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Back in the days before the internet, before sports talk radio, and before Stephen A. Smith, Keith Olbermann, and Howard Cosell on TV, the newspaper columnist reigned supreme in the sports world. We picked up the paper to get the lowdown, to be informed, sure, but also to be entertained. We bought the paper for Jimmy Cannon or Tom Boswell. The sports columnist told us what happened in a game but also gave us behind-the-scenes dirt that you couldn’t get anywhere else. Читать дальше...