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Frank Deford Biography

Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program.

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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Animal, Beach, Society, Tell, Treats

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

Bring, Sports, Think, Thinking, Together

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

Beauty, Joy, Simple, Sometimes

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.

Actors, Athlete, Envious, Kids, Senators, Thinking

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Fight, Fighting, Guys, Hockey, Nhl, White

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Basketball, Except, Football, Player

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Eye, Eyes, Flickers, Light, Memories, Photography

I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?

Against, Giving, People, Problem, Used, Writing

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it. "

Athlete, Basketball, Flat, Play, Writer, Writing

If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

Everywhere, Kids, Paid, Player, Sports, Terribly

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

Considered, Firsts, Hollywood, Human, Humans, Writers

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Basketball, Coaches, Football, Racism, Sports

To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.

Home, Love, Running, Sports, Throws

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Athlete, Man, Men, Old, Sticks, Usually

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