MIKE, AND THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT
I used to envy Grantland Rice. Part of my jealousy had to do with the desire to write phrases like Outlined against the blue-gray October sky But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and 30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden,