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It was a pretty unremarkable moment, but it marked the first advice I’d receive from a person who taught me more about writing—not sportswriting, but writing—than any professor I’ve come across at Harvard.
But it’s the conversation we had after the official, sports-related interview—the one that exists in no record outside of my own memory—that remains most salient in my consciousness.
Walsh spoke candidly about the racial tension that left its mark on every corner of Boston, about his family’s connections to the local political machine, and how they knew the judge who ordered the city’s schools desegregated. But he also personalized the era in...
I remember the Crimson Sports staff joking about how my co-chair Dixon McPhillips and I didn’t even like sports. This may have been an exaggeration, but it’s true that we approached our jobs intent on delivering content that transcended athletics.
But, as with my writing tutorial under Jonathan Lehman and my history lesson with Joe Walsh, sports were the common thread, the conduit through which it all happened.