This week’s guest is American sportswriter Jeff Pearlman. Jeff is an alum of Sports Illustrated - where he worked with many of the heavyweights whose work has been discussed on this show previously - and has since written a range of bestselling sports books, including The Bad Guys Won, on the 1986 New York Mets.
He chats to us about his brash arrogance as a young writer and the mistakes he made as a result, what he learned from working with the likes of Gary Smith and Rick Reilly as SI and how he ended up in the NBA draft.
His picks were pretty eclectic: the lede to a 1994 college paper review of a New Kids on the Block album; a magazine piece titled Of Monuments and Men by Steve Buckley of Boston Magazine; and Roger Ebert’s 2009 review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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