On what it is to tackle the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; on the hells of promoting a book pre-release; on the highs and lows and greater highs of authorship.

On putting everything you have into a book, then watching the publishing company mangle the release and price; on frustrations over seeing America's Covid response turn political; on chronicling the life of a famous football-playing father.

On the craziness of 2022 Indianapolis Colts and head coach (cough, cough) Jeff Saturday; on making his father proud by following the dream; on why a lifelong NBA fan left the Pacers beat to chronicle the NFL; on angering a linebacker and living to tell.

On surviving a childhood where she was beaten and molested; on what it is to run away from home and live on the streets; on how Tupac Shakur served as a bright light; on writing your way through pain and hurt

On more than two decades of covering Cardinals football; on digging into Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury; on making the transition from newspaper to team website; on the mystery that was David Boston.

On recently being laid off and leaving New Jersey without a single congressional reporter; on why covering politics is so important on the local level; on the story of his uncle's mid-pandemic funeral; on whether journalism is still a worthy field.

On the long, early-rise days of Spring Training via the baseball beat; on whether it'd be easier to cover Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. as a Spanish speaker; on whether one needs to care about baseball's new rules to cover baseball's new rules.

On covering the 1988 expansion Miami Heat through a 17-game losing streak; on writing sans bias about the NBA while being employed by the NBA; on the post-9.11 catharsis of writing about his late brother; on the highs and lows of modern media.

On having her name appear in nationwide newspaper transaction announcements; on the adjustment from media relations to covering a team; on the weird experiences of covering Roger Clemens and chronicling the World Series no one remembers.

On how she jumped directly from the UMass student newspaper to a Big Apple daily; on the kinship with her closest work pal—veteran NHL scribe Larry Brooks (age difference: 47 years); on the bliss of walking into an arena and realizing, "This is my life!"