Episode 441: Seth Wickersham Gets Them Out of the Building

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By Brendan O’Meara

Seth Wickersham (@seth.wickersham on IG) didn’t always want to be a sports writer, but he found his way to it by being a high school quarterback, covering the University of Missouri Tigers, and “crashing the party” at the Super Bowl with fellow writers Wright Thompson and Justin Heckert.

This episode was a chance to revisit his amazing story on its ten-year anniversary, “Awakening the Giant,” about Y.A. Tittle. Seth also is the author of It’s Better to be Feared about the New England Patriots dynasty, a book twenty years in the making. He’s a senior writer for ESPN.com and often collaborates with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Don Van Natta Jr. — he of The Sunday Long Read — on deeply reported pieces on the NFL.

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Episode 244: Jackie MacMullan on the Fear of Failure, Writing that Teaches You, and the Final Chapter of ‘Best American Sports Writing’

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By Brendan O’Meara

Jackie MacMullan, the legendary basketball writer, is on the podcast to talk about judging what we know to be the final installment of The Best American Sports Writing.

She’s chronicled the NBA (big ups to Louisa Thomas) since the early 1980s for The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and now ESPN.

Her five-part series on mental health in the NBA was widely lauded and a must-read.

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