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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 Nov. 2023.
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Hickey, W. (2020, Sep. 10). Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 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 November 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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