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Post by DWags 2017-05-29, 15:44

RIP. Always thought he was pretty professional.
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Post by Floyd Robertson 2017-05-29, 15:53

I used to stop and buy The National every day during it's brief, glorious run.

The Rise & Fall of The National Sports Daily

The Greatest Paper That Ever Died
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Post by Guest 2017-05-29, 15:56

Great writer for SI

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Post by tGreenWay 2017-05-29, 16:04

That sucks. RIP.
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Post by SawGreen 2017-05-29, 16:10

Old school classic. RIP
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Post by GRR Spartan 2017-05-29, 16:51

Seemed like he'd been around forever because for many of us he had.  He was at SI for 25+ years, HBO for years and had been on NPR every Friday since 1980 until last year.

Figured something was up when he went cut his NPR Morning Edition commentary from weekly to monthly in 2016.  His NPR farewell was May 3.  

He was the first SI writer I noticed started following and reading first after my grandmother got me my first SI subscription when I was 11.


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Post by Guest 2017-05-29, 21:03

SI VAULT The Best of Frank Deford
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Post by Dr. Strangelove 2017-05-30, 09:37

Floyd Robertson wrote:I used to stop and buy The National every day during it's brief, glorious run.

The Rise & Fall of The National Sports Daily

The Greatest Paper That Ever Died

Lived in Twickingham Apts fall of 90. Used to walk over to newspaper box. Put in 50 cents and grab 3 copies. Me and my two roomies didn't like to share.
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