Mirin Fader is a staff writer for The Ringer.

“Nobody ever makes it makes it, right? You make it, and every day, you have to keep making it. That’s how I feel. Would I be the reporter I am if I wasn’t like that? I’m afraid to see what happens if I’m not. I’m afraid what type of reporter or writer I’ll be if I take my foot off the gas.”

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Show notes:

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Fader on Longform

03:00 Fader's Orange County Register archive

04:00 Lee Jenkins’ Sports Illustrated archive

04:00 Longform Podcast #421: Wright Thompson

06:00 Fader's Bleacher Report archive

14:00 "How Mo’ne Davis Made Her Hoop Dreams Come True: Inside Life After Little League" (Bleacher Report • Feb 2017)

14:00 "The LaMelo Show" (Bleacher Report • Feb 2018)

17:00 "Walk-on Becomes X-factor For Titans' Men's Soccer" (OC Register • Nov 2016)

29:00 "What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind" (Bleacher Report • Sept 2020)

42:00 Gary Smith on Longform

47:00 "LaVar Ball: Lakers 'don't want to play for' Luke Walton" (Jeff Goodman • ESPN • Jan 2018)

50:00 "The Life of LaMelo" (Bleacher Report • Nov 2019)

50:00 "Nothing Can Faze Davante Adams" (Bleacher Report • Aug 2018)

50:00 "Davante Adams Is Peaking in Every Way Possible" (Bleacher Report • Jan 2021)

51:00 "The Metamorphosis of Brandon Ingram" (Bleacher Report • Oct 2018)

51:00 "Brandon Ingram Through the Fire" (Bleacher Report • Nov 2019)

56:00 Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP (Hachette • 2021)

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