The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.
I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out there.
From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are the Knicks.
I'm an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.
I love sports and I love sports movies.
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
We could fill up a whole hour's television show talking about coach's recruiting stories, I love them, they're the best.
The '30 for 30' strand started life as a series of behind-the-scenes docs for the sports channel ESPN. It has now spawned an equally fascinating series of podcasts. Like the films, these podcasts don't rely on access, the usual currency of sports journalism, and are strangely excited by stories that are complicated and require telling at length.
