I broke this obit out into a separate entry because…
…well, to be honest, I forgot I had it in the queue.
But it probably deserves a separate entry, as another one of those obits for a “colorful” newspaper man. He actually kind of sounds like he crossed the border from “colorful” to word that rhymes with “glassbowl”, but I guess some people loved him.
Mike Marley, former sports writer for the NY Post, “but mostly a boxing man unequalled for access, sarcasm, creativity and the ability to dine at the finest restaurants without picking up the check”. He later went on to work with Howard Cosell, and after that became a lawyer.
This is full of great stories, if you like hard-bitten hard-drinking newspaperman stories. There’s the Winter Olympics story. There’s the landlord story.
They don’t make ’em like that any more. And I haven’t made up my mind if this is a bad or a good thing.