LeRoy Neiman.
The death of Muhammad Ali sent us looking for examples of the reporting of Westport’s Frank Deford, on the matter of Ali’s life and times.
Deford was rising as a prolific writer for Sports Illustrated around the time Ali was beginning to fade as a dominant presence in boxing.
A Fading Champ, But a Champ Still – NPR 2009
You Don’t Know Muhammad, Until… – Sports Illustrated 1998
As we noted the other day, Deford has just published his latest book; a collection of his NPR commentaries.
