One of our all-time favorite sportswriters joins DiploSport for this week's podcast. Jeff Pearlman was a terrific writer for Sports Illustrated before becoming one of the best book authors in the business. His works - like Boys will be Boys (about the Cowboy Dynasty) and The Bad Guys Won (about the '86 Mets) - are uniformly impeccably well reported and capture memorable and humorous accounts of some of the most well-known teams in recent history.

Jeff shares his approach to storytelling and his method for reporting during our wide-ranging discussion covering his life and career in sports.

Jeff's Amazon Page: http://amzn.to/2q4ROA6Jeff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffpearlmanJeff's Blog/The Quaz: http://www.jeffpearlman.com/Bumpers: https://bumpers.fm/

INTRORadio West Podcast: http://radiowest.kuer.org/programs/radiowest-podcastsHidden Empire by Steve Coll: http://bit.ly/PrivateEmpireImmortal Irishman: http://bit.ly/ImmortanIrishman

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Intro Music: High School Snaps, Broke for Free (bit.ly/2b88QLk)Outro Music: Lee Rosevere, Late Night Tales (bit.ly/2b8KeRk)