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Mirin Fader is a staff writer for The Ringer.\n\n\u201cNobody ever makes it makes it, right? You make it, and every day, you have to keep making it. That\u2019s how I feel. Would I be the reporter I am if I wasn\u2019t like that? I\u2019m afraid to see what happens if I\u2019m not. I\u2019m afraid what type of reporter or writer I\u2019ll be if I take my foot off the gas.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\n\n@MirinFader\nmirinfader.com\nFader on Longform\n03:00 Fader's Orange County Register archive\n04:00 Lee Jenkins\u2019 Sports Illustrated archive\n04:00 Longform Podcast #421: Wright Thompson\n06:00 Fader's Bleacher Report archive\n14:00 "How Mo\u2019ne Davis Made Her Hoop Dreams Come True: Inside Life After Little League" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Feb 2017)\n14:00 "The LaMelo Show" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Feb 2018)\n17:00 "Walk-on Becomes X-factor For Titans' Men's Soccer" (OC Register \u2022 Nov 2016)\n29:00 "What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Sept 2020)\n42:00 Gary Smith on Longform\n47:00 "LaVar Ball: Lakers 'don't want to play for' Luke Walton" (Jeff Goodman \u2022 ESPN \u2022 Jan 2018)\n50:00 "The Life of LaMelo" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Nov 2019)\n50:00 "Nothing Can Faze Davante Adams" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Aug 2018)\n50:00 "Davante Adams Is Peaking in Every Way Possible" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Jan 2021)\n51:00 "The Metamorphosis of Brandon Ingram" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Oct 2018)\n51:00 "Brandon Ingram Through the Fire" (Bleacher Report \u2022 Nov 2019)\n56:00 Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP (Hachette \u2022 2021)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices