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

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.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

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.

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

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.