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ESPN's Wright Thompson on the Cost of Athletic Greatness (Sunday Conversation)

Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine who has profiled some of the greatest athletes and coaches of all time, including Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Steve Kerr, Pat Riley, Caitlin Clark, and Dan Gable. He's also the author of 3 books: "The Cost of These Dreams", "The…

Episode 117 - Go Read Wright Thompson with Dan Santaromita

On this episode, Dan Santaromita, sports journalist with the Athletic, talks about his love for autobiographies, how reading for work affects recreational reading, and his birthday tradition centered on his ideal reading scenario. We also talk about his favorite writer, Wright Thompson.    Books …

Arena: Wright Thompson on McGregor backlash, being there and the future of sports writing

On this week's episode of Arena, the weekly podcast from the Irish Examiner, Maurice Brosnan is joined by award-winning ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson.   The lads discuss the uncertain state of sports journalism, why it is important to separate the business behind the industry from the craft it…

Mississippi: Reckoning and Rebuilding

Mississippi is a state with a complicated past, deep political divides and a long history of being overlooked.  In the final episode of Long Play, Jen and Mitch look at Mississippi’s complex history, the lack of political investment in the state, and the people working to build power from the gro…

Wright Thompson on 'The Barn' and Emmett Till

On the anniversary of the killing of Emmitt Till, Karen speaks with author Wright Thompson about his book 'The Barn,' confronting the chilling history of the Mississippi shed where Till was tortured and the decades-long conspiracy of silence that followed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.…

2016 Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are one of the most iconic franchises in professional sports. Nothing compares to the ivy walls, the bleacher seats, and the day games at Wrigley Field. And yet, in the early 2010s, the Cubs were best known for their failures.  Longtime sports and politics writer Charles P. Pierce …

Episode 546: Seth Wickersham is On That Hill

"Writing is such a lonely job, and I feel bad for people who don't have a crew. I think you really have to have a crew. I had a college crew my first couple years at ESPN. There was a bunch of us who were young writers and very ambitious. That was a crew. And then we have our group now of people wh…

Stuart Stevens: Republicans Are Desperate

The party has been busy playing defense in Trump states, and now comes the news that Susan Collins is corrupt on top of being a loyal MAGA supplicant. More Democrats should walk with Ossoff's swagger and keep their message simple: attack Trump on his corruption and the war. (And in colder climes,…

Episode 356 with David Naimon, Host of Between the Covers, and Paragon of Wisdom, In-Depth and Researched Questions, and Patient and Intimate Conversations

Notes and Links to David Naimon’s Work     David Naimon is a writer and host of the literary podcast Between the Covers. His writing is published widely, from Orion magazine to Tin House. It has garnered a Pushcart Prize and been reprinted in Best American Science & Nature Writing, Best Spiritual…

John T. Edge on House of Smoke, TrueSouth & Understanding the American South

John T. Edge has spent much of his career telling stories about the American South through food, culture, history, and the people who call it home. In his latest book, House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home, John T. turns that same curiosity inward, examining his own upbringing and th…