Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

This podcast has some meaning to me because the subject of the podcast is somebody I worked with

for many many years who was on this podcast many many times and um who we miss a lot uh mark

moravik and Alex Wolfe two of my longtime colleagues at Sports Illustrated are the co-editors of

world class purpose passion and the pursuit of

greatness on and off the field. It is a collection of Grant Wall's most powerful and memorable

stories that span his entire career in journalism. The book is out now, wherever you get your books again, world class,

purpose, passion, and the pursuit of greatness on and off the field. And if you were a Grant

Wall fan, as everybody on this podcast was, I encourage you to check it out. It's a pretty

amazing reflection of all his terrific work. And with that, I bring in

Mark Moravik and Alexander Wolfe, who is in Germany. So this is a global podcast. Mark and

Alex, welcome. Thanks so much, Richard. Mark, I'm going to start with you, simply because, you know,

you're closer to me in terms of miles than Alex.

How did this book come together?

So there was a celebration of Grant's life in late December, which was a really powerful and moving event.

Alex and I both spoke.

Celine Gounder, Grant's wife spoke.

A lot of his friends from Princeton spoke,

John Worthheim spoke.

And there were hundreds of people,

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