No. 144: PETER SNELL / The greatest athlete I ever talked to, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, took refuge in his anonymity.

The Dallas Cowboys training camp was freighted with a bunch of future Hall of Famers. None of them knew the heights reached by the guy in a lab coat.

TODAY’S missive was originally scheduled for last week, but I switched up when reports of Calgary Flames exec Chris Snow’s turn for the worst landed. I suppose most readers here knew all about his battle with ALS and know that Chris died over the weekend. If you haven’t had a look at my piece about Chris leaving sportswriting behind to work in hockey management, please have a look at it (linked here). The added value—the greater value, really—is subscriber Mark Wollemann’s account of Chris Snow’s first day on the job at the Star Tribune.