In 1996, at age 24, I was hired to work at Sports Illustrated. It was a different media landscape, overflowing with money and ambition and dreams. Here is a look back, via my old diary entries ...
The Billy Collins story was tremendous, both writing and reporting. I remember reading it with no small amount of envy. The boxing world and the folks that populate just make for stories that are, by turns, funnier or darker, more uplifting or more dispiriting, than all the others.
I still can't reconcile the BHOF's fast lane for Maurer with the fact that Ted Simmons got minute support on his first-year of legibility and was dropped from the ballot.
Best Yang Yang yet, Jeff. Thanks.
The Billy Collins story was tremendous, both writing and reporting. I remember reading it with no small amount of envy. The boxing world and the folks that populate just make for stories that are, by turns, funnier or darker, more uplifting or more dispiriting, than all the others.
I still can't reconcile the BHOF's fast lane for Maurer with the fact that Ted Simmons got minute support on his first-year of legibility and was dropped from the ballot.
Thank you for including me in the Quaz 5. That really means a lot to me. Makes me feel validated.
I have read the Collins piece several times over the years, and it hits just as hard every time. A masterpiece.