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Bryan Curtis

4 months

New story from me: Ian Eagle was raised in nightclubs by a singer and a comedian. Now he's the voice of the Final Four.

How a Kid Who Grew Up in a Nightclub Became the Voice of the Final Four

Ian Eagle unlocked a career milestone as the lead announcer for CBS and Turner’s coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. In show-business terms, he’s a headliner for the first time. Those...

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2 months

Reminder that this was ESPN's pregame rundown: Jason Kidd's mind games Dan Hurley update Tim Hardaway Jr. needs to step up

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1 year

Love calling your own “bang.”

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7 months

We're spending too much time worrying about Peacock showing a playoff game and not enough time worrying about Jason Garrett calling one.

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5 years

Stuart Scott died five years ago this month. My oral history of his life as told by family and friends, his ESPN colleagues, Michael and Jemele, and Barkley and Kobe.

The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Stuart Scott

Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon. Boo-yah!

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2 years

Tens of angry Charger fans wandering through LA’s streets tonight.

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4 years

I found this in a file. It has to be the best match of headline and author photo ever. Like Newsweek giving birth to The Onion.

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4 years

The DVD extras will include three more hours of Jordan shit-talking Jerry Krause.

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Bryan Curtis

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6 years

In the last year, Chris Christie has been floated as the replacement for both Jeff Sessions and Mike Francesa.

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President Trump is considering former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to replace fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, sources familiar with the matter say

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3 years

Congrats to Dallas sports radio on your next seven months of content!

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5 years

ESPN turns 40 years old this week. I wanted to write about the best show ever created there. So I sought out Dan and Keith.

How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann’s ‘SportsCenter’ Changed TV Forever

Upon the 40th anniversary of ESPN, we revisit Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the wisecracking anchors whose "Big Show" revolutionized sports broadcasting and late night TV

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Bryan Curtis

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5 years

Dan Jenkins: "Write shorter. Nobody reads a garden hose."

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Bryan Curtis

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6 years

More authors should follow William Vollmann and do a "no thanks" section in their acknowledgements. I'd read this for every magazine feature. (From "Imperial")

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7 months

Not sure we're prepared for the Michigan alums on journalism Twitter. Pray for our country.

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5 years

Congrats to Boston sports radio on your next three months of content!

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9 months

The ratings for a D-backs-Rangers World Series will have no effect on your life.

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7 years

I wrote about Jemele Hill: her life, career, and working at ESPN in the Age of Trump:

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6 years

New: Let us now praise unemployed sportswriter Ray Ratto. But not too much, because it would really piss him off.

The World According to Ray Ratto

The longtime Bay Area sportswriter doesn’t believe his business had a golden age. ("The good old days were way shittier than the days now.") Nor does he have any time for journalism awards. ("If this...

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6 years

Abe Rosenthal to Seymour Hersh, when Hersh complained about editing at the NYT (from “Reporter”).

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6 years

I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.

There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that’s winning big.

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7 years

My mom called to say Dale Hansen killed it on the anthem tonight. She was not wrong. Wow.

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6 years

New: Bob Ley ditched his necktie, watched some John Oliver, and rebooted Outside the Lines for a new era at ESPN. Just don't ask him to fill in for Papi.

How Bob Ley Became ESPN’s Most Important Broadcaster

The network’s longest-serving anchor is the perfect figure to interpret the collision of sport and politics. And the Worldwide Leader needs him now more than ever.

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6 years

25 years ago this month, Fox took the NFL TV rights away from CBS. John Madden got a max deal. Terry, Howie, and Jimmy became a thing. And 25-year-old Joe Buck got hired despite never having called a football game. My oral history with all of them:

The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks, created the modern pregame show,...

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3 years

If you can end an awards show with an actor’s head shot and no speech, you gotta do it.

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3 years

I check my mom’s fridge every few years to see if the Ken Griffey chocolate bars I put there as a kid are still around. They are—32 years later.

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2 years

Early in her ESPN career, Laura Rutledge traveled on her own dime so she could co-host Paul Finebaum's radio show. Full @ringer interview here:

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5 years

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4 years

Really enjoying Year 2 of the “Cowboys definitely suck, but the NFC East is still winnable” storyline. Truly a rite of autumn at this point.

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4 years

I'm old enough to remember when Emmitt sat out two games (both losses) to force the Cowboys to make him the league's highest paid RB. And he was right to do it.

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#Cowboys HOF Emmitt Smith on Dak Prescott’s contract situation: “How much money are you willing to leave on the table? The Cowboys are a marketable organization... Instead of taking 35, would you take 28? Leave some for Amari and pick up the rest in endorsements.” @LefkoeShow

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3 years

Finally the Mannings got an A-list guest.

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5 years

What happened at Sports Illustrated today absolutely sucks.

Crueler and Dumber by the Day: On ‘Sports Illustrated’ and a Dark Media Landscape

The legendary sports publication laid off approximately 40 percent of its staff today. It won’t be the last time something like this happens.

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5 years

For a second there, TNT sounded like it was a 50,000-watt radio station three states over.

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3 years

The fact that TV executives don’t like the upcoming matchups will have no effect on your life.

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5 years

The gutting of Deadspin and the Mavening of sportswriting.

Deadspin and the Mavening of Sportswriting

Staffers of the longtime sports blog resigned this week after a dispute with management. Like so many other publications, the future will bring an undead version of the site.

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Bryan Curtis

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7 years

New column: After this weekend, the era of "stick to sports" is over.

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1 year

How ESPN is built circa 2023.

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Bryan Curtis

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3 years

Congrats to University of Texas football for being so constantly “back” that Michael Lewis chose you as a metaphor for overrated in his new book. The last decade has been building to this. Via ⁦ @suellentrop ⁩.

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4 years

Can't believe two boxers started pushing each other before a lucrative pay-per-view. Never thought I'd live to see that.

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4 years

Wilder and Fury ready to go before today’s press conference even starts 🔥

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6 months

Congrats to Dallas sports radio on your next six months of content!

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6 years

New: Mark Leibovich, who writes merciless portraits of Washington politicians, has a new book about Roger Goodell and the men who run the NFL. It is also merciless.

The Man Who Wrote the Book That Terrifies the NFL

Mark Leibovich spent years digging under the skin of Washington, D.C.’s power brokers. When he turned his attention to the world of pro football for a new book, he found an awfully familiar set of...

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5 years

Fans should be criticized for not booing during this game. Have some decency.

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3 years

Kirby Smart on Saban: “I don’t think he gets enough appreciation for how consistent his teams have performed.” Does anyone on planet earth think this?

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1 year

The ratings for the NBA Finals will have no effect on your life.

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7 years

Here are some of the "adult" questions from the presser the SI Kids reporter allegedly ruined.

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2 years

“The Ohio State defense is taking this personally” had a good run.

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7 years

I'm old enough to remember when the Cowboys saved this performance for Week 17.

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7 years

Why, yes, these Ken Griffey chocolate bars are still in my mom's fridge, right where I left them. In 1989.

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3 years

God bless used bookstores.

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5 years

In Inglewood, the high school softball field is covered with broken glass and was deemed so dangerous a game there was cancelled recently. Nearby, the Rams are building a $3 billion stadium.

Column: Inglewood is gentrifying fast, but this girls’ softball team faces bleak conditions

Several hundred yards away from the site where billions of dollars are being plowed into a new stadium for the Rams and Chargers, athletic field conditions are bad and getting worse at Morningside...

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2 years

CNN: "You can't tell draw any conclusions with 1 percent of the vote counted. Nonetheless, let's take a look at the key races with 1 percent of the vote in."

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7 months

History was made yesterday with the first "I'm *not* overcoming the doubters" tweet.

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11 months

At season's end, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will have called games together longer than Pat Summerall and John Madden. Me on 22 years of Joe and Troy:

22 Years of Joe and Troy

With this NFL season being their 22nd in the booth together, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will surpass John Madden and Pat Summerall as the longest-tenured NFL announcing pair

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11 months

If you said Bob Barker nearly made it to a dollar without going over...congrats, you made the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week.

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3 years

In ESPN's feature, Bryce Young says he got his first scholarship offer after eighth grade (from Kliff Kingsbury). In the next bite, he says some recruiters didn't believe in him. He was a five-star and Rivals' No. 1 dual-threat QB.

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3 years

"What does your story, your stick-around, your fight, your attitude say to all of the underdogs, all of the walk-ons, out there?" Stetson Bennett: "I mean, I have no clue..."

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6 months

As @JimmyTraina mentioned, ESPN saying they got rid of Jeff Van Gundy bc they thought he might leave for a coaching job is one of the funniest things the network has ever (anonymously) said. Van Gundy called 17 straight Finals. Doc didn't make it to February.

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5 years

Whenever you read a think piece about how politics TV has become sports TV, remember: sports TV is rarely this bad.

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3 years

Remember when Drew Brees was going to push out Cris Collinsworth? That seems like a bad idea.

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1 year

Congrats to Boston sports radio—and the Ringer—on your next 48 hours of content!

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2 years

New from me: If you consume political news, there’s a very good chance the person you’re getting it from is a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

This Secret Society in Washington, D.C., Has One Agenda: Fly, Eagles, Fly

The most passionate fan base in D.C. political media belongs to the NFL’s league-leading team

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5 years

That halftime show was basically a debate about whether college basketball is good or not.

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8 months

30 years ago this fall, ESPN's College GameDay went on the road to a college campus for the first time. A new oral history with Lee Corso, Herbie, Fowler, Rece, McAfee, the Bear, Nick Saban, Charles Barkley, and more.

"Not So Fast": The Oral History of ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’

Thirty years ago, ESPN’s college football pregame show broadcast from a college campus for the first time. How pregaming with students and leaning into its hosts’ personalities helped ESPN become the...

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5 years

Nantz was absolutely nails on the (would-be) final shot. Steratore was great. Wolfson was great. It's just bonkers to squeeze in ads with 1.5 seconds left in a Final Four game and not let your crew dissect a blown double dribble call. That's what they're there for.

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4 years

New from me: Dan Le Batard and the Twilight of the “Former Journalist”

Dan Le Batard and the Twilight of the "Former Journalist"

The longtime ESPN radio and TV star is moving on, and with him the glory days of the sports network’s talent strategy

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3 years

New from me: The Athletic didn’t preside over the death of newspapers. It became one.

The Athletic Set Out to Destroy Newspapers. Then It Became One.

As The Athletic hoovered up newspaper talent, it adopted a newspaper style. It’s officially in the newspaper business after being purchased by The New York Times.

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6 years

MSNBC used a breaking news chyron to report Chuck Todd’s name.

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2 months

That halftime was an argument for preserving Inside the NBA at all costs.

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1 year

Kevin Brown dreamed of a lot in his TV career but I'm pretty sure he never dreamed of this.

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A “Free Kevin Brown” chant grows voice in the seventh inning at Camden Yards

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7 months

Bob Ley called 2017 (Trump, Barstool Van Talk) ESPN's "annus horribilis." New column from me on ESPN's second Year from Hell:

ESPN’s Year From Hell

The year 2017 was, in the words of esteemed former ESPN anchor Bob Ley, an "annus horribilis" at the company. The news this year isn’t just bad, it’s incredibly weird.

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2 years

The perfect Radio Row tweet.

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2 years

We just taped an interview with @aidanhutch97 and he is the real deal. Whoever gets him will be getting a great player, great leader, great presence. Thanks to @AutoTrader_com for making him available today.

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New: The afterlife of Rick Reilly, who quit sportswriting and took up arms (and golf clubs) against Donald Trump.

Rick Reilly Is Woke Now

The famed (and now retired) sportswriter has taken an interest in politics that he’s channeled into a new book about President Donald Trump’s relationship to golf. Rick Reilly … welcome to the...

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7 years

Vintage sportswriter head shots: Mort, 1991

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2 years

Congrats to Dallas sports radio on your next six days of content!

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6 years

I only wish there were more Syracuse alums in the media who could enjoy this.

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5 years

Folks, it’s official. Everything from the Nineties has been rebooted. Welcome back, Dan and Keith!

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6 years

If journalists want to re-earn the trust of the public, they should complain more about the flights they take to major sporting events.

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5 years

“Nobody believes in us!”

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5 years

Now we can start covering Adam Silver like a regular old sports commissioner. Hallelujah.

Adam Silver Is Finally Being Judged As a Commissioner, Not As Our Pal

The NBA’s Daryl Morey–incited conflict with China has ended the honeymoon between Silver and the media

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4 years

ESPN’s cornhole color analyst: “That’s the difference between a good team and a great team—the ability to fight back.”

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1 year

Add to JVG, McShay, and everybody else who got laid off by ESPN today to this list. Find me a media company that lost this much talent in a decade.

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5 years

Nantz has been begging Romo to say something interesting about Jason Garrett all game, and Romo has been like, let’s diagram another play.

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6 years

The most New Mexico thing that ever happened to me: I was working out of a FedEx Office when a roadrunner ran through the store.

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6 months

Tony Romo: "What a day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Deserves to have a day named after him."

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4 years

No surprise, the first topic is NBA ratings.

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4 years

On the morning of Texas-USC, a Longhorn buddy and I drove around LA frantically looking for tickets. Finally found a pair for $1,250 each: cash upfront, tickets to be delivered at the Rose Bowl. Somehow it turned out to be legit. Best purchase I ever made in my life.

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New from me: Dan Jenkins (1929-2019).

Dan Jenkins Was More Than a Sportswriter. He Was a Sportswriterly State of Being.

The legendary author and Sports Illustrated writer died Thursday night at the age of 89

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5 years

No better moment in cable news than watching Jeffrey Toobin confront his doppelgänger David Chalian.

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1 year

Nothing but cheap pops with my tag-team partner @DavidShoemaker .

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4 years

I will always remember watching that halftime show alongside a bunch of 50-something sportswriters.

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5 years

As a bunch of people are reporting: --ESPN The Magazine's last print issue will be September's Body Issue --Nobody is getting laid off today but...we'll see, especially with people on the production side --The magazine (per a source) lost single-digit millions in recent years

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New: Want to be an NBA insider, kid? You must first learn the art of the "sidle."

The Art of the Sidle: The Slickest Move in NBA Media

Sidling has become the great skill of the NBA beat, as fundamental to reporting as the corner 3 is to the sport itself. But not everybody can get a star player to talk when they want. Here’s how the...

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2 years

If you said Chris Rock has a better chin than [insert boxer], congrats, you made the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week. h/t @Danny_Heifetz

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