Birth Of A Sportswriter
December, 1988
This is the 50th anniversary of the college football season that made me want to become a sportswriter, which was a good thing, as it happened, because I had already learned, at the age of eight, that I would never make it as a triple-threat quarterback, an aviator, a G man, an ambulance driver, a doughboy knocking out German machine-gun nests or a cowboy.How did I know this? I was skinny and had morbid fears of height, speed and danger, that's how.Anyway, it was the year that the university in...
