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ESPN The Mag Sr Writer: 35+ cover stories & tales from the bizarre side of sports | Author: Breaker Boys (NFL); Noah's Rainbow (memoir) | Music; Miami; PopTarts

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    Jan 26

    The Genius of Billy Belichick - our epic oral history will get you ready for

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    Mar 28

    Sister Jean playing in Loyola’s Noon-Nun pick-up game.

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  3. Mar 30

    REPORTING FOR DUTY COMMANDER KOOGS

    My warnings of this were so far ahead of their time
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  4. Mar 27

    Hot dogs will now cost $875.

    Today NFL team owners will vote to increase the debt limit for the Rams new stadium, which according to internal league documents is now projected to cost an amazing $4.963 billion.
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  5. Mar 23

    5th: & I met in the Rams press box at 2000 NFC title game. Like everyone else back then we had both taken a leap of faith & were kinda thinking the same thing: ”This could be so great, I hope it works out.” Yep, I’d say it worked out okay.

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  6. Mar 23

    4th time: In ‘03 I asked if I could write feach on Dewayne White in voice of his dead dad. Chad said “You’re so weird but, ok, give it a try.” All the crazy ideas I’ve pitched at The Mag, that’s always the response. Sure, give it a try. Can’t ask for more as a writer

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  7. Mar 23

    Third time: in 2010ish, I got a note from editor Chris Berend who said something close to “Congratulations they just okay’ed your Poop Story for the Body Issue, you should go ahead and just retire now, because it will never get better than this.”

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  8. Mar 23

    Second time was in 2011 - we did an entire issue on Michael Vick (only time we’ve done that, I think) & needed more access, so I PayPal’ed part of a private plane to get & I exclusive time w/Vick. That issue got an Ellie nom.

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  9. Mar 23

    First time I knew I had found a home at The Mag: when my infant daughter was hospitalized b4 the SB in 2003, I called editor Gary Hoenig & b4 I could even ask to go home he said “Why aren’t you at the airport?”

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  10. Mar 23

    Love as a way to celebrate ESPN The Mag’s 20th BDay but I still think the entire issue should have been an oral history of our epic staff retreat in Montauk.

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  11. Mar 23

    I mean, yeah, just look at the throwing mechanics in that pic.

    "Josh Allen is the best quarterback in this draft." - NFC executive : (via )
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  12. Mar 21

    This show was great & is a draft guru and a TV natural - it’s not fair. Takeaways from Georgia pro day

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    Mar 20

    Now, imagine what it’s like for women.

    Over the last 2 days I was called a "fag," told to "drink bleach," and told my "daughter won't be cute" by NFL fans over free agency moves. Great read here from on what drives those behaviors:
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  14. Mar 19

    I guess that makes me Gordie Howe, sweet...

    In ESPN The Magazine’s 20th anniversary issue, out this week, I learned that is the Gretzky of cover stories written.
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  15. Mar 19

    aka: Neutral Cannabice

    Canada released a report on legal weed today. The authors needed a way to compare the maximum size of a licensed "micro-cultivation" area. And lo, in all its Canadian glory:
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    Mar 18

    It's ESPN the Magazine's 20th anniversary, and to celebrate, we're ranking the most dominant athletes of the past 20 years. Who's No. 1? He's on our cover.

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  17. Mar 18

    The greatest trick the selection committee ever pulled was convincing the hoops world to celebrate Cinderellas instead of focusing on their utterly incompetent seeding.

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  18. Mar 18

    Just saw NCAA ‘You don’t know me’ straw-man ad for the 1,000th time - yep, still don’t get it.

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  19. Mar 18

    Having Alex Wolff ref the Flem File and the way my locks inspired acts of sedition in China is a top 5 career bucket list moment.

    Replying to @FlemESPN @LarsAnderson71 and 2 others
    Them’s were the times. Thanks for looping me in on the reminiscing. (I think the original Flem File was the one opened by the Chinese government after David walked thru some remote provincial town, stopping traffic w/his blond hair.)
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  20. Mar 18

    Brutal hockey season for Detroit natives who went to

    Detroit Red Wings 'super frustrated' but keep fighting as losses mount
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  21. Mar 18

    The ultimate fix for hoops junkies - one of my all-time fav assignments & my first with the estimable

    Great look at the tournament...also see the definitive account from on the 2001 NAIA men's basketball championship:
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