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Writing a book👇 Former: Exec Editor @SInow , Editor-In-Chief @FOS I got “steamrollered” changed to “steamrolled” in the SI style guide ✊ adam.duerson @gmail .com

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When I was laid off at @SInow a year ago, I was told: You’ll never forget the place; you’ll have DREAMS about it. A year later: confirmed. Can’t stop thinking about it. So...
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A few gut punches here for @lions fans. Megatron says: *He'd have played on if DET were better; doesnt cheer for 'em *Smoked weed after ea game 🤷‍♂️ *Kitna called it in '08 preseason: Lions would go 0-16 w their O *Lions asked him to lie about a concussion
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On Josh Gordon: "As a soph. at Baylor he was receiving (and reselling) as much as 6 lbs of weed—vacuum-sealed & wrapped in Mylar, sprayed w kerosene & covered in coffee beans—every week from a dealer back home. He was bringing in $10,000+ in profit/mo." 😮
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. @Ashlyn_Harris Just for you, an (equally badass) outtake from Bruty's shoot. So proud to have y'all on our covers! http://t.co/mgIMBnMDQ2
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7 years
You run a nonprofit. Your phone rings. A voice: "If @Kaepernick7 gave you $25,000, what would you do with it?" That call is happening again and again. @GregBishopSI & @Ben_Baskin tell the story we've all been ignoring
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8 years
When your entire fantasy season rests on Jordan Reed—and then he gets ejected
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7 years
Fact check/copy read: *errant dash; pls fix *double space? *"eliminated": right word here? *"destroy": sourcing? *no you haven't; he played on Jan. 1 (and had a 122.3 passer rating) *lacks cohesion; pls refile asap
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New name for old magazine- @SInow will become "Sports ELIMINATED." Kaepernick gets Ali award. Heck, I've played in as many NFL games this year as he has, but then he's done a lot to destroy @NFL so makes sense.
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. @CarliLloyd was in the @SInow office today. She's a @Phillies fan. The Phillie Fanatic was in the @Sinow office today. This happened.
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7 years
Kirk Cousins's hand-drawn routes from Week 2 (Rams) kinda-sorta evoke Zodiac cypher...or something. Scary beautiful
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This is the penultimate graf in our first Brady/Pats SB story, vs Rams, by ⁦ @MikeSilver ⁩. 🤦‍♂️
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Oh, hey, I’ve got a new thing: Starting today, I’m the editor-in-chief at @FOS ! Structurally, *everything* about sports is changing; it’s a great time to be in the business of covering business. Excited to get going w/ @FOSAdam and co.
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Through three rounds Odell Beckham: 0 Josh Norman: 0 Kicking net: 1
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For those keeping track: @SInow has put the @USWNT on SIXTY-THREE (!!) different covers in the past 1,495 days. #StronglyEndorse
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8 years
My favorite pic from our issue this week 👈🏻🍑👉🏻
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2 years
A layoff thread, 1/1 Folks, I’m done. I’ve joined the esteemed ranks of *former* @SInow editors—a brilliant and vast group whose members have each deserved better, but who were PAID (!!) to think and dissect and parse and nitpick. Imagine that. It was surreal to the last second.
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Back in the '90s, Gary Vider posed for pics w/ the likes of Jordan, Elway, Lemieux, Nancy Kerrigan... These were the perks of being a kid reporter for @SIKids —except Gary Vider wasn't one. Today's @SInow Daily Cover: Confessions of a Kid Scam Artist
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4 years
My friend @GrantWahl writes meaningful stories that are widely read. He writes more often than almost anyone else I know. He dominates his beat. Dominates. I edited Grant frequently. If you're hiring, call me. I can talk for hours about GW.
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Dayum. @SInow
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5 years
🙌🏼 🙌🏼
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8 years
Easy pitch: What ever happened to THIS guy? @Mike_McKnight_
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7 years
The most @CharlesOakley34 line ever: “You’re telling me there’s TWO motherf'ers in the league named Kelly?”🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
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2 years
Imagine hundreds of these invitations. Every week. God damn, I will miss you, @GrantWahl . I wish I said YES more often, but every time I did I became a more knowledgable, more reasonable, more enlightened soccer fan. Grant is a huge reason that you and I love this game.
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4 years
This cover: 😘👌
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Take a minute today to remember the old print @SInow NCAA tourney preview cover (the “Waldo” cover, in office parlance), which used to require endless hours of photo-cutting by a crack imaging team… and today could probably be executed on an iphone in 10 minutes.
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VENT: An astonishing amount of old @SInow is gone from the web, & that sucks. One in four articles, gone. Loads of old videos. Majority of the 60th anniversary package. The Vault? Barely functions. Stinks for someone doing a book about the place—but far more for 70 yrs of writers
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Kirk Cousins's wife could hear him on FaceTime w/ coaches while she was delivering their son. 😬
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. @steelers CB Joe Haden on the audacity of the @Browns in cutting him this off-season: “They were going to pay Brock Osweiler $16 million and he’s not even on the team [after being signed and cut this summer], and they wanted to cut money from ME!?”
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8 years
Quick snap: All 39 of Muhammad Ali's @SInow covers prior to this week's obit issue, in one image
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7 years
This JON GRUDEN story by @bySLPrice is just packed w/ goodness. Here's JG on his 24yo kid, Deuce, who's a @RAIDERS strength coach: “He’s like his mom, a tiny little lady. But he’s a beast.” THANKS, DAD!
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Vince Young: "Ryan Fitzpatrick led the lg in INTs and he's still f------ getting paid? What the f--- is going on?"
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A signal of where we’re headed over here at @FOS : I’m thrilled to be joined by @timmarchman as our new director of news and features. Big move.
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4 years
Deshaun Watson “just wants out.” Cal McNair is “Tommy Boy.” And Jack Easterby thinks the Krafts are paying for a media takedown. (They’re not.) WHOAH Texans followup from ⁦ @JennyVrentas ⁩ & ⁦ @GregBishopSI
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Didn't know: Young @SHAQ wanted to be called J.C. (Just Cool). Pops said HELL NO. @alex_prewitt on Generation Shaq
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A Warriors commemorative magazine dies on the vine. @SInow
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Josh Johnson’s football bio does not fit on your phone
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Here, some REAL AWKWARD sexual tension as @SHAQ tries to set up two male Shaquilles w/ a female Shaquille
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Powerful stuff here from Caitlyn Jenner. Take a bow, @SITimLayden
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2/2 I’m tremendously proud of all we did. The @SInow Daily Cover was my baby: . If you’re looking to employ someone like me—in sports or not, longform or short, on planet earth or elsewhere—pls reach out. @adam .duerson @gmail .com
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8 years
Proud to trot out our next SI True Crime piece: The bizarre downfall of the-guy-before-Zeke in Dallas, Joseph Randle
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9 years
A first here at @SInow : We shot and designed TWENTY-FOUR covers for @ussoccer_wnt One for ea. player, plus Ellis http://t.co/w1zT3iN3nM
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Couple months ago, I started working with our writers—and freelancers; pitch me!—on a Daily Cover concept for @SInow . Biased opinion: We've done a ton of cool stuff in a short time. So many good reads in here. Dig in
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At least SIXTEEN current NBA players have their own signature shoe. But women? There was the Air Swoopes, more than a quarter century ago...and not much more. @elindsay08 with a smart look back, and ahead
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A little work update: Yesterday was my last day at @FOS . Thank you to all the lovely people I worked with; I’m very proud of what we did together. … Now? I’m gonna take a breath and be a dad for a bit.
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7 years
In case you missed it, we rolled out a pretty fun WHAT IF? package today. This image alone should melt your brain
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8 years
Ken Griffey Jr.'s spunky prank on A-Rod, from @BenReiter 's epic new SI piece is... icky.
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4/4 There were 16 other OUTSTANDING HUMAN BEINGS laid off w/ me today. My heart breaks for each of them, but I’m excited for their new opportunities. Change can be good, but first, often, something radical has to happen. Pls pls pls call me about them. ✌🏻
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Top: @SInow 's Patriots #SuperBowl commemorative issue. Bottom: Falcons commemorative. One of em coming down soon
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This is both the best #Prince story and the best "Minority Report" story you'll read tonight @mayor414
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7 years
How we went from "F you, Pats!" to "We will miss this era when it's over," by @SI_PeterKing
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Here: the letters from readers in the 2 weeks after @SInow put Willie Mays on the cover in 1955 standing beside the white wife of manager Leo Durocher. (19th Hole, as they called reader mail, was essentially print-Twitter, sometimes vile.) Really strong essay here from @BWDBWDBWD
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went deep into the archives to interrogate Willie Mays’ public apoliticism, that time Jackie Robinson all but dismissed Willie as a coon, and what we can learn from the quietly subversive way he Stuck To Sports. It’s my latest for Front Office Sports:
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After Eli's last play (probably) as a starter, his wife grabbed a hot dog and two Bud Lights from the Manning suite and tossed em in a bag to bring home to him... I asked @Ben_Baskin to find out what the QB's last days looked and felt like. He done good.
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9 years
All those @ussoccer_wnt covers in one glorious image. My fave: Wambach. Feels very MJ-with-NBA-trophy powerful http://t.co/4iD43mADKL
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This image has haunted me for almost a year and a half. Today, we share the fruits of our labor: Episode One of @TimRohan 's nine-part SI: TRUE CRIME podcast about the death of @Titans QB Steve McNair
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If you're still bugged out by the FACT that Eli will one day be in the HOF, read this @TimRohan piece. Stellar stuff
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7 years
This cover: 😘👌
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In 2021, I had the pleasure of working with one legend writing about another: @SteveRushin on 90-year-old Willie Mays. Steve was reading about the Beatles at the time and reflecting on Mays saw a similarity: The celebrity who left other stars starstruck
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"I felt ‘out of body.' My heart would be going, I’d be sweating, I felt like everybody in the room was looking at me. My speech was slurring. I didn’t wanna eat. I was gasping for air. It’s hard to spit words out.” —Percy Harvin on anxiety and the NFL
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Huddled inconspicuously among 658 Dutch Jews that arrived in Auschhwitz on a snowy Sunday in January, 76 yrs ago, was Eddy Hamel—the first American to reach the top level of European soccer, at Ajax. Sit down for this one, from ⁦ @Mike_McKnight_
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Terracotta Suarez-biting-Chiellini statues, from the streets of Naples, care of @mattrodbard . Amazing. http://t.co/VD1HKUiF8i
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There's cheating. ...And then there's this guy, who 44 yrs ago, at the Summer Games in Montreal, rigged his épée to register nonexistent hits. On woulda-been-Olympics-week, I'm thrilled to have @MichaelFarber3 tell this story of jaw-dropping brazenness.
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C. Portis won't take tests that could earn him concussion $. “F— that concussion money. I'm scared of the results”
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This picture—THIS is why you read @SITimLayden 's opus on our obsession w/ sports jerseys
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7 years
Hey look! We called this one too, four years ago! #NotReally (But seriously: Until this week, this Dec 6, 2013 issue had ranked pretttty high on my list of "can't believe we put X on the cover" regrets. Redeemed!)
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“There’s nothing that makes multimillionaire coaches at taxpayer-funded public schools go ballistic faster than being interrogated about their swanky salaries…” @MMcCarthyREV w/ a relevant media truth
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Mike McCarthy and @AaronRodgers12 : drinking buddies. 🍻🍻🍻
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"Giving L.A. a second NFL team is like giving Miami a second snowplow." 🔥🔥🔥 @Rosenberg_Mike
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1980: Colorado coach Chuck Fairbanks—a real spendthrift; he refused to wear a shirt more than twice—commissioned the design of a new @CUBuffsFootball helmet logo, but the program never adopted it. Never seen this outside of this @SInow story. @UniWatch
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Writing is funny: This story started as a footnote in reporting for another feature and turned into a rabbit hole. The result is a jaw-dropping tale about horse racing and (rampant, brazen) cheating and suicide and misogyny and, maybe, murder
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Double U. Tee. Eff.
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One friend from Prince's high school days remembers him weighing whether to pursue basketball or music—then calling one day to declare for the latter. "He also called to say he was dating my ex-girlfriend.” On Prince and hoops, five years after his death:
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@AlbertBreer Because...why? Genuinely don’t get this sentiment.
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A Cuban chef in Tampa wanted to help a gold-medal Olympic boxer defect from 🇨🇺. She sent this guy 👇for the extraction. She involved @marcorubio . It kept getting weirder. Crazy longread from @GregBishopSI
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Not too shabby.
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We put every single @SInow Super Bowl story in one lovely hub. Youve got 10 days to catch up! (Read time: 5,729 hrs)
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One gem from SI's REGRETS, from a '79 OJ profile: "The character of OJ Simpson will endure. It will be his legacy." http://t.co/GIW5tPw4a3
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Nine yrs after police concluded Steve McNair was killed by his mistress, that case is still very much alive: fresh leads/rumors, lingering suspicions/allegations, persisting pain... We go DEEP on Steve McNair beginning Oct 17 in a new nine-part @sinow pod:
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This is a gutpunch of a morning read. Eddie DeBartolo blows the horn of Gondor, and all the 49ers greats flock home to say goodbye to Dwight Clark, who's being ravaged by ALS. @SI_ChrisBallard
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Jorge Campos's old kits = synthetic clickbait. Read @SInow 's Where Are They Now story here:
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Vince Young says, in short: @packers GM Ted Thompson told him he was toxic/unsignable cuz of his crazy amt of debt
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Find me a writer who put more 💪 into a story this year. @Mike_McKnight_ 's quest to homer in an MLB park:
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This is a biz trend story about the rise/fall of theme restaurants like All-Star Cafe. This is a true crime story about hair-brained kitchen workers. This is a celeb story (Obama, Tiger, Sheen). This is a baseball card story (hello, T206). I love this
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“Grant cooked, Celine chose the wine and the two of them made everyone in the room feel like the president of France.” @LAT_ChrisStone nailed what it was like to be around @GrantWahl , whose cross-pollenating dinner parties were one of the joys of The Job
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In which we learn that @giseleofficial tried recruiting @jayfeely last summer to persuade Tom Brady to retire:
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UK laws kept us from running this '08 story about the UFC fighter who pulled off the biggest bank heist ever—til now
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2 years
3/3 Ppl will write about today, perhaps mercilessly. But, look. I’ve been around. Every round of layoffs—20? more?—has been *the end of SI*. And, I think, each prediction was wrong. Yesterday, SI was STRONG. I leave behind some brilliant colleagues; SI will be strong tmrw.
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Attn. @ussoccer_wnt fans: More outtakes from this week's @SInow covers over at http://t.co/qJsSBt8iVv
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Michael Bennett Sr.: We taught Michael to do what ur told when approached by police, and I think that saved his life
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Four years later, I still think this is an alltime Top 5 @SInow cover. Haunting. @skalocky @sportingpress1
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Where is @alleniverson now? Playin' Monopoly, eatin' at KFC, gracing our cover Goddamn, I love this issue
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SI TRUE CRIME: Inside a multi-million$ fake-autograph ring. Bonus: @AlabamaFTBL stars taking $$ for grafs, w/ video
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LeBron: "Michael Jordan inspired me, but @alleniverson was really the god." #WhereAreTheyNow @SInow
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Travis Kelce showed up for our photo shoot in a pirate-themed pajama top. With flames. Goddamn, I love Travis Kelce.
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1. This quote: “There was no relationship [with Bill O'Brien],” says Hopkins. “Make sure you put that in there.” 2. Um: @SINow 's first bandana'ed cover??
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Wish I was watching this w you, @GrantWahl
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8 years
This, Cheeseheads, is the @packers ' 17th-rd pick in '74. As many as 44 murders, plus rapes, robberies... Gruesome.
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4 years
The clicks and likes and comments on this story... About a runner. Who so few people know—not an A (or Z) lister. Whose tale is too nuanced to do justice in a tweet. Surprise: people like good/unique/differentiated things. Quality trumps quantity, every day, always.
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Chris Ballard
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This was my final story at SI. Thanks to @adamduerson and @SI_MarkBechtel for seeing it into print. And to the Fixx family for sharing the journals for the first time.
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