Occupation: Sportswriter Birth: December 16, 1938
The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty..
If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where mon….
I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an Af….
If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something..
I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college f….
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings..
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with ….
I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to a….
So much of life, so much of work, is luck..
The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Footb….
To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a ….
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonf….
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes..
I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it.".
I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with th….
I think at its best, sport does bring us together..
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches..
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players..
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed..
Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man..
I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senat….