How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)

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No. 131: O.J. SIMPSON & THE BIG Z / The infamous Hall of Famer wasn't the only football legend making his TV debut in Medical Center. That and other remembrances from back when.

No. 131: O.J. SIMPSON & THE BIG Z / The infamous Hall of Famer wasn't the only football legend making his TV debut in Medical Center. That and other remembrances from back when.

My memory is something that I don't control. More often it controls me. For reasons unknown this episode of a forgotten series stuck with me.

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OKAY, not everything has to be super-serious.

I’m bad news in a trivia contest and the more useless the information the more likely it is to stick with me. In fact, I sometimes operate at a subconscious level in these things.

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Once, back in my school days, when I was working in a restaurant, I advised a customer who was talking about boxing with his table-mates that I was pretty good at points of trivia from the ring. The customer (Roy Bonisteel, no less than the…

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