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Some days it feels like Kate Fagan’s life is dictated by boorish men, and today is one of those days. Raymond Moore, the CEO of one of tennis’s biggest tournaments, has held forth on the “lady player” — namely that women “ride on the coattails of the men” and should “get down on their knees” to thank male players— which means we have to reschedule our interview so Fagan can get on the air and weigh in on sports and sexism.

When such incidents occur, and it’s more often than you might imagine, sports fans look to Fagan for help interpreting them. The 34-year-old staffer for espnW is remarkably versatile: She can wax eloquent about basketball on her FiveThirtyEight podcast one week and write a cover story on a soccer superstar the next — all the while dealing out sports stats with the best of them.

But Fagan has used her platform to talk about the issues that most sports magazines barely touch, like mental health, domestic abuse, racism and sexism. In 2014, she published a memoir about coming out as gay on her college basketball team, and she’s set to publish a book about Madison Holleran, the UPenn runner who committed suicide, soon. Along the way, Fagan has become a vocal referee, opining on the very human side of sports and calling foul on sports Neanderthals all over.

These bags just haven't been cutting it lately.

Now I can come out of hidin'.

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