[llevrok]

I bet that writer was always on the losing team.

I bet he got beat up at school a lot.

[Hunton Peck]

Wikipedia sheds some light:

Benjamin "Frank" Deford, III[1] (born December 16, 1938, in Baltimore, Maryland) is a senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, author, and commentator for National Public Radio and correspondent for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO and the only openly homosexual Sportscaster to date.