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After the news of Grant Wahl's passing had been confirmed, RichardDeitsch found himself scrolling through more than a decade-long message exchange. 'It made me laugh. It made me cry.'

Late on Friday night, a couple of hours after the awful news

“Loved the interview and your continued treatment of soccer as a major sport. Couple small things: 1. Goaltender isn’t a soccer term. 2. Because Mourinho is Portuguese, the J in José is pronounced like the J in Rio de Janeiro.”At Sports Illustrated, where we both worked for many years, he was a comet. He joined the magazine a year before I did, and you knew immediately he was going to be great. His sentences popped. His reporting had depth and purpose.

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