No. 35: EDDIE JOHNSTON & JOSE THEODORE: The untold story of the mobsters' goaltender brother.

When I wrote about Jose Theodore's family and known associates who populated Montreal's crime world, ESPN's editors cut my favourite part of the story: a '72 Summit Series alum with a gangster sibling

When I was writing for ESPN The Magazine back in the day, I was like our readers in one surprising but significant way: When I had a story in an issue I, like subscribers and newsstand buyers, was seeing that story for the first time.

I know that sounds strange but let me clarify: I was involved in the editing process of a story, but I wouldn’t see the final edit.

Writers who were in the office and tapped into the editorial system might have been able to track their stories as they passed from handling editor to section editor to fact checker to section editor to lawyer to section editor to managing editor … well, that w…