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.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @MirinFader mirinfader.com 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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