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Working the phones, for what?

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Editor's Note: This column appears in the August 30 edition of ESPN The Magazine. On the night before Boston traded for GP, I had dinner with a Very Important ESPN Executive. I was in a foul mood after spending hours on my cell phone -- a big waste, it turns out -- all because I wanted to break my first news scoop and see my name on ESPN's :28/:58 ticker. You know, something like this: "ESPN's Bill Simmons reports that the Lakers have traded Gary Payton, Rick Fox and a conditional No. 1 pick t ...

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