Sports Writers Inc. with JD: Sports Writers Talk Sports Writing

Amy Bass, author of "One Goal: A Coach, a team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together". The town is Lewiston, Maine, and the game is high school soccer. In the early 2000s, Lewiston became home to thousands of refugees from Somalia and the integration was not without friction. The story is about the boys soccer team at Lewiston High School in 2015, which was made up of a majority of Somali students, and their quest for a state title.

Zak Ford joins JD from Sacramento, Calif., to discuss his new book, "Called Up: Ballplayers Remember Becoming Major Leaguers"
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Jason Vuic joins us from Fort Worth, Texas, to chat about his book "The Yucks: Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History". The book chronicles the hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers' first two seasons as an NFL expansion team in the 1970s.
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Karen Given chats with JD about the late, great NPR sports-magazine show, "Only A Game", on which she was a producer and a host. We also talk about what Karen is up to now
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Will Bardenwerper joins JD to talk about his new book, "Homestand"

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