RIP Frank Deford

LOL

For those of us mere commoners who don't often mingle with award-winner-types, here's the story about the cat (which apparently our ace reporter couldn't track down):

The Rise & Fall of <em>The National Sports Daily</em>

 

Oddly, reading that didn't have quite the same entertainment value as listening to Charlie tell it.

 

If anyone runs into Madonna, make sure and ask her to tell you the story about the time Prince and Bruce Springsteen tried to make her an omelet.

 

I was working in downtown Toronto when The National found its way up here and was able to find it at a newsstand at Union Station, the big transit hub here. (I assumed it came over the border with the shipment of USA Today and other American papers that were available here.) I devoured the first few issues, thought it was the greatest thing I had ever read, then suddenly I'd get off the train, bolt for the newsstand and it wasn't there, even though there were a stack of USA Today, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, NY Post etc.. I'd ask the guy behind the counter if they had it, he'd just shrug and then I became like a lot of other desperate junkies downtown, wandering all over for a fix that wasn't there.

Sometimes it was a day late, sometimes two, sometimes it never showed at all. I was in Vegas for the Douglas-Holyfield fight and thought it was awesome I could buy it out of a box. Still have those copies in the basement here somewhere. Man, those were the days.

 

Was Madonna a former poster on this very board? I had no idea. Was she Pickle Juice?

 

IJAG.

 

Was Pierce!! OMG. No outing!

 

TF is exempt from that rule.

 

That would be awesome!