Terry Taylor Appreciation: Former AP Sports Writer remembers 'she was the most everything'

Terry R. Taylor, the first female sports editor at The Associated Press who ran the department from 1992-2013, died Tuesday. She was 71.

Retired AP Sports Writer Ben Walker worked with Taylor throughout her tenure. Here's what he remembers.

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She’d come blazing into the office like a comet. Right away, everyone sat up straighter at their desk, fingers poised on keyboards. All of a sudden, it was go time at AP Sports, even before Terry Taylor barked, “What’s cookin’?”

And that was on a quiet Tuesday morning when absolutely nothing was happening.

She was universally known as — those were her initials, though few