S.L. Price is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

“The 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—because there's a boxing ring or a baseball field or a football field—they'll be more patient and you can get some issues under the transom.”

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Show Notes:

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Price on Longform

Price's Sports Illustrated archive

[8:00] "Too Slick, Too Loud, Too Successful: Why John Calipari Can't Catch a Break" (Sports Illustrated • Mar 2011)

[9:00] "A Death in the Baseball Family" (Sports Illustrated • Sept 2007)

[9:00] Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America (Ecco • 2009)

[14:00] "Max Lenox's Amazing Journey to Much-Admired Army Hoops Captain" (Sports Illustrated • Nov 2011)

[17:00] "The Damage Done" (Sports Illustrated • Jun 2006)

[18:00] The Staircase (New Video Group • 2005)

[23:00] "Shadow of Shame" (Sports Illustrated • May 1994)

[25:00] "The Heart of Football Beat in Aliquippa: Hope and Despair in a Pennsylvania Mill Town" (Sports Illustrated • Jan 2011)

[28:00] Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports (University of Press Florida • 2000)

[32:00] "Diplomacy By Other Means" (Sports Illustrated • May 2004)

[44:00] "The Mystery of the Vanishing Screwball" (Bruce Schoenfeld • The New York Times Magazine • July 2014)

[48:00] "The Life and Times of Rick Majerus: The Coach You Didn't Know" (Sports Illustrated • Feb 2015)

[49:00] Longform Podcast #94: Gary Smith (May 2014)

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