Wrote some words about a basketball game that happened tonight: dbknews.com/2025/03/23/mar…

Exclusive — LPL Financial has agreed to acquire rival independent broker-dealer Commonwealth Financial Network, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. A deal will be revealed as soon as Monday: citywire.com/ria/news/lpl-a…

Spent a few weeks diving into the rise of copy trading and how the practice is intertwined with the efforts to ban Congressional stock trading, Citywire RIA: citywire.com/ria/news/congr…

Here's how RIAs and tech vendors think the SEC will regulate AI citywire.com/ria/news/heres…

$15bn Modera to pursue westward M&A after tech overhaul: citywire.com/ria/news/15bn-…

Shoutout No. 5

It's here! Check out our special report on the fastest-growing RIAs in America: citywire.com/ria/special-re…

Senior leaders leave Raymond James's custody division amid wider turnover: Sources citywire.com/ria/news/senio…

Several sources familiar with RCS’s operations told me the division’s work environment partly contributed to the turnover:

What does Sidney Stewart want his Maryland legacy to be? **long pause** “The bull. I just want to be remembered as the bull.” On the Terps’ enigmatic freshman, the fragility of football and the origins of his “Yung Bull” nickname 👇

Some document diving led to this one. The Ramaswamy-founded anti-ESG firm Strive, which is backed by Peter Thiel, the VC firm founded by VP JD Vance and Cantor Fitzgerald, has moved to 'wind down' the operations of its RIA arm after less than a year. citywire.com/ria/news/vivek…

New for WashPost HS Sports: The gradual deterioration of Thompson Boat Center, one of D.C.’s premier boathouses, has left the local rowing community with more questions than answers. If conditions aren’t improved, coaches fear an eventual “catastrophe.”

Can confirm: I’ll be covering this year’s Super Bowl for Sports Business Journal! Many thanks to everyone at the The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism who made this possible. Can’t wait to head out to the Bay Area!

Got some stories in the works 👀

“We were honestly mad that they scored at all.” Wrapping up my #SuperBowl coverage with a story on Mike Macdonald, the mastermind behind the Seahawks’ historic defense cnsmaryland.org/2026/02/09/sea…

I’ll have a few more stories over the coming weeks, but that’s the end of my time covering Maryland MBB for The Diamondback. It’s been an eventful two years, from Derik Queen and a Sweet 16 to a coaching change and… everything that came after. Thanks for following along!