How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

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No. 151: JERRY SANDUSKY / Did I miss any obvious clues to the evil exposed years later at Penn State?

No. 151: JERRY SANDUSKY / Did I miss any obvious clues to the evil exposed years later at Penn State?

A sexual predator who concealed his crimes for decades, Sandusky effected a perfect cover. He didn't hide. In fact, he wouldn't shut up.

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A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE they’d recognize a monster in their midst. Then there are those who’ve actually crossed paths with a monster.

I don’t consider myself a keen judge of character, so much as a student of human nature. I don’t profess to be an expert in tells—God knows that World Series of Poker was the catalyst in the creation of a generation of amateur psychologists, those who presume to read minds and cards with so much as a twitch or blink of their subject. Still, I think I can pick up when something ain’t right—I just don’t always know or can predict what that might be or what it’s going to turn into.

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