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In fact, the previous day on ESPN Los Angeles, the most heavily read story was a brief report about Kobe Bryant recently having breakfast with Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics. “What did they discuss?” Markazi asks. “Nobody knows. Did they say, ‘Pass the salt?’ But I still had to write about it.” Back inside Notre Dame Stadium, the Fighting Irish are putting the finishing touches on a 50–43 win. Cashore readies himself to run onto the field for the postgame handshakes. He wants to shoot “celebration or dejection photos,” as he calls

them, but he does not want to linger on the field too long. “After the game, you want to get back to the work room and upload your photos,” says Cashore. “There is

Cashore, kneeling at bottom left, uses a short lens for close-up work. He keeps the long lens for action shots across the field.

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