Amazing Tales

September, 1987

In today's world, scandal follows sports like an IRS audit, often catching up with it and stamping its forehead with a Gothic headline, all caps.Reeling from its continual shocks, I pause from time to time to wonder how today's squalid sports world would be handled by Bill Stern, the Colgate shave-cream man.Bill Stern dealt in heroes and legends only.I was raised on radio; hence, much of what I knew about sports at an early age was learned from Stern on NBC radio in segments of 15 riveting momen...

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