Curry Kirkpatrick covered tennis and college hoops for almost 30 years at Sports Illustrated so it's not a shock that the two athletes who became good friends to him were a tennis star and a college basketball icon... Curry tells us how Chris Evert and Bill Walton crossed that line from subjects of articles to objects of affection and how Walton's recent passing hit him hard.

Listen in and go behind the lines as Curry goes from professional to personal on two of America's all-time beloved figures on the Past Our Prime podcast bonus edition.

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