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Reporting From ... Tiger Stadium

By Wright Thompson

Monday, November 10, 2008

You can read the author's piece on Nick Saban in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine right here. In another life, I was the LSU beat writer for the New Orleans Times Picayune. Sports writers will tell you that covering a beat is the biggest grind in the business, an endless cycle of being stonewalled by coaches and making 32 phone calls just to find out if some 18-year-old sprained his ankle. But there was a moment that made it all worth it: walking into Tiger Stadium. It was electric. Whe ...

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