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Touch 'Em All with Larry Keith (opens the original)
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“Frank Deford. Dan Jenkins. John Underwood. The list could go on. We thought we were in Valhalla.” Larry Keith joins Brian to talk about his long career as a reporter, writer, and editor at Sports Illustrated. Larry, who worked at SI from 1970 to 2004, traces his career path from covering high school football in North Carolina to hosting a radio show with Dean Smith at Chapel Hill to Sports Illustrated. He and Brian talk about why covering high school football is so formative for so many sports
The Long Game with Leander Schaerlaeckens (opens the original)
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“This wasn't gonna be a soccer book. This was gonna be a book about a weird soccer team.” Leander Schaerlaeckens returns to the show to talk about the writing and reporting of his excellent new book, “The Long Game: U.S. Men’s Soccer and its savage, four-decade journey to the top, or thereabouts.” Leander talks about the idea for this book dates back to the US failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and how an article he wrote for The Ringer got him started on this process. He discusses how he
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