Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

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.

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.