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Chicago journalism
August 18, 2011: Rick Telander
If you know Chicago sports and Chicago sportswriting, chances are you know Rick Telander. After a four-year football career at Northwestern University, Telander became one of the nation’s best-known, most-respected sportswriters in 1976 following the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Heaven Is a Playground, a book that began in 1973 as a feature for Sports Illustrated. He rejoined the Chicago scene in 1985 as a member of the wonderful Sportswriters On TV program, and then came to the Sun-Times as a columnist in 1995.
In this People with Passion interview from August 18, 2011, Rick talks with Jack about the effects of reading Dr. Seuss as a boy, his love of adventures, how not to be a cynic, and the beauty of sport at the highest level. Continue reading “People with Passion: Rick Telander”
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