text:  ESPN had a high word rate. They were assigning the story at a great length, and we were in desperate need of the money. We had just moved from Los Angeles to New Jersey. Because the word rate, just to explain this, the longer the piece, the more money you're going to make. The longer the piece, the more money you're going to make. And a magazine like ESPN, the magazine which took long-form stories so seriously and had –