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  • Inside Inside Sports: The Oral History

    Inside Inside Sports: The Oral History

    When Katharine Graham and the Washington Post company decided to launch the Esquire of sports magazines in 1979, they were riding high. If anyone was poised to create something touched with magic it was at the Post Company. Why then did they sell it just a few years later despite launching the careers of some…

    Alex Belth