Brett Kavanaugh, Sportswriter
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/brett-kavanaugh-sportswriter [www.newyorker.com]
2018-09-11 17:43
Given all this, perhaps another body of Kavanaugh’s work warrants closer inspection: the twenty-four articles that he wrote, from 1983 to ’86, as a sports reporter for the Yale Daily News. Kavanaugh’s most ambitious writing came out of the gate, in a story about the freshman football team: “Big, strong, and psyched, the Bullpups rolled over Brown in their season opener.” After that, he settled into workmanlike prose, taking up the basketball beat his junior year.