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Ralph Wiley died

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by drapg, Jun 14, 2004.

  1. drapg

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    Exactly. The guy could flat-out write, sports or not. In a profession dominated almost entirely by homers, Blinebury-esque hacks and news division rejects, that he chose to mainly write about sports made him seem that much greater. He was sharp writing about sports. On boxing especially, I think he could go 10 rounds with Hemingway.

    But he was brilliant writing about the culture. More importantly for me, he understood how the one related to the other.

    I clicked onto ESPN.com after the game tonight, figuring I'd have to wait till tomorrow to read his Pistons-Lakers postmortem. Now there's just the postmortem.

    RIP

    (And if ESPN replaces him with another Sports Guy clone, I'm giving up on sports journalism altogether.)
     
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    Very eloquent aghast. I liked the Hemingway reference. Don't give up on the journalism just yet.

    :)
     
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    I don't know your age or sex or race or religion or anything else.

    But I can tell you, after reading that book, your life will never be the same.
     
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    I actually have that book; I bought it a few years ago, but I didn't realize until a few weeks ago that it was the same Ralph Wiley.
     
  6. drapg

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    I'm going to purchase it this weekend.
     
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