[Despot of the Delta]

I wonder if Myron can gear up for a cameo at the Super Bowl.

[beyond the sea]

There was a great article on him in the Sunday Post Gazette.

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06022/641678.stm

In the first half of his professional career, he wrote prolifically, penning pieces for Sports Illustrated and True and the Saturday Evening Post. When the fascinating men of sports -- Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Roberto Clemente -- told their stories, he had the best job imaginable: he sat back and listened.

Before typing his pieces, he spread all his notes across the floor, searching for a way to move beyond that terrifying and great moment when the story existed purely in his mind. He thrived like few other writers of his era. He mastered a style that would later mirror his oral storytelling -- he flowed from scene to scene in his narratives, lovingly riding tangents, as if train-hopping, but always returning to the original direction.

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He glanced at the photocopied rosters on his coffee table, then identified an injured Indianapolis player -- Nick Harper, already basted in lowbrow controversy thanks to an incident a day earlier, when his wife allegedly stabbed him in the right knee with a filet knife.

"What a weekend he's having!" Mr. Cope said, plowing on with excitement. "He gets slashed and then he's out of the game in the first quarter. That's worse than my bout with pneumonia. Oh, if I was in the booth ... how much fun I'd have with that.

"People always ask me if I miss it. There was a time last week against Cincinnati when the center snapped the ball wild, and Billy Hillgrove described what happened. And he said it was the [Bengals'] long snapper, Brad St. Louis. And I immediately wanted to yell, 'Brad St. Louis snapped that ball from Cincinnati to St. Louis.' But I couldn't. I wanted to rise to my feet, because that's what I would do in the booth. I wanted to yell about it; I mean, proclaim it! But if I did that now, I'd make a fool of myself in an empty living room. So at those moments, you see, I miss it."

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'Brad St. Louis snapped that ball from Cincinnati to St. Louis.' --- that's the Myron stuff that I miss!!