dream school. This is college basketball in 2025. Player movement is rampant. Players staying put can feel like a surprise.

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Emily Giambalvo
Emily Giambalvo @EmilyGiam
7 Jun 25

RT @dougherty_jesse: Some teams would struggle to compete w/o international athletes. An incoming field hockey player can't get a visa app…

Emily Giambalvo
Emily Giambalvo @EmilyGiam
20 Mar 25

Welcome to M̶a̶r̶c̶h̶ Transfer Madness, where 53 percent (!!!) of men's rotation players have logged minutes at another Division I school. Fifty-three percent! A deep dive with data from @washingtonpost: https://t.co/qzjIrjuR1y https://t.co/1jiUvWo5K5

Emily Giambalvo
Emily Giambalvo @EmilyGiam
20 Mar 25

RT @dougherty_jesse: We know there are transfers all over each bracket. But just how many — and how has player movement trended over time?…