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    I’M NOT GIVING IT BACK EITHER

    Aug 06, 2019 3 minutes
    BY STEVE SHACKLEFORD
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    image courtesy of Adam Drescher)

    It probably all started with my daily perusals of the sports page, which is basically how I learned to read. Then there was watching old flicks with Mom. Movies are media, after all, and my love for them—especially those starring John Wayne—graduated to a fascination with entertainment in general.

    It wasn’t long before I had a bicycle newspaper route. It was the mid-1960s and the sportswriter Jim Murray, whose ability to cover sports with a non-stop delivery of wisecracks and wisdom captivated my 13-year-old sensibilities. While Watergate would draw many of my generation to journalism, I was not one of them. I wanted to be a sportswriter.

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