Unearthing gold from the sidle

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You probably never knew that you needed to know how sports stories get written, but I’m happy to take you behind the curtain with the help of Bryan Curtis of The Ringer.

In a recent piece, Curtis identified and named a process familiar to every sportswriter in every sport.