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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 1:44 pm    Post subject: RIP Frank Deford

Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 2:17 pm    Post subject:

In 1996 Frank predicted MLS would not last 20 years.

Not only did MLS do that it outlasted Frank.

RIP.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 3:16 pm    Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford

DaMuleRules wrote:
Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.


Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 3:56 pm    Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford

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DaMuleRules wrote:
Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.


Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting.


I still get SI and they still have solid writing. I just finished a great article on Nick Buoniconti and head trauma. Deford was great, in the company of writers like Jim Murray, Alan Malamude and Bill Conlin.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:19 pm    Post subject:

I remember seeing him alot on the NFL docs they ran during the 90s and early 2000s, definitely q unique personality. RIP
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 7:28 pm    Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford

ChickenStu wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.


Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting.


Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 8:31 pm    Post subject:

RIP. Great storyteller and interviewer in a general sense and great in the context of sports, too. Not the overused version of "great". Enjoyed him for years on HBO Real Sports. He's good at his job, but it's much harder to like Bernard Goldberg knowing that he's an idiot Trumpster and a socially conservative fundamentalist.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2017 9:35 pm    Post subject:

Sorry don't know the name, I guess his legend didn't make it to Orange County...
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 6:49 am    Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford

DaMuleRules wrote:
ChickenStu wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.


Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting.


Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story.


Rick Reilly has always inserted himself into the story too, and he's from the "old school".
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 8:01 am    Post subject:

unleasHell wrote:
Sorry don't know the name, I guess his legend didn't make it to Orange County...


You just haven't read enough or watched enough tv.

He's the last of a breed of old schoolers.

Very smart, very well esteemed.

He totally fit the look of an old school reporter/sportwriter.

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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 12:51 pm    Post subject:

gumby wrote:

He totally fit the look of an old school reporter/sportwriter.

Bye.


He had a kind of Bert Sugar/1940s vibe. Vaguely reminiscent to me of LeRoy Neiman, though he was an artist (but a fixture around different sports nonetheless). Gents from the OLD old school of sports who are all passing on now. I think he was probably influenced by the New Journalism writers like Hunter Thompson and George Plimpton. Dick Shaap was of that school of sports reporting (seeking truth over facts, immersion into topic, showing all perspectives involved in an issue). Bob Simon was of the school in news reportage. I don't see why Frank DeFord wasn't.
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 1:14 pm    Post subject: Re: RIP Frank Deford

DaMuleRules wrote:
ChickenStu wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
Legendary Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78

Definitely a legend.


Yes, one of my absolute favorites. Before the internet, reading Sports Illustrated was actually a big part of my formative years, in terms of learning more about sports. SI really did have some incredibly talented writers, like William Nack, Dan Jenkins, Rick Reilly, and Deford, and probably some others I'm forgetting.


Deford was in rarified air. His passing is just a reminder of how far down the sewer sports journalism has gone. Writers like Deford and Jim Murray were about the story. Today writers want to be part of they story.


Thank God we have Stephen A. He never tries to be part of the story. I like his subtle, subdued style, too. I like how he subtly screams every word and threatens sports figures with lines like, "Do you really wanna do this?!..."
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