Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap
Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth27 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
adjectives cliche prose
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
american-journalist landmark shrinking simpson
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
decline journalism landmark shrinking simpson
All of journalism is a shrinking art, ... So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
american-journalist basketball gone heroes michael
You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he's gone and that sport is having problems.
anybody athletics entitled qualify vote
I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete,
everybody involved labor love
I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it,
came era faith great hope people solid sort typical war
I always thought of him as a stoic, solid person, that I think was typical of that era of the 1950s, ... People came out of the war years with great hope and great faith in the future. Unitas sort of represented that.
love
I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.
american-journalist
There is never going to be another Ali.
american-journalist king people slippery
He's in it for Don King and that's understandable because that's why people go into business. He's just kind of slippery about it.