“30 for 30: The Bag Game” tells the story of one of the biggest college sports scandals of all time, and how it upended the career of a top NBA prospect, Billy Preston. It’s s story about how the system protects the powerful, leaving student athletes to take the fall.
As senior producer, I worked with ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne to bring years of her print reporting to life with cinematic audio storytelling. I traveled across the country to gather tape, structured a multi-episode series, wrote and edited scripts, coached tracking, and led multiple rounds of mix notes.
