Legendary sportswriter E.M. Swift spent over thirty years writing for Sports Illustrated with a specialty in covering the Olympics. It was his coverage of the 1980 gold medal winning USA Olympic hockey team that cemented them and their against-all-odds victory as one of the greatest miracles in sports history. We talk about his background as a college hockey player, how he got started at S.I. and the one article – a retrospective of how a group of amateurs defeated the best teams in the world – that established Swift as a key source for our understanding and appreciation of sports long before the 24-hour news cycle and explosion of outlets covering the games that we play.
“A Reminder Of What We Can Be: The 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team”
https://www.si.com/olympics/2014/10/28/reminder-what-we-can-be-1980-us-olympic-hockey-team-si-60
SI Vault: “Miracle on Ice”
https://www.si.com/sports-illustrated/2014/08/15/si-vault-miracle-ice
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