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Hickey, Walt. "Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Sep. 2020. Web. 20 Sep. 2023.
APA
Hickey, W. (2020, Sep. 10). Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 20, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/defectors-kelsey-mckinney-on-how-2020-destroyed-the-concept-of-sticking-to-sports/
Chicago
Hickey, Walt. "Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 10, 2020. Accessed September 20, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/defectors-kelsey-mckinney-on-how-2020-destroyed-the-concept-of-sticking-to-sports/.
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