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Remembering Sportswriter Grant Wahl, Plus the NYT Strike and Sinema Purgatorio

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The Power of Twitter and Grant Wall

Grant went the long way round he he helped everyone and still ascended to that level. Chris Whittingham talked about how wall called 16 editors to try to get jobs for sports illustrated colleagues after they had gotten laid off Pablo Iglesias Maurer of the athletics says in 2013 the federation refused to credential me for the open cup final grant barely knew me getting made one phone call and got me in a year later. He pushed to get my outlet a World Cup credential I may not exist in this business without grants tutelage and help pretty amazing stuff it's incredible yeah.

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