SI’s Jenny Vrentas on 2019 SI Sportsperson of the Year Megan Rapinoe

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Grant talks to SI senior writer Jenny Vrentas about her new Sportsperson of the Year story on Megan Rapinoe—the sports figure who made the most lasting impression of 2019. They talk about Rapinoe’s athletic and social impact, the forces in her life that have shaped those things and how Vrentas approached writing a signature story on one of the most heavily covered athletes in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	Hey there I'm Grant Wall. Welcome to the Planet Football
0:31.3	podcast. Our interview guest today is Sports Illustrated senior writer Jenny Brantas,
0:37.1	who wrote the magazine Sports Person of the Year story out this week on Megan Rapino.
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0:51.7	to someone you know.
0:52.8	Onward.
0:54.4	Our guest today is Jenny Vrentus, the SI senior writer who has written
1:00.1	the Sports Person of the Year story for this week's issue of Sports Illustrated on
1:05.4	Baker Peano. Congratulations Jenny, it's a wonderful story. Thanks Grant, I
1:10.0	appreciate that. And lots to talk about here because this is not an easy story to write for a number of reasons.
1:19.8	One, you already wrote a story about Megan Rapino right before the start of the Women's World Cup,
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