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     Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 4256 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 117.198.136.13 Rating: N/A |
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20140428/gary -smith-retires-sports-illustrated-retrospective/ Retiring at 60 anta, ippudu maa lanti fans emavvali...absolutely, undoubtedly the best sportswriter alive, in fact one of the best writers alive...even writers like like Simon Barnes, Gideon Haigh or the late Roebuck too can't hold a candle to him. Any of you who have even a passing interest in sports, no..no..make that - a even a passing interest in life should read Gary Smith..each piece is a work of genius..some move you to tears even while all the time you end up slapping your forehead wondering how the f*** could any man write like this.. In fact, each of story beginnings too is a piece of art...like this one from "A moment of truth" "You heard me right: Come in. No, you won't disturb a soul in this locker room. They're all lost in that place most folks go maybe once or twice in a lifetime, when their mamas or daddies die or their children are born, a place they don't go nearly as often as they should. Trust me, these boys will never know you're here. All right, maybe that fellow in white will notice, the one looking your way, but Willard McClung would be the last to make a peep." |
