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As a rule I don’t reveal the contents of Twitter messages I get from the people I cover. But I don’t think Megan Rapinoe would mind if I shared a few tidbits I excavated as SI honors her as the 2019 Sportsperson of the Year. One of the main topics of our Twitter DMs has been sushi recommendations, whether the year was 2011 (when she visited New York City after the World Cup and ate at Koi) or ’15 (Seattle’s Sushi Kashiba).
Following an interview in 2012, I mentioned that one of her friends had said that gay rights were important to her.