Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.