My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.