Jessica's always saying that there's a part of you that just always wants to kind of turn off what's happening in the outside world.

But sports are also such a reflection of what is happening in the outside world.

And I think that one of the things that we've learned in in writing this book is to not be as judgmental toward other sports fans,

but also toward ourselves.

Like it is okay to have these dilemmas and still love your team. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week I speak to two sports writers, Jessica Luther and Kavita Davidson, about their new book,

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back, Dilemas of the Modern Fan.

Also, I've got some choice words about the NFL.

Just stand up and just sit down awards and more.

But first, let's talk to Jessica and Kavita about their new book,

Loving Sports when they don't love you back.

Jessica. their new book, Loving Spills When They Don't Love You Back. Jessica and Kavita, I got to know first and foremost before we talk about the content.

What was the process like writing the book with a co-author?

And would you do it again?

Geez, Dave, right off the bat.

The process, I mean, anyone who's read the book, each chapter is a different theme in sports.

So in that way, it wasn't difficult to divide up the work, right?

Like, you could, well, one of us could tackle an issue

pretty thoroughly. And then we passed the chapters back and forth a fair amount. We had a really

great editor on the book who was also involved in the whole process. And then we collaborated on

the introduction and the conclusion and, you know, figuring out the order of the chapters.

And yeah, I think, yeah, I like working with other people. I've collaborated a lot in my career.

And I really feel like I would never have been able to write this book on my own.

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