A Quote by Red Smith
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
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I'm not a sportswriter.
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.
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I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.
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