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It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Hello, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Really proud to have a friend, a colleague at ESPN, someone I've worked with and known a long time, and someone who's also in the Philadelphia area, which is quite a time to be in Philadelphia with the Eagles Championship.

Welcome to the program, John Barr of ESPN outside the lines, Enterprise Unit, does great work reporting on all things investigative for ESPN.

And the one we'll talk about is, of course, Larry Nasser and the tragedies going on with the gymnastics with the girls over the past several years.

John, welcome and good to have you.

Thank you. Thank you so much. It's good to talk to you.

Yeah, I mean, this is...

We miss you.

We miss you.

Come back, Andrew.

Yeah, I know, I know.

There's so much to unpack about Larry Nasser and I guess maybe what I try to do is sort of give guests an open canvas to sort of where to start.

This is a tragedy, and that's a word I use going back several years.

You've done some dogged reporting on it and uncovered a lot.

But in sort of explaining the Larry Nasser, whatever you want to call it, I use tragedy.

Where do you start?

What is your blank canvas first comment about what you've been covering?

Well, my first exposure to it, and maybe that is a logical starting point, was in the late summer of 2016.

I was working on a special at the time for ESPN on hazing.

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