Dick Schaap's Profile
Brief about Dick Schaap: By info that we know Dick Schaap was born at 1934-09-27. And also Dick Schaap is American Journalist.
Some Dick Schaap's quotes. Goto "Dick Schaap's quotation" section for more.All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
Tags: Art, Journalism, StoryCliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Tags: Adjectives, Cliches, ProseI got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
Tags: Friends, Good, SugarI just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
Tags: DecadeI wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
Tags: Loved, Sports, WantedIf I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
Tags: Dollars, Five, PaidIn fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.
Tags: Far, Fifty, FigureMy writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
Tags: Good, Read, WritingSportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
Tags: ChangedSugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
Tags: After, Anyone, CloseI came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Tags: English, Game, LanguageI did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
Tags: Athlete, Choose, VoteI think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
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