Frank Deford, a legendary sportswriter with Sports Illustrated from 1962 to 1989 and again from 1998 to the present, as well as an NPR sports commentator for the past 32 years, died on May 28. He was 78.
Frank had a way of profiling sports legends with deceptively simple language and colorful insights, a style that became the gold standard for sports mag…
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