My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
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.