averagedawg wrote: Buc, Fond memories. Back when the first thing a kid did every morning was read the sports page.
Another great writer, Fred Russell, Nashville Banner, fair and informative. A great SEC sports writer. Also think he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post.
How about Lewis Grizzard? Started out as a young buck writing for the Banner Herald.
Back when journalism was journalism.
Has anyone heard Lewis Grizzard tell the story of the "Greatest Sports Headline Ever"? Seems that UGA had a big D lineman named Harvey Dix (I think that was his first name) who was injured and going to miss the Auburn game. Grizzard bragged to a couple of his fraternity brothers that if the headline mad it past his editor it would be the all-time greatest headline in sports history. The headline read: Georgia To Play Auburn With Dix Out
Or so the story goes.