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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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.

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

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

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.

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