Happy June, Ball-Knowers!
I’m glad we’re able to share a new episode of Cuts & Covers with you. We had such good feedback from our episode with The Ringer’s Mirin Fader that we decided to keep the pseudo-master’s class of sports writers going! Joining the show this month is Emma Baccellieri of Sports Illustrated. If you’ve been reading feature stories on women’s basketball in the last few years there’s a pretty good chance you’ve read something of hers. Whether it’s reporting on Paige Bueckers ascent to the NCAA mountaintop at last, the new rookies supercharging the WNBA’s growth, Hannah Hidalgo’s Art of the Steal or the WNBPA’s goals at the Collective Bargaining table, Emma has established herself as one of the foremost feature writers in the sport.
On this episode, we talk about that rise in her writing, her roots in baseball reporting and the book that she’s currently working on with Jordan Robinson. I particularly appreciated Emma’s candor and interest in women’s basketball history and the incredible work that she and Jordan are doing in kicking off what appears to be a new wave of literature on the sport. Best believe we’ll be at the front of the line when it comes out (support indy bookstores!).
You can find the pod here and we’re working on getting the paywalled pods on Spotify since that’s an option offered by Substack. Let us know if you don’t see it while we work out the kinks!
Now, to the postmortem on how our May cover on Ta’Niya Latson came together…
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