OFFSIDE
POV: Callum
Simone Park arrived on a Tuesday with a recorder, a worn leather notebook, and the specific energy of someone who had been doing this long enough that they did not need to perform the doing of it.
She was Korean American, early thirties, with the kind of face that looked like it had heard everything and was still genuinely interested in hearing more. She had been covering college football for seven years for an outlet that took the sport seriously enough to give their writers space to do actual work. I had looked her up the night before. I had read three of her pieces. She was good in the specific way of someone who understood that sport was always about something else underneath