The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning. RIP to “Around the Horn,” the ESPN show that frankly made me want to pursue sportswriting. Andrew Marchand writes that the show lost its way in recent years, but that won’t change its place in my heart. I often think about how the term “cliche” can be misconstrued. An idea that’s so ubiquitous, so known, it becomes boring. No one wants to associate with a cliche, but that cliche was so good initially that it became bad.
