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On sports, growing up, and the tradeoffs between a broad and narrow approach

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Noah Brier
Nov 11, 2020
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Noah here. While everyone was talking about the now fully-retracted Atlantic feature about niche sports for both the craziness that is rich suburban parents and for the ways it apparently stretched the truth of some of their stories, something else jumped out at me. Specifically, it was this quote from Lars Tiffany, the men’s varsity-lacrosse coach at t…

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