Pablo Torre is a senior writer at ESPN the Magazine and frequently appears on Around the Horn, PTI, and other ESPN shows.

“Most of my friends are not sports fans. My parents aren't. Brother and sister — no. So I just want to make things that they want to read. That's the big litmus test for me in deciding if a story is worth investing my time into: Is somebody who doesn’t give a shit about sports gonna be interested in this?”

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Show Notes:

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[07:00] Torre’s Harvard Crimson Archive

[11:00] "Fuck It We’ll Do It Live!" (YouTube)

[12:00] First Take

[12:00] "Raissman: Who will be Stephen A. Smith’s next foil on ESPN" (Bob Raissman • New York Daily News • Apr 2016)

[17:00] The Longform Guide to Nurses

[21:00] A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Tony Kornheiser • Sports Illustrated • Apr 1983)

[23:00] Around the Horn

[25:00] "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke" (Sports Illustrated • Mar 2009)

[28:00] "Sympathy for the Devil? Child Homicide, Victim Characteristics, and the Sentencing Preferences of the American Conscience" (Social Science Research Network • Mar 2007)

[33:00] Broke (30 for 30 • Oct 2012)

[35:00] "A Light In the Darkness" (Sports Illustrated • Jun 2010)

[40:00] "Larger Than Real Life" (Sports Illustrated • Jul 2011)

[42:00] "Where Are They Now? Mike Tyson" (Sports Illustrated • Aug 2010)

[43:00] "The Biggest Little Man in the World" (Andrew Corsello • GQ • Mar 2010)

[44:00] "Welcome To Manny’s World" (ESPN the Magazine • Apr 2015)

[45:00] "A Mystery Wrapped Inside An Enigma Shrouded In a Beard" (ESPN the Magazine • Oct 2015)

[45:00] "The Friendship That Divides the NBA" (ESPN the Magazine • May 2016)

[51:00] "Isolation Play" (ESPN the Magazine • Mar 2015)

[53:00] "Kobe Bryant Snaps After Lakers Practice, Calls Team 'Soft Like Charmin'" ( Mike Prada • SB Nation • Dec 2014)

 

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