I was also in love with the English language.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
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.