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Kevin Draper
kevindraper
Reporter at the New York Times

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At least two of us are writing a novel/have recently finished writing a novel, as far as I am aware. Read more

We aren’t particularly good at covering college basketball. Read more

Very, very pumped, except for the fact that that means it’s going to be a letdown. Either way, I’m going to post a heinously biased blog about it afterwards. Read more

I’m not the editor in chief of deadspin dot com, but I think you’ll see the sameish number of them. Everybody on staff will do a couple, the people who write more longform will do more longform, and we’ll have some good freelance longform too. And thank you for the kind words. Read more

Nah, you just eat mediocre lunch. Lunch isn’t a meal to go all out for. Read more

We don’t really do profiles of people very often, but I think we refer to Bomani and DLB pretty frequently. Read more

I don’t think anything happened to them consciously, just haven’t done one in awhile. Read more

You were until you decided to brag about not wearing a blazer. Read more

No. The best estimate (and this could be wildly off) is that if ESPN went to a streaming or subscriber-only model, they would retain 17% of their current customer base while charging $36 a month. Read more

It just can’t be measured, really. Normal news stories take 30 minutes to 3 hours depending upon whatever. I have a 1/2 written 76ers take that’s been sitting on the dashboard for a month, a couple basketball stories that have been waiting around for 4 months etc. Generally, though maybe this is just because I can see Read more

I just went out and had some whiskey, rosé, and beer. Read more

Christ you have a lot of bad takes, but this is the worst one. Have you never seen me karaoke Changes? Read more