Award-winning ESPN reporter Mina Kimes joins the show to share her love of reading and the one book that inspired her career. Mina reveals how she ended up in sports journalism, how she handles online harassment, and what she would change if she were suddenly appointed NFL commissioner.

The Stacks Book Club selection for February is The Round House by Louise Erdrich. We will discuss the book on February 22nd with Mina Kimes.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• NFL Live
• The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny (ESPN)
• Seattle Seahawks
• David Dennis Jr.
• Justin Tinsley
• ESPN
• Mina at Fortune Magazine
• Mina at Bloomberg News
• ESPN The Magazine
• Around the Horn (ESPN)
• Highly Questionable (ESPN)
• First Take (ESPN)
• ESPN Daily podcast
• “Ep. 240 Hold the Powers that Be Accountable with Jemele Hill” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 175 Chatty Books with Juliet Litman” (The Stacks)
• Mina Kimes’ first pitch at Mariners game
• LeBron James
• Derek Thompson
• The Atlantic
• Joe Burrow
• The Stacks Pack
• Damar Hamlin
• Colin Kaepernick
• Seattle Mariners
• Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
• Manchester City Football Club
• Pep Guardiola
• All or Nothing: Manchester City (Amazon Prime)
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin
• Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal 
• The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Zach Baron
• GQ
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
• Friday Night Lights (NBC)
• Alive by Piers Paul Read
• Alive (Frank Marshall, 1993)
• Friday Night Lights (Richard Linklater and Peter Berg, 2004)
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich
• The Story of the Lost Child: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 4) by Elena Ferrante
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• The New York Times Book Review
• Ruthie Baron
• ProPublica
• True Biz by Sara Nović
• “Ep. 247 True Biz by Sara Nović — The Stacks Book Club (Greta Johnsen)” (The Stacks)
• Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
• “Ep. 66 Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson — The Stacks Book Club (Dave Cullen)” (The Stacks)
• Charity by Mark Richard
• Spindrift Sparkling Water
• Diet Coke
• Mina Kimes on Desus & Mero
• “Ep. 133 Stacks on Stacks with Desus and Mero” (The Stacks)
• Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Station Eleven (HBO Max)
• Pachinko (Apple TV+)
• These Truths by Jill Lepore
• No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver
• The Recognitions by William Gaddis
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Emilio’s Carnival by Italo Svevo
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
• Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
• Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
• The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
• Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
• Michael Lewis
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
• The Big Short by Michael Lewis
• Zadie Smith
• Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• “Day 1 — Banned Books in The Stacks with Katrina Stokes and Thursday Williams” (The Stacks)
• Ruby Bridges

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