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S.L. Price is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.\n\n\u201cThe fact is, if you write about sports and people think they're just reading about sports, they'll read about drug use. They'll read about sex. They'll read about sex change. They'll read about communism. They'll read about issues they couldn't possibly care about, issues that if they saw them in any other part of the paper they would just gloss over. But because it's about sports\u2014because there's a boxing ring or a baseball field or a football field\u2014they'll be more patient and you can get some issues under the transom.\u201d\n\nThanks to Pitt Writers and TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@bySLPrice\nPrice on Longform\nPrice's Sports Illustrated archive\n[8:00] "Too Slick, Too Loud, Too Successful: Why John Calipari Can't Catch a Break" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 Mar 2011)\n[9:00] "A Death in the Baseball Family" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 Sept 2007)\n[9:00] Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America (Ecco \u2022 2009)\n[14:00] "Max Lenox's Amazing Journey to Much-Admired Army Hoops Captain" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 Nov 2011)\n[17:00] "The Damage Done" (Sports Illustrated \u2022\xa0Jun 2006)\n[18:00] The Staircase (New Video Group \u2022 2005)\n[23:00] "Shadow of Shame" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 May 1994)\n[25:00] "The Heart of Football Beat in Aliquippa: Hope and Despair in a Pennsylvania Mill Town" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 Jan 2011)\n[28:00] Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports (University of Press Florida \u2022 2000)\n[32:00] "Diplomacy By Other Means" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 May 2004)\n[44:00] "The Mystery of the Vanishing Screwball" (Bruce Schoenfeld \u2022 The New York Times Magazine \u2022 July 2014)\n[48:00] "The Life and Times of Rick Majerus: The Coach You Didn't Know" (Sports Illustrated \u2022 Feb 2015)\n[49:00] Longform Podcast #94: Gary Smith (May 2014)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices