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There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife left him, and Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), a best-selling author and self-professed recovering liberal, whose rightward drift has led him to write an unreadable book about Wicks’s life.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
Listed at 5-foot-9 – but self-professed to stand a half-inch shorter – the Tennessee product brings SEC speed to the outfield.
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Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
9 Aug. 2025
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
Listed at 5-foot-9 – but self-professed to stand a half-inch shorter – the Tennessee product brings SEC speed to the outfield.
—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
9 Aug. 2025
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“Self-professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-professed. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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